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Off Topic / Re: Airshow Crash.
« on: September 16, 2011, 09:55:07 PM »well that was a near missIt flew into a grandstand full of people, unless you're being sarcastic.
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Off Topic / Re: Ethan's New Car!
« on: September 16, 2011, 09:53:50 PM »-snip-In reply to the tire question:
Front Left tire has 1.5mm tread (legal minimum is 1.5mm), and is completely bald on the outside edge. See:
Man my moms ford van has a spinning rim on one of it's back tires that half way works yea take that.ehhh what
On Topic: Nice car Ethan I dont like it much because its a ford and im a chevy guy my dad had a 91 chevy cheyanne that outran a newer ford f150 that was staying behind us so no cops seen the expired tags they had to push the truck onwards to keep up also my dads truck was sitting for almost two years and still worked the ford had to be repaired 20 times over
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Off Topic / Re: Ethan's New Car!
« on: September 16, 2011, 09:50:17 PM »I wouldn't call that "really really fast", but it's decent.For what it is. It's absolutely crazy for a 2.5L V6.
A friend helped me test it, he was only just able to keep up, in his tuned RB30E skyline (3L straight 6).
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Off Topic / Re: Ethan's New Car!
« on: September 16, 2011, 09:48:02 PM »That looks nice.Haha, oops.
Hehe, got confused for a sec when I saw the wheel on the right side. :P
I had all measurements in miles, but forgot to mirror the interior pic for you folk :D
By the way, tested $20 worth of fuel (10 litres). I drove it like a hoon, revving, getting to 60km/h (30mph) in 1st gear, skidding etc, and it got 10kmpl (24mpg). Not bad considering its crazy speed lol.
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Off Topic / Re: Ethan's New Car!
« on: September 16, 2011, 09:41:41 PM »I like the rims and speed. Looks like the front bumper may have a broken bracket somewhere. Seems like its coming off in the first picture.Yeah.
Considering the amazing price and it's near perfect condition, it's still a great buy.
This weekend I'm going to sort a few things out.
We paid $170 to get it checked out at the most brown town testing station, and the only faults were:
1 tyre is on the verge of being illegal.
Needs oil change in near future. (easy to do, I have a friend with a garage pit)
Sunroof doesn't slide back. (could be a simple fix)
Needs a little bit more coolant in the radiator. (told you they were over the top)
A tiny bit of fraying on the seatbelts.
Air conditioning doesn't work. (the AC unit is in the way if I want to turbo it in the future anyway lol, and the heater goes to 48C anyway (118.4F))
The engine is in great condition, head gasket is fine, nothing wrong with it :D
No rust at all.
I'll take a look at that bracket.
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Off Topic / Re: Steam be messin with me
« on: September 16, 2011, 09:37:05 PM »Well, it's pretty impossible. There's an annoying gradient behind the text that's impossible to reproduce. Try looking at it with those metadata brown townyzer things.You must suck in Photoshop.
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Off Topic / Re: Ethan's New Car!
« on: September 16, 2011, 09:32:04 PM »What about me? Is it new to me?Yus
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Off Topic / Ethan's New Car!
« on: September 16, 2011, 09:30:05 PM »
Yus.
Ford Telstar TX5 XRI 1993:
2.5L V6 KL-DE engine producing ~180 to ~200HP
Manual 5-speed gearbox
Sunroof and Roof racks
Tape and CD player with a decent amplifier
4 wheel ABS brakes
Lowered a bit
Bodykit lip
15" DTM Rims
Cruise Control
Me and a friend tested it the other day. Got it 0 to 50km/h (30mph) in 3.4 seconds, and that was with LOTS of wheelspin. Could be tweaked to be faster with less wheelspin (new tyres, current are quite bald) and could be gotten to 100km/h (60mph) with a short shift to 2nd (2nd gear is amazingly powerful) and the standard awesome acceleration, for a rough 0-60 time for it, of about 5.5 to 6.5 seconds. It's really really fast.
Top speed is apparently 227km/h (141mph) although I have gotten it to 150km/h in 3rd without even trying on a short road. Maybe this one has been tuned.
Pictures:
Front corner, notice the awesome 15" mags.
Another shot of the front.
The back. The whole car has just been resprayed Red.
Front again.
Side, you can see the sunroof.
Another side, lower.
Side again!
uJelly?
The back lights, showing my old Mitsubishi Mirage MIVEC which has a leak in the piston rings :(
Roof, roof racks and sunroof.
Inside.
Grand total: $2000 NZD ($1600 USD)
:D
Ford Telstar TX5 XRI 1993:
2.5L V6 KL-DE engine producing ~180 to ~200HP
Manual 5-speed gearbox
Sunroof and Roof racks
Tape and CD player with a decent amplifier
4 wheel ABS brakes
Lowered a bit
Bodykit lip
15" DTM Rims
Cruise Control
Me and a friend tested it the other day. Got it 0 to 50km/h (30mph) in 3.4 seconds, and that was with LOTS of wheelspin. Could be tweaked to be faster with less wheelspin (new tyres, current are quite bald) and could be gotten to 100km/h (60mph) with a short shift to 2nd (2nd gear is amazingly powerful) and the standard awesome acceleration, for a rough 0-60 time for it, of about 5.5 to 6.5 seconds. It's really really fast.
Top speed is apparently 227km/h (141mph) although I have gotten it to 150km/h in 3rd without even trying on a short road. Maybe this one has been tuned.
Pictures:
Front corner, notice the awesome 15" mags.
Another shot of the front.
The back. The whole car has just been resprayed Red.
Front again.
Side, you can see the sunroof.
Another side, lower.
Side again!
uJelly?
The back lights, showing my old Mitsubishi Mirage MIVEC which has a leak in the piston rings :(
Roof, roof racks and sunroof.
Inside.
Grand total: $2000 NZD ($1600 USD)
:D
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Off Topic / Re: Music is now 80% better.
« on: September 16, 2011, 05:01:54 PM »I wouldn't really get one with a mic, I'm more looking for a decent microphone for Podcasting/Recording music. Only problem being good microphones cost upwards of $100. I'm talking short to medium range, not short range.Apart from the fact that the Microphone on the G35 is amazing quality. Seriously.
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Off Topic / Re: Just realized I passed my three-year mark.
« on: September 16, 2011, 05:00:30 PM »Why are you talking about my old account?Bahahahahahahahahaha
One may never forget how much of a n00b you were.probably went through old postsHow did you remember that? :o
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Off Topic / Re: Music is now 80% better.
« on: September 16, 2011, 07:45:10 AM »edit:I shall upgrade to those when I finish my computer c: how much are they? $40?I paid $200
7.1 surround sound etc. It's amazing, no other word.
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/gaming/headsets/devices/5095
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Off Topic / Re: Just realized I passed my three-year mark.
« on: September 16, 2011, 03:27:56 AM »
hello Omega615243
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Off Topic / Re: Building Desktop hehe
« on: September 16, 2011, 01:29:06 AM »I figured I'd also point out that the case has a punched side for unused cables. I use punched sides for cable management. It works fine and it's cheaper. If you're running everything at preset speeds and don't plan on overclocking anything then it doesn't matter much anyway except for the convenience of not having cables everywhere. You could probably fill the case up with cables and the stock cooler would keep everything cool enough provided there was still ventilation for the fan.I have many computers and one of my systems is a micro ATX.
I have a clusterforget of cables on top of the RAM sticks, I know it's not healthy, but it's been running for 3 years with great temperatures.
The GPU protrudes into the hard drive bays, and there's cables there too. I have to hook the cables around the heatsink otherwise they might stop the fan.