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GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

I have never had a "ground pounding" fast car. Don't care to start now. Most of the fun of the 914 was driving it hard just to go the speed limit. Today's modern cars can be going into handcuffs and jail speeds in mere seconds. My 911 model was the fastest car sold in North America in 1984. Fastest 0-60, fastest 1/4 mile and fastest top speed and it has a whole 200 HP at the crank in stock form. In 1985 Porsche reintroduced the Turbo model and moved the bar way higher.

My how times have changed. Now it is easy to buy many different cars with 500+ HP and not hard to get the 700+ HP range. Just nuts.

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

Wheee, what fun.

Working on a project for a paying customer, and it is really exciting, a sand quarry. Imagine a sandy river, at a bend in the river, they dig down with a dredge, extract lots of sand, and then the river refills it with a heavy rain. Lots of muddy water, and the tone changes from the deeper water to the shore from grey to brown.

My challenge is the computer is blended over 500 images together. With no real detail on the surface of the water except moving water, it does a decent job of blending the water, but it is mostly featureless water so it has some harsh blend lines. No one really cares about the water, as it is different minute to minute, it is moving water of a river. I "get" to make it look pretty for the print on the wall. They will also calculate the amount of sand removed for taxes, and how much they have left to mine, and where property lines are on a moving river, and swampy land.

I can't change the land areas, but the water has to look right, and I guess if it was easy, everyone could do it. In the end, they will have an accurate image of the mine, and surrounding areas. The surface of the river will "look right" but no one can say if the level and look of the ever changing river is right or wrong, since it changes day by day.

flipper35 · flipper35's Garage

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Yeah, combining deforestation with green (EV) technology. Glen, that’s a home run!

Deforestation Green sounds like a custom color for your car! Is it a candy or pearl?

Jim Richards · 08-07-2019, 09:18 AM

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Deforestation Green sounds like a custom color for your car! Is it a candy or pearl?

I’m thinking...pea soup. 🤢🤮

flipper35 · flipper35's Garage

flipper35 · flipper35's Garage

Are these like your rims Jim?

Jim Richards · 08-07-2019, 11:02 AM

These are mine, Brent.

flipper35 · flipper35's Garage

I think you put your cabinets in wrong.

flipper35 · flipper35's Garage

Oh, I like the wheels. I saw the pic and thought they might be close to how it would look on your car. Your lips aren't as deep.

Jim Richards · 08-07-2019, 11:07 AM

The car in your posted pic has ZG fender flares on it. Mine has stock fenders...for now.

Jim Richards · 08-07-2019, 11:08 AM

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I think you put your cabinets in wrong.

Huh?

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

Dang Adobe's hide and the Photoshop limits on Tiff file sizes!!!!

OK, I will admit this is not a typical snapshot, but I was editing along and saving successfully. I then did something Photoshop decided it did not like, and all of the the sudden it decides the file is too big.

Of course I had some really good edits and it was a over an hour before I had last saved. Evidently I was skating along at just under the 4.0 GB tiif file limit for Photoshop. Something pushed it over the limit, and no more saving. Argghh

So I jump through a bunch of hoops to save it as a PSB which is only a Photoshop format, cut it into two pieces as tif files, drop my edits on top of the halves, save those, go back to my mapping program and bring in the halves, and make a Tiff file with no problem. Then open that is Photoshop and I will be damned, Photoshop is happy again and it opens and saves as before. There were no layers, channels, paths. Arghhhh. Why Adobe why?

The good news is I managed to endeavored to persevere!

flipper35 · flipper35's Garage

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Huh?

The picture is rotated in my browser. The cabinets are in the floor position.

How much does your Z weigh, just out of curiosity?

flipper35 · flipper35's Garage

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The car in your posted pic has ZG fender flares on it. Mine has stock fenders...for now.

They look good either way to me.

In the race sim, we had to put flares on to cover the tires.

A second gen RX7 needs the IMSA widebody kit instead of flares to look correct. IMVHO.

flipper35 · flipper35's Garage

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

At most every autocross I have the oldest car at the event. We have one guy that brings out his rusty Datsun 240Z that is just an autocross special. It is ugly and gutted, but he has race slicks, and it is light weight and goes just fine out there. He has a blast, and that is the important thing.

On a rare occasion there will be another air cooled car out there, but not often. Buncha whippersnappers in them fancy new cars made after 2005.

flipper35 · flipper35's Garage

All those young guys don't realize how isolated they are from the car until they drive an old one. Like going from a Caravan to a J3 Cub.

Then again, we saw a nice MGB for sale and I asked my wife if she wanted to look at it. She said it was the wrong color, but at least it wouldn't be like the Cobra where it feels like you are trying to tame a wild horse. Then we saw a triumph Spitfire for sale a couple days later in town. I promptly explained why that one would be a bad idea. A TR-6 you could talk me into though.

flipper35 · flipper35's Garage

One of these would be a hoot at an autocross!

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

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All those young guys don't realize how isolated they are from the car until they drive an old one. Like going from a Caravan to a J3 Cub.

Then again, we saw a nice MGB for sale and I asked my wife if she wanted to look at it. She said it was the wrong color, but at least it wouldn't be like the Cobra where it feels like you are trying to tame a wild horse. Then we saw a triumph Spitfire for sale a couple days later in town. I promptly explained why that one would be a bad idea. A TR-6 you could talk me into though.

I have toyed with the idea of getting a old Boxster S for the autocross. They are dang cheap, and fun to drive. No doubt it would be way faster then my old manual car in any performance drive. I would have to park it outside on the driveway. It would be totally out of the way of our parking, but it would have to live outside. In the end, I just stick with my 34 year old antique car for fun.

Jim Richards · 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by flipper35

All those young guys don't realize how isolated they are from the car until they drive an old one. Like going from a Caravan to a J3 Cub.

Then again, we saw a nice MGB for sale and I asked my wife if she wanted to look at it. She said it was the wrong color, but at least it wouldn't be like the Cobra where it feels like you are trying to tame a wild horse. Then we saw a triumph Spitfire for sale a couple days later in town. I promptly explained why that one would be a bad idea. A TR-6 you could talk me into though.

IMO, the Spitfire was the worst car ever made. Mine literally caught fire (dash area) while driving one evening on the southbound freeway into San Diego. I had to cut & splice the remaining wiring until I had the minimum functionality to start/drive it, at night. It was less than 3 years old. That wasn’t even the worst of it...