>>12919 >headlights Your car should already have halogen headlights, which should be as bright as every other car on the road. If they're fogged like pic 1, your could try to polish them using one of the products made for the job, or replace them with new ones at about $15 each. I'd recommend fixing your dimmer switch before you replace the headlights, though. >>12928 >have higher light output. You could do higher output, but be careful about the wattage. Your original system was designed for 35W low beams and 65W high beams. If you exceed this without increasing the wire gauge, it could overheat the stock wiring. At worst, it could start a fire. There might be some bulbs out there that are brighter with a similar power draw, though. I don't know much about aftermarket headlights. >>12921 >Is it just the fans that stay on or do both the compressor and fans run after turning the car off >>12922 >I think only the compressor for the air conditioning keeps running It sounds like there are some misunderstandings about how a GM AC system works. Follow along in pic 2, bottom left and top right. The diagrams are from my 1969 manuals, but the system is almost identical on your Trans Am. Basically, it is a system where refrigerant flows in a circle through the engine bay. The compressor is basically a belt-driven pump with a 12V clutch connected to the control unit that controls whether the AC is on or off. The compressor pumps the refrigerant through the condenser in the front of the radiator to convert any gasses into a liquid state. This flows to the drier, which sucks the moisture out of the system. The reason it does this is because it then flows through the evaporator core, where it cools the chamber by evaporating the fluid. If there is water in the system, it could build up, freeze and block the system. There are two valves attached to the evaporator that regulate the process. The POA valve is basically a thermostat that cuts all flow if it gets too cold. The expansion valve basically causes a regulated restriction that creates pressure in the condenser and a vacuum in the evaporator. Temperature = pressure / volume. The volume of the system is fixed because it is sealed, and the pressure in the condenser increases greatly because of the compressor fighting the expansion valve's restriction, creating pressure, and the temperature in the evaporator decreases because it is full of vacuum. The changing pressure also changes the boiling point of the fluid, which helps to convert it to a gas when it passes into the low pressure zone at the evaporator. After the evaporator, the refrigerant circulates back to the compressor as a gas, where the cycle repeats. The gas turns into a liquid, condensation is removed, it is converted back to a gas at a regulated rate, and then it again travels through the compressor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEJbKLZ7RmM >>12929 >headlight restoration

>>12929 Hey look,I learn something new. My Camaro is an AC delete car so I've never had to mess with it. As for the light brightness , I was saying in a retarded late night post that he may have some retarded "green" cheapy sealed bulbs in now. Granted that is still not relevant until as both of us have said that he should fix his switch first.

>>12795 That sounds cool as hell, only Pontiac.. I wish my 'bird was easy to work on; anything that isn't a fluid or right on top is basically a major repair taking me hours to do anything. Starter took me 9 hours, power steering pressure lines took me about 20 hours. Hell, I replaced my whole rear suspension, torque link bushing and transmission mount (all time combined) in less or about equal time, I'd say.

Pic related. That and a steel is not real, and if you say otherwise you are a faggot Singletrack from the mid 90s

>>12844 You are correct, they are. Still neat though.

>>12854 Bitching out on what, you're the angry fag here. I never said SW weren't good for traveling (I actually enjoy them a lot), I just said you had enough room in recent hatchbacks to travel. Yes you can fit more in SW. But I'm just not rich enough to afford one. Also why would I bother, I'm not a 4-luggage lady when I travel.

>>12859 I thought we are allowed to have dreams here, right?

>>12855 >the same thing applies to small hatchbacks Except it isn't exactly enough room for gear, unless you're just roughing it, or going alone, which again brings me to how lonely hatchbacks are meant to he designed. >I wrote nothing to imply anything of the sort. It is true, though, that most early European small cars had only two doors, and that remains to this day Which brings us exactly to the point about western society becoming one of loners, from the four-door folk's wagon, to the two-door import. >they were not Read: cultivated. Not created from. As the age of hatchbacks came into being, so did the race cars begin to take shape with the era. >the whole time you've been talking about how cars and society have been getting more degenerate Conservative, as in purposely low, for the sake of caution. When salaries don't pay up for the pump, you've got to start thinking about a smaller car, and a smaller family. >if you are 25 with a wife and three kids, go camping on the weekends and do road trips every summer, it makes perfect sense to drive a station wagon Exactly. You should be driving your loner from the start of your time on the road to the beginning of your family, which is earlier than you think. Inheritance basically ensures that your old car won't go unloved, since eventually one of your offspring will mature to use it, in your place. The hatchback of course being of no relation to the station wagon, at this point, which is what I had addressed, to begin with. >you know how the original Beetle was the official do-it-all car of Nazi Germany >you know how it only had two doors >you know how a family put their three kids in the back and went on trips Germany was a different kind of country, back then. Its heavily-ingrained and compact culture makes for entirely different needs, when concerning transportation. A world comprised of small towns, and industrial parks, with little room between makes the station wagon wholly unnecessary, in such a homogenised realm. >having kids is stupid if you know you can't afford it That mostly comes down to idiots no longer having so many safety nets, when concerning things like credit scams, and general usury. Thus, the regular peasant who does not know so much makes for an economic trend. That, with the concurrent emissions standards and oil crisis spelled a deep change in the way people move about.

