My new car

Started by Laconian, September 16, 2012, 11:17:14 PM

AutobahnSHO

Quote from: thecarnut on December 29, 2012, 11:57:46 AM
Please fix your rear offset. It pains me to look at those pictures.

lolz at that camera angle my Miata with stock wheels would look 3252% worse
Will

Rich

Quote from: TurboDan on December 29, 2012, 05:03:31 PM
The VW dealership was the KING of finding a million things wrong with your car

Well, from what I hear, that's not too difficult of a feat :huh:
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cawimmer430

Quote from: Madman on December 29, 2012, 05:26:33 PM
You've got the wrong set of wheels spinning!  :nono:

Actually Laconian is so talented he can perform a FWD burnout on a RWD car. Don't ask me how he did it!
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Laconian

Yeah, I can turn the wheel back and forth so fast it produces smoke.

What does one do to fix the offset? I don't think it's a heuge issue in person (yes it does jump out at that angle), but what type of modifications would be required?
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Cookie Monster

Quote from: Laconian on December 29, 2012, 09:01:27 PM
Yeah, I can turn the wheel back and forth so fast it produces smoke.

What does one do to fix the offset? I don't think it's a heuge issue in person (yes it does jump out at that angle), but what type of modifications would be required?

Spacer between hub and wheel
RWD > FWD
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Quote from: 68_427 on November 27, 2016, 07:43:14 AM
Or order from fortune auto and when lyft rider asks why your car feels bumpy you can show them the dyno curve
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GoCougs

Yeah, I'd be careful with all that as no telling what changing track will do to the stability control programming...

SVT666

Quote from: GoCougs on December 30, 2012, 12:34:24 AM
Yeah, I'd be careful with all that as no telling what changing track will do to the stability control programming...
Nothing.

SVT666


68_427

Spill you doritos yet?  Have you even opened them yet?
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GoCougs

JESUS dude you need to get splash guards on that thing.

SVT666

Quote from: GoCougs on December 30, 2012, 03:00:09 PM
JESUS dude you need to get splash guards on that thing.
No I don't.

SVT666

Today was the first day in 10 weeks I got to drive the G37 and I forgot how good it is in that time.  Damn I love driving it. 

Also, sustained powerslides in the snow are amazingly controllable. Rear wheel biased AWD FTMFW!!!

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Colonel Cadillac

Quote from: SVT666 on December 30, 2012, 03:10:53 PM
Today was the first day in 10 weeks I got to drive the G37 and I forgot how good it is in that time.  Damn I love driving it. 

Also, sustained powerslides in the snow are amazingly controllable. Rear wheel biased AWD FTMFW!!!

Isn't it 100% RWD until it detects slip, and then it goes 50:50? It is fun, I'll tell you that.

GoCougs

Snow mode is worthless.

SVT666

Quote from: GoCougs on December 30, 2012, 04:02:54 PM
Snow mode is worthless.
Snow mode does nothing except retard acceleration.  It's stupid.



SVT666

Quote from: Colonel Cadillac on December 30, 2012, 03:57:34 PM


Isn't it 100% RWD until it detects slip, and then it goes 50:50? It is fun, I'll tell you that.
Yes and no.  The car is RWD until it detects slippage and then it will send any variable from 1% to 50% to the front wheels.


sportyaccordy

Quote from: SVT666 on December 30, 2012, 03:10:53 PM
Today was the first day in 10 weeks I got to drive the G37 and I forgot how good it is in that time.  Damn I love driving it. 

Also, sustained powerslides in the snow are amazingly controllable. Rear wheel biased AWD FTMFW!!!
Man if you take traction control off it will do that shit in the rain

The chassis is pretty fun

Laconian

Woot! The aftermarket A2DP solution has arrived in the mail!

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CALL_911

Oh thank god, it may have been made in China, but it was designed in Nashville! I hate when my shit isn't designed in Nashville.


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Laconian

Quote from: CALL_911 on February 12, 2013, 10:41:13 PM
Oh thank god, it may have been made in China, but it was designed in Nashville! I hate when my shit isn't designed in Nashville.
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It works great, as good as the OEM BT audio in the TSX. My phone connects to the car's BT telephony and the A2DP of the Bluetrip simultaneously (by way of the AUX input). If I receive a call, the car mutes the AUX and switches to the BT call mode, and resumes AUX when the call has finished. Totally seamless, and out of sight, inside the center armrest. I'm very happy I didn't have to cobble together a sloppy solution using a separate DC adapter, that would've made a total fustercluck out of my center console.
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TurboDan

Quote from: Laconian on February 12, 2013, 10:49:38 PM
Engineered on the Silicon Plantation!

It works great, as good as the OEM BT audio in the TSX. My phone connects to the car's BT telephony and the A2DP of the Bluetrip simultaneously (by way of the AUX input). If I receive a call, the car mutes the AUX and switches to the BT call mode, and resumes AUX when the call has finished. Totally seamless, and out of sight, inside the center armrest. I'm very happy I didn't have to cobble together a sloppy solution using a separate DC adapter, that would've made a total fustercluck out of my center console.

LR2 does the same... mutes AUX (or whatever else) to switch to an incoming call, and then reverts to whatever was playing. I don't have A2DP, but my mom's car does, and the one annoyance I've experienced while driving it is that it defaults to BT audio mode even when I have my iPhone hooked up wired, which would give me superior audio quality. No way to change it unless I mess with it a lot and get it to switch to wired mode.

Still, wish my year LR2 had A2DP.

Laconian

Sixty bucks, and you can have it too.
http://www.amazon.com/Griffin-Technology-BlueTrip-iPhone-Smartphones/dp/B004KPLS7K

Totally worth it. I can finally listen to Radiolab again. I am so happy I found this.
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MrH

I :wub: Radiolab.  Blasting it in my garage while working on things and having a few beers is one of my favorite things to do.
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Rich

I found the A2DP had better quality than the hardwire USB connection (which sounded pretty crappy to my untrained ears) in the Mustang
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Laconian

The limiting factor is my Bose crap, not the lack of a hardwired connection. :banghead:
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68_427

Can you access any sort of hidden eq settings?
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Raza

Quote from: Laconian on February 13, 2013, 11:35:10 AM
Sixty bucks, and you can have it too.
http://www.amazon.com/Griffin-Technology-BlueTrip-iPhone-Smartphones/dp/B004KPLS7K

Totally worth it. I can finally listen to Radiolab again. I am so happy I found this.

Very cool.
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Laconian

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Secret Chimp

Wow, that thing is neat.


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