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"Case Modding" a Nissan Sentra
Lawrence Person writes "Given all the interest Slashdot has shown in casemodding as of late, I thought they might be interested in an extreme "casemod" of a Nissan Sentra, turning it into a lean, mean race machine! Emphasis on the lean part..."
Does it run LINUX?
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An ultra lightweight RICE ROCKET!
But I had to tell the insurance company a different story.
Got Rice?
In Soviet Russia, the cars case-mod you (yeah, really, they do, ever driven one of those ZAZ cars?)
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!!!
It doesn't run Linux, and is therefore some Microsoft plot
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PROFIT!!!!
... why they're frequently called "case ricers".
N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
where's the computer? Oh... no computer :( ...
.... Does it run Linux? (obligatory joke) ... ok ... kinda reminds me of the golf cart the school monitor used to chase me in when I ditched class. Seriously, this guy would chase you around campus with a damned golf cart. Once, I got him to chase me all the way to McDonalds (about a mile away on foot for me - funny as hell though, cuz he got busted for driving his golf cart on the street)
let's see
YOU SUCK BALLS!
Agreed. Mod parent up as "Insightful".
This is just a silly article from Sport Compact Car. There are a lot of great sites out there for mods, some of them ridiculous, such as a Delorean pick up. I just found out someone from in a forum I attend that they have a Ford Focus running 436 hp at the wheels. Another person got a s2000 down to 2400 lbs, giving them a 10 lbs/HP ratio with a different air filter being the only power mod. I appreciate the effort but slashdot has never been a great place to talk about cars. It's not hopeless, though. Write up something on the Lotus Elise when it arrives in the U.S. and I'll be pleased. :)
This is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
I paid a stripper in Florida to do something similar once, but it turned out that even without all the exterior parts a lap dance still took two songs.
The only acceptable defense of scientific results is to say that they were the product of the Scientific Method.
I suppose the effort should be admired, but I was really hoping to see something like a 1986 Nissan Sentra modified. There's just some beauty lost in making a sporty-looking car go faster when imagination begs that you make a clunker rip down the road.
the ex or the car? (or both?)
YOU SUCK BALLS!
I would take a wild guess, and say not many slashdotters are into imports, but that was an article from Sport Compact Car from 2 years ago. It was actually supposed to be a joke, but a good amount of people took it seriously at the time. Sport Compact Car got a lot of hate mail the month after that was published, hah.
-Alex
It's official. Since Slashdot featured a rice rocket on the front page with absolutely no mention of a computer anywhere, the site will now be known as Srashdot. News for Asians.
Seriously though, wouldn't taking all the doors and stuff off make it a lot less areodynamic than the weight savings it generated? Did these people really have nothing better to do???
Since the article says "Many amateur drag racers stop at simply removing the passenger's seat and spare tire, but we remove everything: headliner, sunroof, carpet, dashboard, six-disc in-dash CD changer." Would I be correct in assuming this sort of thing is actually relatively common?
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Or is that part of the humor?
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This article is quite old, albeit funny. It doesn't really involve ANY form of tech whatsoever, tho hopefully it will bring nice people on VWV.
Basically, they tear out anything and everything they can and mod anything and everything they can that is free. So I do suppose that puts it with the overclocking crowds...
sorry, but why is this here?... i really expect to see more computer-related things at slashdot... theres car mod-related websites, and this isnt one of them. keep in mind, i love car mods. i just dont expect to see that at slashdot. slashdot doesnt need to branch off into everything there is and try to become the source for it; i can go to microsoft.com for that...
I kept scrolling down seeing them remove more from the car to make it lighter, and was dissapointed that they never turned on the driver ;-D
It also brings up the question - If cars could feel naked... ;-)
Bah, it's not a case mod unless you use Neon, and a blue-LED fan in the shape of a biohazard symbol...
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
I am sooo glad that the only thing that they seem to have ADDED for some stability somewhere on the car, was done with DUCT TAPE!
moo.
They ripped all that off the car and it still tips the scales at over 1700 lbs??? That engine must have a cast lead block or something.
