Another 800bhp BCNR33 on our streets?

[eyong]

800hp's Skyline turned into Ships and Mystics now ... hehehe ...





We are Good, So DAMN GOOD

 

[DarkChild]

Some really interesting answers...

i like the way they brand vehicles female,despite all the comments we get that woman cant drive..or is it bec all men like to "ride" women lol

u cant live without cars just like you cant live without women :D:D maybe thats another reason lol

Because it takes a lot of paint to keep her good looking.

The exact reason why boats are called she in English is lost to history. While explanations abound, most appear to be of the folk variety, assumed or invented after the fact as a way to make sense of the phenomenon. Boats are a truly interesting case in English, as they are among the only inanimate objects that take a gendered pronoun, whereas most others are called it. Countries are also called she, as are cars sometimes, but the latter example is almost certainly an extension from boats.

One plausible theory is that boats are called she because they are traditionally given female names, typically the name of an important woman in the life of the boat's owner, such as his mother. It has also been surmised that all ships were once dedicated to goddesses, and later to important mortal women when belief in goddesses waned. Interestingly, although male captains and sailors historically attributed the spirit of a benevolent female figure to their ships, actual women were considered very bad luck at sea.

A second theory as to why boats are called she points to the existence of grammatical gender in most Indo-European languages besides English. While Modern English has hardly any grammatical gender, limited for the most part to cases of natural gender, such as the nouns "woman" and "man" being called she and he respectively, there is evidence that English once has a more extensive system of grammatical gender, similar to that in languages such as German and French. In most Indo-European languages with grammatical gender, the word for "ship" is feminine. In Old English texts, there is more evidence of grammatical gender, such as a shield being called she.

Because English is an Indo-European language, it is most likely that it once had grammatical gender and lost it, since it would be highly unlikely for all the other Indo-European languages with grammatical gender to have acquired the feature independently rather than inheriting it from a common background. Linguistic historians have postulated that proto-Indo-European, the hypothetical "mother language" to all modern Indo-European languages, originally had two genders: animate and inanimate. The inanimate category later split into feminine and neuter, giving three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. As each language evolved, so did its system of grammatical gender, so that it has become different in each modern-day Indo-European language.

Whether the fact that boats are called she is a throwback to an ancient system of grammatical gender that has disappeared from English in all but a few instances or an analogy to the reverence that sailors have for the women in their lives, the phenomena is one of the most interesting anomalies in Modern English. Recently, advocates of gender-neutral or non-sexist language have proposed that ships no longer be called she, but rather it, like any other inanimate object.

ADDED NOTE: someone sure didn't like answers given on this one with all the thumbs down! Bottom line to the answer is that nobody knows why vessels were named after ladies...

Because one way or another, they cost a lot of money.

It comes from latin, another example would be the italian language. L'automobile, etc.. Not sure of the other translations but I know they start with LA or L' making the subject female. Female objects are referred to as she.

 

[TitanRev]

I think it will always be refer to as females because I think mostly working on the cars and assembling them are guys so the guys are screwing in all the bolts into the car to make it....Hehehe

 

[omaroDDin]

yo farique.
cerita hantu sikit ar. damn cun. Malaysia ghost story. hehe

 

[farique]

yo farique.
cerita hantu sikit ar. damn cun. Malaysia ghost story. hehe

since you asked.

so my dad is the leader of the team also the captain hence everyone needs to listen to whatever he said even the dato's or datin's on board with him. (how cool is that, there'll be no protocol when you are onboard with my dad.. )

so there, after days of drifting on the sea (lol.. just kidding) they've reached the point to drop the tsunami sensor. But trouble struck, everything just dont go good. The wind blows hard, dark sky, its about to rain hard and the sea wave..man the waves is the killer. Ask Russ, he sure knows how bad it is out there on a small vessel.

stopped the plan and moved to safer place (couldnt recall, maybe they stopped over at Pulau Layang² I think). Next day, tried to give it a second go. While on the way our Air Force gave my dad a call and asked him where the ship gonna go and what are they doing over there. My dad told 'em the stuffs. The Air Force pilot then replied "good luck". After they've dropped off the sensor, when they were about to leave, the ship "stuck". Couldnt move forward either backwards. Weird uh, you are in the middle of the sea and your ship stuck.

Even spooky is, the ship is in forward gear but everyone feels that the ship is going backwards including my dad. Fine, then swap to reverse gear, the ship goes forward.. it seems that 'something' is holding the ship from moving away. As a muslim, my dad cites anything that he knows and then moments later the ship freed. Everyone's happy and relieved. Days later the ship arrives in Kuching and I'm thankful that my dad is home in one piece.

