US $1.77/L for less than or equal to 89 Octane....fml its like rolling dice.

Last edited by Ricerguy, Tue, 15 May 2012 04:36.

how old is the daihatsu charmant? >_>

wow Halarity ensues, I checked and aligned the steering on a ramp etc, realised that the splines were JAMMED, literally sitting on each other in the steering wheel, obviously that had to be fixed. Kids today, eh?

oil on road surface during light rain, as i stated in the OP the rain had eased up and the road was just damp. Most likely oil, how else would it have happened suddenly?

dont be cheap? i had( ALL MY MONEY) was $550, being cheap would have been buying 4 cheap tyres. I chose instead to buy 4 quality tyres that didn't have a random Chinese name stamped on them. Sigh. Well I found out today the only variable in the equation. That was the only day i drove in the wet that i had weight in my trunk (had an engine head directly to the back - dropped the cars height by 2 cm, forgot to put it back in my room, didn't want my company cutting themselves on car rubbish).

Put the car on the Hoist after work today and i've determined that it is unfit for road use. Centimeters of play between the transmission and the Tripod joints( they wiggle around causing my steering to be heavily imprecise, car wanders around while driving in a straight line), crept home really slowly with hazards on . Scary.

@ JakG - those prices for one or all 4?, for 50 euro here i could have bought 1 chinese made generic tyres (forgot the name, something with wall in it or coin), vs 86 euro for 1 bridgestone directional tyres ( at a 10% discount )

previous owner already rotated the tyres in weird ways, rears were no use at the front.

how much are tyres for where you are from? :o I didn't buy the tyres for buying tyres sake. if i had put them on the back it would have been a colossal waste of money and the car would still be undrivable

only had enough money for 2 tyres, would you have replaced the rear tyres when the car was under-steering at 15-20km/h if someone spit in the road(mild exaggeration)? >_<. It isn't a race car, I would have to be purposely flogging it to get any kind of intentional ' over-steer imminent' tyre squeal. since I bought new tyres I've driven in the rain multiple times, each time (except for Saturday) the car was 100% spot on and predictable like a tank, no tyre slip ever. 195/65/14 all around.

Tristan! <3 . the only thing done to the car is the smaller 4e 1300 block, the car had 4 well worn tyres on it and I only had enough money to buy 2 good tyres ( the car under-steered at 15/20 kmh in the rain, was deathly scary) I put http://www.esalles.cl/images/POTENZA%20GIII.jpg <- those tyres to the front and now the car was safe in the wet ( well it better be, for $505 dollars in tyres :@)

Tristan is right, I am incompetent, in hindsight I should have stayed at work and slept in my car or wait out the rain, regardless of the situation I cannot be certain that i was 100% aware, while i was sideways and counter-steering I felt like an out of body experiance. :S

EDIT: This week has been quite annoying, as I was being extra careful with the car because i'm saving money to buy something else. I think this car can read my mind and my wallet. x)

P.S. @ Tristan, not mph, km/h. so yea I sux? :/

Last edited by Ricerguy, Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:17.

was a separate question, would you rather I make a separate thread?

2 birds 1 stone.

it revs freely until I reach the rpm that corresponds to the 4th/overdrive gear for the current speed I'm at.

my car has 4 speeds...at 80km/h in 4th if i release the pedal it will drop to idle. Automatic transmissions do not have a clutch, they have clutches.

i don't mean neutral as in the symbol on the lever. when im cruising at 60km/h for example and take my foot off the gas, the rpms drop to idle and i can rev the engine freely in the rpms under where the 4th or 3rd gear was last(using 1-5% of the pedal movement), if i go over those rpms i feel a sudden jerk forwards similar to releasing the clutch pedal on a manual vehicle suddenly. and i didn't literally mean 90 degrees...*opens paint for the first time in ages*



red line is my trajectory, blue arrow is where Ii release the throttle/where the rear end lets go green arrow is where I hit, end of red line is where the car ends up and now im facing the opposite direction (impact at green arrow flings car around).

Last edited by Ricerguy, Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:59.

Q: are automatic transmissions supposed to go into neutral if enough throttle isn't being applied? (engine speed drops to idle*?)

On my way home from work, rain was easing up, lights green I slowed down(from 47km/h to about 35km/h) and make the right turn, halfway through the corner i prepare to straighten up, i ease off the throttle(was still doing 30ish km/h) and in what felt like an eternity (epic slowmo brain) my hands kept counter-steering while my brain was still trying to understand what the hell was happening.at full counter-lock the car stopped rotating and headed towards the sidewalk(little island between the opposing lanes where the stop light is placed). BANG i hit, the car is forced around by the impact and I land with the rear of the car facing up the hill I was approaching. Put the hazards on immediatly, got out and expected the worse, saw no immediate damage so i backed up and drove home at 20km/h with my hazards on, steering wheel now pointing to the left.

