The Thread about Nothing....

Mwaah.
Loved the Joy Division stuff.
And love this other stuff too.

That's weird.
I was going for Talking Heads stuff but it simply wouldn't embed.

So be it.

Sorry I had to.
Should have done this first.
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And fun.

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Originally Posted by bbp
Yeah most American sourced v8s are lazy engines. There's always been the top end ones but they're far more expensive and therefore much rarer. And were always heavy and somehow still less exciting back in the day.
I've long loved the lighter 4s and 6s, with more responsiveness, in lighter cars, a la the 80's [censored] a leg Corolla Vette? was talking about.
There are some amazing lightweight aluminium v8s now, like the Maserati Ma was talking about, and the new Jags, and even arguably better ones in new highend American stuff, so times have changed for upper middle end consumer stuff.

I'd like to review my review a little, coz I gave the v8 a squirt on the freeway tonight, getting the revs up quite a bit in 2nd at around 100km/hl, which made it feel better.
It's not totally horrible, but still not at all what I expected, and still not worth anyone ever buying, unless they wanna tow something.

Oddly, according to the consumption calculator thingy, it seems to be more economical than my 6 cyl turbo!! Booo!! Mine is wino, drinking at least 15L/100km, and that's if I drive like a nanna

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Originally Posted by 531Aussie
I'd like to review my review a little, coz I gave the v8 a squirt on the freeway tonight, getting the revs up quite a bit in 2nd at around 100km/hl, which made it feel better.
It's not totally horrible, but still not at all what I expected, and still not worth anyone ever buying, unless they wanna tow something.

Oddly, according to the consumption calculator thingy, it seems to be more economical than my 6 cyl turbo!! Booo!! Mine is wino, drinking at least 15L/100km, and that's if I drive like a nanna

Is that the base model 3 valve per cylinder v8? It is probably the 302 equivalent to the 351 or the 253 equivalent to the 308. I have always had little respect for the Ford Modular motors. They are big and heavy, they have a low capacity for their size and they are complicated and difficult to upgrade. The new Coyote engine is lot better though. A stock Falcon BOSS 335 GT was rear wheel dynoed at 335 kW (447 hp).

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Originally Posted by cheetahmk7

Is that the base model 3 valve per cylinder v8? It is probably the 302 equivalent to the 351 or the 253 equivalent to the 308. I have always had little respect for the Ford Modular motors. They are big and heavy, they have a low capacity for their size and they are complicated and difficult to upgrade. The new Coyote engine is lot better though. A stock Falcon BOSS 335 GT was rear wheel dynoed at 335 kW (447 hp).

Yeah, I think so. It's one of these.
http://www.redbook.com.au/cars/research/used/details/2004-ford-falcon-ba-mk-ii-57803?R=57803&Silo=spec&Vertical=car&Ridx=0&eapi=2

It had 24 Valve something written on it. It's the 220kW Barra.
I was expecting much more from a 5.4L motor.

Car talk. Jesus. ok. First car time....

Mine was ace.... '84 Sigma 2.6l manual. Rear wheel drive. Such an ace little car. Had some real bite off the line for a [censored].

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My NoddyMobile. Datsun 1000 4 door. 1ltr 4cyl pushrod motor. 4 on the floor. Rear wheel drive. Radio. Heater. I loved that car so much. It went everywhere. City. Interstate. Mud. Snow. Cost nothing to run. So easy to fix too. Not that it ever needed much attention. A head gasket I think was the only thing I ever had to replace. [IMG ALT=""]http://www.cyclingforums.com/content/type/61/id/300846/width/500/height/1000[/IMG]

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1977 Corolla CS - 1200cc 4sp Man. Very reliable little car, cheap to run. Got taken out by a Diahatsu 2-tonner :-(

Yeah baby - XB Fairmont, poo brown with the white vinyl roof and the lazy straight 6.

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Nice. My first was a white, 4.1L XD Falcon. I borrowed $7000 in 1985 to buy it. I was clearing $155 a week as a sales trainee, and the loan payments were about $50 a week. Ugh, no money for four years.

My current car is only my third. I tend to keep stuff until it dies. My XD lasted about 11 years, then I bought an EB Fairmont, which lasted about 12 years, then I got me XR6.