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While I found the article incredibly interesting, it is not really /. material. That said, I enjoyed looking through the piece; it was well thought-out and I certainly thought the pictures were a nice touch. The end result was a spiffy-looking frame (for those of you who didn't bother to follow the link) lacking only in luxuries...as long as you're used to riding a horse and buggy. The final product seemed to be overly square and didn't really strike me as the speed demon it was purported to be.
Of course, this could just be all my imagination, I am crazy, after all.
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Interesting that one of the hottest hobbies, took this long to make a slashdot discussion. Modding cars is become such a big thing amongst people with all types of cars. From Neon's to bimmers, people do pretty cool thing to enhance the appearance and performance of their cars. Not all look, perform or sound too hot, but some can be better than any factory car you can get.
Its also a great way to actually learn about how cars are made and produced.
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Why spend all that money hopping up a cheap little econocar?
Kind of like buying a $200 aluminum case for a 486.
That story is SO old. They ripped it from somewhere.
just curious, i just clicked through on an ad... and i was wondering wtf a cattery is doing advertising on slashdot!
What is a Rice boy?
From the page:
"Rice-Boy is a stereotype. The typical Rice-Boy can be identified by his car, or rather what he does to it. Generally, Rice-Boy will start out with a car that was not meant to go fast (typically a Honda Civic), and attempt to "fix it up," usually consisting of aftermarket rims, lowering springs and an aftermarket exhaust system with a large exhaust tip.
Most Rice-Boy cars (or "Rice Rockets") have the usual complement of stickers proudly displaying features that the car might or might not have, most notably, the Honda VTEC sticker from the later model Preludes, and the plaques from the later model Integras."
The similarity with Duron owners pretending to be Cray owners are amusing. Don't miss out on that Rice boy site's Hall of shame!!!
Personally, I think he should turn the site into a non-profit porn/goatse.cx page.
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Anyone born in Israel and a zionist must be automatically an american? The case was heard in court and he lost, who stole what? It's amazing he didn't use the "holocaust" to support his cause. The Nissan company are cyber terrorists and they need to be disarmed. We will launch a pre-emptive strike against Nissan to rid the world of these dangers that confront us, _now.
I did this about 10 years ago with an old VW Beetle that a friend and I bought for $250. Here's the only picture that I have of it:
http://www.michaelchaney.com/beetle/beetle.jpg
We removed the body, then welded a small frame for the steering column, and used duct tape to attach the speedometer. We welded on a battery holder, and I screwed the voltage regulator, an on/off switch, and a start button to another plate. The gas tank was simply a two gallon plastic tank that we ran the hose into. (not recommended) The last mod was welding the seat to the bottom of the unibody, we didn't bother to add a back, a fact which made driving it a bit more difficult.
Anyway, it's the same idea as this article. My friend and I were going to build a really fast go-kart, and we actually started welding one together. We had an engine, but when we started to buy parts to finish it out, we realized that it was going to cost another few hundred dollars. I decided that it was worthless, since we could buy an old Beetle for less and just remove the extraneous parts.
I personally topped the speedometer out (85MPH) with this configuration, the wind was difficult to deal with since I had no seat back. The acceleration was great, with the extra weight gone it was incredible. Dumb as hell, but incredible. Funny thing was, when my friend and I finished, his father admitted that he'd done the same thing 20 years earlier.
Michael
Do you have ESP?
Add ~200 lbs of steel bumber, and another 100 lbs of re-bar inside the fenders, and my rust bucket Mopar with a 383 stroker still pulls low 14s on a bad day. Those hopped up go-carts are worthless junk IMO.
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them nissan sentra can be quite fast with a SR20DET engine. 4 cyclinder with a turbo. power to wieght ratio...
for a good laugh, goto http://www.riceboypage.com
interesting mods there, not that i dont like imports or nothing but some people can go overboard
Or does it look better at the end than it did when they started? I hate those tacky rice-rocket "I HAVE A SPOILER SO I GOEZ FASTAR!!" add-ons.
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Are these people that bored that they need to spend a day doing this? Ok, wait, that's not even what bothers me the most...
... because I'm currently accepting car donations. :)
Who paid for that thing? I mean, it was someone's car at one point right? Did they not need it anymore? I've never known many people to just destroy a fairly new car because they just "wanted to"...
Lesson learned: Don't destroy a perfectly good car, even if it IS a rice burner...
