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Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#81 - 2013-08-27 04:07:57 UTC
Graygor wrote:
What was his response to that? Lol



Just laughed at it. Guess he understood the cats mentality that is if it can fit in it, it will sit in it.

Heres a couple of shots.

Careful removal of the plastic bumper
A shot of the actual bumper
Trying to fit it the first time. Had to remove a few things.
Refit 3 months later after I removed a few things (with a grinder)
Because of cats.

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#82 - 2013-08-27 04:12:55 UTC
I approve of the careful manner in which you removed the bumper.

From inspection it seems a crowbar was used for the delicate bits.

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#83 - 2013-08-27 05:43:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
@ Micheal Dietrich, V8 Disco? (I saw the fuel consumption figure and I know the smaller petrol and diesel engines do better, but not much). If it is the V8, it was originally a Buick 215 engine and has been kicking around the UK in various sizes, 3.5,3.9,4.0 and 4.2 Litre since the 60's, we finally stopped using it in 2006 but not before sticking it in some silly cars like TVRs.

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#84 - 2013-08-27 08:07:50 UTC
Didnt top gear once cover a TVR with one of those engines and say it was a rotten drive?

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#85 - 2013-08-27 08:25:22 UTC
Graygor wrote:
Didnt top gear once cover a TVR with one of those engines and say it was a rotten drive?

That's pretty standard for a V8 TVR, goes like stink, breaks your spine in the process, and as is true of every TVR ever the build quality makes 70's British Laydown (your tools, we're on strike) look good.

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Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#86 - 2013-08-27 14:43:35 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
@ Micheal Dietrich, V8 Disco? (I saw the fuel consumption figure and I know the smaller petrol and diesel engines do better, but not much). If it is the V8, it was originally a Buick 215 engine and has been kicking around the UK in various sizes, 3.5,3.9,4.0 and 4.2 Litre since the 60's, we finally stopped using it in 2006 but not before sticking it in some silly cars like TVRs.



Yes she's the V8 and yes she is a pig. I average about 11mpg and since she requires only the finest my fill up usually peaks around $90 every few weeks, which is about what I paid for on the V10's 40 gallon tank ten years ago.

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Adunh Slavy
#87 - 2013-08-27 14:47:29 UTC
The rest of you just drive too slow. Considering mine does 90 mph at cruising speed (yes, verified by the computer) the rest of you just need to speed up, you are causing global warming by driving to slow and not having a Beemer

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Jno Aubrey
Galactic Patrol
#88 - 2013-09-13 02:16:40 UTC
It's BMW's fault. Their vehicles are possessed or something. I've driven all sorts of cars and motorcycles, and the only time I drove consistently like a jerk is with BMW. The car/bike made me do it.

I'm pushing 60 years of age, and have gotten two speeding tickets in my life. Both for reckless driving. The first on an '88 BMW K75, and the second in a 2001 M5 (drag racing a cop. OK I didn't know he was a cop at the time).

Now I drive a Subaru. I could drive past a line of radar-equipped cops at 110 MPH (assuming the car could wheeze its way to such a speed) and they would ignore me. Except I would never do that, because I am driving a Subaru.

So, I blame the car.

PS. Lexus drivers are the biggest jerks in America.

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baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#89 - 2013-09-13 04:52:08 UTC  |  Edited by: baltec1
Micheal Dietrich wrote:
I wish we had autobahn rules in the US Cry


After driving on them I can safely say its the most arseclenching driving I have ever done. You go to overtake a waggon, look in you mirror, see nothing, pull out and suddenly a 130 mph angry german in an audi is behind you.
Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#90 - 2013-09-13 15:28:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Micheal Dietrich
baltec1 wrote:
Micheal Dietrich wrote:
I wish we had autobahn rules in the US Cry


After driving on them I can safely say its the most arseclenching driving I have ever done. You go to overtake a waggon, look in you mirror, see nothing, pull out and suddenly a 130 mph angry german in an audi is behind you.


Replace Angry German with 300lb Angry trailer trash lady + 7 kids without seatbelts on and Audi with Junkyard quality 80's Camaro and I pretty much have the same thing, except they're breaking the speed limit. I guess I can understand one part of it seeing how much of our highways are still 2 lane after all these years, but at the same time we end up with straight away's that literally go on for as far as the eye can see.
Take Nevada for example. If you drive on 93 South, there are parts of it where all you see is desert and the road you are on going off into the horizon. With the exception of a town (by town I mean one road and 5 buildings), the scenery literally doesn't change for like an hours worth of driving.

