I am here to discuss cars. I belive it belongs here and is to all rules.

I love cars along with computers and thus starcraft which is why im here at SEN.

I think anything to do with cars belong here, weather its a mechanical problem your having, your possibly working on a car project; thinking of a new or used car to buy; and anything to do with cars going fast. Pictures are great but not required.

I own way too many cars that dont run. (I have ten cars and only 3 run and drive) All cars are pre 90's. I have owned many cars dating back to when I was 14, as I live in a place without any sort of law enforcment (belive it) I been driving since I was like ten. Ive owned Chevy Suburbans, Citations; I own three 1976-77 Ford F series pickups. Longs bed, short bed (parts) and a 4x4 with quite a bit of custom work done to it before I owned it (I installed a Edelbrock top end, and just went through a few things, fuel pump, manual transmission, suspention; ect) I also own three Nissan D-21 pickups. One is for parts. The has a V6 (VG30i) which is a insane engine in my opinion. The other a 4 cyc Z type.

My current projects are: My steering box failed flinging my Orange 1977 F-100 (with a brand new engine, rebuild auto transmission(did that myself!) and a brand new rebult front end. Only thing left was the rear axel to be replaced and the truck would of been "brand new") flinging my orange 1977 Ford into a cottonwood. I repaired all my body panels and replaced the front clip\grill\raditaor. All thats left is to re fabracate the frame to mounnt the front onto.

My latest and favorite project is a 1973 AMC Gremlin X with a moderatly build 360. The Gremlin was a Levi Jeans special edition. I threw a fresh coat of paint on this car after two weeks of prep work to the body. (the car features a race built auto trannsmission with a 3000 RPM stall and Hurst Pistol Grip shifter, a cheap welded rear end, and a reinforced frame and a roll cagged inside the cab. The engine as far as I can tell has a edelbrock manifold, Carter AFB Carb idk the CFM. Headers of sometype...MSD Digital AL6 Ignition and Distributor)

I hope Im not the only motor head on SEN.

more pics please

Did you ever try to modify motors so they can consume different fuels?
I'm thinking of water, fat, etc.

Hybrid cars that consume only electricity would probly be better then cars that consume water, fat

Here are my AMC Gremlin in snow, My Black Ford 4x4 in the snow, and the Aftermath of my Orange Ford Impact. My engines are dirty so im embarresed to post thouse pictures. (hey they preforme like I want them, just hard to keep cars clean in Alaska...alot of dirt roads and no NAPA in my town) Their are also a couple pictures of my Gremlin when I first found it and bought it for 800 dollars from the owner. I got it started and drove it onto the ferry (alaska marine highway) and boated on to Gustavus my hometown.













Ford steering box failure (Original manual steering box, the gear on the worm split in half, cause the front wheels to crank hard left and locked in that position)


Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Jan 9 2012, 9:11 pm by alaska.

Seriously payne?

There we go, now there's something I can relate to. Pretty wrecked all those cars, but I'm sure they're still fun to drive. I like old cars, they got a certain charm.
Personally, I'm glad I have access to the FIAT of my parents. Yeah I know, FIAT :x , but it got a good engine and above all else it drives (reliably).

Apparently that's not as crazy as it sounds...
http://anon99.tripod.com/water_engine/

You can easily convert a deisel engine to burn about anything. (any non computerized deisels at least)

You need larger fuel injectors, a fuel tank warmer to preheat the fuel (waste oil and cooking oil) so it combusts easier. You will also need some good filters to remove gunk and contaminantes. As they will destroy the fuel injectiors. And larger fuel lines so the thicker oils can flow easier, which the tank warmer also helps for this. A inline electric fuel pump might be good to use, as Idk if a stock injector pump can move enough "oil"

Steam engines are great. Ive heard of a 7 stroke deisel, which used its excess heat to create a shot of steam inbetween the strokes that combust the fuel. I belive the steam also cools the engine, decreasing friction slightly...I will have to look for a article on this as this is old information I remember reading back in school

To concern about wreaked cars....their all second hand, and their all older then me. Our roads are all dirt; so car care is not easy here. I have definitly brought a few of these rigs back into life from when I found them. Yes definitly not super pretty lol. No offence taken

Assuming that thing works, which I severely doubt, the reason it never got anywhere is this:
That is a hell of a lot of aluminium to simply burn up.

Orange Ford F-100 in powerslide (unmodified in this photo, acually I toasted the original 302 in the process of this broudy; replaced it with a rebuild 351 W and rebuild modified transmission, front end, new tires)



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Sorry for poor photo quality, my camera is outdated.

Cool pic, where did you get the light saber?

I know a small bit about cars, mostly the basic engineering bits about them, but I couldn't tell you as much about them as I'd like. Where did you learn about them? Is it just a hobby or did you pick it up with formal education?

I own one car and I'm just thankful it works now. Corroded sensors...cracked ignition coil...but it works. That's all I care about. :-) Its just a Toyota Camry.

I was driving behind a reaaaallly nice Prelude today. I want one.

Aluminum is one of the most abundant elements in the Earth's crust; it's very cheap now that modern manufacturing processes have matured, around $2/kg last I checked.

What year? From my experience with the Camry, it's a very nice car. Worth investing into.



It would be in short demand if it became popular.

Top Gear.

'nuff said.

1994, its a good car. I got it used and it had 180,000 miles on it - but other than the hesitation problem I had at the beginning (which is why I had to replace parts) it runs clean. It idles low so its very quiet. Unfortunately its the luxury edition so the mileage kinda sucks...I don't drive far, though, so it doesn't effect me that much.

Also the car's engine bay sucks...everything is titled for God knows why. It makes it incredibly difficult to do regular maintenance like replacing filters or spark plugs (both things we tried before investing a ton of money into a mechanic).

I drive a 2009 Yaris that I share with my girlfriend. Its nothing special but with gas prices what they are its nice to have fuel economy. This is kinda offset by the fact that all vehicles I drive are given Premium/Super/93+ fuel.

I just acquired a Chrysler branded 2000 Neon Sport (DOHC) with 80k miles for 150$. Needs about 400$ of work. 550$ = great condition car with 80k miles? I'll take it.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jan 10 2012, 8:06 pm by Excalibur.

It requires huge amounts of electricity to process into a usable form. There's an aluminium smelter in my country that has its own private hydrodam solely to supply its power, and it generates about 10% of the country's total electricity. Because of the high costs to produce aluminium, it is very heavily recycled, which keeps the prices down. If we went around burning it in cars, we wouldn't be able to recycle it. As Sac states, with hugely increased demand, the price would shoot up.

The other thing is that because this thing is (supposedly) patented, the details on how it works are publicly available. By now there would be some company or research group working on the thing, trying to improve it to use less aluminium or some other non-sacrificial catalyst (like platinum in catalytic converters). None of this is happening though.

The light sabre is the sun if you were wondering lol. I learned about cars basicly because I've owned a lot the prices of shit and had to learn to keep em going. Plus I always had to take a free car and keep it alive... I'm hard on them too...team turismo and need for speed for ps2 started it all.

Top gear is Awsome...same with power block on speed.