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The Fast and the Furious Validated: You CAN Blow the Welds On Your Intake Manifold!
Detroit, 9:33 AM
Tue Nov 24
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WRONG
I hate to correct you but he blows the carburetor, which mysteriously rockets out from BENEATH the car.
WHATEVER, DOC BROWN.
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Which makes it worse when people go, "oh, so you like cars then? Have you ever seen The Fast and the Furious?"
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Stupid hamsters ate my hyperlink:
[www.bumwine.com]
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holy hell, that link has had me in tears laughing for a good 5 minutes...
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I know the Eclipses are considered "Tuner Cars" but they hold together under strain about as well as a bran muffin.
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I had a room mate that was in a DSM club. Standard consumables for an oil change included the head gasket and occasionally a piston.
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"You almost had me? You never had me - you never had your car... [slang term for negative driving action], not [slang term for positive driving action] like you should. You're lucky that [automotive performance item/action/part] didn't blow the [automotive engine part] on the [larger automotive part]! You almost had me?"
"You tell him [long-form tough-guy character-name]. Get out of here!"
"Now, me and [tough-sounding sidekick nickname] got to [automotive repair action] the [automotive part]... and replace the [smaller automotive part] you [impossible action done to smaller automotive part that majority of audience won't notice]. Ask any racer. Any real racer. It don't matter if you [cliché] [cliché] or [cliché]. [Cliché] is [cliché]."
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Dethair madlibs:
[something awesome]
Well done.
Not you, guy who welded that manifold.
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fingers, don't fail me now
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"You almost had me? You never had me - you never had your car... [building subpar machines in the 70s, 80s, and 90s], not [planning for long-term success] like you should. You're lucky that [mismanagement] didn't blow the [pensions] on the [entire UAW]! You almost had me?"
"You tell him [Bob Lutz]. Get out of here!"
"Now, me and [Rick Wagoner] got to [beg the US Congress]... and replace the [profits] you [steadily whittled away by building undesirable cars until the momentum was too much to overcome even with much-improved products like the Malibu]. Ask any racer. Any real racer. It don't matter if you [blame the Prius] [blame the housing crunch] or [blame the economy as a whole]. [A poorly-run car company] is [a poorly-run car company]."
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Topical humor is fun.
Hey, Murphy, blah-blah-blah John Sununu.
Murphy, blah-blah-blah Tipper Gore.
Hey, Murph, you can't blah-blah-blah-blah the Ayatollah.
Murphy Brown: Blah-blah, Bishop Desmond Tutu, blah-blah.
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Is there an editor on board? My grammar has never been great, but Jalop is constantly screwing up it's vs its.
"blown the welds on it's intake manifold"
FAIL
here's the word from [www.elearnenglishlanguage.com]
"The confusion between it's and its occurs because on virtually every other word 's indicates possession, so English speakers naturally want to use it's to mean "something belonging to it." But it's is only used when it's a contraction of it is or it has.
The ironclad rule - no exceptions - is that if you can replace the word with "it is" or "it has," use it's. Otherwise, it's always its."
Sorry, I just finally flipped out. My job has been sucking lately and I really need to back away from the caffeine.
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This should be interesting.
Hope your not wasting you're time!
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It's getting to the point where my brain filter is becoming so strong, I can't remember the right way to write anymore. Er... write way? Shit.
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I'll be your second on this matter. Small errors like an incorrectly used "it's" are like a pimple on Summer Glau. Everything else is great, but you see that zit and kind of focus in on it. It's almost as if the awesomeness of the rest of the package (your post or Ms. Glau) makes the minor imperfection worse/more obvious.
As you were. And rkwadd...next time check yoself before you wreck yoself.
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...me and my buddy were...
...had blew up
...break [sic] booster line.
I weep for our future.
Can someone please tell me why no one thought to install a blow off valve?
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It just wasn't in the script.
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Blow-off valve + yellow car = Axe Body Spray ad comes true?
Epic win.
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Now that I am single, I have proven that the blow-off valve does not seem to make girls want to have sex with me.
That may also be because I am rather funny-looking, however.
Do I need a larger blow-off valve, then?
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You know, now that I think about it, he'd have to be throttling the individual runners post-manifold for that to even be a concern.
Either way, something was under-designed or under-built. I can't know for sure what unless I see the entire system.
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Or how having a car topping out at 140mph as it runs out of revs suddenly gains extra gears when NOS is fitted....
Or how I found Vin Diesel lifting Michelle Rodriguez by the ass onto the hood of a car attractive....
Or why, crap as the film is, on watching it I still get a momentary urge to paint my A4 Lime Green, put enormous spoilers on it and shout NOSSSSSS! all the time...
I propose all films be sold with a Poetic License rating as well as an age rating.
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And I'm suprised that anyone at Jalopnik is suprised at the possibility of blowing up an intake manifold under high boost.
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I'm surprised at the complete lack of penetration on the weld. The mating surfaces are still perfectly smooth.
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I resent being implicated in any of this foolishness.
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[www.imdb.com]
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From a young age, my dad turned me into a cynic about the laws of physics in movies. My suspension of disbelief is severely hindered on anything involving cars, airplanes, cliffs, falling, or being punched/kicked/shot/hit with baseball bat.
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Notable exception to this rule: Bruce Willis in Die Hard. That guy looked like hamburger in jeans by the end of Die Hard 2.
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