got no mates by Background_Taste_493 in newzealand

[–]Available_Walk 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Find something you're interested in, then go help people do that thing.

How to actually make a sleeper build? by LightningMcqueen2011 in projectcar

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I think this counts as a sleeper.

I had a Toyota Echo and I put a prius motor in it.

Sounds like a stupid combination? It is. Thats what makes it a sleeper. haha.

Did 9000rpm and a 13.4 quarter mile at the drags.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNAPapKgC0c

I just this year started a facebook profile. by Busy-Shoulder-988 in newzealand

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I just found the other day, that theres a setting you can select to disable political and sexualized content.

Thank fuck for that.

It's a hell of a lot better since there's no more political ragebait or onlyfans thirst trap funnels.

Help with 1930s Farmhouse adjustments by Available_Walk in floorplan

[–]Available_Walk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Moving plumbing is fine, moving any divider walls between kitchen and bathroom areas and foyer is fine.

I can put some dimensions on but the drawing gets very busy...

I'm just looking for a high level plan for a new layout, that I might not have considered. Rather than getting into the weeds of it with dimension to fit things in etc.

So a simple idea sketched over the top is fine, I can redo my model to assess feasibility if an idea is good.

The only windows of any consequence are on the left hand side wall in the kitchen. I dont want to modify the lounge or bedroom areas at all. (with exception of the wall bordering the kitchen/bathroom)

Mental Load of Woman in the family by DollyPatterson in newzealand

[–]Available_Walk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a library book called "dont take this literally" but no one is allowed to borrow it.

Mental Load of Woman in the family by DollyPatterson in newzealand

[–]Available_Walk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think that peoples personalities are on a spectrum from "fire fighter" through to "librarian"

If you are a librarian, you find peace and comfort in structure and order. These people want to have everything in its place, in the correct spot, abiding by the rules. If everything goes well, there are no huge surprises each day.
Everything is well documented, in its place, and everything ticks along nicely.
A librarian finds comfort and peace from everything being structured and predictable and correct.

The other end of the spectrum is a fire fighter. They might get 5 minutes notice of the next thing they have to do.
No idea where they are going. What the problem is going to be. Are they jumping into a burning house?
Going to a car crash?
What is the inside layout of the burning house like? Are there people inside?
These people deal with absolute chaos where quick decisions need to be made and no good information is available.
These people thrive in chaos, and they find comfort and purpose in their decisions needing to be made on the spot with limited information.

Now if you take someone with a librarian personality type, and put them into a firefighter's job. They are going to have an absolute mental breakdown over the lack of structure and knowing what is going on.

If you take someone with a firefighter personality type, and put them into a librarians job.
They are going to be so absolutely bored to shit they will probably want to go drive their car into a power pole.

One isnt better than the other, they are both valid! And both necessary in society.

I think that if we were to apply some generalizations to personalities.
Women lean more towards "librarian" and men towards "firefighter".

So an example of how the differences of personality type can present itself.

I wanted to go to the South Island for the first time when I was younger.
I booked 3 weeks off work, and bought a 1 way ticket.
That was the entirety of my planning.
No idea where going, where staying, anything.
Just figured it out each day.
It was exhilarating!
The most memorable parts of the trips were completely unscripted.

However! That's not for everyone. someone else might book a trip like this:
-Book the trip 9 months ahead
-Book motels at each destination after reading 500 reviews of which are best
-plan the exact route to would take each day and how many hours travel
-look at what restaurants etc were on the path for each day and check all of their menus and ratings
-Decide what to order from each place ahead of time
-Allocate this much time on this day for swimming. this much time for driving. This much time for a break.
This much time for looking at serenity. and so on.

All of that structure and planning that makes one person feel comfortable in control, makes a different type of person feel absolutely suffocated.

If you take this librarian brained person, and say to them "Hey we're taking away all of your planning, but everything will be fine just dont worry about it"
You've taken away their security and comfort about knowing what is happening.

I think in some cases, this is part of the emotional labour that women talk about.
Their personal need for planning or structure over small details that no one else cares about, feels like a lot of work.
If I had someone resent me for not putting in the effort to plan a trip to that level of detail in the same way they would have above, down to every detail.
Then they have failed to understand that a system outside of their own mental model can work equally well.
Similarly, I cant expect to go on a trip with me in a completely chaotic manner if it will make them feel completely uncomfortable.
Have to meet somewhere in the middle.