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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#91 - 2013-09-13 15:35:17 UTC
Micheal Dietrich wrote:
baltec1 wrote:
Micheal Dietrich wrote:
I wish we had autobahn rules in the US Cry


After driving on them I can safely say its the most arseclenching driving I have ever done. You go to overtake a waggon, look in you mirror, see nothing, pull out and suddenly a 130 mph angry german in an audi is behind you.


Replace Angry German with 300lb Angry trailer trash lady and Audi with Junkyard quality 80's Camaro and I pretty much have the same thing, except they're breaking the speed limit. I guess I can understand one part of it seeing how much of our highways are still 2 lane after all these years, but at the same time we end up with straight away's that literally go on for as far as the eye can see.
Take Nevada for example. If you drive on 93 South, there are parts of it where all you see is desert and the road you are on going off into the horizon. With the exception of a town (by town I mean one road and 5 buildings), the scenery literally doesn't change for like an hours worth of driving.

Crossing Utah, at one point I fell asleep and left the highway - at speed. The suddenly heavy bumping woke me up - I was maybe ten yards off the shoulder, and the prairie was flat enough to not upset my truck more than a little jolting. I could've picked any direction of the compass and travelled at almost highway speeds.

Speaking of Nevada, my wife and her friend went blasting out of Laughlin, headed for San Diego... At 120+ MPH. In the middle of the night. They were getting passed.

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#92 - 2013-09-13 16:07:42 UTC
That's some monotonous driving out there. At 65 mph, it feels like you're just crawling, because the road is so flat and straight, and the landscape is so featureless it doesn't seem like you're going anywhere. After a couple of hours of that, you've thought through your present situation, been over a good deal of your past, and are working on your future. After a couple of more hours, you're in a hypnotic trance state and about ready to start seeing visions. The country, Top 40, and Mexican music on AM radio helps a little, but not much.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#93 - 2013-09-13 16:53:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Krixtal Icefluxor
silens vesica wrote:


Speaking of Nevada, my wife and her friend went blasting out of Laughlin, headed for San Diego... At 120+ MPH. In the middle of the night. They were getting passed.



Oh God ! Nevada ! Driving across ! One of the worst experiences of my life. The only thing that got us through was Metallica's Black Album over and over again for 8 hours.

But West Texas is worse, especially the 2-lane highways. I had to stop driving and let my travel partner take over the driving. It's so flat, monotonous and hypnotic, the whole road and everything started spinning like a tunnel in an old amusement park ride. I almost wrecked the car.

ed: My driving partner said later: " I ain't never seen anything so flat since my ex-wife's chest."

Little dots on the horizon could turn into a farmhouse.....or a town. Absolutely no way to get any sense of scale. I don't know how they live out there everyday, it's so insane.

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#94 - 2013-09-13 17:00:56 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
silens vesica wrote:


Speaking of Nevada, my wife and her friend went blasting out of Laughlin, headed for San Diego... At 120+ MPH. In the middle of the night. They were getting passed.



Oh God ! Nevada ! Driving across ! One of the worst experiences of my life. The only thing that got us through was Metallica's Black Album over and over again for 8 hours.

But West Texas is worse, especially the 2-lane highways. I had to stop driving and let my travel partner take over the driving. It's so flat, monotonous and hypnotic, the whole road and everything started spinning like a tunnel in an old amusement park ride. I almost wrecked the car.

ed: My driving partner said later: " I ain't never seen anything so flat since my ex-wife's chest."

Little dots on the horizon could turn into a farmhouse.....or a town. Absolutely no way to get any sense of scale. I don't know how they live out there everyday, it's so insane.

That's exactly the part of the world I was talking about. Smile The wastelands spreading N, S, E and W of Amarillo. (Unless you were talking about the West Texas around El Paso). "Drive farther, see less" is the slogan around there.
Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#95 - 2013-09-13 17:14:37 UTC
As long as we're discussing roads now, the other one I would like to mention is taking 55 up to McCall. It's like the polar opposite of the flat turf and just as bad. The whole trip up there you have the Payette on one side, often times with no guard rail, and a mountain on the other and it's just turn after turn after turn after turn, and after 2 hours of that **** it's like what Krixtal mention, you start getting that tunnel vision with the dots and whatnot.
When we went up to Moscow I spent most of my time trying to focus on the 5th wheels left brake light. Looking at the water made you want to gravitate towards it. Once you get to 95 North though its not as bad and there's a little bit more scenery to look at.

