What did you do to your car today?

[NGP]

replaced the plugs and wires on my girlfriends 00 ford taurus. fuck that. when that car dies i'm gonna replace it with something less engineered to be a pain in the ass.

You could get an Audi 5000, spark plug changes on those are easy

i wouldn't mind working on an older german vehicle, fuck the newer ones. there would be many german engineers in my holiday. oil dipstick? we can get rid of that! trans dipstick? we don't need those. 2 spark plugs per cylinder? let's do it!

back on topic.... got the plugs and wires on ok and now it's running rough. i suspect a vacumn leak, among other things, could be the cause. also could've eaten a chunk of the plenum gasket. at any rate, more money to burn. can't really complain since it does have 225,000 miles on it with little trouble so far.

[Township Rebellion]

replaced the plugs and wires on my girlfriends 00 ford taurus. fuck that. when that car dies i'm gonna replace it with something less engineered to be a pain in the ass.

You could get an Audi 5000, spark plug changes on those are easy

i wouldn't mind working on an older german vehicle, fuck the newer ones. there would be many german engineers in my holiday. oil dipstick? we can get rid of that! trans dipstick? we don't need those. 2 spark plugs per cylinder? let's do it!

back on topic.... got the plugs and wires on ok and now it's running rough. i suspect a vacumn leak, among other things, could be the cause. also could've eaten a chunk of the plenum gasket. at any rate, more money to burn. can't really complain since it does have 225,000 miles on it with little trouble so far.

Please don't take me seriously and buy an Audi 5000! The old 5 cylinder Audis are about the most retarded cars in the world to work on, changing the spark plugs is literally the only easy job. There are better cars, it pains me to say.

[Jedi Moped]

replaced the plugs and wires on my girlfriends 00 ford taurus. fuck that. when that car dies i'm gonna replace it with something less engineered to be a pain in the ass.

You could get an Audi 5000, spark plug changes on those are easy

i wouldn't mind working on an older german vehicle, fuck the newer ones. there would be many german engineers in my holiday. oil dipstick? we can get rid of that! trans dipstick? we don't need those. 2 spark plugs per cylinder? let's do it!

back on topic.... got the plugs and wires on ok and now it's running rough. i suspect a vacumn leak, among other things, could be the cause. also could've eaten a chunk of the plenum gasket. at any rate, more money to burn. can't really complain since it does have 225,000 miles on it with little trouble so far.

Please don't take me seriously and buy an Audi 5000! The old 5 cylinder Audis are about the most retarded cars in the world to work on, changing the spark plugs is literally the only easy job. There are better cars, it pains me to say.

Yeah but,

Spoiler

are they sports cars?

[MoaningLisa]

Yeah but,

Spoiler

are they sports cars?

yes, and quite glorious ones too

[Township Rebellion]

Yeah but,

Spoiler

are they sports cars?

yes, and quite glorious ones too

I wouldn't take dark moped seriously, he's just shitposting over an argument we had back on &z. It's completely OT. To cut it short, it was over the definition of "sports car".

On topic, the Urquattros are some of my favorite cars, I used to drool all over videos of the Audi S1 back when I was a little kid, Walter Rohrl is a driving god. To this day, building an Urq road/track car with a 2.5 TFSI and a whole lotta boost is a dream of mine, at least in the top 3 dream projects. It's not really a sports car though, is it? It started life as a mid-sized coupe, heavily modified into a high-performance road and rally car. It certainly kicked the shit out of all the pure bred sports cars of the day though. I would say the Sport Quattro is an actual sports car however. Obviously the 5000 isn't.

[Irukanji]

So...finally bit the bullet and some some springs to lower it. 30mm seems ok with standard length shocks according to some people so I'll give it a whirl and see if it needs it or not. There is no rear camber adjust on this model so I'm stuck with the rear camber being wack until some later time and/or I buy a VY series 2 rear end which has the camber adjust...one day.

Front will be in need of a camber adjust since it's wearing the inside of the tyres out like mad, but it goes through corners nice with less "roll", so I dunno if I'll try to keep the camber how it is or if I go back to factory...decisions...and hopefully gonna pick up a vice this weekend so i can separate the tailshaft halves and replace the bearing, gotta pick up some seals for the gearbox first...

[Infinityshock]

I pissed on the tire of my car today.

I piss on my truck tire every day. Sometimes multiple times a day

[Infinityshock]

the accumulation of parts I have in my dorm room right now.



as soon as I can make it to NY to pick up the head, I'll do all the work.

I have so many parts for my bike in my shed they take up nearly an entire shelf. And they dont include a set of forks and triple-t's getting powder coated or a pair of calipers getting rebuilt by a bike shop that is taking fucking forever. Or $180 worth of refurbishment seals and parts on order

[GothicSeraph]

I have so many parts for my bike in my shed they take up nearly an entire shelf. And they dont include a set of forks and triple-t's getting powder coated or a pair of calipers getting rebuilt by a bike shop that is taking fucking forever. Or $180 worth of refurbishment seals and parts on order

It seems to be the MO of many bike shops, I've been waiting on a shop to powder coat a set of Comstar's and paint my gas tank. Bike is a 78 CB400. 

[Infinityshock]

I have so many parts for my bike in my shed they take up nearly an entire shelf. And they dont include a set of forks and triple-t's getting powder coated or a pair of calipers getting rebuilt by a bike shop that is taking fucking forever. Or $180 worth of refurbishment seals and parts on order

It seems to be the MO of many bike shops, I've been waiting on a shop to powder coat a set of Comstar's and paint my gas tank. Bike is a 78 CB400.

I just dropped off the forks to a powder coating place yesterday and they arent due till friday, so they arent behind

The bike shop has a set of calipers theyre supposed to be rebuilding that theyve had for a couple of months. The dude keeps giving be bullshit excuses that I think he thinks I believe.  It the owner of the shop wasnt good with bikes, and cool, I wouldn't even go there considering how much the one dude is pissing me off

[Irukanji]

Ok so I chucked in the rear springs friday night and loved the look straight away. Did the fronts yesterday, took it for a spin and the springs/shocks settled in and dropped in another 10-15mm. Looks better, feels a bit "tighter" on the road and the steering has firmed up a little(maybe placebo).

Changed center bearing on the tailshaft. Easy enough, rip out tail shaft, undo CVj oint and work downwards until you hit the bearing. Removing it is a piece of cake, I just bashed it with a chisel and hammer until it came off. Now, to reinstall was tricky. TTthe bearing is a smige under 30mm wide, which means i need a piece of tube with an ID of between 30mm and 32mm max. Hardware store had some which was 29.7-29.8mm. So I had to cut a slot down the side and then rammed a socket down to widen it enough. Worked to get the bearing on, enough for the circlip to be put back on anyway. Install was easy enough. Basically, if you have the tools to push the bearing on properly, it would be a super simple, straight-forward fast job

The one downside to lowering is my big jack(the one I used mainly for jacking the car up, etc) is too tall to fit under the k-frame, and about 10mm tall for the diff(I can just wedge my body under there and push the car up whilst pushing the jack into position, upon lowering the car the diff sits a few mm higher and the jack slides freely out.

[Evan]

Clubman handlebars.

[GothicSeraph]

Installed a CZ702 headunit & touched up the paint.