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The mention of Red Bull and their plane shenanigans reminded me of their warbird collection. I'm not sure how I feel about them painting them up in the new Red Bull livery, but at least they keep them flying.
the one one that really had me all weirded out was the P-38. There aren't that many left in flying condition, so it seems like having one of them be done up like an energy drink is kind of....like putting a V-8 in a classic japanese sports car? I guess from that perspective, they own it, let them do what they want...
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/red-bull-p-38-lightning/549427660
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I was talking to OTM the other day about a car project he's planning, and the subject of racing planes came up. This got me looking around for a physical book with pictures, and I didn't have any luck. The internet saved the day, and i came across a pretty cool website that has pictures and history behind lots of different racing planes from the 30's (give or take a decade or two). People who care about this kind of thing may already know about it, but I thought I'd share anyway.
http://www.airracinghistory.freeola.com/the%20great%20races.htm
Caudron C-460
Northrop Gamma
Can't talk about racing planes without talking about the GeeBee (this one is the Z model)
If anyone has any more (or newer/better) pictures (I know some of the Oregon contingent are into planes), post them up! Never know where you can draw inspiration from once you start looking. And for those interested, the streamlining of the landing gear and how that could be adapted to headlights mounted on pods were how OTM and I ended up on the subject in the first place.
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I'd recommend using adobe... probably be easier...
It's only easier if you have it and know how to use it.
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slightly different angle. This was the drawing I used on this ancient paint job thread: http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=111961&highlight=s30+drawings
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Max, I was aware of the process but it waste so many discs and is a PITA.
I realized yesterday that I can plug my Blackberry into my PC, start this program and drag n drop from the menu on to my phone. I don't even have to convert to MP3 first, it does it on the fly.
This program is really cool.
it's definitely cumbersome, just figured I'd throw it out there as an alternative to buying software (though if you're not using CD-RWs, and you had a lot of protected music to convert, you may end up spending as much in discs as you would on a program).
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Uh, it doesn't matter if its imported as a mp3 or m4a file. itunes doesn't encode DRM. DRM is only in files (yes files. Applies to movies/videos too) purchased through itunes. SO it doesn't matter what format its imported.
Perhaps I misread the original post, I thought we were attempting to get iTunes purchased music to work on something that was not an iPod from within iTunes itself. The procedure I described DOES allow you to take a song purchased through iTunes and play it on a non-iPod (like an LG Glimmer phone, for instance) device by only using built-into-iTunes functionality. iTunes won't export it's files as a non-encoded MP3, but it WILL re-import them as such. I've done it, you're welcome to try it and see or not.
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The way you do this from within iTunes is to burn your iTunes purchased music to a disc (or use a program that will do this virtually without involving your cd drive at all by sort of fooling iTunes into thinking that it is) first. Then you go to Edit->Preferences->General->then click the Import Settings button. In the drop down tab labeled "import using:", select MP3 Encoder. Then, re-import the music to your computer. Now, instead of being DRM encoded M4P files, they'll be MP3s. Good to go.
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it worked for me
the link i posted wasn't the link i was asking about, this one was a white 240z with some deep dish wheels and very distinctive flares. There are stills of it elswhere on the site, but i think the video of it running is gone from youtube.
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Anybody have a copy of the Spirit Garage racing video? It seems to have been pulled, but that was a cool one.
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Maybe it's a turbo encabulator...
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Man, you're just looking for the wrong type of girl! Back when i was daily driving my 78 280z (the one with the hood that had been stomped on by the horse, not the camo zzzap!), I went to a movie with the girl I was dating. That car for one reason or another was in the habit of burning out ignition switches (and of course, by one reason or another, I mean the high-wattage stereo I had in it at the time), and sure enough, 12am, movie's out, and the ignition switch burned out...So being the true McGuyver-iffic Hybridz-er that I am, I proceeded to hotwire the car using a paperclip and some extra wire I had laying around. This could easily have been an embarrassing situation for all parties involved, but luckily she was mightily impressed with my red-neckery and the night ended rather well.
But that's not the girl I ended up marrying, so I now find myself in a similar situation to yours once again, though not exactly for the same reason: my wife thinks the car is "yucky" inside, and won't go for a ride until I take care of the interior. Women...
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If you look close, you can see that photo has been altered, there's a blur line around the rear end where it was smoothed in to the background.
