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broken link
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5foot2, why did you have to post that... the sight made me shudder...
Concur.
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Cool now I can just mow over those spiky bushes I don't like.
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Someone in a SRT4 (not the hatch back) was reving his car like a fool next to me at a light and I didn't want to race but I had to get over in his lane and after his assclown act I just had to press the pedal down about 1/2 way and kicked his a** entirely in 1st, got over before I hit 35 and was past his lane and turned left in another lane at a green arrow before he passed me.
Why do people hear my exhaust and see my coffe can looking tailpipe and assume I have nothing to show?
About the Dodge SRT4? they could have at least given it some sleeker styling I mean when you compair it to the Honda Civic hatchback... it makes the honda look good.
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I hate it when people rip out the interior and start working on something and then just stop and let it rust to death.
Sweat equity will payoff big here. DONT LET IT RUST TO HELL.
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Whay did you make me watch that whole thing thinking there was a punchline when there WAS NO PUNCHLINE!!! I was hoping he'd run into a tree or at least get sideswiped! Now I'll have that stupid song in my head all day, "...when the cops come all I hear is whowhowhoooo..."
The only trouble is now his Grandma needs her car back.
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hahaha friggen midgets!
My question is, how did he get the hammer on the flight with today's strict carryon policies?
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I added my own, so I have to have the clutch pedal depressed at least 1/4" to start it. It's not enough to disengage but at least I have to have my foot on it, and by then I will most likely push it in, that is unless I want to move it with the starter.
I never thought about the crankshaft's role in this from the pressure of the throwout bering. I started my old car the same way (clutch in) for 210,000 miles and never had any problem with starting it this way. Replaced the clutch at 80k and cleaned the starter at 120K. Then the engine went from burning 1 qt per 2000 miles to 1 qt per 350. So I got rid of the car. Something to think about.
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what made it do that?
This is why you double check your steering linkage.
Did you see him rolling his steering wheel left with no responce? I am always afraid that'll happen on my truck because it just has solid D-rods and set screws holding the whole steering rack together. I think I'm going to go home and tack weld it now.
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I didn't see any front brakes. I'm sure they're on the drawing board.
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Oh yeah - this happened the night before I was entering the car in a local car show.
But you don't know, you may have totaled it on the way to the show, maybe the road actually SAVED you're a**.
Personally I'm waiting for a ladder or other big object to rip the transmission bracket out of my car. That'll be really fun.
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... Those weren't boobs.
Jeb's harry backfat!
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and he smelled
like a Baboon
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he's undeserving though
because his V8
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I believe they are a 5.3L V12.
There are two types of head gaskets on market for the Jag head. Switch brands.
As for performance … next time your near Toronto' date=' look me up…[/quote']
5.3? I'm not sure about what years had what sizes, I know it was closer to 5.7 for the E-type. But I may have been a little confused between BMW and JAG. Luckily for me knowing the displacement of the engines you work on is not a prerequisite or grounds for firing. Of course nothing could save the dealer from going belly up in 1993.
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a shaved donkey
ate bad acid
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The most complicated and least reliable engine ever in the only car ever deemed "unsafe at any speed".
I want one!
I worked on those Jaguar V12's I was not impressed by the performance however those little XJS jags felt kinda heavy maybe part of the problem. 5.0L V12. Poor performance, poor gas mileage, sounded like a honda, and try to do a head gasket on one then talk to me. What a nightmare. IMO
We tended to get head gasket jobs a lot (within 30k of a new car) and they overheated which caused many problems. The cars looked DEAD sexy though. I'l rather prefer a V8 in the XJS. JTR has a kit...
Owning a Jaguar, the maintenance cost is so high you end up paying the price of the car every 5 years in repairs. At least this is how it was explained to me by a few customers. Sad lot really, we got to know them personally which should say something for reliability.
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his ovaries, Tim240z
Installed a V8
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All these articles are coming out (probably based on the same data) which predicts an (up to) 30 foot rise in the ocean level over the next 100 years from polar ice and greenland ice melt. If they would only quote all the data, it would suggest that rain reversal like we saw last year will become more frequent (where the northeast gets nothing and the southwest gets soaked).
