Monday, January 28, 2013

Is the Motus V4 Baby Block Crate Engine the Future of Old School Hot Rodding?

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Is the Motus V4 Baby Block Crate Engine the Future of Old School Hot Rodding?Motus announces KMV4 crate engine pricing
Motus announces KMV4 crate engine pricing
Motus just announced pricing and availability for their all new KMV4 Baby Block engine. You can reserve yours now for delivery this spring and summer, the price is $10,220 which includes the ECU, ride by wire intake, engine harness and fuse box. While most everyone here is focused on the Motus MST and MST-R motorcycles, the engine strikes me as equally, if not more important in many respects, because, in my opinion, it could represent the future of old school hot rodding.

Friday, January 25, 2013

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Monday, December 17, 2012

60 Really Cool and Creative Error 404 Pages

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60 Really Cool and Creative Error 404 Pages

60 Really Cool And Creative Error 404 Pages

Having a good Error 404 page is perhaps as important as having great contents. Sometimes it may not be your fault visitors landed on error pages, but being able to communicate and direct them back to the home page is as good as a second chance to re-engage a visitor. Error 404 page helps you does that.
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

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Monday, December 3, 2012

265/75R16 WARDEN A/T (E) | Retread tires | Cheap truck tires | TreadWright

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265/75R16 WARDEN A/T (E) | Retread tires | Cheap truck tires | TreadWright

265/75R16 WARDEN A/T (E = 10 PLY)
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Please allow 3-4 weeks processing time for this item before shipping.
Warden (formerly ATB):  The Warden is a very aggressive, all terrain pattern designed to provide excellent traction and handling both on and off-road.  Excellent wear capabilities combine with great go anywhere traction.  The Warden is an aggressive, high-void, all-terrain pattern with interlocking tread blocks and abundant siping to provide traction and handling without generating excessive noise. Upper sidewall traction bars maximize performance by providing the clawing action necessary to develop traction and steering control in deep dirt and sand.

Tread Depth:
15.5/32”

Meas. Rim Width:
7.5”
Tread Width:
8.25”

Rim Width Range:
7-8”
Max Load:
3,415 lbs

Outer Diameter:
32”
Max PSI:
80 psi

Section Width:
10.5”



MSRP: $120.00
Online Price: $113.00 

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Black Moto Metal Wheels

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Black Moto Metal Wheels:

Black Moto Metal Wheels - $700 (Lexington, NE)

Date: 
 tz2h5-3439432763@sale.craigslist.org[?]
I've got 16" black moto metals with 265/75/16 fierce mud terrains, the bolt-pattern is 6X5.5-$700obo

I've got the spacers and wheel adapters as well to mount the wheels to a Trailblazer-$100obo.

$700 for everything.

The only reason I'm thinking about selling is I don't offroad as much as I'd like, otherwise I love the setup. The tires have been rotated twice, and I'd guess the tread is at 90%*. The plastic center caps have some chrome chipping, that's it. If you're interested in all or part make me an offer. If for some reason you want these for a trailblazer you must have the spacers and wheel adapters or else these wheels/tires won't fit.

*NOTE: the pic of the tire is when they were new. They are NOT in that condition.
 

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Plastidip Experiments

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Plastidip Experiments

Plastidip Experiments

I was a little bored on Saturday so I thought I would mess around with the plastidip spray and practice a couple of techniques to see what worked and what doesn't. All plastidip test were applied to a painted/clearcoat substrate for the experiments(no, not on my car).

Masking:
Masked off a two inch wide stipe about 3 inches long
Four light coats of Plastidip applied and dried in-between each coat.

Test Pull #1: Straight pull of tape
Result: Ragged edge and looks like crap.
Test Pull #2 Cut line using razor blade prior to pulling tape
Result: Smooth edge, but a little wavy unless you use a straight edge. Also
will/can cut into the piece being plastidip.

Masked off a two inch wide stipe about 3 inches long
One medium coat of Plastidip applied and not dried

Test Pull #1 Straight pull of tape (while still wet)
Result: Nice clean stripe line

Finish:
Plain plastidip(four coats)
Result: Slight texture with a flat finish (looks fine because the texture looks
good with a flat finish)

Plastidip with clear enamel (Four plastidip and one clear enamel)
Result: Slight texture with a gloss finish. (looks like a paint job gone bad)

Removability:
Test #1 Four light coats of plastidip, dried
Result: Easy to pull off in large pieces.

Test #2 Two light coats of plastidip, dried
Result: Much harder to pull of in sheets. Worked best by rolling the thumb over
the edge like you would for removing double sided molding tape.

Test #3 Four light coats of plastidip and one clear coat, dried.
Result: Made the plastidip brittle and would not come off in sheets.

Obviously, there are several other combinations to explore, but I wasn't that bored.

Tinting plasti-dip - DipYourCar.com Plasti Dip

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Glitter or powered reflective material?

Tinting plasti-dip [Archive] - DipYourCar.com Plasti Dip® Community Forum: "

I normally would recommend watching Maynard G the Mix Master on YouTube but I can't get through more than about a minute of his antics and his ballpoint pens.

lol.

With the experimentation we've done, liquid tints don't work. We've gone through solvent based and enamel based. They make the dip too soft; it smears after it dries. Powdered colorants seem to be the way to go.. but not all work. Don't have enough data to point you guys in the right direction yet.. but working on it.
GMMTC
08-18-2012, 06:16 PM
I have a bunch of extra crazy powder coat colors... would powdercoat make a suitable tint when mixed with plastidip?"

Monday, November 26, 2012

How to model a motorbike fairing using NURBS

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How to model a motorbike fairing using NURBS

How to model a motorbike fairing using NURBS

Hi there,
this is a tutorial on how to model a fairly smooth and organic-looking fairing of a Suzuki GSX-1300 Hayabusa motorbike
We're going to be using both patch modeling ,more specifically,a technique called "lofting" (consisted of two or more
NURBS splines connected together with a flexible NURBS surface in between,hence the term "patch") and polygonal modeling,taking advantage of the many new modeling tools available recently in Blender (such as the Knife tool,Vertex slide tool and many more)
by the end of this tutorial we should know how to effectively model any smooth organic surface consisted of a single patch through using a variety of techniques


here's the link to this tutorial :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4BFucZameg&feature=plcp

NOTE : Please feel welcome to download these "blueprint"-looking reference images below and freely use them in your own modelling projects if you wish

hope you'll enjoy this!
Peter
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Unstructured Grids for OpenFOAM With Blender and enGrid 1.2 · enGits/engrid Wiki · GitHub

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Unstructured Grids for OpenFOAM With Blender and enGrid 1.2 · enGits/engrid Wiki · GitHub
Blah Blah Blah

Creating Geometries

The next step is to create a neat sphere object inside of our fluid domain. Therefore we change back to Object mode and press Shift + A. In the pop up menu we select Add → Mesh → Icosphere and set Subdivisions to 4 while leaving the radius at 1 BE (see Figure 4). The geometry is finished now and ready to be saved as a *.blend file
Figure 4: The new icosphere inside of the fluid domain. Note the additional "Sphere" entry in the Outliner window.

and on and on and then to:

Exporting to OpenFOAM®

The mesh is now finished and is ready for a final export to OpenFOAM® . From the menu bar we select Export → OpenFOAM® → OpenFOAM® (Grid only). We thereby create a case directory with the constant/polymesh folder, sadly marking the end of the main part of this tutorial.
enGrid also offers the export of complete case directories including solver settings. These have to be set up in the Solver tab of the Edit boundary conditions dialog. Afterwards we choose OpenFOAM® (Grid + solver parameters) from the export menu.

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