flyingbrick

13 minutes ago, GregT said:

Interesting. The cam blanks I was told have a very low reject rate. Maybe a specialist foundry.

most definitely a specialist foundry if they are doing 90% of the worlds blanks. Wouldn't be a small operation.

Its D for delightful.

17 minutes ago, Ned said:

never, you get a 'get out of jail free' card when driving a tired old leaf that needs DC charging  

and DC charging out and about has pricing set to be on par with driving a petrol car. Why? because they can i guess? but its 3x the price of charging at home for the convenience of using their $120,000+ charger

Exactly right now that there is tax on EV's, you may as well drive a petrol car.

Pretty sure i have been over this but dads CX5 and my BYD cost the same to run once the tax comes in (if you charge publically)

I still think the driving experience is enough to make EV's a great option though. Its only a BYD but i find it a really nice place to spend time.

43 minutes ago, mjrstar said:

The lease cost still has to cover the depreciation, so leasing isn't a free lunch to avoid the loss.. 

yeah I have battled to the death on this. Lease companies are making money at your expense- Definitely not a free lunch, but I can understand why businesses take that route.

On 10/02/2021 at 12:07, Roman said:

Sorry just saw this. Id say unlikely to even be on canbus let alone sent to obd2. (Which is usually cut down to a standard set of things)

Its possibly info on canbus though, but thats highly specific car to car.

You can use a can bus sniffer to see if any of the bits or bytes change value when you hit the brake or indicator though.

 

 

Old post, but I'd like to say- It can be amazing which things ARE controlled by canbus these days. It would not at all surprise me if brakes and tail lamps were more often than not canbus these days.

Even tail lights on new motorcycles can be canbus. 

the BYD's horn has an annoying delay which im sure is because its controlled via canbus. Its definitely not hard wired like traditional.

On 05/03/2024 at 22:29, VitesseEFI said:

Hello….. I resemble this remark (not just mathematically some would claim )

But even I can (mostly) follow Professor Dave’s tutorial 

I have done some pretty cool things with arduino but seem to forget things just as fast as i can learn them.

I have no idea what he is talking about most of the time but the moving lights are pretty.

On 01/03/2024 at 12:55, Beaver said:

What about all these ones?

 

We are only provided with a chargenet fob- supposedly the largest most widely available provider. I'd love to have an account for every different charge supplier but that's not how things work.

Same as with fuel cards - employers will provide one fuel card to suit one or two stations, not three or four different cards to suit every different fuel provider.

I get your point though- it's a problem with our process not the number of chargers, perhaps.

1 hour ago, dmulally said:

For a lawn tractor I was just going to mount a DC motor vertically and have that run the crankshaft pulley in place of an engine. I live off grid so the plan was to use my a house battery bank in the mower/tractor and charge it off solar. Hence a 48v motor. 

This couple did something a lot more gucci with an F150 lightning and their house. They drive to town to top it up so they don't have to run a generator. My winter generator is 115yo Lister so I doubt Ill change that as I enjoy hearing it clank away. 

keeping the belts and transmission would be dumb. they are the worst part of every mower.

I saw leaf swap it.

21 hours ago, Bling said:

Hey bud, every time you look in my direction, i'm going to wait for another 1% of charge. Ball is in your court. 

I can imagine it can be an annoyance though, plenty of complaints about charger usage. The only free charger i've tried was broken. So I went to a pay one to check my DC charging wasn't broken. That is my total experience really. Only managed 21kW of charge rate due to my battery health. What sort of charge rate do you get? Must be decent in comparison.

70kw/hr until about 85% roughly, then it slows down. 

the dumb thing with the chargenet facility near The Base is that its got two plugs but can actually only charge one car at a time.

23 hours ago, Bling said:

I don't see how a quality (IMO) brand will under cut a cheaply made China car. Time will tell I guess. Way too small for me, but more options = betterer.

The line is blurry though.

There are chinese companies making cars in china (BYD)

There are US, UK, JP companies making cars in china.

No reason why they shouldn't all be competitive (except maybe for Elons income lol)

On 17/11/2023 at 17:00, Not-a-number said:

Seems like they put them everywhere they could except for main mounting points. Like engine, gearbox, bulkhead and braces. Left about ~30-40mm material from the edges and to each hole.

Not dimpled just straight through.

The holes save 7kg total. Which is a bit when the whole car had a max weight limit of 750kg.