>>12784 If anyone's that worried about being tracked. I'm not sure why they're posting on 8chan or even using the internet. I really doubt a basic aftermarket CD player is going to track you. And if you own a cell phone they already have you,

>>12792 Precisely. It's currently impossible to use modern technology and not be tracked in some way, and open source cell towers are never going to happen, so the only way to not be tracked is to essentially not participate in society at all. You have to fuck off into the woods and ditch all your tech.

>>12792 >>12801 >meshnets >7 proxies

>>11937 Pic related came in the mail today. I'll post a pic of it installed when I have a chance and it isn't dark outside.

>>12001 >but none of the Golf's had square/rectangular You need to improve your Golf-fu

>>12772 I didn't know that was a thing, but >5,000 made >no USDM version It may as well not exist here.

>>11790 >/pol/ would love the Trabant Do you mean /leftypol/?

>>2286 >/v/ - Lancer Evo Nope Celica ST-205 or a Delta Integrale

>>12554 Nope. Why would you need a lot of speed? Are you used to vehicles which have siginificantly less torque than horsepower? I was going completely sideways as low as 10mph and that was with a 143hp engine.

>>12560 >Why would you need a lot of speed? Momentum. >sideways as low as 10mph Interesting. I've never actually drifted - this is all conjecture.

Anyone have any idea what the cheapest LS based engine is? I'm thinking one of the 5.3 liter ones. Getting one of the LM4 i think that's what the code was all aluminum ones would be nice to save on weight, but 300hp in a sub 3000 lb truck is going to scoot regardless. Obviously this is a budget build, so no fucking way an LSA or LSX is going in this one. Is there any feasible way to keep a manual trans in it? I know the stock Toyota trans is going to grenade as soon as it starts up, plus I really doubt anyone makes a bellhousing to adapt an LS to a Toyota 5 speed. I'm kinda thinking it's going to be easier to just put in a 4 speed auto that's not electronically controlled.

>>12695 So you asked us for no reason. Okay.

>>12695 >did what we said not to do lol okay >learning more about basic repairs I have a feeling you're gonna learn pretty quick, either with your hands or with your wallet… I don't know how reliable that specific platform is but I know the Cavalier before it was pretty shitty, and cars generally don't improve very quickly from generation to generation - especially Americans. I would have done what I suggested (obviously) but whatever, you do you.

>>12698 I guess it's one way to learn how to work on a car. Buy one that will break and need work. Then you're forced to learn. That or just bring it to someone to fix and learn the repair is more than the car is worth. Any jap car would have been a better pick even a fucking Yaris or Fit.

>>12690 Oh, and I am running AR162B's 5-door mod, it's the closest thing to a Justy in Beam.

>custom default name Dank

>>12693 I prefer this instead. Just kidding, of course. I don't approve of tripfagging that much.

The Mark II is more a trim name then an actual model designation. Though you're probally right about them not sharing like all the good land barges they didn't bring over for some fucking reason. Though it should be noted that Toyota and BMW did partner to make the Not-Supra so a new Toyota inline seems fucking inevitable. You don't partner with BMW and not do an inline 6 for a car famous for it's inline 6, especially after the FR-S had a boxer which is a lot more work then an Inline. Though hopefully Lexus does unfuck it's design phylosiphy. They somehow made a car that looks worse in person, which isn't how that works normally. And it's not even the large grill is a bad idea, it's just everything is incongrous and looks like the clay sculpt melt. Early Lexus's were perhaps bland, but bland is better then awful.

