by "RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
Published 06/06/2017 at 13:42

Tags: drafting lol
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Just got through fixing something for a second time - arbitrary changes made it need a fix, bad fix info given to me, then arbitrary meddling. GUESS WHAT IT DIDN’T FIT. Then there was the part with a fix left over from 4 years ago. And the part with the hinges installed backwards which was “missing”. And the “I don’t understand this” fix. And the “there’s a gap in this, should there be a gap in this?”. And the...

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"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
06/06/2017 at 13:58, STARS: 1

That first gif. That is the best gif. My favorite gif ever. It is applicable to most situations in life.

Line at DMV
Line at supermarket
Conference call
Budget meeting
PowerPoint Presentation
Cold Coffee
Hot Coffee
No Coffee
We need to talk
Don’t talk to me
Things with fix that need fixing
Things without a fix that need fixing
Kale

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
06/06/2017 at 13:58, STARS: 0

Since we sort of know each other in this space, I’ll mention that my wife’s brother put the business end of a .45 in his mouth a few years ago and took his own life. That gif of Archie Bunker hits kind of close to home. I’m not taking offense or anything, just sharing.

Peace, Yo.

"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
06/06/2017 at 13:59, STARS: 1

We need a man like Herbert Hoover again.

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
06/06/2017 at 14:12, STARS: 0

Life’s kind of that way -. all things are somber, all things are funny, depending on the light and which window you’re sitting by... Not trying to make light (no pun intended), but a little dark humor and grimness are the lifeblood of society. If most people aren’t able to laugh a little at the very worst of things, nobody’d be able to grieve seriously - and some people get left out when it’s time to chuckle. The way of things. Carroll o’Conner was quite gifted, though - Archie’s quiet frustration and unnoticed mockery of his wife are as well delivered here without words as it’s possible to be, I think.

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
06/06/2017 at 14:16, STARS: 0

It’s excessively grim, but necessary. There’s also a Barney one from How I Met Your Mother, and one with Barney using his tie to string himself up. And an Al Bundy-fixing-noose-like-tie gif... come to think of it, there’s a lot of suicide/death humor in ‘70s-’80s sitcoms (which HIMYM is throwing back to), isn’t there?

"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
06/06/2017 at 14:18, STARS: 0

yeah. they make me chuckle. This one tho makes me burst out and laugh every time I see it.

"fintail" (fintail)
06/06/2017 at 14:22, STARS: 1

Gee our old LaSalle ran great.

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
06/06/2017 at 14:24, STARS: 1

I particularly like just how little attention Edith is paying, and how much detail is going into Archie’s little performance for his own benefit. *inspects, tests trigger*, *flips open crane*, *draws out, inserts single bullet, closes*, *begins Russian Roulette*, *expressions of surprise, continuing*, “BLARGH”.

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
06/06/2017 at 14:26, STARS: 1

Trufax: I want a LaSalle. Preferably a ‘35.

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
06/06/2017 at 14:32, STARS: 1

Laugh at the grim things, or weep. We miss Stevie.

"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
06/06/2017 at 15:11, STARS: 0

Nah - if I get a GM car from the ‘30s, I want ALL of the cylinders. V8s and V12s are meh.

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
06/06/2017 at 15:23, STARS: 1

Well, see, if I get a ‘35 LaSalle, it will be for conversion to a V10 or flat 10 (aircraft jugs, air cooled), with the side hood vents converted to intakes.

I figure perversity in cylinder count and probably layout would offset some of the pain of not having a V16. Plus, you know, cheaper to do that *and* build an airplane engine than to lay hands on a V16 Caddy.

"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
06/06/2017 at 15:26, STARS: 0

I like this idea - - as long as you get plenty of air across those cylinders, you should be good to go.

And yeah, I’m guessing you could build your car several times over, and still have money in the bank compared to that V16.

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
06/06/2017 at 15:32, STARS: 1

Stretch goal - build H-20 engine from two flat 10s on top of each other, feed top/bottom pairs with ten side-draft carbs.

"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
06/06/2017 at 15:40, STARS: 0

Something like this then - but still air cooled? The air cooled part seems... challenging...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Sabre

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
06/06/2017 at 15:50, STARS: 1

Nah. Just have enough spacing between the jugs, and I’m thinking pair the cylinders off for shared fins. Basically, like this Brough Superior Golden Dream (H4!) X 5 repeated stages:

Cooling duct robbed from a Deutz six running over the top:

You’d get a little hotter on the bottom cylinders, but with common jugs it wouldn’t ever get too bad. Think about it - 20 cylinder engine, 5L double-boxer with 250cc cylinders. The thing would run like a sewing machine .

"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
06/06/2017 at 16:04, STARS: 0

Hmmm, wouldn’t a H24 actually be much smoother?

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
06/06/2017 at 16:10, STARS: 1

Not really, because a boxer H4 (as opposed to a pseudo-boxer H4) has totally self-contained perfect balance within its stage of four cylinders. The pseudo-boxer like above (common pins for cylinder pairs) is nearly perfect and would only be improved a tiny, tiny bit by pairing stages. Almost none.

"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
06/06/2017 at 16:19, STARS: 0

Aha - that’s the bit that I was missing. I was thinking about the rows of 5 (or 6) not the sets of 4.

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
06/06/2017 at 16:29, STARS: 1

There’s balancing the overall masses, which each cylinder is already near perfect up and down in a bank, managing the side-to-side (counterweights), balancing the impulse shocks, etc. etc. Similarly to how V12s don’t improve that much on V10s, once you get everything evenly spaced you hit diminishing returns on reduction even without having to have intrinsically balanced banks - the H4 geometry just takes you from having quasi-balanced V-twin pairs and spacing them out evenly from one another to just going in multiple perfectly balanced stages.

"fintail" (fintail)
06/07/2017 at 21:42, STARS: 0

Peak art deco, those vents: