In reply to KyAllroad (Jeremy) :
VR6s make me recoil in horror, so I haven't much to say.
They combine the combustion chamber of a 348 Chevy with the water jackets of a Flathead Ford, times a whole lot of dead space. I'm shocked that they ever met US emissions specs, to be honest.
Patrick said:
Jaguar guy has ruined the forum for me and he can berkeley off
Yeah, he does that. Gary is another one. berkeleying bored, retired baby boomers who have nothing better to do than argue about minutiae that no one asked them about and whatever heresay and rumors they acquired in their 20s-30s that they now think is gospel all backed up by whatever evidence they choose to use to complete their version of the world.
so yeah, I feel ya. Don’t let the bastards win though. Keep up the good fight and challenge their incorrect thinking whenever you can and call their bluster to prove it empirically and repeatedly. That or berkeleying ignore them completely. Either way this is your board too and since you’ve actually competed at the Challenge, you’ve more than earned the right to be here.
Remember when we just argued about hatchbacks?
NickD
PowerDork
4/17/19 5:40 a.m.
Knurled. said:
KyAllroad (Jeremy) said:
Got the fun phone call today. “Honey the car is singing at me and the needle is pointed at 260 maybe 270 degrees.”
Seems the fan controller has crapped out, I wonder how many times the teenager has pegged out the temp without being aware that the needle should ALWAYS be pointed at the same spot and variation is cause to mention something. Sigh.
What kinda car? The abuse protection in some vehicles is mind boggling. I can also attest that you can overheat the snot out of a 3 liter Duratec after the water pump stops getting driven by the exhaust cam, and the engine won't care all that much.
I overheated the E36 M3 out of a Subaru EA82 a few times and it never seemed to care.
NickD said:
Knurled. said:
KyAllroad (Jeremy) said:
Got the fun phone call today. “Honey the car is singing at me and the needle is pointed at 260 maybe 270 degrees.”
Seems the fan controller has crapped out, I wonder how many times the teenager has pegged out the temp without being aware that the needle should ALWAYS be pointed at the same spot and variation is cause to mention something. Sigh.
What kinda car? The abuse protection in some vehicles is mind boggling. I can also attest that you can overheat the snot out of a 3 liter Duratec after the water pump stops getting driven by the exhaust cam, and the engine won't care all that much.
I overheated the E36 M3 out of a Subaru EA82 a few times and it never seemed to care.
After I overheated mine, pouring water into the radiator had it running into the oil pan almost as fast as I could pour. Cranking the engine would shoot water 6 feet out the grille, through the pinhole in the radiator.
I don't f around, if I blow something up, I blow it UP.
NickD
PowerDork
4/17/19 6:19 a.m.
Knurled. said:
NickD said:
Knurled. said:
KyAllroad (Jeremy) said:
Got the fun phone call today. “Honey the car is singing at me and the needle is pointed at 260 maybe 270 degrees.”
Seems the fan controller has crapped out, I wonder how many times the teenager has pegged out the temp without being aware that the needle should ALWAYS be pointed at the same spot and variation is cause to mention something. Sigh.
What kinda car? The abuse protection in some vehicles is mind boggling. I can also attest that you can overheat the snot out of a 3 liter Duratec after the water pump stops getting driven by the exhaust cam, and the engine won't care all that much.
I overheated the E36 M3 out of a Subaru EA82 a few times and it never seemed to care.
After I overheated mine, pouring water into the radiator had it running into the oil pan almost as fast as I could pour. Cranking the engine would shoot water 6 feet out the grille, through the pinhole in the radiator.
I don't f around, if I blow something up, I blow it UP.
Wow, that had to be interesting. I also admit to feeling bad for overheating the snot out of a brand-new GM LFX. I had a customer Acadia that dropped a valve at 800 miles, so I dropped in a warranty new GM motor. I had a mind blank and was thinking it was an Equinox/Terrain where you fill through the coolant reservoir (for the record, GM's idea of hiding the radiator cap on an Acadia under a panel you have to remove sucks), so I topped it off and went and took it for a drive. I was also still on the Equinox/Terrain mindset, where those are near impossible to bleed the coolant system so you take them and drive it and they will peg the coolant gauge, you shut it off and fill it and you are good to go. Yeah, that didn't work on the Acadia because there was little-to-no coolant in the radiator. After the vehicle shut itself off to protect itself, I turned around, limped back to the shop and opened the hood and started scratching my head, until I remembered to pop the whole radiator closeout panel off
Duke
MegaDork
4/17/19 6:25 a.m.
Patrick said:
Jaguar guy has ruined the forum for me and he can berkeley off
He's so easy to ignore, though. Just assume that every word out of his keyboard is an irrelevant special case that only applies to him.
I hate how berkeleying clumsy I am sometimes. Last night I ran into the dog gate and knocked that down on my way to bed. This morning I took a door knob to the hip while getting dressed, then caught that same exact spot on a piece protruding from a rack at work, which prompted a reaction involving much cursing and a swift kick to the nearest solid object I could find. Brilliant move on my part, as I hadn't changed into my steel toes yet and now my toe hurts worse than my hip.
I've been asked to edit a (very high quality) video of a person reading from a piece of paper to hide the fact that the piece of paper is in a plain manila folder (instead of a leather-bound book with gold trim I assume?)
So what's this video for? Is it going on national TV? Being presented to the UN? At a board meeting of the Illuminati!?
Nope, internal company retirement function.
I never thought anyone would top my mother for making me feel like I was aggressively wasting effort in the service of pathological vanity, but there it is.
30 hors at work since i clocked in monday morning. This week can be over now.
Man, vegans hate vegetarians.
Duke said:
Mike said:
Man, vegans hate vegetarians.
Vegans hate everything.
You would to if you couldn’t eat bacon or eggs.