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Plastic Psycho
Necro-Economics
#96 - 2013-09-13 17:15:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Plastic Psycho
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
silens vesica wrote:


Speaking of Nevada, my wife and her friend went blasting out of Laughlin, headed for San Diego... At 120+ MPH. In the middle of the night. They were getting passed.



Oh God ! Nevada ! Driving across ! One of the worst experiences of my life. The only thing that got us through was Metallica's Black Album over and over again for 8 hours.

But West Texas is worse, especially the 2-lane highways. I had to stop driving and let my travel partner take over the driving. It's so flat, monotonous and hypnotic, the whole road and everything started spinning like a tunnel in an old amusement park ride. I almost wrecked the car.

ed: My driving partner said later: " I ain't never seen anything so flat since my ex-wife's chest."

Little dots on the horizon could turn into a farmhouse.....or a town. Absolutely no way to get any sense of scale. I don't know how they live out there everyday, it's so insane.

That's exactly the part of the world I was talking about. Smile The wastelands spreading N, S, E and W of Amarillo. (Unless you were talking about the West Texas around El Paso). "Drive farther, see less" is the slogan around there.
Been there, travelled that. Did some 1500 miles across Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and up into Arkansas in one day; Picked up a strong tailwind coming into New Mexico, and the miles just flew away. The wind was so strong that I was disbelieving my gas guage... I was getting something like 45mpg in a pickup truck. Shocked At one point, I tried to pull over to drain tanks... And I almost couldn't! On a slight upwards incline, truck in neutral, and just coasting, I was doing 40mph. I had to stand on teh brakes to stop - weren't easy, I can tell you.

I started that day west of Tucson, and ended beyond Little Rock.

Edit:
(Drove (distantly) past Waco the day before the Branch Davidian Raid)
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#97 - 2013-09-13 18:32:31 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:

That's exactly the part of the world I was talking about. Smile The wastelands spreading N, S, E and W of Amarillo. (Unless you were talking about the West Texas around El Paso). "Drive farther, see less" is the slogan around there.


I-10 through West Texas and to El Paso is a breeze.....a boring breeze, but a breeze nonetheless.

Yup, it's the further north route through Texas that one wants to avoid. We were only going that way so we could get to Santa Fe. We somehow made it from my parents home on the west side of Houston, up through Dallas, then west to Santa Fe.......in 14 hours.

Mainly because after my friend took over the driving I don't think we went less than 95 mph. He just wanted to get the hell out of there.

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baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#98 - 2013-09-13 18:55:27 UTC
Seems they put corners in those roads only so you have something to do. Some are so long they have to account for curvature of the Earth...

Honestly I would just fly and rent than go through that kind of hell.
Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#99 - 2013-09-13 19:11:19 UTC
Jno Aubrey wrote:
It's BMW's fault. Their vehicles are possessed or something. I've driven all sorts of cars and motorcycles, and the only time I drove consistently like a jerk is with BMW. The car/bike made me do it.

I'm pushing 60 years of age, and have gotten two speeding tickets in my life. Both for reckless driving. The first on an '88 BMW K75, and the second in a 2001 M5 (drag racing a cop. OK I didn't know he was a cop at the time).



it's the dynamics of their cars tbh. a few trips on my bro-in-law's 123d coupé made me feel that.

it's... something about the engine-car-user synergy that makes you feel.. I dunno.. haughty? feels good to drive tho, even if ride confort is... bleh when you mix up the M pack. wished I drove a L6 instead that perky 2liter L4.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#100 - 2013-09-13 19:19:11 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
Seems they put corners in those roads only so you have something to do. Some are so long they have to account for curvature of the Earth...

Honestly I would just fly and rent than go through that kind of hell.



Nowhere to fly in that area really that avoids it. Lubbock is smack-dab in the middle of it all. Nothing really west of that until Santa Fe really.

The change in landscape as you literally cross the Texas/New Mexico border is amazing and a relief. Sudden greenery...with HILLS !!!

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