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Really.
not only is the article old, not only does it have nothing to do with technology or nerding in general, but the link isn't even to the article. it's to some forum thread. slashdot links forum posts now? killer.
So, but cutting down and removing parts of the car until it's basicall useless, they can make it do 0-60 in 5.8 seconds. Why bother?
First, the thing probably isn't legal for any sort of competition now. Nobody would let you race this thing, It's too dangerous. What if it rolls?
Second, it's "fast" but it's not that fast. Why not put all that effort into making a car that already a little fast, go really fast? You can buy a car that does 0-60 in 5.8seconds, and we're not talking a Ferrari either.
I get really sick of seeing hondas with huge wings on the back and coffee can exhaust pipes. There are people out there that will till you adding a big exhaust TIP will give you like 5hp! WTF? What's wrong with these people!?
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Imagine a BEOWOLF cluster of these!!!
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How is this flamebait? I didn't even know about this beforehand and it's something people should know.
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That's from my Taco spell checker for "ad", of course.
My goddam fat pig of a 99 Trans Am convertible -- 3800lbs w/o driver -- pulls low 12's. That's *with* air conditioning, 1000w of bass power, and full leather, spare tire, trailer hitch, and body panels. And all for probably a comprable cost.
Sentras are nimble cars... they'll often kick my ass in an autocross, if the course is tighter and slower. But getting 14's out of a sentra is like gleefully reporting overclocking a 500mhz Duron to 700mhz. There may be some technical merit there, but neither the starting product nor end result is particularly impressive.
Cheers
-b
If I wanted a sig I would have filled in that stupid box.
Let's just say riding the car was more fun.
... and a literbike will run in the 10's, bone stock. Heck, some are even scratching the top part of the 9's.
Hey I like using a Sawzall as much as the next guy, but what a waste.
See here and weep...
squidliness is next to codliness...
-dvd_tude
People's case mods don't make a fucking racket when they drive down the street.
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More like 'removed altogether', thus reducing a car into a go-cart.
But who am I to judge? I used to get my kicks. . . Well, actually I never got my kicks doing anything even remotely similar. Or expensive. But whatever.
Oh! I thought of one! I thought the Phantom Edit was cool idea. And Guerilla Advertising. That's sort of the same; taking post conusmuer idiocy and restructuring it so that it becomes something equally ridiculous, but which satisfies the male need to tinker with things and thereby stamp some sort of individuality upon pre-fab nonsense.
People are funny that way. It's how you avoid gazing into the void to face your ultimate aloneness. It's much easier to pull apart flashy consumer junk, feel self-congratulatory for no good reason, confuse your girlfriends, and say, "Cool" a lot with your buds.
When playing that game finally fills you with nausea to the point where you start wishing for death, you're probably 75 years old, and nobody cares what you think at that point anyway.
Cheers!
-Fantastic Lad
its bad form to reply to your own posts, ass gas.
It's funny, laugh.
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I wonder if the car was stolen? :) what kind of moron would do that to their car?
I can't believe someone modded a car! They should have a magazine or something that people can show off their modded cars in. Oh wait, I forgot, there are already like 5 dozen...
Sorry, but this is not a good topic for Slashdot to try covering. Not unless you want to hire about a dozen new people to go through submissions and determine what is worth posting and what isn't. This subject is way beyond the depth and scope of a site like this, because this is not a technical discussion. It's one thing to post a story about a new engine that has extremely low emissions/triple-digit fuel economy/weighs less than 10lbs/etc. It's another thing to post a story about somebody modifying a car. Unless they do something like, say, make it capable of flying (literally), then I don't think it belongs on Slashdot.
Please, you honestly should not attempt to cover this topic on Slashdot. Aside from the first few dozen comments, you're going to get lots of flame wars, often revolving around the topic of "rice". It's just not a good idea. Leave it to the sites that can properly cover the subject - THE CAR FAN SITES.
You bet it does.
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... ppl in the middle east hate us. shit like this. still .. it looks like fun.
Here is the original article
from SportCompactCar magazine. It is in print in the August issue from 2002.
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
Before anyone gets too mad about them hacking up a perfectly usable car, this car had to be destroyed anyways. It was a preproduction vehicle. After one year they all must be crushed due to regulations. I personally think this is a pretty cool way to finish one off. I also would like to see a demo derby of them. You can't tell me you wouldn't love to see what happens when a viper hits a vette on purpose.
