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Solo_Dolo


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I use to be into cars alot when I was younger..mostly imports.Owned a 91 Mitsubishi GSX that would run mid 11s with race gas.Missed that little rocket haha.

 That was my 91 GSX and 98 GSX.
I'm getting a new car soon("new"er)..looking at a few older CTSVs and a got my eye on this 05 S4...need a v8 this time.
Oh and I paint cara for a living so I guess I'd classify ad a car dude...but def don't obsess about it like a typical car nut lol.
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Re: Are you a car guy? [Re: dummy]
#14330384 - 04/21/11 10:21 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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^^ Sweet looking ride right there
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Re: Are you a car guy? [Re: 4runner]
#14330394 - 04/21/11 10:23 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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im hoping to get one of these soon , and tuning it up.
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dummy
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Re: Are you a car guy? [Re: Kinko]
#14330401 - 04/21/11 10:24 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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nice! my buddy is planning to, in some time, through an odessy motor into his mr2.
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Re: Are you a car guy? [Re: 4runner]
#14330405 - 04/21/11 10:25 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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dummy said: that new toyota would look cool with an old school celica like front end. make it kind of boxy but still modern like GM. it's a cool car but kind of looks like an electric razor.
ps i edit my last post in case anyone missed it.

Very nice 
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Re: Are you a car guy? [Re: dummy]
#14330508 - 04/21/11 10:46 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Kinko said:

im hoping to get one of these soon , and tuning it up.
Hell yeah, MR2's are teh sex!
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Aaaaaand GODDAMN. Thats a nice car.
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Re: Are you a car guy? [Re: dummy]
#14331082 - 04/22/11 12:20 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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dummy said: you spewed quick a bit of bs; for instance there are many way to harness solar energy, though you made the implication that the solar cell is the only way. one example would be a parabolic array of mirrors to concentrate sun light onto a steam engine. or those fancy new solar towers which are basically a large scale version of the mirror array.
and the production of perfect mirrors, thousands of them, then the circuit boards to control the mirrors since they have to track the sun, plus the motor arrays at each mirror, etc... you may also be interested to know that the towers dont contain water but often some other fluid, some of these parabolic arrays are being tested with salt in liquid form, if the salt cools it solidifies and the whole thing is useless, others like the towers are using an oil as the heat conductor and then it's moved to a heat exchanger where it heats the water which turns to steam to drive the turbine
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dummy
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it hardly has to be perfect but what is your point? you assumed that i'm some environment freak and tell me how ungreen shit is. the point i make is that everything we do is an incredibly dirty process for many reasons. furthermore the fuel source that you're in bed with should be obsolete and this point and would be if it wasn't so profitable.
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Re: Are you a car guy? [Re: dummy]
#14331177 - 04/22/11 12:39 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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obsolescence by legislation, we still have 200 more years of petrol
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Re: Are you a car guy? [Re: dummy]
#14331209 - 04/22/11 12:50 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yes I am, I understand & build engines

Raised under a mechanical engineer who likes to do everything with knowledge, precision & understanding. Thankful for the opportunity. That picture is my 318/390 stroker. It's a beast & now sits in my jeep GC. Should be up and running in a week or less depending on a few minor parts via shipping. So stoked.
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Doubtful, with current consumption rates and our ever growing power hungry population there will be no 200 years more of natural petrol, maybe a 100. We will be using shit like bio fuels for a very long time, half a millenia easily.
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Re: Are you a car guy? [Re: erikksonb]
#14331217 - 04/22/11 12:53 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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similar background only my father was a mechanic and my mother was a stock car driver... imagine the fun
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Prisoner#1
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Bodhi of Ankou said: Doubtful, with current consumption rates and our ever growing power hungry population there will be no 200 years more of natural petrol, maybe a 100. We will be using shit like bio fuels for a very long time, half a millenia easily.
biofuels... another serious problem people have yet to address and the greenies think is wonderful
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Love it man. Next project is mine & my dads 1000hp hot rod build hah. 512ci ford big block with a turbo custom built as a stock car turbo from some prestigious ford racing turbo company. powerrr
Here's the car we just got, Henry J is the name by a company in 69 called kaiser. Check out those rear slicks hah