>>12659 Lexus cars are just ugly. They look like plastic niggermobiles

>>12659 >straight-six FT1 is inevitable I want to agree but I wouldn't put it past them to fuck it up somehow, considering the boxer in the 86. We'll just have to see. >Lexus ugly I like the earlier ones. I don't know who infiltrated the design team in the late 2000s but they have completely fucked almost everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqe7jPX6DQY Warning: do not drive a Maverick ML8 with this song playing late at night. Trust me, DO NOT DO EET!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XoqlATD6ups >>12011 While rolling through the hood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoQyAv-HrXU >>12011 Eurobeat for perfect weight transfers over speed bumps and apex clipping around roundabouts.

>>12500 I'll find you a source when I get home Here, to buy an A6 with the V6 means you're really wealthy. People at the bottom line never get over hatchbacks (or Dacia) or used rides. A 60k€ ride isn't for everyone if you take into account the insurance that goes with it. Take it from me, my father had sedans since he worked as an architect, but he could never afford better than an Audi Q5.

>>12500 >>12501 http://www.jato.com/usa/suv-takes-over-as-the-best-selling-segment-in-europe-for-the-first-time/ here you go, mate. I wasn't far from the truth, here they say approximately 12% to sedans, including mid size, large size and luxury sedans.

>>12500 >>12501 >>12505 Triple posting for the sake of it

>>12464 How so? Italians (Alfa, Maserati, Ferrari, Fiat) are more expensive to begin with and are more expensive to maintain than Germans because they are about as reliable as actual horses. Japanese are a little more expensive to buy than Americans but hardly ever break down and are cheap as fuck to fix when they do. Americans are cheap to buy and cheap to fix but they break down more often.

>>12465 Ferrari Maserati and Alfa-Romeo are indeed costlier to buy but cost way less to maintain as they are not engineered to fall apart one day after the warranty expires like BMW, Porsche and Audi. Furthermore, Italian cars hold their value dramatically better than German ones. So the TCO is, as a rule, lower. And Fiats are actually slightly cheaper to buy than VW while being more reliable and being cheaper to fix. German cars are among the lowest quality available. Mercedes is the only German car manufacturer ranking above average, everyone else is at the tail of the curve. Look up the stats, it's common knowledge. Japanese cars were solid in the 1990s and earlier 2000s, these days they are not putting out anything worth their premium. And American cars tend to hold their value better. Jeeps and Ford pickup trucks are the best in this regard. Ford and Chrysler are just as good as Toyota and Honda while holding their value better and being cheaper to buy and fix. GM is another story. If you want to minimize TCO in America, buy American. In Europe choose Fiat. In Asia, choose Japanese. The Japanese are pretty competitive worldwide though.

>>12486 >Fiat as a good Euro choice How about no. Get a French ride or a japanese but hell no don't touch these shitboxes. Even Hyundai is better.

>>12433 >>12435 But if you have 2 horses of different build levels (genders), you can get a third one for free.

>>12422 These engines where kind of weird. Starting involved heating up the cylinder head untill it glows. Then you had to pump fuel to the injector and set it for the correct spray pattern and injection. Then you removed the steering wheel and conected it to the crankshaft Then jou had to turn it manualy, I don´t know if it had a decompression system though. Good thing was, these engine can run on any burnable liquid from Acetone to old motor oil.

>>12481 This is how it looks if you start it:https://youtu.be/BXEEbZS5zhM (actual starting beginns at 1:00)

>>12226 But you don't have to be rich to buy one without fucking yourself over. Someone who makes around $100k/year and lives in a normal sized house could easily get one.

>>12234 What about maintenance? Italians always cost a lot to maintain, especially a new Alfa. I don't think you're going to reasonably be able to maintain it with $100k/year after taxes and other living expenses, especially if you are like most people and have debt. It could happen if you pretended you had half your salary to work with for everything else, or if you were smart and didn't have debt, but very few people do either of those things. New Alfas are shit anyway. Expensive, unreliable, and shit to drive, but pretty to look at? They are the automotive equivalent of stuck-up, retarded supermodels.

>>11915 you mean you're concerned about shortening the lifespan of the engine? idk man, would you rather live 25,000 miles N/A or 15,000 with boost? Decisions, decisions…

>>11918 My Mazda's engine supposedly can't safely use significant boost without aftermarket pistons. Once I do an inevitable engine rebuild I might go for a turbo too, but cam replacement seems like a better option ATM.

>>11879 300M is front wheel drive you tard