A bunch of ricers laughing at an article on a forum making fun of ricers. The ultimate irony.
I was thinking 'oh no, not another rice burner with a coffee can muffler, a F-15 wing, and stickers covering most of car illuminating by cool neon lighting' until I read and saw the pictures in the article. I did take it as a joke and thought it was great! But then again I guess I'm not into imports because it's old news.
Oh my god, the Catheram Superlight R500. It has a lowish top speed but the acceleration just emabarrasses any Ferrari and even the Lamborhini Mercialago, let alone any ricer. In fact it can do the quartermile in half the time an WRX STI can. The only thing I see that can out accelerate it is a Porsche Carrera GT2.
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My Porsche 944 Turbo has mid 13s, and it's street legal, and it's comfier, and it corners well, and it was cheaper, etc.
But if somebody wants to destroy a Sentra to give me a laugh, okay.
http://autos.msn.com/vip/specifications.aspx?model id=10511&src=vip
Nissan's cars appear to weigh about 2,752 lbs when they start out.
-m
Yeah....I hate these things.
The best is...someone w/ a stupid little civic...and a larger exhaust pipe than you seen on a civic. God...I get the urge to shove a football in those things, especially that worthless little buzzing noise they make.
why the hell....i bought a car that would run in the 13's stock...image if i cut a shitload of weight off my car too...i'd be in the 12's
where's my car?
dumb shits
You have to understand the culture of car modding. It goes counter to everything that people commonly do with cars. It's making fun of people who install crazy body modifications without doing anything to affect the performance or handling of their cars.
To put it in computer terms, these guys took dual pentium 2.5 ghz with a raid 5 scsi array and 4 gigs of RAM and laid out all the pieces on some blocks of wood to make fun of people who put a pentium 150 with an old ide drive and 32 megs of RAM into a chrome case with a window and flashing neon lights inside.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
...if I mod a large spoiler, giant shiny rims, and a noisy exaust onto my computer; It will go faster?
Many moons ago, I bought an old kit car. It was already built, a "Kellison GT", supposed to look like something between a Ford GT-40 Mark 1 and Mark 2. The basic car was a '65 VW flootpan and transaxel, with a 1964 Porsche racing 356SC engine bolted on. 110 cubic inches, 120 horsepower.
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/. that's about a rather different style of "hacking", even though it's not quite what most /.ers are expecting. Thanks for showing us that not only silicon can be cool :)
It leaked like a seive, when you turned the wipers on, the left turn signal came on, it beat voltage regulators to death in less than 24 hours. The steering was beefed up - 3/4ths turn lock to lock. The suspension was stiffened - drive over a cigarette butt and you felt it. It could hit 120mph before redline, turned on a dime (and gave you 8% interest!), and ran on regular gas. I even, once, push-started it by myself, *up* a slight hill. It was *very* light
I really miss that car. It used to destroy pressure plates and clutches with great frequency, and the last one I put in was a Kennedy Racing 1800-pound pressure plate. Even with that, the clutch was starting to glaze, just before the pedal broke. The idiot who was driving it at the time just gear-jammed it all the way home, destroying it utterly.
I really miss that car. It had more spirit than any car I've ever had, before or since. I'm glad to see a story on
Lemon curry?
someone showed you a real modded car:
here
And It sounds like a freakin' car, with power, not some bottomed out lawmower.
I blame the Gas crisises of the 70's for the crap that people seem to be doing to there car. Its like the era of economy cars cause a generation to be raised that didn't know anything about cars, power, and speed. so now there kids are trying to do it and failing miserably.
Yeah, I've gone to the show and have taken a look at what is supposed to be the best, and it was hard to stiffle a yawn.
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The setup is, this kid writes in that he has blown all his money on cool looking body mods for his crappy little subcompact car, but he still can't win races. So the editors of the magazine decide to help him out, for free. They have a budget of zero, so they can't buy any of the things that could have unlocked the potential of even this crappy little subcompact car, all they can do is remove stuff to make it go faster. In the end, they help the poor schmuck go faster by chopping his beautifully styled car down to a husk.
The moral of the story: when modding your car, start with things that make it go faster or handle better before spending all your cash on tricked out side panels, ground effects and huge spoilers.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
"...hacking up a perfectly usable car..."
