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Here you go, Griff.
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08-27-2015, 07:05 AM | #1037 |
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Well that didn't help one bit.
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08-27-2015, 09:45 PM | #1038 |
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Despite 11 years of driving past the dealership that proudly displays one, my son saw an SSR for the first time yesterday and I thought his brain was going to explode. This led to a discussion of SSRs in particular and concept cars in general. On the return trip we passed it once more and again he went mental. I think he might become a motor head. We need to visit a good site with photos of customized SSRs. cough*Bruce*cough.
Good thing he isn't a dog or we'd forever be pulling quills from his muzzle. This also led into a discussion of misbegotten cars (Pontiac Aztek) I promised to show him probably the ugliest car ever built
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08-27-2015, 11:17 PM | #1039 |
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The best bet for maximum return on time invested, is Google SSR and click images. Lots of mild to wild paint jobs. I know who more than half of them belong to.
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08-28-2015, 07:06 AM | #1040 |
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Was anyone held responsible for that?
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08-28-2015, 10:03 AM | #1041 |
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We don't discuss internal personnel matters outside the company, now please leave before I call security.
Some people liked it, but most of them lost their drivers license when they were committed to Wolf's care. It was aimed a the young couple starting up the ladder of success, unfortunately it turns out those people had good taste.
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08-28-2015, 12:42 PM | #1042 |
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I found this video instructive.
I used to own a Mazda RX-4 wagon with a rotormotor. It was deceptively quick. And that motor loved to rev, it was like an electric motor. You could just fling the tachometer needle around the dial. Anyhow, it's been something of a mental mechanical blindspot for me as to how the force was transmitted from the rotor to the crank. This video helped. Especially the view at 8:40. Also this video (which is ... it's not as tasty but still instructive) at 2:10. Watching the position of the offset lobe of the crank "be pushed" by the rotor when the compression chamber was "behind" the lobe. It has been a stumbling block for me to separate the ring gear/crank gear function from where the power was being transmitted. Anyhow, genius design, a treat to drive. I never owned mine long enough to bemoan the reliability problems. Still... quite an engine.
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Mazda RX-4 wagon...Those were...uh...They looked...They had character?
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It occurs to me that this bit of drift properly belongs in the Rims thread.
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08-28-2015, 03:40 PM | #1045 |
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Not drift from the expanded scope, it's car related. My brother races those motors, they are impressive performers. GM paid a ton of money to license them but they couldn't find a way to make them emission compliant... neither could Mazda.
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I watched several vids on the motor, rebuilding, remaking, porting, hotrodding, etc.
What's your brother's opinion of the spark slit versus spark hole discussion?
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I haven't asked, we diverge in automotive paths of interest, although they sometimes cross.
He was always into sports cars, is a past president of the SCCA region #2 (northeast), then their rep on the National board. I was into hot rods, customs, motorcycles, and drag racing... and a curmudgeon.
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Clarified...
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