More "out there" studies:
If the north pole did completely melt it's core and lose it's ice cap, (even close to it) the ocean water currents would change dramatically and northern europe and central canqada would on average decrease -20F (-7F would be a mini ice age and devistate agriculture), because of the cold air currents pushing south, the norhteast storms would hit further south and a generally cooler northern wind would dominate the midwest. This is where the confusion of colder winters in the midwest actually contradict global warming. On the pacific side, Washington, BC, and Oregon would become more arid, and the southwest would get more rain on average (northern storms).
Although this would not spell a doomsday forcast in the U.S. it would severly criple eastern europe and canada with much cooler temperatures eventually leading to years where spring will not come, snowpacks will build, and over thousands of years snowpacks will be so deep new glaisiers will form and push both north and south starting the next true ice age and won't reverse again until the north pole is coverd once again by glaciers growing from eastern europe and Canada northward.
Global warming according to my research (which is admitedly sparce) is not caused by humans and is a natural cycle of warming and cooling over tens of thousands of years. Although we may help it can't be more than 1/4-1 degree F per 100 years maximum.
In other words, expect more rain on average in California.
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Hey that's my album! I actually posted something someone wanted after only... 18 months! Wow!
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new hyperthreaded turbocharger
and install V8
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This is what producers think the 16-25 demo wants to see people talkin' like... i.e. retards. If you don't get it it's probably becase you aren't in the demographic. I tried to watch it Saturday... "tried". I'm too old to appreciate the subtle nuances of "let's beef this puppy up". I mean I've probably said the same thing myself but it just doen't sound very credible coming from a cabe TV show. Sounds a tad phony to me. But I lost the illusion which supposedly 16-25 year-old have. Of course this site has a smarter class of people so you don't have to be in your 30's to hate that type of show.
Remember Carl's Jr. They sell to the same demo.
P.S. Tom Licas was discussing this yesterday.
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I have noticed a significant imporvement over the last few months. It only smells now if I floor it or decelerate for a long slow hill in a low gear, and even then, much less than before. I was kinda worried my cat might be getting clogged or something because of that, except my gas smell never came back.
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1. They were both VERY hot inside and it was only in the mid 70s outside. I guess those big engines give off a lot of heat!
2. VVVIIIBBBRRRAAATTTIIIOOONNN!! both of them sounded and felt like the car was coming appart when they were really given the gas! I am assuming this can be fixed/helped by somehow getting the proper diveshaft angles?
3. I felt as if I needed a gas mask in both. I am not trying to be picky here but he exhaust smell was just bad! I honestly could care less for myself but I will be driving this to work and can't have my clothes smelling like that all day...
1. Mine is nice inside, and even in Bonsal on a 100+ day it was suprisingly cool inside, REALLY a black interior in an orange car and my friend commented before I could even realize that we stepped out of 100 degree air and were sitting in my car at a stoplight and DID NOT feel all that hot. I do however have aluminum bonded cloth fiber insulation stuffered everywhere. And about 3 lbs of black asphalt based adhesive based sound deadening. under most of the panels. No trouble with heat here.
2. That vibration you feal is from the freekin huge engine in a tiny little lightweight car. If you don't plow your foot in the pedal it's smooth as a baby's butt. Again not an issue for me, I have the proper driveline angles obviously, poly motor mounts, and a stock tranny mount. no problem unless I'm into the secondaries in 1st or 2nd. I consider it more like what it must feel to be strapped to a rocket. No squeeks or rattles except when it's really cold <40F the plastic around the windows make a styrofoam vs styrofoam noise.
3. I did have that same issue, somehow the exhaust gets in the driver's window, how? I have no idea but on a cold morning I see the freekin fumes coming in the window behind my head even at as high as 15 mph!. It was especially bad when I floored it, but prety constant otherwise. To fix this I put a CAT in the exhaust and never smelled gas again. Now it's like any other car, but because the carburator dumps fuel inthe exhaust when I floor it I smell something like following an underpowered volvo as it struggles to pull up a hill. Kinda like cooked eggs. But it goes right away. If anything this car pretty much picks up any smell from outside no matter where it's coming from. I actually decided to add the cat when I was getting over a cold and my eyes were watering and I was coughing but only when driving my car. I figured I better do something. Now it's great, and even the egg smell is not noxious.
I drive it every day and I wouldn't drive anything else, it's like a 4 wheeled motorcycle. You can't beat the feeling of 1:8 power to weight ratio. and 1:6.6 torque to weight. I'm only sad for myself having missed this for so long.
Got My DSL Today!!woohoo wow!!
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