If you had bother to read the posts, you would have know it was a Nissan...
easy shot, but somebody had to take it.
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Did you actually let the page load past the first few pictures? If not, you missed out on the interesting ones. I don't see any massive exhausts, wings or stickers on this vehicle. If anything, it's the exact opposite of the typical rice rocket.
while you watch me rearend get smaller and smaller.
Screw the ration, I want my cars to see mid hundred without rattling, smoking, and then siezing.
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At first I didn't understand. This is the first "car" posting I've ever seen on Slashdot. I like cars (I also like sports and have sex on a regular basis, which makes me atypical around here) but don't like anime so I usually just skip the cartoon threads (as that seems a reasonable thing to do: skip threads that don't interest me).
I was surprised at some of the reactions to this posting. "WTF is this doing here?" "OMG, a car!". Then it dawned on me that the reaction is probably a throwback to high school. Maybe the "car guys" (usually found in wood/auto/metal shop) picked on these complaining geeks, and now the geeks feel as if their online safe haven has been violated.
Don't worry, geeks. Car guys won't start hanging out here. You won't get stuffed in any lockers, have your lunch taken, or get a melvin (wedgie if you prefer). Now go put in your Sailor Moon DVD, pop open a Red Bull and chill out.
I did the same thing with a stripper here in Colorado. But once everything was off, she was still heavy. I almost demanded my lapdance money back...some people just shouldn't e seen naked (ugh...shudder)
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That was funny dude! Sorry no one modded you up!
Minis (the original kind) have a front subframe that holds everything and unbolts from the body in one go. I used to compete in Motorkhanas (in a complete mini) against these two guys who had attached enough framework to an old mini subframe to gve them a place to put a seat, and strong enough to provide two wheels at the back to keep it off the ground. That was it. Would have been good for drag racing too if they hadn't locked out all the gears except 1st, 2nd & reverse (selecting 4th by mistake can cost precious seconds when you are trying to garage at the end of a test)
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Well, at least they did add more air cooling. But they didn't mod the water cooling and replace it with air cooling -- perhaps by using a jet engine on the back for the exhaust fan...
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Let's stab 'em!
All these geeks on slashdot drool over stories of people encasing their computers in some kind of goo that hardened just for the hell of it, or overclocks with liquid nitrogen just cause they can. Pretty much anything that makes a slow old computer faster or as fast as a fast new computer (with little or no cost) gets a spot on slashdot. And now there's a story about someone who took a riced out car and RIPPED OFF THE RICE, they didn't add more, got it to perform like a $40,000 sports car (Nissan Sentras start at $12,000), and everyone on slashdot says "Why did they do this? There's no point? Why is this on slashdot?" A nissan sentra running 14s with nothing added is like a Celeron running like a Xeon (this car is now running faster than a Subaru Impreza STi which is more than three times the price).
These people ripped apart this car taking out all the unecesary stuff to make it lighter and faster and no one cares? If I had a dual 3GHz xeon computer running in a shoe box that story would be on slashdot and geeks would be all over it saying how great it is and how funny it is. But they can only say bad things about similar things being done to a car?
It's like you look down on car people, like they're inferior and anyone who races has to be a redneck. Can any of you do an engine swap or rebuild a transmission? I want mechanics to be my hobby, I love taking things apart and seeing how they work. When I get my first car I will do alot of performance tuning and all on my own (I've never worked on a car before.) I'm going to read all I can, online or in books (mostly books.) I don't understand why it isn't a common geek hobby (well besides the involvement of going outside).
For some truely pointless "case mods"... fins, wings, air dams, mirrors, neon, spoilers and lots of silly stickers... head to molestedcars.com
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Man if i could mod you up i would.
Bog standard $7000 sports bike 0-60 in 3.2 seconds, sub 10 second quarter mile.
:)
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Come back and play when you've spent quarter of a million on your extraneous wheels.
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Brilliant, absolutely freaking brilliant.
'Nuff said. This does not exactly qualify as "case modding," although I do know people who might disagree.
I should point out that in a lot of ways, Nissan is the sworn enemy of the Volkswagen speed freak. Basically, the problem is that we all believe that the VWs are basically great cars which can be tuned into race demons. Nissan, however, makes shitty cars whose specs always look better than VWs, and therefore people who only look at specs naturally assume it's a better car.
