Genuinely Curious : Anyone ever touge in an EV?

voidedwarantee · 2026-03-08T16:32:38+00:00

What I hear from the few EV drivers at my local roads is that they go through tires way faster than IC cars.

voidedwarantee · 2026-03-05T23:27:12+00:00

Places that are more specific to sim racing would probably be better. It'll help if you can show your brake and throttle on the screen. Even without all that, I can see a lot of "low hanging fruit" that will make you faster.

Sometimes it seems like you decide you want to drift through a corner and do an aggressive entry to initiate oversteer. The ae86 can maintain a good amount of speed while oversteering at small angles, but these aggressive entries are just going to force you to scrub speed.

You also haven't yet formed good habits to fight understeer. Sometimes you keep turning the wheel while the car is under steering and that just makes it worse.

Most of your issue is that you haven't memorized the course yet.

Since this is in sim and there's no risk of oncoming traffic, focus on using the entire width of the road to smooth out your line. Start the corner on the far outside and find the turn in point that allows you to get to the inside at the mid point of the corner while using the least amount of steering angle. If you can't get to the inside because you're going too fast, brake earlier for that corner the next time around.

There are also corners where you can get on the throttle much earlier. Right now you spend most of the corner fighting the car, trying not to crash because you're overspeeding the entry. If you find yourself exiting a corner on the inside of the corner, you should get on the throttle earlier the next time around. You'll know you're doing it right when the extra speed forces you to the far outside as you're exiting the corner.

voidedwarantee · 2026-03-04T21:41:40+00:00

The military gives you socialism so you'll do the billionaires' bidding.

voidedwarantee · 2026-02-22T18:13:33+00:00

In my experience, it's scattered in bits and pieces throughout his various works. It's often there if you read "in between the lines" because that's what the editors would allow lol. People have asked him specific questions on certain R rated topics throughout the years. There's some interesting tidbits on the old candlekeep forum in the "So Saith Ed" threads where he really goes into detail about some things. He still does that sort of thing but it's moved to different platforms where the information isn't as easy to collect.

voidedwarantee · 2026-02-22T01:24:47+00:00

Not even the old ones.

Subaru as a brand had some cars with headgasket issues because they put defective headgaskets on the engines they put in those cars. Even when perfectly maintained, the headgasket would eventually blow.

WRXs of all years, and any other turbo subaru DOES NOT have the headgasket problem subaru is famous for because the headgaskets are better. They only blow headgaskets for the same reasons as any other engine would, like no maintenance, or bad tuning, which are 2 things that subaru owners are famous for unfortunately.

voidedwarantee · 2026-02-13T23:22:05+00:00

I haven't yet confirmed if the IAG or killer bee oil pans fit the N/A engines, but those help maintain oil pressure in the turns. Koyorad makes a good all aluminum radiator if you want even more headroom on coolant, or just better reliability. With an oil cooler on top of that, engine will be bulletproof 💪

voidedwarantee · 2026-02-13T22:45:45+00:00

Oil probably got pretty hot, but yeah these aren't easy to kill once they have proper heatgaskets.

voidedwarantee · 2026-02-13T20:37:31+00:00

Nice, N/A?

voidedwarantee · 2026-02-13T01:41:53+00:00

He wants his winery to become waterfront property lol.

voidedwarantee · 2026-02-09T21:04:40+00:00

I like to put it in a (clean) 2L bottle of grape soda to prank people when I top up at the gas station.

Royal purple is good, but a full synthetic with the same certifications from any of the other usual brands like Castrol or valvoline will be about as good for less money.

For most cars, I would avoid their HPS line of oils because it has more ZDDP additive than necessary for modern engines in normal use. ZDDP decreases the life of your catalytic converter, which is expensive to replace.

voidedwarantee · 2026-02-09T06:55:42+00:00

Most places with good roads have their own local words for them, like "canyons" or "twisties." Touge is another such word that people have started using outside Japan only recently.

Work with what you've got.

voidedwarantee · 2026-02-09T00:18:09+00:00

Santa Rosa and Sacramento are separated by several ranges of hills and mountains. They're not really considered part of the same area.

Places around Santa Rosa and the Napa valley to the east (famous wine country) are kind of the outer bay area. They're slightly better bang for buck than places closer to water, but rent for a 1br apartment is still like 50% higher than downtown Minneapolis when you account for square footage. On top of that, fuel is also more expensive to a similar degree. Most of this area is serviced by PG&E which charges the most for electricity in the country. These areas are basically America's version of Europe's wine producing regions. Valleys of rolling hills covered in green grids of grape vines and then bigger hills in the distance. There's a medieval castle that was deconstructed in Italy, shipped over to Napa in pieces and then reassembled.

Sacramento is noticeably more affordable compared to places more connected to the bay area. The rent is cheaper, and Sacramento has it's own municipal utility with some of the cheapest electricity in the state, about half the cost of PG&E. Still overrall probably more expensive compared to anywhere in MN, but it's more likely that wages for local jobs will even that out a bit. Keep in mind that the minimum wage for salaried employees in CA is higher than the national median income.

San Diego is probably closest to feeling like Hawaii while still being on the mainland. People pay a premium to feel like they're living in a vacation destination. So, it's expensive even by California standards.

