War of the Wheels Fb Episode
Warning: This is only a teaser!
Finally, after waiting for several months for the reruns to cycle through again, the episode involving an Fb build broadcast this morning. Now I only have to get it off my PVR and into a small enough file for you guys to view. In case you have no idea what I'm jabbering about, War of the Wheels was a Toronto produced 1 hr long show where two teams had three days to rebuild a pair of near identical cars. The final products would be judged on appearance as well as performance. Instead of the usual drag race, the Fbs in this episode competed on an actual race circuit. To my knowledge this is the only show along the lines of Monster Garage or Overhaulin' that features our car, really a jewel of a show and not widely seen outside of Canada. Stay tuned!!!! |
cool ....looking forward to seeing it
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:drool:
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War of the Wheels Fb Episode Part 1
As promised, here's the first half of the episode. You can download the 33 mb Quick Time movie file from here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/WaroftheWheels.mov Jim |
bad ass ! wheres the rest ?
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Thanks!
Any possibility of getting a higher quality vids? |
that was a very good video
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I hear you Directfreak. These files are about 125 mB in size but the video quality is much much better. You can increase the window size with VLC significantly and not bring on pixelation.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/WaroftheWheelsPart1.m4v http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/WaroftheWheelsPart2.m4v Jim |
Will definatly be dl'ing these tonight when I get home!
Thanks for sharing these! |
By the way - THANKS.
Two Turbocharged First Gens!! WOOo HOOo!! |
Great show, thanks for sharing! Although it hurt to watch them tear apart two perfect interiors like that. Hopefully they went to someone who needs them rather than a dumpster.
PS I wonder if any of those guys are members on here? |
cool show.
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thanks for sharing. we have a similar show here in the states on SPEED but they are more geared towards the ricer crowd unfortunately. name does not come to mind. judges there suck too. this show is much better.
who knows what headlights were used by team RPM? |
Originally Posted by jim_chung
(Post 10750382)
I hear you Directfreak. These files are about 125 mB in size but the video quality is much much better. You can increase the window size with VLC significantly and not bring on pixelation.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/WaroftheWheelsPart1.m4v http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/WaroftheWheelsPart2.m4v Jim I downloaded the lower res ones and they don't play in standard Xp windows either. Not a videophile, so don't tell me to load some other crap software but thanks for the suggestions. Maybe I'll upload to picassa and see if it converts it something I can view. |
VLC player works great as well as GOM player
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Originally Posted by t_g_farrell
(Post 10750928)
What will play this under windows? The usual windows media player chokes on it.
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Very cool episode. Thank you for the upload
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Yeah, just finished watching it. Like it, was very awesome
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I'll have to check this one out.
I saw an episode where they rebuilt a 240z... it was cool but a bit too much for my taste. |
Originally Posted by rotordogg
(Post 10750617)
Great show, thanks for sharing! Although it hurt to watch them tear apart two perfect interiors like that. Hopefully they went to someone who needs them rather than a dumpster.
PS I wonder if any of those guys are members on here? |
Originally Posted by orion84gsl
(Post 10754337)
Chris is/was the owner of CP Racing.
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So I guess this show busts the myth about needing to break-in a brand new engine? Considering this engine was rebuilt, ported and had a turbo added to it and then it was raced the next day.
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Originally Posted by rotordogg
(Post 10754564)
So I guess this show busts the myth about needing to break-in a brand new engine? Considering this engine was rebuilt, ported and had a turbo added to it and then it was raced the next day.
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Originally Posted by stofficer1226
(Post 10761771)
Break in a motor the way it's going to be driven.
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Originally Posted by orion84gsl
(Post 10754337)
Chris is/was the owner of CP Racing.They had a pretty bad reputation.
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Originally Posted by OneRotor
(Post 10763133)
So that's what the guy who built shoddy products looks like...
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You guys might recognize this car:
https://picasaweb.google.com/107729081693151855744/RX7 Sadly, it no longer has the motor that was built on the show as something went astray with metal contacting other metal in a bad way. The car is now fully caged and running a near stock 13b with a turbo putting out ~ 250 hp. If all goes well, I'll be getting the car on the road for the first time tomorrow! Dave |
Congrats...and great show!
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Holy thread revival, Batman!
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Originally Posted by jim_chung
(Post 11116830)
Holy thread revival, Batman!
updated the relevant thread. Big Thumbs up! :icon_tup: This way we all know what car he is referring to very well. Congrats on owning it, hope it works out for you. |
I hope everyone knows I meant no disrespect to the OP, it's just this is the first time any of my threads has been resurrected and I couldn't help myself. I'm am very glad that one of the Rx7s survived the show and appears to be in very good hands. I remember when they were being sold off. Also glad that we have mods like Directfreak to keep us on the straight and narrow!
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