It boils down to this: VW racers tend to care more about compression ratios, turbo spool points, back pressure, boost pressure, aluminum clutch plates and overengineered Torsen all wheel drive systems; while Nissan racers tend to put a bunch of fucking blue nylon tape on the hood, cut the springs, and call it a day.
When I was test driving two years ago, I found myself behind the wheel of a Nissan at a couple different lots. Each car scared the hell out of me. The suspension was way too tight and managed to somehow be jagged in both the attack and resolution. The steering was loose but the steering system made it feel tight...the exact opposite of the VW. Same with the gearbox (though VW does have a problem with "uncertainty" in their transmissions, and if you've driven an A4 Jetta you know what I mean). And the engine...well, Nissan's engines are pretty good, but like most japanese cars they've got no freaking torque. Adding a passenger and a duffel bag is a good way to cut your acceleration in half.
What really irks us, though, is how Nissan seems to be stealing VW's design plans. Compare the sentra redesign in 2000 with the Jetta redesign in 1998.5...they change the same things. Then take a look at the 2003 Maxima, and for that matter the 2002 Altima, and compare them to the sillouette of the 1998 Passat. Again, these cars look more like the Passat than they do their own previous models! At least until you get inside, or own one for a year or so. After 5 years on the road, my GLX Passat looks better than my friend's 2 year old Maxima, with a similar commute. Hell, if it wasn't for all the roadsalt and scratches from SUV owners slamming their doors into me trying to get their kids out of a car seat 5 feet off the ground, this car would totally cherry.
It's a silly racer's quarrel, like Chevy vs Ford. I'm not going to get a little decal of Calvin pissing on an Altima, but it feels good to see a Nissan get trashed.
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These cars are so lame. I miss my cars from the 70s. They had style and muscle. These little rice burners are so boring, they are all the same.
Not sure why they put in all the effort. When in doubt, turbo it. My old, boxy, heavy volvo 740turbo weighing in at 3200lbs, with A/C but my subwoofer removed will run a 14.6 in the quarter. How can a boxy, old, heavy machine do that? Turbo!!! No exhaust, free flowing intake, ram air, turbo, saab APC boost controller, 35lb injectors, Rising Rate Fuel Pressure REgulator, Euro "A" cam and Performance Plug Wires with NGK plugs to round it out. The car still looks like shite too, but its fun to pick on the rice. I love revving my old volvo next to the honda on 20" rims who thinks he's fast....little do they know.
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that's one hell of a go-kart
for the worst analogy ever.
Ricing
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The case still is not over, stupid. Uzi Nissan owned the trademark name Nissan before Datsun changed to Nissan for its cars. Uzi Nissan created a computer company in 1991 with the Nissan name. Uzi Nissan registered Nissan.com for his computer company back in 1994. He used the name for his computer company. Nissan Automobiles has been every means possible to steal this domain name from its rightful owners. Courts are easily swayed by who has the most amount of money.
Yeah, I understand the whole "ripping everying possible off this car to reduce weight", but I think the removal of the exhaust probably caused a reduction in horsepower that was ultimately worse than the reduction in weight gained by removing it.
By removing the pipe straight off the header, the exhaust leaving the engine hits instant turbulence. With the ultimate goal for exhaust being to keep it moving smoothly out of the cylinders, this doesn't help. Also, the cooler temperatures at the stock end of the header also cause a reduction in exhaust flow.
Honestly, I think they would have been better off leaving the exhaust system in place and removing the muffler.
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The referece to 12's & 14's is the time taken in seconds for the car to cover 1/4 of a mile from a standing start.
:)
Hence anything under 14seconds is pretty impressive.
The japanese really know how to do this with road-legal(ish) cars in their use of Nissan Skylines and Toyota Supras tuned to around 1000bhp!!. I hear that if their quarter-mile times are above 7.5seconds on road tyres they get very upset
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
Its hilarious to hear car people going on about power to weight ratio and having 400HP at the back wheel and 0-60 in 5s.
My little 250cc motorbike still smokes nearly every car out there. (and for the very very few cars it doesnt, i'll just point to any of the 1L Yamaha or Suziki sports bikes available for less than 15k at any local motorbike shop).