The Ali backing to the holes keeps everything closed off. Since thats the cockpit. Aero/keeping junk out

 

Not that Ive ever driven anything with positive camber but the prewar cars usually had it so that there was no scrub radius. Puts the contact patch right through the king pin to give light steering.

 

came here to ask why they had positive camber- reason makes sense!

Might look weird if you reduce it (I know you wont anyway because you want this thing to be as close to origional as possible)

On 01/02/2024 at 22:21, ThePog said:

When I put the rebuilt engine into the Dynafari the engine builder said to run plain water for 500km or so, must be something in it.

no theres nothing in it, just plain water.

omg, cant believe the cost of a welder these days.

I have the model below that too- it welds excellently. Must say I have bitched about it a fair bit but it's only become a dick since I switched to .6mm wire and I started getting birds nests but thats an easy fix (back to bigger wire)

my 2c.

Google for conversion / swap kits and buy whichever motor has a kit available. I think anything that removes a hurdle (like engine/gearbox mounts) is worth its weight.

10 hours ago, shrike said:

It's just swap the (sorry if wrong terminology) ring gear on the diff so it runs in reverse yeah?  Or the carrier?

Any gearbox tweaks for dual spinning or anything like that? 

this hurts my head, but just FYI incase its relevant in the slightest- there is a company in australia called subie gears that supplies parts to reverse rotation of WRX gearboxes. One of the parts they supply is a backwards ring gear (I think).

If its ever an issue, they may be able to help.

re: government tracking etc.

@cletus they could be doing it and they may have already told us. All they would have to do is release an app and a reason for us to download it (covid app?, fuel price tracking app, etc) and then state that it is tracking us and sharing information within the fine print (that none of us read).

When it comes to pinning someone down for a crime and a judge is convinced to issue a search warrant- all of that stuff is fair game.

Does the government need a search warrant if they already own the data on their own servers?

I use a browser called DuckDuckGo. Mostly so that theres less chance of my last dodgy search showing up in a history/on my synced chrome browser at work LOL, but omg, the number of tracking requests that the app blocks is absolutely out-the-gate insanity. 

MENTAL.

It wouldn't surprise me if they could track our location just via facebook adds or website adds or one of the million items that seems to ping my phone.

Holy shit! Hah! Fark there was a lot of scope for that to go bad during ya ride 

Was going to say something smart but I'm at 98% so time to go 

42 minutes ago, locost_bryan said:

Standard international practice for pneumonia in particular, usually recorded against the illness (flu, cancer, etc) or accident that it resulted from.

But potentially misleading if it's not an actual cause in many cases.

This isn't the right thread but there is nobody that has died of a gunshot wound but had it recorded as death by pneumonia, lol.

Anyway. I'm sitting in Pak n save Whangarei's Ev spot getting a charge. Beside me is some hybrid highlander thing. It's not charging but it's parked here Infront of the charger while it's owners get groceries as I guess this park is nice and close to the entrance.

DICKHEADS.

Would have been covid that got him if he'd tested positive hahaha 

We have been over this though. An EV is something like 20 X (I can't remember the number) less likely to catch fire than a petrol car.

Yes that's figured while taking into account the number of EV'S and the number of petrol cars on the road.

The statistics for various things like this always lack perspective. I have done no research to back up my claims but there's always the ability to draw comparisons with everyday things that seem safe. Like, it's probably heaps more likely that you will trip while standing up after having a poop, then hit your head and die, than you are to be an EV owner who dies from an EV fire.

*around the city, in a day

On 10/12/2023 at 13:45, cletus said:

OS drags was yesterday, and @Ned kindly offered me a hoon in his Tesla

I found it very interesting as it's very similar to my car, times wise

I did a 11.38@112 in it. 

Best I've done in my Plymouth is 11.35@120 at a different meet

 

As far as the run itself- it was very easy, it was in ludicrous + mode , you stage, lean on the brake, and floor the go pedal , let go the brake and it just shoots off very rapidly with no drama 

The launch is pretty impressive,  but the most striking part is mid track , it really gets moving 

It kind of drops off near full track which shows in the top speed, so is as you would expect from an ev where it has instant acceleration but not quite so much up top

 

same et as my car on a good day at lower mph gives you an idea of how impressive the mid range is. It would be interesting to see what it would be like on sticky tyres with the traction control not getting involved at the launch 

 

 

 

Tesla slip

 

plymouth 

I wouldn't usually drive someone else's car but when Ned offered a drive on friday I couldn't say no either.

What a beast.