Psychedelic voyaging & project cars, my favorite hobbies man.
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Im not talking that ridiculous corn fuel horseshit, A group has recently figured out that if you slightly modify green algea so you an produce biofuel with it. At the speed that it grows and the mass that it produces you could easily produce 50% of the USA's energy demands in a surface area have the size of pennylvania.
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Nuclear energy. Solved.
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Re: Are you a car guy? [Re: erikksonb]
#14331307 - 04/22/11 01:18 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Were it so easy.
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Re: Are you a car guy? [Re: erikksonb]
#14331330 - 04/22/11 01:24 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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erikksonb said: Love it man. Next project is mine & my dads 1000hp hot rod build hah. 512ci ford big block with a turbo custom built as a stock car turbo from some prestigious ford racing turbo company. powerrr
my last engine, 1100hp, naturally aspirated, it's an olds DRCE block for the foundation

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Here's the car we just got, Henry J is the name by a company in 69 called kaiser. Check out those rear slicks hah

I'm familiar with the Kaisers, I restored one of the kaiser jeeps for my last employer, fucking indestructible, the predecessor to the humvee, that henry J will be a sweet ride, is he going as a retro build?
my next resto project, a 51 ford panel, it's complete other than a headlight ring and the air cleaner, there's no rust through anywhere and only one piece of glass that has to be replaced

my next engine build will be a 350 mercruiser for my boat, I'm shooting for a modest 450hp
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DOPE. Yeah we chose the henry J because of its light weight & it can fit the 512 in the engine bay and its a kick ass car. Retro build? well we have all the glass, trim, bumpers, etc we're going to get it back in line but were painting its blue with mopar orange moons and stars all over it ahah.
I like that 51 and yeah major ups to cars without rust and hopefully the glass won't be too hard. Light bezels can be annoying sometimes. That front end has mad style
the 350 mercruiser. Smart smart and smart idea, that will be a nice toy.
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Prisoner#1 said: and the production of perfect mirrors, thousands of them, then the circuit boards to control the mirrors since they have to track the sun, plus the motor arrays at each mirror, etc... you may also be interested to know that the towers dont contain water but often some other fluid, some of these parabolic arrays are being tested with salt in liquid form, if the salt cools it solidifies and the whole thing is useless, others like the towers are using an oil as the heat conductor and then it's moved to a heat exchanger where it heats the water which turns to steam to drive the turbine
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dummy said: it hardly has to be perfect but what is your point? you assumed that i'm some environment freak and tell me how ungreen shit is. the point i make is that everything we do is an incredibly dirty process for many reasons. furthermore the fuel source that you're in bed with should be obsolete and this point and would be if it wasn't so profitable.
If it's any consolation to you bickering kids, photo-voltaic and solar heat-based electricity generation appear to be growing towards each other. Let me point out a few interesting things: - The solar tower concept (a field of mirrors pointed at a single point high up in a tower to collect the energy in the form of heat) often uses liquid sodium for the primary coolant loop. The sodium is (simply put) run through a steam generator that drives a turbine, making the concept very similar to any other gas, coal, bio-mass or nuclear powered power station. Due to the use of a steam turbine, the theoretical limit to efficiency should be somewhere between 35% and 45% of the energy collected at the tower, depending on the steam cycle used. Perfect mirrors are by no means a necessity, although the more perfect they are, the better the focus and therefore efficiency of the first half of the process: collecting the light and directing it at the tower. The big issue with this type of plant, in my opinion, is not so much the manufacturing of the mirrors, but keeping them clean. It's one of the reasons why it'll be challenging to build and maintain this type of plant in remote but sunny desert areas. Note that essentially, photovoltaic has the same drawback. - Photovoltaic generation currently tops off at some 25%, and somewhere between 15-20% for current commercial applications. The huge drawback is the manufacturing cost of solar panels, and in particular the fact (again, my opinion) that it is rather energy-intensive and involves the use of some nasty chemicals. I'm not sure what the theoretical limits to efficiency of photovoltaic generation are, but I believe there is ample headroom there. It should easily surpass the 45% maxmaxmax efficiency of solar-heat-steam concepts. - Lately, the essence of the two paradigms have been combined in some concepts: first concentrate the light in a spot, and then use an (efficient) photovoltaic surface to convert the light into electricity. This potentially reduces the costs of the photovoltaic cells, you need a smaller surface, and in the future, with more efficient cells, it could overcome the efficiency limit of the steam solar tower concept.
As to energy storage: I think hydrogen isn't as bad is it may seem. The big challenge will be to get people and businesses to adopt the new infrastructure, which is subject to network externalities: it only becomes interesting if many users are already present. But once it takes off, it'll be unstoppable.
As to cars: I'm with frith here. I like Top Gear. And I like cars and the automotive industry from a scientific viewpoint, but that's about it. I commute by train (that's how I keep up with the Shroomery nowadays; free internet on board the train) and I really like it that way.
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