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I actually kind of dig that...I remember RacerX used to have a pic of I believe a 610 wagon with a 240z front clip grafted on that was pretty cool as well. I don't remember what thread that was in though....
*edit* I think I found the thread it may have been in, but I'd forgotten that when Ernie withdrew from the site he pulled most of his old posts...so sad. Did anybody happen to save that picture? OTM? Anybody?
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So the jump from 200hp to 400hp was only worth .2 in the 1/4? Guess he should have used two bottles of Nawss.
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Have you got a better picture of the engine? The valve cover in the picture you took doesn't look rounded enough for a typical Honda single cam, looks more flat like the twin cam cars. I wonder if it's not a ZC engine...they used to be a pretty common swap, since they'd supposedly bolt right to your old tranny and were twin cam. It was essentially the same engine the 1st gen integra had, but with mounts for the civic/crx instead of the integra chassis.
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The HF had some novelty D15 8-valve motor with roller-rockers in it. It was a 2-valve motor, but unlike the DX model with the TBI system, it had sequential EFI. This makes it a prime candidate for the Vtec swaps since there's minimal wiring harness work that needs to be done. I always wanted to get one with a 4 valve D15 block and a worked over SI non-Vtec head, and put the 8 valve valve cover back on it. I bet that would be a pretty fun sleeper, though it wouldn't be massively fast so far as hondas go these days. sounds like a nice find.
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THIS is in fact the real surprise: http://www.whichisgayer.com/compare.html?w1=two+eighty+z&w2=two+eighty+zx
who would have guessed?
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Are you planning to model your own body components for the kit testing? I'm afraid my model won't help you much if you need it to be so much to scale that you could take measurements that allow for real-world body mods...
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there are far easier ways to test bodykits/wheel combos than constructing them from scratch in a 3D application, especially 3DSMax...Photoshop is much faster, and anyone conversant in a modeling package like Max would have to have access to something like Photoshop to make textures. My guess is to get a jumpstart on a project, possibly for school.
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what are you planning to use it for? I've got a cartoony S30 model i've been working on in Maya 2008 for fun, I'm sure that there's a format I could export it in like .fbx or something that you may be able to import into max. It's pretty rough and not textured (nor is it likely to be any time soon), but you sort of get what you pay for, right?
That ridge down the center is an artifact of it being modeled in half, and mirrored for these renders. Like I said, it's not particularly polished, but it's not been a very high priority project of mine. It was going to be for a short animation of it turning into the robot that used to be my signature until it was discovered to be out of pixel-spec.
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Actually, the Wangan Z was the boss of TXR Zero, but not TXR 3. I never beat TXR 1 and 2, so I don't know about them.
My understanding of the "secret" Devil Z boss in TXR 3 is if you defeat all the wanderers in TXR 3, the Devil Z comes out. This only happens in the US version if you have a gameshark (or similar device) that allows you to artificially give yourself 100,000,000 credits as a pre-requisite for one of the wanderer cars. Due to a translation glitch, you can only acquire 999,999,997 credits in the US version by playing the game straight. I don't own one of these, and have beaten every car except this last one. I've played both the dreamcast and Playstation versions of TXR 1 and 2, and the Devil Z is the boss in those as well.
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In Sega GT for the Dreamcast, there was a mode that allowed you to build your own car from scratch, choosing engine type, location in the chassis, and drive-wheel configuration. The bodies you could choose from were given arbitrary names, but one of them was clearly modeled after the S30Z.
All the Tokyo Extreme Racer games had the Z from Wangan Midnight as the final boss, sometimes it wouldn't come out until you beat every other car in the game. This was a problem in TXR 3, since a translation glitch prevented you from getting enough credits for one of the optional cars to come out and race.
Auto Modelista from Capcom also had a pretty awesome S30 in it. That was a very underrated arcade style racer from Capcom. People are pretty much just giving it away at this point, so if you can find it for cheap to free, pick it up. I liked it.
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Is anybody familiar with this car? I came across this web page by accident looking for Z31 pics. http://kanchan.uchidacw.com/?cid=21726
I know this thread is old, but i just got a PM about where to find this body kit. I googled Air Breathing Research Hosoki (mentioned in the overboost article as the builder of the car) and sure enough: http://www.abr-hosoki.co.jp/abr-s-130bodykit.html
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You want to keep the sparks part just like it sits, or just the name sparks?
Led Zeppelin are theiving bastards???
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All this talk about the early days of copyrighting reminded me of this. I found it pretty fascinating.