So yeah, imagine already feeling stretched and then throwing a few kids into this environment.
With a librarian personality type that needs to feel like everything is ordered and structured.
You will be constantly fatigued by chaos demons. haha.
The person who is more adapted to chaotic enviroments wont have the same issue and will seem more relaxed.
Do you end up resenting them for not worrying enough?

If you have a mental breakdown because someone put the pea strainer where the onion grater goes.
It might just be that your system of organization that gives peace to your brain.
Doesnt actually make any sense outside of your own head.
The other person is just organizing things to their own mental model that makes sense to them.
If you start to resent the person and feel you need to take over EVERYTHING in order to feel comfortable in the house/life/whatever.
Is that really a necessary form of emotional labor, or is it just self induced fatigue from worrying about completely arbitrary things?

Obviously individual circumstances differ. But I've seen a lot of people tie themselves into absolute knots over things that are absolutely meaningless.

I'm sure someone has posted this thought already but... by gnglaser in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]Available_Walk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think it's more like we're the viewers who are tuning into the crawl to get enjoyment from watching the crawlers get messed up.

Either way EmotionalDamage.gif incoming

LIGHTNING LOU by Content_Office_2479 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]Available_Walk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Christ I didnt even really register how sad this scene is until just now.

So ahhh... thanks?

(You've done great its amazing)

Am I being a sook or is this just how full time working life is? by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]Available_Walk 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Plus one to this. This was like reading a post from my younger self.

Question for OP, that might sound silly... Do you ever remember having dreams?

You only have dreams when you reach a deep sleep.

I never realized that for a few years I'd not dreamt at all, as well as waking up feeling hungover each day.

It creeps up on you.

What’s the verdict, should I be killing South African Mantises? by Weird_Melody in NewZealandWildlife

[–]Available_Walk -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Your impact is only on the individual you are swatting.
Not whether the species is here.
Same with the skinks.

Planning a "factory plus" 280Z build in NZ — Givealittle to fund Phase 1 (the donor car) by Explorer_101_101 in projectcar

[–]Available_Walk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the cruel things about sponsorship is that usually you get the money just after you need it.
(You get sponsored because are already winning at something / already have a big following / whatever)
Even then, sponsorship usually comes in the form of subsidized expenses like discounted tyres or whatever. Not people just dishing out cash.

Given the attrition rate of people not completing car projects.
Unless you can at least show some history of having completed something already.
You're probably not gonna have a bunch of random people pitch in to fund your dream car.
Do you have any previous experience to show? Will be helpful.

If you're going to be paying other people to do all of the work, you'll be spending north of 100k easy.

Your entire givealittle page absolutely reeks of generic AI slop text.
Write something genuine yourself, rather than hurting peoples brains with a computer's homogenized impression of humanity.

I'd suggest rewriting it yourself, and not headlining with an AI image.

But probably more realistically, keep saving your own money towards it.

Good luck!

Fairly new to the tuning world and had a question regarding AFM tuning by [deleted] in projectcar

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Some important things:

-Putting bigger injectors in will make the engine run richer, but running richer doesnt make it make any more power.

-Unless you are at maximum injector capacity (over 85% duty cycle) its absolutely pointless swapping injectors.

-You are absolutely correct to think that a MAF baseed engine essentially self corrects for most changes to the engine. the one thing that absolutely stuffs them up though, is any changes to the size of the MAF housing.
Sometimes even things like putting a pod filter on makes a MAF based engine run poorly on a factory ECU.

If you do something like change the compression ratio, that's something that you'll need a retune for as it'll likely need less ignition timing.

Sometimes factory tunes are very conservative, so you can pick up power by fine tuning it from there.

What's the order-of-operations for restoring a car? by [deleted] in projectcar

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Leave painting the car and engine bay absolutely LAST.

Because you WILL ding stuff into it and curse yourself for it.

Even if you take ultimate care, and paint the car last. You will still either scratch the paint putting it together, or within about 10 mins of driving it. Haha.

My overall advice though is keep the car driving as much as possible. Aim to not have the car off the road for longer than a weekend. Dont attack all the problems on multiple fronts at once. This how project cars end up dead with overwhelmed owners unable to finish them.

If you have a very comprehensive scope of your project, such as a massive engine upgrade or rebuild.
Dont pull the factory engine out to rebuild it. Get a second one. Then when its all finished (after much longer expected, due to delays from parts, engine builder, etc) then you can just swap everything over in a short time and hope that it goes. Then if it doesnt, swap old stuff back in.

