@okaythen said in Three Years Of Ownership (Now With More Trunk Space):

I tip my hat.

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Wagons are indeed awesome lol

@musashi66 Cool, thanks! Looks like they've got someone doing new renderings now.

@shiarlis Yes they are! The bolt pattern is the same, and the offset was slightly off. When I first fit them, there was no clearance issue. I put on fresh pads and rotors last summer and had a small clearance issue with the caliper bracket. 3mm spacer fixed that issue.

@bwp240 said in I Raced in the 2021 iRacing Indianapolis 500:

@bicyclebuck The good news is that you (or anyone else) can represent Oppo too. Here is a collection of Oppo themed liveries from past an present you can race.

https://www.tradingpaints.com/collections/view/38939/Team-Oppositelock

https://opposite-lock.com/topic/5524/oppositelock-iracing-liveries?_=1622005522482

That's awesome! Now i have to look into iRacing.

@civicwagonengineer

Sorry I missed this earlier - added to Best of OPPO! 😁

@old-busted-hotness said in Everything that was wrong with my Mach1:

I don't have any pics of my '98. Back when I had it, digital cameras saved to floppy disk, and I didn't even get one of those til later.

Atlantic Blue V6/auto with white rocker-panel stripes.

2003 digital camera:
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Still works, takes fantastic close-up shots. But I no longer have a floppy drive, or the desire to change disks after taking six shots. Hell, can you even still buy floppies?

Atlantic Blue is such a lovely color! It would have been fantastic had it continued into the New Edge generation.

@beefchips Small world. Yours is a twin to our WC car....
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@huzer said in One year Mustang anniversary:

@chariotoflove He definitely has acquired an interest in cars recently. No idea where he got that from.

Mine have yet to catch the bug from me.

@zaphod-s-heart-of-gold said in If the parts you need don't exist, make them! [CNC and Redtruck content]:

@newjoekaz said in If the parts you need don't exist, make them! [CNC and Redtruck content]:

@zaphod-s-heart-of-gold This is the best part of my Monday yet! Great work!! Please post more pictures of Project Redtruck! It looks like a stunner!!

Unfortunately I don't have many pictures of it before I tore it down. It was a long process to get it from the mountains to my house a few hundred miles away and I was much more focused on traversing the state with a trailer in tow (first time really driving a trailer, especially one that loaded for that distance), and when I finally got it into the garage there wasn't much space to take pics. Then I took about 400 pictures of everything as I did it, partly to document the progress and partly to have a record of what was going on so I could reference it later

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That's about it really. I wrote a couple posts on old oppo that I need to bring over, they have been archived but it would be nice to link them here for later viewing

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@ibrad I think that’s true of my Jaguar also, as well as the TR6. I don’t think they sprayer even works in that one so it could be 10 years old or more lol.

@grindintosecond It's competing in the XX class, which means it either doesn't comply with the normal class rules, or it's not registered for street driving. It was also driven rather slowly - about 16 seconds slower than my time.

Ford/Motorcraft parts cannon fired for upcoming work.

-Front hubs and wheel bearings
-Front outer tie-rods
-1x steering rack accordion (one of mine is torn)
-Serpentine belt + tensioner + idlers
-MMR coolant crossover tube cap
-A/C suction hose
-A/C liquid hose
-A/C discharge hose
-A/C orifice tube
-A/C accumulator
-Motor mounts
-FRPP carbon LSD clutches
-MGW ‘gripper’ rubber and stainless steel shift knob
-3qts Mobil1 Synthetic Mercon ATF to be used with the manual transmission conversion.

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@britsnswedes-was-minigti Strange. I wonder if something bound up and the diff was the first to let go? Again... not expected but I need to know haha.

@whoistheleader There are some pretty extreme examples. HMS Warrior spent ~50 years as a hulk (sometimes serving as steam/power plant) for other hulks before spending another 30 years as an oil jetty:
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But eventually went from this:
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to this:
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@ttyymmnn Crap that's a tight fit, almost doesn't look possible. I remember starting work at Wrigley just after they sold and vacated the old building, a lot of career people at corporate were pissed. Especially since the new building was completely open concept, for everyone.

@noodles

I love it. The spare inside! This is a shooting brake (not that Genesis).

Hello Lily.

@akursedx

No problem - I can see them now.

@baconsandwich Haha, I had a little "obligatory brake post" of my own on old Oppo a while back (not posted on Reddit, nor included in the weekly roundup). It was embarrassing to have let them get that bad, but it helped me understand that many posts on JRitS aren't just about owners being willfully ignorant. Brakes, for example, can wear down so gradually that you might barely even notice the decrease in performance.

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Picture of the traction boards for reference. Didn’t get one out in the field as I was in the moment a bit.

@taylor-martin very true, nothing wrong with having things that matter to you

@bwp240
This is a great lesson on being able to see the big picture before making the call. Thanks for sharing before we all dive into our projects for the weekend.

@stuckmtb Man, those C7s are peak Corvette for me; I kind if hate GM, but they're stunning cars.

The blue Mustang and the Vipers, ooft!

That homemade special with the yellow cage looks nuts.

@urambo-tauro I can see how it would be a hard sell, but the rust is horrendous, so I'm surprised that the uptake isn't greater. I wouldn't want to pay for a car and have it be that disposable.

When I bought my Land Rover, it was always my intention to get it coated underneath, but I never got around to it and now it's showing discolouration in some of the paint, hinting at surface rust starting to take hold. 😞

Meanwhile, my Volvo is 33 years old and has a tar-like coating underneath and there's not a speck of rust, except for a tie-down point where some of the coating has been knocked off.

@Old-Busted-Hotness That does sound unpleasant. I Googled it and the first hit I got was Missouri DOT.