Jacked the car up and inspected the damage today(sunday). The inside of the left side rim is bent, the tyre has a gash about an inch under the bend in the rim, tyre still holding air. Metal guard on the transmission sump has a dent, sump itself is unhurt strangely. inspected rod ends and rack ends, no visable damage, I unbolt the steering wheel to take it off and re-adjust it, the splines are jammed. I did eventually get the steering wheel off and readjusted.




EDIT: 91 toyota sera A/T with a 4efe 1.3 engine block swap. ( yes its a downgrade sue me >_> )

OMFG that got me xD MIRROR IMAGE :0....mind is blown.

Quote from Naruto06 :

They are a beta because I cant get the turbo to work properly. if you want to try and make it work, be my guest. If you want to make any suggestions let me know and ill try to do it (AND sorry 1303s_vortech ! I did not give you initial credit for the needles (I stole them from you MRT gauges)) I hope you don't mind, a friend of mine is trying to make new needles.

Ill keep you updated on progress.

I asked you for help with mine, Y U no ask for halp, y u no use correct rx8 needle i made for ya </3...lol anyways, youre turbo needle isn't 'centered' and its set to rotate the wrong direction

EDIT: I see your problem, you have no turbo guage face...which means the needle doesn't even know where to point, Maybe you were trying to make the turbo the same way you made the rpm guage face?...you got lucky with that , you really should seperate the guage from the background as it needs to be 360 degrees to be fully accurate i've also included a pic of your guages + my needle + my boost guage as a test.

(had to use imageshack :C ) - > http://img508.imageshack.us/i/naruto06.png/

Last edited by Ricerguy, Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:27.

Scawen : FIXED IN Z33

theres a line up ahead that you drop through, also behind me near the small palm trees.

Last edited by Scawen, Fri, 13 May 2011 10:50.

:s..odd, I've already watched Black Lagoon: Roberta's blood trail. o.O

Quote from Naruto06 :

RX-8 Tach and Fuel gauge...took me like 3 hrs to make -_- so plz comment on them after u download them, i know they arent perfect and feel free to edit them and make them look better. Just make sure you give me credit for the original. and as with my previous post, the file size is small because of the picture compression.
Compressed:164 KB
Extracted: 4.62 MB

great so far! best lx6 guages I have. I wanna see these finished! :P if you need any help just link me on msn

okay, so I tried logging into the forums and i forgot my password, no biggie. *clicks forgot password* 'The e-mail/username information submitted could not be found.' ? so how did i sign up for the beta test...ok, no biggie again ill just register right? 'The entered e-mail address is already in use.' what?

meh..Looking awesome by the way , really looking forward to making real engines.

Any idea of the cause?

what kind of daihatsu do you have? I was going to suggest the 1999 mira, yes daihatsu = toyota brand

Toyota/Lexus/Daihatsu

Nissan/Infinity/Datsun

Daihatsu is to toyota what Datsun is to...? I think >_>

meh. Daihatsu mira is my suggestion 700cc ftw

EDIT: they are/were being used here as the replacement for the mini moke as a 'cut down car' and can be had for cheap...ish....if you are a rental company :/....damnit

http://www.cars-directory.net/ ... a_a1237280107b2550361.jpg

some old friends working on rebuilding the mod archive , who remembers mm2w.net? <3

http://www.mmarchive.com/

HOLY CRAP +zZenom! YOU MADE THAT HONDA s2000 i used to love <3

played on zone very rarely but nevertheless....same name as on lfs ye old 'Ricerguy'

Last edited by Ricerguy, Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:38.

Quote from Inouva :

This

So why post an improvement suggestion on an outdated version?

Quote from kars19 :

really

"Suzuki equipped all generations of its Swift GTI with a 1.3-liter, displacement in-line, four-cylinder engine. This engine utilized dual overhead cams and electronic fuel injection to funnel gasoline trough four valves per cylinder, for a total of 16 valves. Its bore measured 2.91 inches and its stroke measured 2.97 inches. The company officially termed this engine the G13B, which according to the "Redline GTI" website, remained unchanged for the 15 years of the GTI model's life.

Suzuki's 1.3-liter engine cranked out 100 horsepower at 6,600 rpm and 83 foot-pounds of torque at 5,500 rpm. Inside each cylinder, the injection system achieved a compression ratio of 10.0-to-1. This engine gave the Suzuki Swift GTI a power to weight ratio of 6.86 horsepower-per-pound, more than three times that produced by the 2010 Ferrari 458 Italia"

Where did you quote that from? swift GTI's/ cultus GTI's produced anywhere from 101-115hp @6600 or 6900rpm (with a higher limiter than the standerd 7400 rev cut) similar to the xfg @ 8000~ rpms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZRcD8MMuPo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA_1vie0Mdw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veAlmg9i9vI I tried to find a video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uCvPTbvg-A <- 100 @ 6600 model you were referring to?