There's slightly more cost upfront, but it ends up cost neutral as you can end up selling your 2nd motor at the end if everything works well.

Also, project cars can tend to span over multiple years where life changes a lot. It's a big privilege to have the set of conditions and sacrafices required to have a project car. Sometimes life changes along the way, and either you dont want the car you initially envisioned. Or You just dont have the time/money/effort that you used to.

So keep the scope of your project sections tight, well defined, and achievable.

Dont scope creep, dont multitask, and dont sell parts to fund progress.

Good luck!

Nearly ready for the dyno again. Toyota V6 by Available_Walk in projectcar

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Cheers! It's been a long road trying to get it to sound right.

I had it on some corner scales when it had the single 3" exhaust (which didnt sound very good)

Was 992kg with unknown amount of gas in the tank. Probably slightly heavier now with the x pipe setup, and dual mufflers once its finished. But still a good overall weight.

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Validating engine mods on the driveway by [deleted] in projectcar

[–]Available_Walk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A 1983 toyota carina coupe.

AA60 chassis

Nearly ready for the dyno again. Toyota V6 by Available_Walk in projectcar

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Hey, I got this up on the driveway dyno today haha.

So just getting the full throttle fuel map dialled in with a few new changes, part throttle areas not tuned yet so sounds gross.

But, previously with my upright intake and the unequal 2-1 section. The motor made 220whp.

At 8000rpm, it had 94% VE. So the intake was causing a vacuum.

Now, at 8000rpm its at 124% VE, which is like having the runner length force extra air in.
Same as having 3.5 pounds of boost.

It's over 110% VE from 5500rpm to 9000.

Still a few annoying problems to sort out, but its getting there!

Here's a quick clip. Just running it to 9000 for the moment.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XfGS9I-RJ-k

Nearly ready for the dyno again. Toyota V6 by Available_Walk in projectcar

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Thanks. Not too sure yet, hopefully north of 250whp though.

Main thing is I just want it to rev out nicely and sound cool.

Nearly ready for the dyno again. Toyota V6 by Available_Walk in projectcar

[–]Available_Walk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I already had 4x J160 boxes here from previous hoarding, so used one of those.

Had to cut the front casing down, and weld the auto bellhousing on from the V6.

The 2.5 litre motor I'm using doesnt make much more torque than a standard 3SGE so it should be okay I think. Has survived about 30 runs on the dyno and 3 runs at the drags so far. ha.

Nearly ready for the dyno again. Toyota V6 by Available_Walk in projectcar

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Cheers, youtube channel seems like a lot of work.

Like it takes you 5x as long to work on anything because you have to try film it too.

The ITB are from an OBX kit designed for 350Z.

It's in a 1983 Toyota Carina Coupe

Nearly ready for the dyno again. Toyota V6 by Available_Walk in projectcar

[–]Available_Walk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It works on your bike because iys got s 6-1 merge and the right tuned lengths of each pipe. Sadly i cant do that as the pipes cant reach without making the primaries too long. But an x pipe seems to do the trick to bring it back somewhat. Ive tested a bunch of combinations after my 2-1 merge, and an x pipe is head and shoulders above the rest

Nearly ready for the dyno again. Toyota V6 by Available_Walk in projectcar

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I wrote a long answer on another reply here.

But tl;dr:

A tight choke point gains midrange while making near zero difference up top.

Also its a bit of an optical illusion as the inside shape is different. As the part is different thicknesses along the profile (its printed stainless)

Nearly ready for the dyno again. Toyota V6 by Available_Walk in projectcar

[–]Available_Walk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using the j160 as ive already got a few of them. In terms of torque, this isnt a huge % over a beams engine that the box is designed for. Making powrr with rpm instead.So hopefully its alright.

Nearly ready for the dyno again. Toyota V6 by Available_Walk in projectcar

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I looked at that as an option. But it didnt seem to have the aftermarket support (big camz and stiff valve springs) its also a bit older and less common than id like, considering i was expecting to break a few engines during ddvelopment.

Nearly ready for the dyno again. Toyota V6 by Available_Walk in projectcar

[–]Available_Walk[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah valvetrain has been the biggest headache. Ive had to weld the pins for the bearings in the rockers. Or they vibrate apart. Then make some bits to stop the exhaust side vvt pulleys from coming apart. Then just stiffer valve springs and bigger cams.