My first car was my fourth vehicle. A 1972 Austin 1300, orange. I think it cost me $3000, in 1980. Cars were ridiculously expensive in NZ back then. Preceded by a Honda SL100, an XL250 and a Suzuki PE175. I only bought the car coz the chook wouldn't ride pillion. Mind you pillion on an enduro bike isn't ideal.

After the Corolla was murdered by the truck - I moved on to a Mazda 121. Not the bubble car, the boxy 2-door that preceded it and was known as a Ford Festiva elsewhere. That was a brilliant little car, quite zippy for something so small and the rear seat base folded up so there was heaps of carrying space. I transported quite a lot of stuff in the back of that car.

When I got into medicine, the spouse decided I needed something better given I would be racking up 160km a day driving to uni and back. Consequently, I ended up with a Laser TX-3 AWD turbo. The Laser started my love affair with turbos (and AWD) and was followed by a WRX and then the STi. I got the Jag in 2002 as my "sensible" car - still AWD, but alas, naturally aspirated. The Jag is a whole new world of motoring and a deceptive beast - not as quick off the line as the STi, but once you get going the higher gearing really comes into its own. While I love the STi and enjoy chucking it around the curves, the Jag's build quality leaves it for dead.

Ace pics and stories.

When I first moved to Melbourne for work in 2000. I was [censored] of driving in the big city. I was thrown the keys to a Toyota Starlet and told to go here here and here. GPS would have been handy back then. Fark. We ripped the doors of that little [censored]. Didn't put a single scratch on it either in around 9 months. The day some new cnut at work was thrown the keys he drove it up [censored] of someone. RIP little car. Non RIP to that company who pulled some dodgy [censored] [censored] and never paid tax or super.... Yep. Welcome to the city, cnut.

Yeah, ace postages.

531Aussie said:

My current car is only my third.  I tend to keep stuff until it dies.

I'm astonished at how few cars everyone has had. From memory, I've had The Datsun 1000, a Datsun 180B, a Mini 1100, a Nissan Bluebird (most pedestrian car ever), a Mazda RX7, a Toyota MR2, Suzuki Vitara Estate (super ace car), a Mercedes 280SE (beautiful and elegant old dear), a Nissan twin cab ute. And in between all those, three Land Rover Discoveries (all V8s). And at last, the car I've always dreamed of having. It is passing stupendous. [IMG ALT=""]http://www.cyclingforums.com/content/type/61/id/300864/width/350/height/700[/IMG]

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Saying goodbye to my first car. I only clocked the odometer twice in the 16 years I had it. Previously the car was my parent's second car. I think we got it way back in 1982. Thinking about if I exclude work cars I'm only on my second daily driver. Not bad for someone in their forties. I have a similar attitude with my push bikes. As long as they are reliable and get the job done, why update them every couple of years?

matagi said:

When I got into medicine, the spouse decided I needed something better given I would be racking up 160km a day driving to uni and back.   Consequently,  I ended up with a Laser TX-3 AWD turbo.  The Laser started my love affair with turbos  (and AWD) and  was followed by a WRX and then the STi.  I got the Jag in 2002 as my "sensible" car - still AWD, but alas, naturally aspirated.  The Jag is a whole new world of motoring and a deceptive beast - not as quick off the line as the STi, but once you get going the higher gearing really comes into its own.  While I love the STi and enjoy chucking it around the curves, the Jag's build quality leaves it for dead.

My wife rolls her eyes at some of the cars the medical students have these days. She had 70's  Corolla as a med student and coming from the country she did bulk kays.

Uruguay are out of the world cup. Ace. Although I'm sure they will find a way to complain about how they were robbed, cheated and victimized. I once ranted about how pissweak Argentinians are on here. Uruguayans are 10 times worse

Lol at NRL rockapes part 29,476 http://app.fanatix.com/?referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fapp.fanatix.com%2F%3Freferrer%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.fanatix.com%252Fnews%252Fimage-nrl-shocker-todd-carney-caught-urinating-into-his-own-mouth%252F275573%252F#article/fanatix-news-275573

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Originally Posted by 62vette
. I only bought the car coz the chook wouldn't ride pillion. Mind you pillion on an enduro bike isn't ideal.

ha