Nonsense Thread

[varg]

I'm sure you actually set it up tho lol. I've been seeing pics taking them to meets, cruises and canyon drives....

Yep I drove it straight home and put the sheet down to keep sap off of my porous crappy paint. I have a real tree every year, regardless of how it's getting home. I keep it up until it starts going brown

[McGyver]

Here's my tree from 2020. Im all for bringing it home on the roof, but just driving around wirh it is dumb. This year we got a small one and stuck it in the back seat because it started raining.

[MrBurgundy]

Merry Christmas

MrBurgundy I strapped a Christmas tree to my E30 before it was cool (this pic is from 2017)



Yes I did pick it up and bring it home this way, for a few years in fact. This year I picked it up in my wagon.

I'm sure you actually set it up tho lol. I've been seeing pics taking them to meets, cruises and canyon drives....

They def aren't seeing the inside of a house before they're tossed.

[varg]

Merry Christmas

MrBurgundy I strapped a Christmas tree to my E30 before it was cool (this pic is from 2017)



Yes I did pick it up and bring it home this way, for a few years in fact. This year I picked it up in my wagon.

[MrBurgundy]

The Z06 uses a flat plane compared to the base's cross plane, which really adds to the sound department.

Sound is important. Def a deal breaker for me personally when deciding if a car is worth adding to the garage.

Also, fuck this Christmas tree strapped to the roof trend. Very cringe.

Anyways, merry Christmas.

[E30 Wagen]

I like the C8 Z06. Top Gear's appraisal of the design as "my first super car" is pretty accurate but I wouldn't say it's awful looking. I'd have one, just no wing and with the silver spider design wheels, maybe in black with the full carbon package. What I don't get is why they didn't just commit to a normal hardtop version next to the convertible. The square steering wheel would also have to go.

[varg]

I went down a little bit of a rabbit hole looking at the C8 Z06 exhaust, looked at some photos, and I was right, no x-pipe. It does sound better with an x-pipe, as shown in this video. It brings out the higher harmonics which is what you want with that high revving engine. But it sounds a lot better in race mode stock in this video than what I hear around here. Must just be killing the higher frequency sound when it's not in race mode. The X-pipe does not make as big of a difference here as it does in V6 cars though, equal length headers and an X-pipe are the killer app for most engines. I bet you could even make an E46 M3 sound good if you made it equal length from exhaust valve to merge or X-pipe. The stock E46 M3 exhaust has an H-pipe IIRC and I know is very unequal length and that's why they sound like pure hissing 2005 tuner boy civic rasp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKuLewT1rNQ

I've gone on an autismal tangent about exhaust sound over the past year or so since building my most powerful car yet and realizing I just can't use the power. I'm now convinced that I should focus on tuning sound as well as performance next time around because if a car sounds great you can always enjoy the sound, but when a car has 500hp+ you only get to enjoy that for a few seconds on an empty road and that's it. I have stupid tires on my E34 and I'm still traction limited on medium boost, and I have a 2.93 LSD in that thing! I haven't even tapped into its full potential yet by putting the B58 coils in it so I can go past 17psi of boost without missing. With 20psi+ this thing is going to be scary. I got lucky with my E30 and E34 and in building my exhausts to flow and be pretty quiet I killed the nasty I6 rasp that you hear with absolute hogs like the post V8 era M3s, despite the rapid spool headers being far from equal length.

[2mAn]

I heard one the other day before I saw it.. sounded great then I looked and saw it, and was ... impressed.

Could never own one though

[MrBurgundy]

Yeah, truly awful looking. It something that a 10 year old would think looks good. Especially from the rear. The interior quality was very very nice tho, which I don't think I've ever said about an american car before.

Servicing it was also a breeze. Running a euro shop, I see what those manufactures are doing, where they're headed and what it takes to do basic service... It's awful.

The C8 can be serviced by a DIYer without any fancy equipment needed to reset an interval on the dash..

Yeah it sounds like shit, looks like shit, but its a breath of fresh air to see something that I would say is still simple, high performance and DIY friendly.

[rturbo 930]

Drove a C8 today.. man, what a car for the money... Too bad it..... looks the way it does..

