PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

I will take a look!

These days, I’d imagine it’d be hard taking pictures or videos of anything in NYC that isn’t an obvious tourist attraction without attracting unwanted attention from the police and/or FBI!

 

My neighbor owns a company that designs ductwork and stuff for commercial HVAC applications, and he was an encyclopedia of information about the heating and cooling systems in the original World Trade Center.

Chillers are in fact cool-only; The system at my Grandma's apartment was a water-source heat pump and thus part of a totally different system than what the twin towers had. The heating and cooling systems in the World Trade Center were totally separate, but may have used the same ductwork; The refrigeration plant at the World Trade Center consisted of seven York refrigeration machines, each the size of a locomotive (CLICK HERE). I got most of the info I posted from that thread on HVAC Talk; I talked to my neighbor maybe an hour and a half ago, the one who owns his own HVAC company, and he told me that the Trade Center used a steam heating system...

I was like, "So, it was gas?"...

He's like "No, steam."; Apparently a different setup than a traditional hot water baseboard system...?

Also, the cooling system from the original World Trade Center used water from the Hudson River to cool the refrigeration machines; This type of setup was outlawed sometime in the 1990s, but because the Trade Center was built between roughly 1969 and 1973 when it was legal, it was grandfathered in. So, when the original refrigeration system was severely damaged in the February 1993 bombing, they were allowed to keep that system; However, I do believe that the damage from the 1993 bombing led to the system being converted from R-12 to R134a...

After reading the HVAC Talk thread, I thought this was a typo, but my neighbor confirmed that these huge commercial refrigeration systems used R-12 and then later R134a. The one thing I kept noticing in every article I read about the World Trade Center was that the system was referred to as "refrigeration" and not "air-conditioning"; The actual units were referred to in the HVAC Talk thread as "refrigeration machines", not "air-conditioners" and/or "chillers"...

While the HVAC system in the World Trade Center achieved the same effect as a residential or light commercial central air-conditioning system (keeping an indoor space cool when it is hot outside), and did utilize compressors and refrigerant as well, the process by which one of these "refrigerating machines" is different than a typical air-conditioner or heat pump...

As the name implies, it is basically a giant refrigerator; On a side note, a heat pump operates in a manner similar to a domestic refrigerator when in HEAT mode.

 

My neighbor's response my question about whether or not the A/C and heat in the World Trade Center used the same vents/ductwork...

"They probably had constant volume or variable air volume air handlers on each floor or multiple floors were served by a single air handling unit. The AHU had a chilled water coil in it and a hot water heating coil. They also had heating coils in the VAV boxes or in the ductwork. The latter is called a constant volume reheat system."

 

1992 ford probe, mint green. Chick magnet it was not. Reliable it was not. Fun to drive it was not. But it had pop up headlights (one worked)

 

1998 kia sportage my girl had, think it was made of tin cans and super glue

 

Plymouth Whoreizon, how that thing got to 199k miles is a wonder.

 

Pop-up head-LIGHT

 

I’ve been lucky with all my vehicles. My mom on the other hand, her first car was a Geo Metro WITH a salvage title

 

Kind of a toss up for me.

First car was a 91 Geo storm. Bought it for $100. It didn’t move. sat in my driveway and ended up towed it to my brothers friends house who got it to move (neutral safety switch). Barely made the drive back home. Ended up junking it and bought a brand new 02 Toyota Celica. Can’t really fault that as I didn’t know anything about cars then and only paid $100 for it.

Then there was a 2009 Jeep Liberty. Traded me first gen Taco for it (mistake) was an ex rental and needed some new heads. Got one done under warranty and traded it in before the other was done. Ended up trading it for a Frontier.

Guess you could add the 1st gen Taco (03) to this list. Died on me a couple times. No one could figure it out. Guessing it was the fuel pump. But every time I had someone look at it, it was fine. Loved the truck, but didn’t love being stranded with my daughter on the side of the road who was only around 3 at the time.

Then probably my 3rd gen. Hasn’t left me stranded, but have had the evaporator replaced, door sill bubbled up, blower cage replaced, ECU reflashed for shifting issues/cruise. Diff weeping, Some dash rattles, broken center console latch. Underside of the truck is starting to look inferno as well. Even undercoated the shit out of the frame as soon as I got it. Worst I’ve ever had. Live around the salt belt but I wash the undercarriage often in the winter. Nothing that I would say is major (Yet), but I have concerns about the longevity of this truck.

I’d say the toss up is between the Jeep and my current 3rd Gen. considering the 3rd gen was twice what I paid for the Jeep I’d probably have to go with it


The best I’ve owned:

02 Toyota Celica
2013 F150
2011 Nissan Frontier

 

Beautiful 3rd Gen. Still great looking trucks. Magnum or Cummins? What year is the black one? My first Ram was a red, left over 2003 Hemi powered 2500 that I bought new in 2005. Nice truck, but owned it at the wrong time. Gas went to a buck 20 something shortly after I bought it. It was costing me 80 dollars every 4 or 5 days to top it off.

 

I've had 30 odd cars, but it has to be my 1999 1500 chev. I was so excited to find a 5.3 for sale under 3000$ at the time.

4x4 was fucked, door panels fell off, doors were sagging, terrible fuel economy, leaks for days.

It wasn't worth it to fix, I ended up selling it to a pot head and broke even.

 

I had a 2017 Tacoma TRD OR built to the nines. Loved it. Sold it for some stupid reason. Got a 2017 Subaru Forester, to be more....... economical. Worst choice I’ve ever made. Car has been nothing but issues and a bag of bolts. So today.... I placed an allocation order for a 2021 Tacoma. Finally gonna be back in the saddle. I’ll always own a Toyota. No doubt.

 

I had a 14 forester XT, it was super uncomfortable, the trans sucked and it had the long crank issue.

I traded it in on the 16 Tacoma and was super happy.

 

Nice!

 

Worst vehicle I ever owned was an 87 Plymouth Caravan. It wallowed anytime it even looked at a turn, braked terrible, acceleration was non-existant. Swore off Plymouth-Dodge forever, but made an exception for my 2002 Cummins that had a Dodge Ram 2500 wrapped around it. Super Comfortable and great for towing. After driving it for 17 years, I gave it to my grandson for his graduation present when I bought my Tacoma. Still going strong - Best truck I ever owned.

 

1956 Chevy station wagon that I had in high school around 1963. Totally undependable. Always breaking down. Sold it and a month later the buyer told me the tranny died. Total junk.

 

Congrats!

 

Killed a lanternfly with the Taco about a week ago...