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the red beetle you posted probably had the trans mount raised and the parcel tray cut out in the rear to make room for the fan shroud coming up....lowering the rear of the car without the negative camber.....that new beetle...fucking camber plates...But....
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I guess the burning one isn't too bad. But "stance" trend is rather disturbing and growing, up here at least
The blocks are magnesium aren't they? That's a bad fire.
Thats my buddy Paul's car. Fuel line broke at Carb. Car was saved without any real damage. Dude behind him had an extinguisher. Pauls a good dude.
Smashed beetles have looked like that since forever. Long before stance was a style and socks
not to mention the red one is a fatkid, and who fucking cares about those, likely the same guys who rust plastic new ones.
My experience with burning magnesium stuff is that you pretty much have to melt it to get it to ignite. At least the highly alloyed material that is used in anything that requires strength. The pure stuff is a different story.
If you take the time to file a piece of magnesium or titanium with a 0 cut bastard and catch the dust it will ignite much faster, like flour in a fine mist, boom.
Mix that with a little black powder for some real brow singeing fun.
When I was a kid, I used to make fireworks from model rocket engines. I would carefully saw open the housing and remove the packed powder and grind it up. Then that goes into a reinforced toilet paper tube mounted to a wood base with a water proof fuse. Add a little confetti on top and it will shoot a cloud of smoke and sparks 15 feet in the air.
a friend blew his eyebrows and bangs off in high school with a homemade firecracker and coffee creamer bomb. real funny shit.
He also worked at a doughnut shop and piled like 500 throw away doughnuts on my front door once. Open door to a delicious tidal wave of cakery.
He also worked at a doughnut shop and piled like 500 throw away doughnuts on my front door once. Open door to a delicious tidal wave of cakery.
I used to take those engines, make rockets with them, but instead of parachutes I'd pack them with black powder and gasoline gelled with polystyrene. Clearly before there were terror watch lists.
Oh yeah man, that combo burns relentlessly. If memory serves it can actually melt asphalt. Always wanted to launch one like that.
Did you ever just shove a fuse into an engine and light it ? Without a rocket those things go everywhere, very unpredictable. Guaranteed excitement.
Eau Rouge/Raidillon
No wonder his tyre gave up a lap from the end, would love to see the load on the rear right that exploded.
Oh, yes.
We used mostly aluminum hydride and potassium nitrate in copper tubing. Also some horrendously unstable shit that we ginned up with maybe picric acid and something else; it would detonate whenever it fucking well felt like it.
Nah it probably failed because they stayed out significantly longer than Pirelli recommend. His tire started to delaminate just after Raidillon on the straight to Kemmel but that pic was from earlier in the race.
You used to be able to get all kinds of chemicals at small toy and hobby shops back in the day. Tried making gun powder from supplies purchased there. Didn't quite work as an explosive, but made pretty good smoke bombs.
My neighbors always kept a large Quaker Oats jar full of real M80s from Mexico. I think they were filled with small amounts of T.N.T. instead of gun powder. One would shoot a 10 gallon galvanized tub twenty feet in the air. Not to be messed with. Those guys were always blowing shit up.
Ever seen an Acetylene trash bag bomb go off ? Those are fun.
Of course all this happened a long time ago, well before 911 and the Patriot Act. Freaking religious extremists ruining it for the rest of us old pyros.
My friend Eric wants to build a Crucible in his back yard to possibly make some Damascus steal. He is pretty confident. He has a local artist on board and me. My friend from Lebanon has a friend in Turkey who can get Sudanese taconite in 100 Kilo bags.
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Something like that. The blocks tossed onto some pallets also make great bonfires.
There does seem to naturally be a disagreement in the "wear window". I had first heard 40 - 45 laps
Aside from the less than ideal cable routing and 26" hoops, seems legit. 8/10 would bang...
Hembrey said the wear life for the mediums was 40 laps but not under race conditions. the race was only 43 laps and Pirelli never exptected the tire to last basically the whole race especially since others were doing 2 and 3 stops
Local bike of JBP vintage
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I remember that frame. Had one of those forks briefly. Didn't take long to blow the seals.Local bike of JBP vintage