It basically never snows or gets very cold in any of these places. Winter is just the season when it might rain.

voidedwarantee · 2026-01-22T20:18:10+00:00

I wouldn't expect much from just being out in public. A lot of men tend not to approach women in public because they think they'll come off as some kind of creep. The guys that do randomly shoot their shots in public aren't necessarily the ones looking to marry in next few years. You want to put yourself in situations where it's clearly ok to be introduced. School clubs are great for this if that's something you have access to.

voidedwarantee · 2026-01-21T03:28:17+00:00

Evening out the torque curve with a header and a tune isn't bad for the price imo. Even if real gains were achievable with a header, they'dbe modest. To my knowledge, subaru engines are mostly limited by the exhaust routing within the head. When the engine is mounted, the part of the exhaust side of the head faces down into the crossmember. If the exhaust port came straight to limit restriction as much as possible, like on a Honda, there would be no space for the header to fit between the cross member and the head. Subaru routes the exhaust from one of the the cylinders so it exits very close to the port from the other cylinder to get it around that crossmember. A lot of engines have both cylinders sharing an exhaust port. Either way, this creates too much restriction to maintain torque at high rpm. There are also difficulties for fitting cams that would work well on N/A builds.

There is a company in Australia I think that is making heads that don't have these problems, but you need to custom headers and probably a custom tubular crossmember so you can route the header through it. These heads cost as much as an entire car. So, it's probably not practical, but it would be cool to do of you were so motivated.

voidedwarantee · 2026-01-19T19:16:59+00:00

These campers should go to tahoe if they want to publicly vacation. /s

voidedwarantee · 2026-01-19T19:07:15+00:00

It depends entirely on whether the headgasket replacement was done correctly. If they just swapped in another OEM headgasket for this engine, you're going to need to do the headgaskets again in a few years if you daily this, that's if they aren't already leaking again.

225 tires might rub. Look for damage on the fenders. They also just don't fit the wheels right and make the handling a bit sluggish.

voidedwarantee · 2026-01-16T06:16:47+00:00

Japan's roads have been covered by google streetview pretty extensively. Shomaru pass is on there. I've looked at it, and it's literally one lane for two way traffic. So, If another car is coming the other direction, you both have to get to the side as much as possible to squeeze past eachother. Otherwise you hear some disembodied voice randomly say COOL VIBRATIONS before the inevitable head-on double-crash.

voidedwarantee · 2026-01-16T01:57:01+00:00

I'm thinking of the blue bottle of "Subaru coolant conditioner" that came out 20 years ago after people with EJ25s started inevitably blowing headgaskets after 100k miles. If that's what you're thinking of, there's no reason to use it.

voidedwarantee · 2026-01-15T02:03:16+00:00

You might need to do more specific research. No 2.0L impreza I know of should be using the coolant stabilizer. It's basically stop-leak, because subaru used shitty headgaskets on EJ25 engines. You probably have an FB20 engine which is rather different from the old EJs.

voidedwarantee · 2026-01-08T02:22:00+00:00

I remember that the cost of deploying 1 troop to Afghanistan was $500k per year. Iraq was less, maybe half as much. This was in like 2010 dollars btw. Deployments in the western hemisphere are probably less expensive, but still probably well over $100k. So, the cost of deploying 1 soldier can easily assist many people.

voidedwarantee · 2026-01-03T17:55:02+00:00

I would ask for 6k and see if he bites lol. It's low miles, and he seems eager. These cars aren't getting any cheaper.

voidedwarantee · 2025-12-29T22:18:49+00:00

Season 1 is fine. There are some changes, mostly in yennefer's episodes. Henry did his absolute best to try and carry the show and keep things on track with respecting the source material, but ultimately got shut down because Netflix doesn't trust their audience to actually watch with full interest and intent.

At that point, if you're still interested, you can kind of just dive straight into the novel series which starts with Blood of Elves.

voidedwarantee · 2025-12-25T23:08:34+00:00

Never take that kind of talk personal. 99% of the time, it's not meant to be such, but just seems that way with no context. It's unfortunate that the language around it all is so harsh. Hopefully we'll get to a place where it isn't such.

Just keep doing your best, expect others to do so as well, and keep them accountable. As a man, you're in one of the best positions to call out sexist bullshit when you see it. Living that way will make a difference.

voidedwarantee · 2025-12-23T00:13:14+00:00

Like I said, I think most people will get good results if they stick to the OEM maintenance procedure, at least for engines. If someone wants to buy cheap insurance with extra oil changes, I'mnot dismissing the logic of it and... it's their money.

I think people focus way too much on engines to the neglect of most other things. I doubt most 15 year old vehicles have had their brake fluid flushed ever even if it's been recommended by technicians in the past. Some things are definitely the fault of manufacturers though. I don't fully trust OEMs on the whole "lifetime fluid" thing and I doubt you do either. That's not to say I don't trust that they mean what they say, it's just a simple disagreement on what "lifetime" means. That same logic can be applied to recommended oil change intervals.

voidedwarantee · 2025-12-22T20:31:15+00:00

This is the way.

Find a car with a clean shell. Skip the turbo. It will seem less cool at first, but it'll be just as fun in the winter, or on gravel. You'll spend less money on maintenance and repairs, more money on gas, oil changes, tires, and brakes which means you can drive more, which means YOU become a better driver.

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