RevRico
PowerDork
4/17/19 9:07 p.m.
Duke said:
Mike said:
Man, vegans hate vegetarians.
Vegans hate everything.
E36 M3, that doesn't make me a vegan does it?
Dang. There's now a broken rear coil spring on the Taurus X. And we're planning on taking it on an 800 mile round trip this weekend for a funeral. Nobody seems to have the spring in stock locally. In fact Rock Auto doesn't even have the spring. Ugh.
I may end up renting a car, or I may even just buy something to replace the Taurus. I don't like buying cars in a hurry, though.
In reply to dculberson :
Still have the subaSubaru. ...
In reply to dculberson :
Rent a car, it’s cheap and you can probably get a pacifica or similar, which is comfortable
In reply to dculberson :
I don't buy anything major like that in a hurry (anymore). CL, hobby stuff, challenge fodder yes. Major transport, housing, no.
Renting can be fun. Drive it like a rental. Get the insurance...
mtn
MegaDork
4/18/19 8:26 a.m.
Bent-Valve said:
In reply to dculberson :
I don't buy anything major like that in a hurry (anymore). CL, hobby stuff, challenge fodder yes. Major transport, housing, no.
Renting can be fun. Drive it like a rental. Get the insurance...
Actually, don't get the insurance, just use a good credit card.
RevRico
PowerDork
4/18/19 8:43 a.m.
What's the polite way to tell the neighbor who is rarely home that if he doesn't do something about the rooster he has, it will become dinner?
It got moved to his house from my buddies neighborhood where it was against township ordinances and annoying the whole place. Now, it's mostly just annoying me, as he is never home, so it just runs around crowing from dawn to dusk.
slefain
PowerDork
4/18/19 10:48 a.m.
slefain said:
slefain said:
slefain said:
A small group of geriatric toddlers have been hijacking our city meetings lately. They have zero respect for meeting rules and shout down anyone who doesn't agree with them. They have no interest in actually discussing issues, just repeating their same opposition speech. They don't want to talk about compromise, or care to learn anything about the other side of the issue. The other night they pitched an actual tantrum after other people wouldn't agree with their view. They threw civility out the window a long time ago, even going so far as character assassination of those who don't agree with them. I'm done with being civil as well, and will be giving them the same thing right back at the meeting this week. Just because you are old doesn't mean you can't still be called out for being an ass.
The issue is development within the city limits, which we desperately need. Nothing new has been built here in decades and it shows. But this crowd opposes every single project that has come down the line for the last few years. No compromise or ideas, just constant no. Pricey new houses? No. Budget starter houses? No. Senior living? No. New church building? Big no. Anything other than exact cookie cutter versions of their houses (which nobody builds anymore) priced at more than they are worth (they think their houses are gold) will do.
It is sad because our city has been neglected for decades and finally has a chance at rebirth, but the same people who ran it into the ground are hell bent on preventing it from rising again.
Update!
So enough non-crazy citizens reached out to the city council about the group's antics. At this week's meeting there was a hard three minute time limit per person on public comments. The group got around that by having a single spokesperson, and then having each person cede their three minutes to their leader. That ticked off one of our most level-headed citizens, who is also an expert in rules & regulations. Turns out you can't give your time to another person, and this guy has the citations to shut it down. So at next week's meeting it will be up to each person to use their own three minutes for comment, or not at all. Should be real entertaining when the mayor lays the smack down.
I've also been asked to apply to our city's new historic preservation board. Forming this board was a previous demand of the same angry group who think this will prevent people from tearing down old houses. Except it isn't. Having your house listed is purely voluntary, you can't slap the designation on property you don't own. And putting your property on the list puts all kinds of restrictions on what you can do with it. I predict zero interest from the property owners who actually qualify.
Final update!
The Mayor put down the hammer and the angry mob was not happy. Three minutes per person, no ceding time, no talking out of order. As expected, most of them didn't have the courage to actually stand up and tear into people like their spokesperson does. Once their leader had her three minutes, only a few got up to parrot the same lines. The angry mob's leader tried to speak out of turn several times but got shut down by the Mayor at every attempt. The vote came down (council approved the project) and the entire group quietly stormed out.
P.S. - I used my public comment time to denounce bullies, as well as encourage anyone in the audience to speak their mind even if they fear getting verbally accosted in the lobby after the meeting. The angry mob heckled me, thus proving my point.
Well as expected the same group has refocused their efforts with the heat of a thousand suns on the next shiny object. This time it is zoning changes to modernize the zoning code (we don't have anything on the books for mixed use development, townhouses, or cottage housing). They have gone full crazy and are claiming that the Koch brothers are trying to destroy our city by aiding new development. I'm tempted to wear a tin foil hat to the next city meeting...
Dusterbd13-michael said:
In reply to dculberson :
Still have the subaSubaru. ...
Too small! This is to replace the Taurus X which needs to be 3 rows - we use the 3rd row pretty often. I'll think about the rental guys. I usually am all slow and careful but for some reason on this just "want it done."
Duke
MegaDork
4/18/19 2:46 p.m.
ARE YOU BERKING KIDDING ME
I've been working 10-hour days all week on a crush deadline. Next week won't be any better due to backlogged projects put aside for this one.
I'm having 20 people, mostly family, to my house on Sunday. Some of the fun ones aren't coming and some of the not-fun ones are. Typically the last folks trickle out around 9:00p, and the place is a wreck with dirty dishes, leftovers, etc.
Monday morning I have to be on site, 2 hours' drive away, at 9:00a.
Next Saturday is our first autocross of the season, and I have to finish prepping the car and getting the T&S equipment ready. And find somebody to tow the trailer to the site.
IT NEVER BERKING FAILS
Another blown head gasket.
Toyota's vaunted 22R can kiss my ass.