7shades

Part one and two of an interesting water-powered car on youtube This is essentially the same setup I use on my stationary engine, just bigger and more complicated

Oh yeah... this is a budget buildup for sure. My current outlays are $175, the new paint I will have to pay for, but I have a dude on staff that can apply it for beer and conversation. Add 100 or so for consumables, and 200 or so for the interior trim (GF's friend is a seamstress, handy) The most expensive part will be the tyres, at about 600 Then just some sundry outlays for low springs and other pimp related accessories and she's pretty much done. I'm setting a target of sub - $1500 for the entire project, not including whatever stonkingly large engine may end up in it later.

I ain't no fancy scientist or nuffink, alls I do is put electromuhcicity through water thens I gets bubbles, then I gots a pipe and a regulatoriser off a gas bottle and them bubbles goes intuh the engine. Yuk yuk

Even if you WERE charging from coal power, the emissions equate to one quarter of what you'd generate burning petrol. but, renewable baseload energy is the only way for electric cars to be truly useful.

I've built a stationary engine that runs on water. Well, hydrogen if you wanna get technical. Hydrogen is great... but there are some inherent difficulties in converting the current global fleet to run on it. Namely the incompatibility with conventional EFI, (for the moment anyway) and the idiot factor involved with using such a volatile substance makes it a commercially scary venture. The technology will evolve... but I see Hydro more as a very cost effective and green alternative to coal for mass baseload power generation. This in turn could charge our little electric buzzboxes.

Hippie :lolcry:

Early 3SFE

Update: Now has RWC. Needed front swaybar D bushes, indicator bulb, and a tailshaft uni joint. None of which cost a cent as I just pulled them from the cannibalised wagon. Nosecone has been swapped Moonies are on order Hunting for whitewalls and some wider steelies Finding ultra-low springs is proving difficult... may have to mix n match from other vehicles or go cutties as a worst case scenario. Going to go for Panther Mica or Morpheus Purple depending on how the planets are aligned when I walk into the paint shop. Either way we will be luxuriating in a light tan interior in a mixture of crushed velvet and suede, with smatterings of dead leopard and ultra-shagpile carpet. Current expenditure RWC: $55 Moonies: $120

Just keepin the tyres warm while the safety car is on the track eh?

Dear sweet jesus that sounds like the shithouse music they BLAST out of anime shops in Akihabara

I love the bit where the pan dries out a bit and you regain traction for a few seconds each lap :lolcry:

We're naive... or possibly just deep in denial or blissful ignorance. We watch the news and see the corporate corruption in the system in somewhere like the US, and take comfort knowing our beloved politicians couldn't possibly be involved in anything so dishonest and manipulative... Pffft

Sunshine is in short supply up here at the moment... 3 months of soggy twilight yaaaay Don't get me wrong, I drive at or below the limit. I haven't had a speeding fine in over 5 years, and I drive around 2000 k's a week so I think I'm doing pretty well. I also understand that speed limits exist and are necessary, because of the 'lowest common denominator' factor. ie: not everyone is a very good driver, not everyone has experience, and not everyone has enough common sense to drive accordingly within different road situations and conditions. It just shits me to tears when I see millions upon millions of dollars wasted on enforcement, and the shameless propaganda used to justify it. To make us feel guilty, scared and submissive. Not to mention all money and time that could be much better utilised somewhere else... Its almost like they want us to feel privileged to be on the road, and they are doing us an immense favour at much inconvenience by letting us use it. Thats not the way it should be...

Hey... when you're up to your eyeballs in debt, paying off your shiny new shopping trolley at $150 per week, your mandatory-as-part-of-your-dealer-finance comprehensive insurance at $1200 per year 'cos you're 19 and don't have a rating, rego... 18" tyres aren't cheap, and you're getting a new front pair every 6 months cos you never check your pressures, uni fees, makeup, hairdressers.... it all adds up. A pair of clear tail lights and pink seat covers is all you can afford. :lolcry:

Isn't it amazing how complacent we have become. Speed cameras have been UNDENIABLY proven to have little to no effect on reducing road fatalities and injuries. They are supposed (and this is the law) to be placed in areas wherein speed is a known and statistically proven contributing factor to incidents, and yet they are not. They are placed where they can generate the most revenue, where drivers are most likely to be 'caught out'. But more to the point, speed is the contributing factor in only a very small percentage of accidents... and yet a utterly rediculous percentage of effort, time, and police resources are devoted to enforcing speed infringements. Resources that could be much better utilised in other policing duties. And we just accept it. We accept it, because we have no avenue to protest. We accept it because we have become a nation of doormats. Relax everyone... the government has everything under control. Go back to work. Go watch big brother. Shut the f@$k up and let us do the thinking... thats what you elected us for, we know best. I hate society today.

I've had a pipe dream for ages about electric cars, and it could happen tomorrow if our government actually did something proactive for a change... Nutshell explanation: Just a cheap, basic small thing that everyone can afford, true electric - not hybrid- with a range of a few hundred k's. Everyone owns one, the battery packs are removable, you charge it at home or work, but if you run outta juice you pull into the servo and pay a nominal fee to exchange battery packs... Like 10-20 bucks or something. Btw, the servo is powered by a renewable source of electricity.... Obviously its a lot more complicated than that, but its DO-ABLE... the technology is there, and it has been for years. GM did it in the early 90's, so did Toyota... until the oil heavies shut both projects down. http://www.ev1.org/ ^^^ scroll down a bit and read the story. It will make you angry with the world, just like me :lolcry: Holy way off topic batman.... sorry ancullen. I should start a 'Jarad's daily rant' thread or somthing... mmm maybe not

Don't we all

That rolls (or maybe another one) was for sale not long ago... I remember seeing it on carsales or similar. Was like this one I think... Back to the vanilla gorilla however, slow and low is the way this bitch is gunna roll. Definately going for the rear suicide doors now. I've been convinced. Also had a good look at the frame and there's plenty of hardcore reinforcement in the lower C pillar and bulkhead so should be able to handle the weight without using one of those scissor arm things at the bottom. Thinking two-tone... gunmetal silver over black mica. Sexual.

Cameron you're weird in the brains. :lolcry: Hadn't thought of suicide doors, but I like it... just the rears maybe, JFK Lincoln Continental styles. oooh yeah. I was going to go full boso battlewagon, but with the non-irs rear end I think it won't cut the proverbial mustard. Boso MUST have stupid rear camber... It does have coils and a 4 link though so airbags will be cheap n easy... (cheap is good) Having priced a 20B triplerotor (don't ask, $$$) I'm leaning towards rat rod style now... Moonies, slammed, fluffy interior. I have a mate with a surplus 4500cc landcruiser petrol engine and auto box sitting in his shed, rough measurements indicate it will fit... I'm liking the idea of having enough torque to drop skids at idle...

A hydro setup would be VERY cool... even airbags would have the desired effect. I'm really liking the 20B idea... looking into cosmo halfcuts.... :lolcry:

"But officer, I wasn't hooning, it excels also in instantaneous power in case of emergency, and a safer run is possible!"

Its a good way to do things really... I do it a lot. Keep an eye on the for sale signs on noticeboards around town, wait until the seller starts getting desperate cos they're flying out the next day, throw a hundred bucks at em and drive around on whatever rego their shitbox has left on it. When you get sick of it or it breaks down, you park it somewhere and walk away. Like the VL I bought for a carton of beer... or the Mazda I got for free yesterday... :lolcry: I have literally dozens of tents, sleeping bags, pots, pans, stoves etc...

I love translators... :lolcry: Its quite funny though... when searching for a car on some of the Jap auction websites, you have to know the phonetic translation of the car you are looking for, also taking into account the Japanese accent (as in cannot pronounce the letter 'L') as that is how they are written in the databases... ie: Legnum - Reganamu Lancer - Runsir Celica - Serika Skyline - Sukarine etc etc parts are even harder... like that Tomusu in the previous post is actually a TOMS steering wheel...

Shrek is a consumer whore. He endorses everything. He deserves to be hanged. I have considered the 1uz option, amongst many others.... a Range Rover V8 will fit too :lolcry:

They're not thongs, they're PLUGGERS and they're from mexico.