@meso@new.asbestos.cafe They are the same age but the Ford has got about half the kilometers on it and hasn't been drifted and track driven. Can you tell?
@SuperDicq I forgot. it's nice you're taking care of it and fixing it little by little, niggas are so nosy around here they're like "What is something wrong with that car again?" nothing's wrong with it IT'S A VOLVO the brakes need a change dumb fuck
Yeah. I crashed it on the mountain pass in Switzerland about 7 months ago. Got it back home and fixed it up with a new headlight and some body panels and it's on the road again for the past 2 months or so.
@SuperDicq the subhuman who drove it did, i found a windshield for it tho and got it changed (poorly, now it's leaking water from the top seal, i shouldve done it my way or given it to an actual professional tbh), and we banged up the roof so its somewhat back in shape, i've been driving it for the last week but my brake pads are bare metal and i can't pass the inspection without changing them, plus the brake system could fail with such worn out pads and the rotor was getting damaged, though the front brakes were stopping it well.
it's all for the better. thanks to the car not starting, I got a brand new name brand battery, brand new spark plugs, changed both mirrors including the one that was damaged before the rollover to perfectly working new ones with even better visibility, my new windshield has really good visibility it's crazy how fucking well i can see out the car, it's an OEM windshield so it's stronger glass that didn't get weathered over time as much as the previous aftermarket Saint-Gobain one I assume, no more sun glare completely destroying any chance of seeing what's in front of me, I got a new shift stick cap cuz the old one was torn from the previous owner and i completely destroyed it while drifting, got an oem antenna so i can now listen to the radio, got a new door handle and fixed the door mechanism for good (thank you perfectly sized ziptie laying around on my backseat), fixed up the exhaust that needed a proper weld rather than the halfassed shit that was done to it before, now I'm changing my brakes which were screeching and grinding before. overall good flip. I don't mind spending another $700 on the car, that's about how much it's gonna come up to
@meso@new.asbestos.cafe I literally have a second differential that is welded. I swap that one in if I go to a drift event. Haven't been in a while tho.
Usually when I drift on the street I only do it when it is wet so it works with the open diff and I don't wreck the tires. Also in most spots I can't really drift in the dry without going up to dangerous speeds.
@SuperDicq i might get a 240 someday to drift with, i'll really tune it up, maybe I'll get a Penta motor and swap it in there. welded diff and everything, some other mods. I wouldn't turbo it I'd prefer no lag between my foot and the car
@meso@new.asbestos.cafe Ain't too bad on a MX5. I do have a garage with a lift tho. I mean I also swap my exhaust every year when it is inspection time.
@meso@new.asbestos.cafe I personally don't like turbo Miatas either. I wanna put ITBs on mine eventually when I got the money for it.
Definitely not doing that on this motor tho. I got a spare engine lying around with a lot less kilometers on it so I think I will build that one if this one shits the bed.
For like Miatas and AE86s all the Japanese guys put ITBs on them. Turbos are for baka gaijins who don't appreciate a well tuned naturally aspirated engine.
@meso@new.asbestos.cafe I wonder if they kept the factory twin turbo kit because usually they swap it out for a single turbo setup on these cars to make maintenance easier. Also because modern single turbo setups make more power than the factory twin setup.
It's probably single turbo because it's a rental car tho.
@meso@new.asbestos.cafe I'm pretty sure you need an tunable ECU or some sort of piggyback system to get it all working properly. Especially because you would be missing the stock MAF sensor and such.
@SuperDicq hmm I'm looking at ITBs and I'm trying to figure out how they improve performance. on a regular throttle body it only has one inlet similarly sized to the 4 ones in the ITB right? that'd mean it gets a ton more airflow in?
@SuperDicq and that would... increase fuel consumption and obviously power but I wonder if you can have the same fuel economy but at a lower throttle which'd make the car go the same speed or something like that?
@meso@new.asbestos.cafe ITBs do increase horse power slightly by indeed getting more air in because it's not restricted by a single hole for four cylinders of the regular throttle body.
But mostly you do it for the instant throttle response and the sound it makes.
@meso@SuperDicq ECU's do in fact automatically adjust the fuel-air mixture, but the stock settings probably to only expects so much air and/or fuel and may need adjustment.
@meso@new.asbestos.cafe What people usually do when they add ITBs is also shave the head to increase compression and also bore out the engine to get more displacement. But I will probably not go that far.
@meso@new.asbestos.cafe Especially on the Miatas there's a lot of room for shaving the head compression because it is a non-interference engine from the factory. Also combined with modified camshifts. It's good shit.
@meso@SuperDicq I'm not sure if Speeduino is free, as their websites are absolutely proprietary, but it'll probably work unless digital handcuffs get in the way.
@SuperDicq I believe some models of the redblocks are non-interference, the ones with K in the model name for example. mine is interference afaik? or not? conflicting accounts. the 16v are definitely interference.
I mean in theory you can write tuning maps without it with just a text editor but that's not really realistic to do.
TunerStudio is a .jar application that should be easy to reverse engineer tho. I thought about doing that once but obviously couldn't be bothered to actually go through with it because it's way too much work.
@meso It allows easily maximizing the engine's compression ratio and car manufacturer's really consider it good if years down the line a timing belt or chain snaps and it's time to buy expensive parts, or a new engine, or a new car.
It isn't much of a problem if there's a timing chain - as the chain tends to start rattling prior to failure and therefore allows for replacement before it fails.
There's a problem with timing belts, as they do not rattle and break without warning at end of life (and of course the belt is usually deep within the engine and a pain in the ass to replace too).
Some cars now combine an interference engine with a oil-lubricated timing belt (for a 1% fuel efficiency improvement) - as expected, the result is that the timing belt can snap prior to the recommended replacement interval, as shockingly oil attacks and degrades rubber (even if it's PTFE coated).
@SuperDicq@meso If I was to use Speeduino, I would just hand edit the tuning maps with a text editor, no matter how difficult it is.
But really I don't think there's much more performance to get out of the current engine (I can only accelerate so hard anyway, otherwise the tires just start slipping) and I can just redline if I want more.
Instead I would probably make GNU/Car, with free ECU software by default.
@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com@meso@new.asbestos.cafe Also what's wrong with this is image is that on this car the driver's position is actually in the middle like McLaren F1, not near the side windows where Stallman is poorly Gimped in.
@SuperDicq@meso Yes - the pictured car doesn't even make it to 60kph, as proprietary physics gets in the way.
With a ridiculously powerful enough engine plus some modern electric motors and batteries and a bunch of wheels (to lessen the load on each one and to enhance handling), I reckon you could make a nice stiff steel box with terrible tolerances go that fast if you don't mind it being totally uncontrollable without free software constantly adjusting how fast each wheel is spinning.
@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com@meso@new.asbestos.cafe Physics is not proprietary. Nobody "owns" it and exercises unjust power over it. Unless you believe in a god who created the world and makes us live in their proprietary universe.
@SuperDicq@meso Physics is the embodiment of an unjust power into a physical force - although physics applies equally to everyone and nobody can decide who physics doesn't apply to (equally unfair for everyone).
@freetar@SuperDicq@meso GNU/Bike is free unless you an in proprietary countries that require bike registration (but even in those ones, registration isn't too hard to get around).
@freetar@Suiseiseki@SuperDicq trvke about the government overreach with cars. let me drive my fucking car without paying $375 just to fucking keep it on the road legally