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This forum needs a headbanging smile.

Whatever happened to Ric/Racing Mazda?

I haz new toy.

Comparison: Old 2554 on the top, slightly used KTR110 on the bottom. Muahahaha!

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Needs rebuild and exhaust housing but is purty anyway.

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Insert compressor housing A into compressor inlet B......IT FITS!!!


I bet you won't try to get it running in the Miata...

Planning a big block Miata build?

I bet you cant get it spooled to 8psi at 5k. lol

A straight-six ought to be fine with that turbo.

This one, perhaps:

http://www.cat.com/cda/files/2202846/7/A003597Bedit.jpg

15,200 cc.

I heard he had financial trouble, and was not getting products out to people in a timely manner, but it has been years since I heard anything about him.


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Who else did this? I know I did...

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I much preferred the smell of carbon paper -- it was my favorite part of the doctor's office visits. The cold hands on my genitals was only OK.

Ok, I'm lost. What did the cards smell like?


Image unrelated:

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Not that one (Caterpillar sucks, btw) but another one (Japanese engines are better). One making only 496hp at 1,800 rpm but 1,620ft lbs of torque at 1,350 rpm out of 15.24 liters of engine.
It is actually a pretty good size turbo for my 7.6 liter Pontiac engine in the old GTO, muahahaha! http://wow.incgamers.com/forums/imag...y_sinister.gif

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^^ 8 year old engineering in a video game?

8 year old? Try 27.

Ahh, Labrynth.

The screenshot wasn't from any game or movie, it was just a test rendering from the folks that did the CGI work on Last Starfighter. It's sort of emblematic of the look and feel of most "lifelike" CG of the era, and it makes me nostalgic.

(I'm watching Westworld right now. It contains what I believe to be the first computer-aided visual effect in a motion picture.)

http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/wp-co...orld-chase.jpg

The same people who did the Last Starfighter did the opening to the Labyrinth:

aw the owl.

(I didnt have to watch to know it)

huh. I completely forgot about that owl.

It's kind of sad how the firms such as Triple-I, Robert Abel, Digital Productions, Magi and Computer Image, who did such incredible, groundbreaking work, have all simply vanished to history.

Ancient History time.

One of the first (if not the absolute first) computers to be used for what we now recognize as CGI was actually an analog machine.

Behold, the mighty Scanimate:

http://scanimate.zfx.com/Asheville1.jpg

Hell of a good history lesson on it here: http://scanimate.zfx.com/

http://s95367906.onlinehome.us/photo/IMAG0247.jpg
pardon my shitty phone camera, but it's a Lexus LF-A driving on 270.

cool car, but for the money I rather have a GT-R.

A run through the trivia section on Wargames on IMDB gives an interesting insight to what computer graphics were in 1982:

Graphics on the large NORAD war room screens were rendered in advance by an HP 9845C desktop computer running BASIC. In 1982 the 9845C was comprised of a base with built-in keyboard and a 14" color monitor that mounted on top. Cost of a 9845C was about $90,000 (inflation-adjusted) and the entire "desktop" computer weighed about 100 pounds. The computer's resolution was not good enough to project on a large screen or to be filmed from directly, so a high-resolution monochromatic display was connected. The images were filmed from the display, one frame at a time, one color at a time, using filters for red, green, and blue. The process took about 1 minute per frame of film.

http://airminded.org/wp-content/img/film/wargames-1.jpg

It's more the fact that there will be only 500 of these made.

I'd rather have a Carrera GT myself. Open air fun etc etc.

Holy fucking shitballs. I am impressed.



Carreras are common in our area (DC not Baltimore duh). It's like the honda corolla everywhere else.

Hmmm.

Well he did say carrera GT. Completely different from the normal Carrera.
See illustrations for details.
Carrera GT
http://chrisescars.com/wp-content/up...Carrera-GT.jpg
Carrera
http://image.automobilemag.com/f/rev...arter_view.jpg

And since only 1270 carrera GTs where made I doubt they are common as corollas in your area.

Google Maps must update their satellite views fairly often. It was somewhat recently that I moved the '92 to that spot.

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Probably depends on the area. I just checked my house, the satellite image is at least a year old based on plant growth.

I thought that only Chuck Norris could catch fish this way:

HAHAHA I know exactly where this pic was taken. This is like 5 miles from my dads house. I used to drive that road every morning and evening for 3 years.

I know nothing about fishing, why are they bleeding almost instantly when the land in the boat, do they break something?

Don't you think you would start bleeding if you jumped into a boat and started smashing your head against it?

I think it's most likely coming from their gills.

I've had this happen before, but not in such quantity.

Deadly in recreational lakes.

On my way home...
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Don't feel bad for those carp. They are a non-native species that are destroying the natural balance of the rivers and lakes they are infesting. A few decades they escaped from a farm. Mass killing of them is a good thing and is promoted. Personally, I'd be standing on the boat with a baseball bat.

I like this quote, only because they used "comprised" incorrectly.

the whole is composed is its parts.
the parts comprise the whole.

fixt

Dodge has some 'splainin' to do...
Burned to a crisp in the assembly line. Hmmmm. :facepalm:

While fun, you're not allowed to use lead shot into a waterway, so you must use steel, which is expensive. Not to mention you'll be shooting fairly level and stuff will go where you don't want it to. Besides, you know how rewarding that moment an item makes a perfection connection with a baseball bat is......

its called Unions.

:bowrofl: Speculation is that it was a limited 396. Jalopnik wonders how much FIAT has rubbed off on this company.

lololol I love trailer park boys. What a classic Canadian program.

Interesting.

I knew that they'd done those screens on a relatively mundane workstation, but I had no idea they'd coded them in Basic. (I can't imagine why the'd have needed to.)

The image-capture technique described was fairly standard for the day (three monochrome passes through filters.) Some higher-budget animations used laser scanners, and in fact, a similar process is in use today.

The vast majority of Hollywood films these days are edited using a process called Digital Intermediate. If it was shot on actual film (many movies still are), the camera negatives are scanned and digitized. (Some films are shot on video, in which case the files are simply downloaded.) The film is then edited just like you would video. After the editing process, color-timing, etc, you wind up with a print master that's nothing more than a computer file. To get it back onto film (for projection in the many theaters still equipped for good ole' 35mm) they expose the film via either high-rez mono CRTs or light-valve displays with color filters, or they scan the film with three colored lasers.



Trivia: the one alphanumeric display on the side of the WOPR machine was driven by an Apple II which was installed inside the machine, controlled by an operator who also sat inside the machine. They display itself, which was the only existing prorotype of a new model, was not finished in time for principle photography, so it is not present in wide-shots of the WOPR room. Close-ups were filmed by second unit after the display was finished, and are visible as inserts in the final edit.

fail-

Damn that looks like a brutal hit.

My barn find.

Needs a 1.6 and 5-speed from a Miata!

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Edit: The hood is standing up behind it (racing stripes).

From those wheels, yep.

Awesome.


In honor of Easter-
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In all seriousness, though... Portal 2 comes out in five days.

Super cereal. I think this is the only game I have ever pre-ordered.

I'm pretty stoked to try it out.

Oh shizit! I want.