Any time I see them it just looks too much to me like a Chinese knockoff of an F430.

[varg]

Drove a C8 today.. man, what a car for the money... Too bad it..... looks the way it does..

Yeah, things don't tend to grow on me in general, but I hoped the C8 would because I see so many of them, but it's just so... uninteresting. It's not quite ugly, but it's not good looking. It looks like a GTA car or something. Now the C7, that was ugly, especially coming from the C6. What's really disappointing is that once you start to see and hear them you'll find that the Z06 doesn't even sound good. It just has a kind of buzzing nasal exhaust note, like a ferrari 458. A high revving V8 can sing, but these cars just don't. Couldn't tell you why, I haven't seen the exhaust system. But were I a betting man, I'd put money on it having one huge flaw: no X pipe.

[roguetoaster]

Drove a C8 today.. man, what a car for the money... Too bad it..... looks the way it does..

If one were to hit a tree at around 200mph one might just spontaneously reassemble the bodywork in to something more appealing.

[MrBurgundy]

Drove a C8 today.. man, what a car for the money... Too bad it..... looks the way it does..

[Northern]

I'm very happy with it so far, and didn't even pay the full amount. Lots of little easy things to fix that have been surprisingly cheap so far. It's very rusty underneath and has a few visible spots on the body, but I'm willing to deal with that in whatever way I need to. Mechanically it seems well looked after and the PPF on the front made me think someone loved this at one point at least semi-recently.

Unexpectedly, the tires seem to have some life in them, and the wheels are a bit cheesy but look decent enough and clear the brakes really well for 18s.
I've heard of people running some 2000s BMW 18in wheels, but needing to grind calipers for clearance.

When these tires die, I'm thinking about throwing some 32 or 32.5 inch tires on it, but there's work involved in creating clearance and ensuring you don't lock the wheel up against the wheel well before you hit the bump stop. Ideally I don't completely ruin the on-road behaviour because it's really nice as it is.

[Ryan...]

hahaha well, I posted this in the LR thread, but against my better judgment after having that 2015 ripped from my clutches, I started chatting with the seller of the cheapest LR4 on kijiji/marketplace, and ended up driving 300km to pick one up.

The ad was very basic. Side shot and rear shot (aftermarket wheels visible and you could see the whole front end had been PPFed at some point because it was starting to peel on the hood in the pictures.), with the text something along the lines of "2011 LR4 HSE, inspected, no issues" which seemed sketchy. I'm pretty sure I've seen this for sale a few times recently with the price slowly dropping from the high teens down to 7800 when I looked at it.


I had him send me some pics of the interior and saw it was a Lux, no lights on the dash. Allegedly air worked (and it does, but haven't parked it aired up to see if it sags) and had new brakes. Actually was a 2010 and not a 2011.
Aftermarket 18s and Goodyear Duratracs on it with like 7/32 left to the wear bars - more on the front right, much less on the rear right... Drives well except for tire noise as can probably be expected lol.

Anyway here's the copypaste from the LR thread.






Very happy with it so far, like it's genuinely such a nice vehicle in ways that my Volvo isn't - but haven't done much yet because it's blocked in the driveway by the Volvo and I don't have a second kid seat anyway.

I will be buying the IID Gap tool tomorrow when the Black Friday sale starts. I've been (im)patiently waiting haha. I want to drive it around for a bit, fix a few small things that bug me, and DIY some rock sliders and underbody armour, then address the rust a bit. I'm probably going to take it very slowly.

Anyway, Yours looked great! I love the colour - Nara Bronze? Love the colours they have, but so many just were ordered in black or white.
Even the silver is a bit boring but I'm just happy it's an colour.
I would love a clean 2013 long term because I like the V8. Maybe find one in the Southern US and do a road trip for it. Just for the updated nav/sound system, because the 2010 lacks bluetooth.

Glad you found one, that looks sweet with those wheels/tires! $7800 for any running LR4 is a killer deal. They look super classy with silver, that was the second color I wanted.

Mine was Nara Bronze, was super stoked to find it only 2hrs from home. Traded my Alfa Guilia for it. As much of a PITA as it was at times, I miss that Rover dearly lol