People who think cars are fast are deluded.
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I would have expected a few notes on ECU programming and not a bunch of who knows best and "my car rules" comments - oh well, you can't win them all, especially when it comes to the male egos and their cars?
/. crowd ECU programming
This would be more familiar to most of the true
This one time in the park I saw two guys making out, and that was the gayest thing I've ever seen until I read this article.
I couldn't have said it better.
Some of us who read the website are gearheads who actually get out and DO stuff with technology rather than making lunix run on a pair of shoes.
I applaud slashdot for posting something for the rest of us.
yeah it was brilliant when it was said on southpark years ago
It's called "Hot Rodding", and it's been done on cars for, like, forever. What kind of moron thinks that they've stumbled on a new concept? Guess what? NASCAR "stock" cars and top fuel dragsters have already taken this concept to its logical extreme: skin on frame with an engine in it. No interior amenities, no air conditioning, stereo, power windows, doors, trunklid, spare tire, headlights.
Hey boy, get off the computer for a while and take a look around. This ain't no new thing you've "stumbled" on. You forget that the word "hot rod" applied to cars long before it applied to your goofy overclocked, case modded PCs.
ok, so i know a lot of people that do this kinda stuff. do these people think theay are cool? do they know what they are doing now? this is everyday day stuff i and my friends do. i live in the detroit area, and my car does run linux. they are stating the obvious. morons
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The above guy is correct. You should also know that they round down. So 12.99 seconds is said to be running twelves or "in the twelves." 14s are good for a stock car. 12s are exceptional for a stock car. The new blown Cobra Mustange can barely dip into the 11s, but think there were using drag radials and icing the intake.
Don't moderate flamebait as Troll. Know the difference or you will be Meta-moderated.
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10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
They knocked 39.39% of weight off of that car, how impressive! It makes you realise how much un-necessary weight there is in a car...
I always make the effort to remove CDs from the glove box, keep the rubbish out the back, and keep the boot empty... I take the parcel shelf off also. I reckon over the next 40 years of my life I will save a few litres of petrol, but it all counts... and I'll go *so* much faster getting to work.
Seriously though, I wonder how much the limit could really be pushed with making cars lighter (without making them look silly like this Nissan).
Two obvious choices for future cars are:
- Aluminum body.
- Carbon Fibre bits.
Anyone else think of some other obvious weight saving stuff (without chopping the car to pieces)?
while you watch me rearend get smaller and smaller.
On a diet?
buy a real car in the first place... turd polishing is so pathetic
You know, I was sitting here wondering why the hell this thing was on Slashdot, and it occurred to me that the automotive and PC worlds are much more alike than you'd think. There are the technical ubergeeks - the ones who know every detail of how the machine runs and works. There are the every day users, who couldn't care less as long as the darn thing works and only have to get it fixed very occassionally. You have the speed fanatics, who are only interested in one thing - going faster at any cost, even if it means reducing the life and reliability of the machine. And finally, of course you have the wannabes. The ones who are convinced that doing XYZ will be better/faster/cooler when the opposite is often true, and end up simply looking like morons to the rest of us.
RICE BURNERS SUCK! They are stupid. They're just made to look like they're all raced out but they go slower than molasses running uphill at zero kelvin. In reality, despite the idiots' efforts and financial resources dumped into making these stupid rice burners, these cars do not even look fast. They just look stupid.
For all those slashdotters wondering why there's an article about a car on a computer news site --
I'd like to point out that it *is* water-cooled.
Chip H.
what about the mother fucking bat mobile? am i the only one who thinks that the ultimate case mod?
So true.
It begs the question as to whether or not each successive generation gets a bit more stupid and/or superficial than the last. Why do all too many dipshits who think that bolting a jungle gym spoiler and a farting coffee can exhaust is cool? How did this happen? Somehow I think MTV (the shiny objects network) is to blame here.
Kudos to those guys. Very cool experiment.
the sad thing is that he had 19" wheels and that huge wing, but getting to 60 in leisurely 8.6
The epitimy of "rice boy".
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
0-60 in 8.1 seconds? Ha, Ha this is performance?
The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they
serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have
no legitimacy.
-- Albert Einstein
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