Car/Bike thread

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.
 
Old pic..This is bout as much as I can show you guys without giving myself away šŸ˜†.4 link rear clipā€¦ass end rated to 1500hp.pulling this out for a better setup and getting the car painted..itā€™s well known so sorry I canā€™t show more.
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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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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 didnā€™t mix the gas ! That around 1984 - I would only race mayb 2/3 races before rebuilding the bike ! Cray easy!
 
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.
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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.
 

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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.
 
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...
 
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 šŸ˜œ

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.
 
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 šŸ˜œ

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.
 
Forgot all about this thread~!
So some pics of the last acquisition.
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^ Waiting for winter to pass.^
It took a while to figure out good custom plate for her the IMBANDIT in previous picture is really the Crossfires, settled on;
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Come on Spring/Summer~!
;clp;clp
 
Forgot all about this thread~!
So some pics of the last acquisition.
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^ Waiting for winter to pass.^
It took a while to figure out good custom plate for her the IMBANDIT in previous picture is really the Crossfires, settled on;
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Come on Spring/Summer~!
;clp;clp
Yours? Wow what a beauty, You're not taking that out in the snow....or are you? donuts in walmart parking lot?
 
Yours? Wow what a beauty, You're not taking that out in the snow....or are you? donuts in walmart parking lot?
Yes mine all mine~!
No not in the winter or rain.
She is a fun car and real head turner.

I took the Vette out Saturday since it was sunny and nice [ over 30f].
It's just a plastic Chevy~! Not quite top down weather yet.
 
Sweet Ride!

Been waiting for an old 90's Acura NSX to post up for sale. Waiting or some angry wife trying to get back at her husband by selling his baby! šŸ˜„

Friend of mine was going through Craigslist and found a post of someone selling a '98 Porsche 993(911) Turbo S for $2,400. He thought it was either a typo, the engine was blown or the seller trying to get people to look at the car so he called the number and it was a woman that answered. She said her husband was in the military and on deployment. She had found out that he was fucking around with multiple women behind her back and she was selling the thing he loved most. Friend asked her how she was going to deal with title transfer since he was overseas. She said the car was in her name for insurance purposes. That's what you call a Unicorn post for us car guys......
 
Gonna need a bigger garage there steam.

What does that have for an engine?

You do your own stunts too?
 
Gonna need a bigger garage there steam.

What does that have for an engine?

You do your own stunts too?
I do need a bigger garage~! Or at least get a bunch of other stuff out.
Looking into a four-post lift. Poor Corvette spent the winter in the driveway~!
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The engine is the downfall of the car and why it is considered a fail by the car industry.
It has a 3.5 V6
It is a 2000 that had under 20k on it last year when I got it.
If I was a gear head or rich I would look into an LS swap on the engine but being old I am gaining respect for original things~!
The car itself is actually 'affordable' to most today.
There is one now near Stoney with 11k on it for 23k.
 
I do need a bigger garage~! Or at least get a bunch of other stuff out.
Looking into a four-post lift. Poor Corvette spent the winter in the driveway~!
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The engine is the downfall of the car and why it is considered a fail by the car industry.
It has a 3.5 V6
It is a 2000 that had under 20k on it last year when I got it.
If I was a gear head or rich I would look into an LS swap on the engine but being old I am gaining respect for original things~!
The car itself is actually 'affordable' to most today.
There is one now near Stoney with 11k on it for 23k.

you better not share that photo on the vette forum!!

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been helping my buddy a few nights a week on his 69 nova...

just made a new custom trans bracket to fit the big exhaust...

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and we ported and polished the heads over the weekend.. before and after, they call it "raising the roof" on that particular head. all shinny and smooth like glass now!!!

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soon as the nova is done we're gonna get back on this beast... we started chopping the roof!!! ;hd

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Nice rides, I'm curious what the better half drives
She has a 2008 Lincoln MKX with under 140k on it.
I got it for her probably 12-13 years ago.
She is due a newer vehicle but what she has runs well and has no issues along many amenities so.;idk
She is retired so it not like when I got it for her and needed reliable transportation to get to work on the night shift in the winter.
Now she just goes to the store and I make her drive it to Maine if she wants to buy anything at gift shops.
Funny how every vehicle I have on the road is a 2 seater~!;drive
 
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