Car/Bike thread

[Anthem275]

Think it was a 71 or 72 750 triple 2 stroke ! Scary quick only made em like 2 years

Mosh year ago there was a guy out here that would take down some really fast like 10 to 8 second cars on one of those beast. Never saw the bike only heard stories about it. Back then that was a street up in the Compton area you could NOT was across the start area and keep your shoes on. They laid down traction compound every weekend.

 

[Max]

Old pic..This is bout as much as I can show you guys without giving myself away .4 link rear clip…ass end rated to 1500hp.pulling this out for a better setup and getting the car painted..it’s well known so sorry I can’t show more.

 

[Moshmen]

Mosh year ago there was a guy out here that would take down some really fast like 10 to 8 second cars on one of those beast. Never saw the bike only heard stories about it. Back then that was a street up in the Compton area you could NOT was across the start area and keep your shoes on. They laid down traction compound every weekend.

Mine eventually got made into a drag bike . Scary quick off the line

 

[tobh]

So JDM only eh? Good thing they stopped smog checks in your state in 2020........

Some pics of a Corolla(?) I saw at a car show you might enjoy...

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uuuuggh. something about that era yota's and datsun's just does it for me. my dream car is a Hakosuka with a RB26 in it. Nothing wrong with the L28, it's just the sound of the RB engines is one of the most beautiful sounds in the world.

 

[Anthem275]

Mine eventually got made into a drag bike . Scary quick off the line

Mosh the simplicity of a two stroke is something I marvel about. I had a friend that had a quad with a factory Honda ported cylinder on the thing. We took the engine apart and they had extrusion ported the cylinder. It looked like a work of art. Everything was so clean and well done. You just got to make sure and put oil in them. When I use to race we had some friends that desert raced and blew up 2 strokes on a regular bases. We turned them on to VP C12 and they quit blowing them up. Lead is a great thing for an engine but not good for children. It is extremely dangerous to children, adults not as much. When we are growing like children is when the lead is so toxic.

 

[Moshmen]

Mosh the simplicity of a two stroke is something I marvel about. I had a friend that had a quad with a factory Honda ported cylinder on the thing. We took the engine apart and they had extrusion ported the cylinder. It looked like a work of art. Everything was so clean and well done. You just got to make sure and put oil in them. When I use to race we had some friends that desert raced and blew up 2 strokes on a regular bases. We turned them on to VP C12 and they quit blowing them up. Lead is a great thing for an engine but not good for children. It is extremely dangerous to children, adults not as much. When we are growing like children is when the lead is so toxic.

When I raced motocross I picked up a new bike from a sponsor - bike was supposed to be broke in and ready to race - on the line for practice she seized right up - they didn’t mix the gas ! That around 1984 - I would only race mayb 2/3 races before rebuilding the bike ! Cray easy!

 

[tobh]

this thread is not happy... where y'all go?!

almost time for winter wheels. these indy firehawks don't like sub 50F (like riding on glass wheels), so gonna have to put the blizzaks on as soon as it's consistently below 50F. weather keeps flip-flopping though, and luckily these things have really good wet grip.

 

[Observer]

When a college student runs a red light looking at her passenger friend

From like June?

Still mentally fucked off about it and really fucked us over.


Totaled.

 

[tobh]

When a college student runs a red light looking at her passenger friend

From like June?

Still mentally fucked off about it and really fucked us over.


Totaled.

damn. that entire front clip is shifted two inches. brutal hit.

 

[Stoneyluv]

I helped a buddy redo his 69, made it look like a 67... we did everything in his shop, paint and everything. came out pretty clean, really fun to drive!!

 

[Observer]

damn. that entire front clip is shifted two inches. brutal hit.

Yup.

I was accelerating on a green light, she was going on a red with no intention to stop or didn't even see it was red, there was a big suv on the lane to her left blocking the view of her from me so I couldn't see her coming anyways, unless already pulled out into the intersection a bit, then took late to do anything.

Could have flipped the ebrake and spun the car around away from her trajectory possibly, but only with a literal second or slightly less to respond and do all that...

 

[tobh]

Yup.

I was accelerating on a green light, she was going on a red with no intention to stop or didn't even see it was red, there was a big suv on the lane to her left blocking the view of her from me so I couldn't see her coming anyways, unless already pulled out into the intersection a bit, then took late to do anything.

Could have flipped the ebrake and spun the car around away from her trajectory possibly, but only with a literal second or slightly less to respond and do all that...

nah, humans aren't capable of that response level. that's where extensive defensive driving training comes into play, but even then, it only goes so far. with where you were hit, if you'd waited one second it would've been a very pissed off near miss, but what ifs aren't real. glad you're alive to be a pain in my ass

hell, it takes a second and a half for the human brain to process visual stimulus. at 60mph, that's like 350 ft or something like that. will have to dig into one of my books. between action, reaction, and driver action, it's a lot for the mind to process very quickly.

that's a major reason defensive driving teaches cover your brake (both in a car and on a motorcycle, front brake) when approaching intersections, and waiting two seconds. not "1-2" wait, but slow talk "one miss-iss-ippi, two miss-iss-ippi" seconds. because red light runners will think yellow means they have time, but they don't, and red holds in four ways for a short period.

 

[Observer]

nah, humans aren't capable of that response level. that's where extensive defensive driving training comes into play, but even then, it only goes so far. with where you were hit, if you'd waited one second it would've been a very pissed off near miss, but what ifs aren't real. glad you're alive to be a pain in my ass

hell, it takes a second and a half for the human brain to process visual stimulus. at 60mph, that's like 350 ft or something like that. will have to dig into one of my books. between action, reaction, and driver action, it's a lot for the mind to process very quickly.

that's a major reason defensive driving teaches cover your brake (both in a car and on a motorcycle, front brake) when approaching intersections, and waiting two seconds. not "1-2" wait, but slow talk "one miss-iss-ippi, two miss-iss-ippi" seconds. because red light runners will think yellow means they have time, but they don't, and red holds in four ways for a short period.

Indeed, lol.

It's like 25ms for the nervous system to respond/feel pain/for the signals to travel.

50-150ms for an applied rational response or so, depending on the "genetics/brain" of the human, lol.

Training/anticipation, etc.

I usually do something like this and I always check even on greens, for the exact reason, but bigger vehicle blocked the other lane that she popped out from view, then it was too late.

you right I gotta stop with the what ifs, this and that's.

 

[GoodShit97]

I helped a buddy redo his 69, made it look like a 67... we did everything in his shop, paint and everything. came out pretty clean, really fun to drive!!

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Fucken sexy dude