chit chat thread

[HipMF]

His.. er... "vehicle" has mud/all-terrain tires, which aren't very good on ice. The welded diff also makes it a challeng to corner. It would be interesting to see how well it would do in a dirt rallyx...

[GunMetalGrey]

Earl said:

So was Ben studded or was the e34 really faster than his snow munching machine? 

The tires are great in snow, but are not quite as good as true snow tires on ice. 
The welded diff makes it extremely interesting when letting off the gas at all. Immediate "oversteer". 
Rally-X will be interesting in it, that's for sure!

[HipMF]

Anyone know these guys?

http://thegarage.jalopnik.com/this-insane-porsche-928-will-make-purists-crap-their-kh-1757871189

I remember seeing the car at scooters a couple years ago, and one of the pics in the write-up actually looks like it was taken there.

[patsbimmer1]

One of the pictures is Scooters and the other 2 are dubs in the valley with a picture of Scooter actually in the first.

[Earl]

You don't know Nick Fera?

[wasnt m3]

A flat black 928 with a small block is not worthy of that article IMO.

[HipMF]

You might be right. I doubt too many purist would "crap their khakis "over a 928. It's still cool to see something local on Jalopnik though.

[B C]

Sad day when a lil homie trades a crab for a carb.

[Earl]

If it was a very labor intensive swap I could see it but this was almost a bolt in affair by how quickly Nick did it

[KaiserRolls]

Earl said:

You don't know Nick Fera? 

Earls got the connexzzzz

[ClassE]

I've know the Feras for awhile.  I think the car is pretty cool, but equally impressive is them doing everything themselves (and quite well I may add). Some of the details of the car are done really well and says a lot for their age/experience.

[ClassE]

I find it annoying that a business in this day and age - doesn't provide a confirmation email, tracking, receipt.... Anything.  

Its not a "big deal", just annoying as a consumer.

[HipMF]

KaiserRolls said:

Earls got the connexzzzz

or he's a big jerk who likes to kick sand in the face of the socially handicapped...

[andyhundley]

Earl said:

You don't know Nick Fera? 

Fucking N00BS!!!

[Earl]

I just figured Pat did because he knows all of the LS crew

[Earl]

http://www.stanceworks.com/2016/02/the-epas-attack-on-hobby-what-it-means-and-why-it-matters/

[B C]

sensationalism and fear-mongering

nothing will happen 

keep on keepin' on

[YoungCR]

It's all just blowing smoke, the additional regulations had to do with heavy highway diesels and atv/snowmobiles. All those highlighted passages are already law. Even if you don't have emissions testing, a car isn't EPA legal if it has no cats.

[patsbimmer1]

Chris is right.  These laws are already in place and any vehicle with modified emissions systems is already illegal.

[B C]

Megasquirt is "not legal for use on road vehicles"  which is the real reason I haven't driven my car in over a year. 

Salt Lake has an anti-idling law for the sake of reducing air pollution (currently the worst in the country)  http://aqicn.org/map/usa/#@g/40.7303/-108.0264/4z  where if you are caught idling for longer than 2 minutes (say, waiting to pick someone up) you can be fined. It has also caused some folks to be douchey to eachother and calling eachother out for "excessive idling"

It is more probable in my opinion that stupid laws like that will happen before extra/more thorough inspections or other things that may cause car guys some worry.