"I have decided to stick with love..."
"I have decided to stick with love..."
sesto elemento wrote:racerdave600 wrote:Havent got the wheels off that supra by any chance, have you? Are they these?white_fly wrote: In reply to Knurled: I worked for Speedsource while they were running the GT class RX-8 in Grand-Am. Their muffler was roughly 3.5 feet long and 1 foot in diameter. They fabricated it from inconel and filled it with lava rocks because everything else just melted.A friend bought an IT RX3 to race years ago with a lava rock muffler. The first race out it started spitting lava rocks at the cars behind him. He was not popular after the race!
We used to race against the Speedsource guys back in the day in the old SpeedVision Cup. The black Supra was ours.
They were those. No, they went with the car many years ago. They were however custom built for the car. Sportscar required us to run an inch smaller wheel than stock, so they had to be "grooved" to clear the brake rotor.
One of my relatives was on the USS Monitor. Christopher (Christy) Price. He came here from County Galway, Ireland in 1850, with his brother Patrick (my great, great, great grandpa). Christy served in the Navy, and Patrick in Company C of the 11th New Jersey Infantry that was part of the Army of the Potomac.
Knurled wrote: The "You know how I know you don't know how rotaries fail" image:Duke wrote:Nothing about housing chrome flaking apart on pre-86 engines.
Nothing about coolant seal lands breaking out on '86-02 engines. Nothing about excessive side housing wear on any engine where the moron ran it without an air filter. But yes, blather on about apex seals. Tell me the one about how modern cars suck because you can't fix the ignition system with a worn out silver dime and a brass screwdriver, or adjust the ignition timing with a lever on the steering wheel when you get a tank of bad gas.
Toyman01 wrote:Knurled wrote:I built a pre-silencer for my FB out of a glass pack I cut in half, gutted all the fiberglass and stuffed with SS pot scrubbers, then welded back together. It worked very well.white_fly wrote: In reply to Knurled: I worked for Speedsource while they were running the GT class RX-8 in Grand-Am. Their muffler was roughly 3.5 feet long and 1 foot in diameter. They fabricated it from inconel and filled it with lava rocks because everything else just melted.Sounds like the MFR muffler. They came up with it pre-emptively in the 70s when one of them (maybe Yamamoto himself) noted that they could hear their RX-2s start and idle in the pits, from the other end of the circuit, while there were cars qualifying on track... Of course it's NLA now.
I would guess you weren't running a 500hp three rotor on track for 24 hours at a time. The ST cars they ran had a much less substantial setup.
racerdave600 wrote: A friend bought an IT RX3 to race years ago with a lava rock muffler. The first race out it started spitting lava rocks at the cars behind him. He was not popular after the race!
Was this after the Bridgestone cup days? I've watched a few of those races and it's really interesting watching cars race on 90's street rubber.
We used spec Toyos at the time. These things were definitely not slow. The Supra went over 170mph on the banking at the Daytona race. At the time the only mods were the speed limiter defeat, and wheels and tires. It was still on it's 40K miles shocks and motor. The car prior to two weeks before the race was a magazine test car.
Duke wrote:
I hate this joke.
I get that even with my four kids. "Whoa man, don't you have a TV? Hahahaha", yes, because I don't have a TV, that's why I've done that four times in eleven years of marriage.
tuna55 wrote:Duke wrote:
I'd suggest we all get off your lawn, but with so many freeking kids there's probably no time for a lawn, just an overgrown yard.
tuna55 wrote:Duke wrote:
Yep. As a Dad with a family larger than the standard American 2.2 kids, that one rubs me the wrong way too. If watchin TV is better than what you're doing with your wife, your doing something wrong.
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tuna55 wrote:Duke wrote:
I come from a family of 4 kids myself. Of course, the one of us who had no business having kids at all is the one who had 4 herself. One of us had none, and the other 2 of us had 2 each. So I guess it averages out. I just saw no reason to have more than 2.
There is also a substantial difference between 4 kids and 8 kids.
Before some Debbie Downer comes and craps all over the funny, YES, I know the Groucho story is false.
Duke wrote:tuna55 wrote:I come from a family of 4 kids myself. Of course, the one of us who had no business having kids at all is the one who had 4 herself. One of us had none, and the other 2 of us had 2 each. So I guess it averages out. I just saw no reason to have more than 2. There is also a substantial difference between 4 kids and 8 kids.Duke wrote:
What, eight times in eleven years is too much?
I know four families with eight or more personally, they are all awesome families and great kids.
In reply to tuna55:
seems related...
tuna55 wrote:Duke wrote:
Of course, by pointing that out, you asked for it...
(just kidding, my Mother in Law is one of 11)
or is it a question of
Probably went too far there... no harm meant...
Apexcarver wrote:tuna55 wrote:Duke wrote:
Just to stir the pot a bit.
Tip for aspiring child molesters:
Put those stickers on your van so people think you have a family and will trust you more around kids.
Adrian_Thompson wrote:tuna55 wrote:I'd suggest we all get off your lawn, but with so many freeking kids there's probably no time for a lawn, just an overgrown yard.Duke wrote:
I've got 4 kids.
I haven't cut grass in 20 years, unless I wanted to.
I still think it's a pretty funny joke. 
Toyman01 wrote: I've got 4 kids. I haven't cut grass in 20 years, unless I wanted to.
Yeah, my mom had one kid and two jobs and she had an automatic dishwasher, until I moved out anyway.
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