One minor downside to sr20 swaps. The sr20 is heavy for its size and displacement. Though probably contributes to why it's so darn bulletproof
Nice, I'd probably roll my truck if I tried that. What dashcam do you have? I've been looking at getting one and there are a lot of different opinions out there on which one is best.
IMO you don't need a lot of power in places like Europe (except Germany). Anywhere with smaller twisty roads is where smaller is better. I never even get a chance use the full potential of the family Civic here.
Here in germany you really want to have alot of power becuase of the autobahn also we have really alot of twisty roads where you want a good cornering car especially when a bmw drives after you
I have the Garmin Dashcam 10. It does its job well, but it's really expensive. I wouldn't have bought it myself and I wouldn't really recommend it unless you have $200 burning a hole in your pocket and need to have the Garmin name. It was a gift. It records 1080p and does pretty good at night. I screwed something up in my video editor and I can't get it to render anything above 480p, so what you see above isn't actually the quality it records in. It has a little screen on it so you can play the video back without a computer if you really need to. My biggest complaint is the audio. It does that thing where it picks up too much bass or something in certain situations, making the audio pretty much useless. I've had cool clips completely ruined because I had a window down and all you can hear is the wind buffeting the camera. Here is an example of that. I didn't have the windows down though. The beep is the dashcam alerting that it sensed an "accident". It takes the clip its currently recording, the one previous to that, and the next one that it has yet to record, and sets them aside so they aren't overwritten. Each clip is about 3 minutes long. I've only triggered it 3 or 4 times doing shit like this in the year and a half I've had the camera. All in all it's pretty good, just expensive.
Off-roading in a vic, nice. I think I'll look at other cameras though, I sadly don't have $200 just laying around. Plus if that camera has audio troubles in your car it definitely wouldn't work well in my (stupidly loud diesel) pickup. Does anybody else here own a dashcam that they like, or have any recommended dashcams?
Meh, looks like a rebranded, marked up cheapo-Chinese dashcam. Unless you have one and can speak for its long-term reliability I'm not sure I trust it.
My dashcam: $7 eBay Photon Q with a 1GB free plan from Ringplus and a $5 Motorola car dock that I guess was sold as old stock. I use the Dailyroads Voyager app. The actual video itself is okay, but the FOV isn't great for a dashcam. But it has the benefit of being a phone, so if I need to I can use it as a GPS, to call, music, whatever. Here's a video of a sick drift I did on par with Ken Block's stuff:
I have thought about using my phone as a dashcam but I would like to have a "parking mode" too. I leave my truck in a parking lot with a bunch of highschool drivers everyday and I want to have video evidence if someone hits me. Based on that video I'd say Ken Block better watch out, you're some pretty serious competition.
The first car Holden ever produced turned 68 today, the 48-215 "FX". Shame Australian production wont make it to 70 years.
In some kind of poetic mockery, today also marks the end of the Australian V6. The final Australian built Holden V6 Engine rolled down the production line in Melbourne today.
Just a question what driving school vehicles did you guys have? I had a bunch: Some kind of cheap scooter A KTM duke 125 Some sort of suzuki 600 bike A BMW 1 series A Scania R line V8 from a friend A Fendt 700 Vario
When I drove my moped license I drove some kind of scooter (50cc ofc), can't remember the make or mode. Then I drove a KTM Duke 125 when I was driving my A1 license. And this year when I "upgraded" to an A2 license I drove a BMW G650X. And when I was driving my driving license I mostly drove a 2013 Audi A3 sedan and a 2013 Skoda Octavia sedan a few times.
So far on my learners I have driven my dads ute and the Civic, but the Civic is the main one I use to learn how to drive in.
