what do you drive-

^ You ain't kiddin' brutha.

I see it says boss 302? What group did you go with to drive that?

Since we're talking cars in the randomness forum, check out this sweet little set of wheels that rolled up yesterday. 

Seh mi wok pon di kyar dem. Ya mon!
("me working on the car")


And a gift for the turbo lovers. Driving the Supra around a nearby city. Sorry, no gear-banging, trying to keep it in check on public roads.
https://vimeo.com/48377325

^^ What's with the funky fluttering BOV? Is it a bypass valve?

I've wanted an IS300 with a Supra turbo motor for ages now. 1JZ or 2JZ and I'd be a happy camper :) I'm in an 02 WRX wagon now though and it works well with all the snow we get in CO.

Originally posted by Lux The fluttering is compressor surge. It's caused from the throttle closing and the air still being compressed by the spinning turbo has nowhere to escape because there is no BOV. Instead, the air flows backwards through the turbo and gets chopped up by the impeller, causing that noise. I might have another video from outside the car to better demonstrate the noise. JZ engines are great, very well-engineered iron blocks. The IS 300 has the same 3.0 litre 2JZ-GE as in the Supra, while the latter received a turbo option. My only gripe is that it was too senselessly big for a compact Lexus... the Japanese version (Altezza) got a 2.0 litre naturally aspirated four banger that drove WAYY faster than the American version. You'll hear some knocking in my video, too. I damaged a connecting rod bearing due to sump starvation during drifting. High G-forces forced oil against the sump wall instead of the collector.

I was thinking surge, but I'd never heard it that loud before. Some wastegates flutter too, but not usually when the throttle is closed.

I don't fit well in 2door cars, so that's why I like the IS300. I know it comes with non-turbo 2JZ, but I'd rather just swap in a turbo motor from the start.

It's just too bad Toyota has been moving away from "tuner" cars for some time now, but at least the FR-S is out.

Maybe I was thinking of an improperly sized or setup WG opening and closing quickly under boost?

Ummm the wastegate is dead silent under all conditions, unless the actuator is defective in some way or the gate itself has shattered from stress. Its purpose is to open when X amount of turbo pressure is achieved, diverting exhaust gas past the turbine. By doing this it controls turbo boost. That opening actuation makes no noise. The only noise you will ever hear from a wastegate is when you use an absolutely massive unit for diverting lots of exhaust gases. Here's a Skyline GT-R with one such setup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR0ebxVoKNo. The wastegate's only noise is that raspiness at full boost where a massive amount of exhaust gas is flowing through it (from harmonics in exhaust pulsations, mostly).

getkong, that flutter you hear is actually the same compressor surge that my car has. Yours is fainter because your WRX ventilates *most* of that pressure (charge) build-up via a recirculating valve, so only some air is chopped up by the turbo, whereas 100% of my charge just flows backwards through the turbo entirely for that noise.

Me and my girl Susie :D

Originally posted by LittleShooey Since we're talking cars in the randomness forum, check out this sweet little set of wheels that rolled up yesterday.  2012 Focus SE. Funny, every picture I take of this thing and it looks yellow. It's not! Ford is really doing it right with the paint on their new vehicles. I'll say that.  Better paint photo (along door panels is most accurate, its just so shiny): So it's technically not my ride, it's my parents. But I enjoyed the hell out of it.

The new RS has a dual clutch gearbox?! If Subaru put a reliable one on one of their cas I'd buy one. That or a diesel in their lineup that they have in other countries.

couple buddies drove the rs during an autox ford put on to get people interested.  they liked them a lot, and said they'd consider it over the wrx.

vroom vroom
all 90 horsepower

maybe its just me, but dual clutch gearboxes are the easiest way to make a fun car, boring. 

I don't know about the Ford Focus, but Ken Block does some amazing stuff with a Fiesta! :-)
Ken Block's Fiesta

oh for sure. and im only really speaking about fun/fast/well handling/coupes or smaller sedans  here.. but whenever I get into a car designed for great handling, power, torque.. the paddles just immediately dull the experience for me. Ive driven some really impressive DCT boxes, and they always just leave the experience lacking. 

Originally posted by alohasurf I love those gymkhana videos. If only I could go through that many tires...

...and not have to pay for them

Originally posted by giftedhands oh for sure. and im only really speaking about fun/fast/well handling/coupes or smaller sedans  here.. but whenever I get into a car designed for great handling, power, torque.. the paddles just immediately dull the experience for me. Ive driven some really impressive DCT boxes, and they always just leave the experience lacking.  It's chocolate or vanilla i guess, different people like different things. In the metro i can see how a manual transmission could get old.. but i don't mind it at all.. traffic is traffic to me.. it always sucks

There's an easy solution to that: slushbox for daily traffic and 6sp/clutch funbox for weekends.

A regular manual gearbox is (strictly relatively speaking) cheap to service or replace when worn out. A blown or burned automatic transmission carries an exorbitant fee for repair. I've done valvebody jobs and shift solenoids before and it is not a fun or cheap task. Most people will opt for swapping in a used transmission from the wrecker to save money, which is still a bit pricey and also carries a risk of dodgy replacement parts.

I'm only mentioning this because maintenance cost should be a major influence in a customer's selection of geartrain. Fun factor is somewhere in the mix in favour of manual shifters, but at the end of the day, somebody's got to foot the repair bill no matter what coupling type it is.

That sounds about right. My friend broke his 7-speed SMG III in his E60 M5 and the bill for that replacement was $15'000. He wished he had an E39 after that day.

He convinced his dad (a physician) that he had nothing to do with it, and his dad footed the bill. Wow, I know.

In other news, I dug up a very old video of my car from the outside. Makes noise and pollution.

https://vimeo.com/48776263

~SSSS-THU-TU-Tutu-tu-tuuu...

This was a few years ago, so I think he was about 22 or so. I still shake my head whenever I see him

going to pick up a new bumper for my jeep tomorrow then hopefully getting a winch

Originally posted by getkong replaced (most of) the coolant and power steering fluid in the z06 in preparation for hpde at sears point this weekend.  stoked! also have a day at laguna on 11/3, but that's not for another two months.

Might want to upgrade your brake fluid with better stuff. It's pretty easy to boil stock Dot5 fluid.

^^ Nice. Good on you for going with blank rotors, so many people fall for the drilled/slotted gimmick.

What HID projectors? I have a set of old TSX projectors and some FX-R projectors that I haven't had time to retro into my 02 WRX.

Need to get my first car. Would love a WRX but they are expensive for the good looking ones (06 and newer I think) and rare/kinda ugly in the old ones. Anybody know if the Mazda Protege 5's are any good? Seem to mock the WRX.