After few weeks later, my dad starts hearing all the stories from his crew who was with him during the mission. It turns out to be, the crew were freaked out a little and only after few weeks they dared to speak out. Some (of the crew) even went to 'bomoh' just to make sure they came home alone. My dad heard from the fishermens said that while on the way back to Kuching, they saw 2 very huge figure as tall as 3~4 story building following the ship from behind. The whole crew dont see those things but others do..

As of today, the ship is in dock. Something goes a little wrong with it which is still unclear. Someone told my dad that the caretaker/night guard of the dock always see a women figure surrounding the ship at night time. Who was that? and for what reason? I dont know.. you figure it by yourself..

my dad's friend told my dad (month after) that he was talking to 'my dad' but 'my dad' seemed not to paying much attention to him at the deck. Feeling left out, he left the deck and as walking around to the bridge he then saw my dad was in the bridge talking to his crew. He didn't say a word after that.


there ya go.. spooky story from me by my dad. True story.


p/s: some of my dad's acquaintance told that the moment the ship 'stuck', it was the sea ghost trying to topple the ship over and eat them crews alive..
I think this what happened to the ships in Bermuda Triangle..



aww.. seriously, from 800bhp r33 gtr to ghost..

 

[gobiz]

Thanks...good story that one.

 

[omaroDDin]

w00f!
crazy ass story.
i'd never wanna go out to sea anymore. >_<

could it be sea monsters?
wooooo...

Bump: w00f!
crazy ass story.
i'd never wanna go out to sea anymore. >_<

could it be sea monsters?
wooooo...

 

[semperfi]

I think we are pretty much back on topic! Got the term "monster" in it.

 

[renxun]

i make my 2.5 1jz like hell plus 50shot somemore and its no where near 500whp yet..... and thats with a t04z.. that spec will not even achieve half of it on wheel

 

[[PIMPIN]]

Btw, I can't make it to the S'ban TT. Sorry for such late notice but my car is off getting serviced and stuff so I'll be without my GTR till next week. :wavey:

Bump: Btw, I can't make it to the S'ban TT. Sorry for such late notice but my car is off getting serviced and stuff so I'll be without my GTR till next week. :wavey:

 

[eyong]

Pimpin is "upgrading" again ...

 

[TitanRev]

farique, nice story...very interesting..I like this kind of stuff....

 

[omaroDDin]

hehe.
guys, then check out the 'haunting of in Connecticut'
the discovery channel documentary. not the movie.

anyways. monster skyline 800hp. power power. :D

 

[cosmicgate]

farique, nice story...very interesting..I like this kind of stuff....

since you like it so much let me relate mine, which has something to do with the "sea" as well.

i was at one of the oil and gas platform when i met my roomboy, which was quite friendly person. as a matter of fact, im a very friendly person myself and i admit i meet more friends offshore on rigs/platform than i do in real life. This person make and cleans my bed and everyone knows he whistles while doing our beds. Recently tragedy struck and he passed away but everyone remembers him as the room boy who always whistles while doing the bed.

quite a while ago i just happened to be on the same platform again and i learn of his sad passing, they were refitting the platform with a new living quarter in which the old one where manually lifted with a giant crane.These living quater can span so big and high as tall as 3 floors altogether. The mess room boy use to stay at the top floor(3rd floor).While the old living quaters were being changed, preparation work has to be done to the base of the old LQ for it to be lifted away and replaced with the new LQ. During the course of this preparation work, the old LQ has to be abandoned, as welding work has to be done on the bases of LQ. All of the entrance were sealed and the electricity were cut off. It can be an abandoned ghost apartment at the nights, so dark and so quiet. A few of my men were working night shifts and they have supper at 12pm. two of these men were rushing some welding jobs on the 3rd floor so they decided to skip supper that day. It was pitch dark from the 3rd floors below as jobs were only done at 3rd floor with minimal lightings. while doing it, they hear whistles coming from the next room, coincidently the room where the mess room boy had stayed for years.They knew nobody were down two floors down as it was pitch dark, nobody in the sane mind would just loiter around in the 2nd floor or 1st floor which was pitch dark when they can have the luxury of doing something else. they kept doing their job and the whistle keep coming.they know for sure, i mean if you're working midnight and it was supper, would u be rather eating at a lighted place with the comfort of full meals or just doing nothing, sulking at 3rd or 2nd floor with them, whistling right? so they know for sure it wasnt human. it send shivers to their spine so they sped down 3rd floor and call it a day.

i wasn't told about this until the next morning.

 

[omaroDDin]

yo guys.
need opinion.
upgrade internals or upgrade turbine better?

Bump: eh, i heard u guys who work on the platform stay there for like 6 months strait rite?
how ar if u get 'needs'? 6 months tahan can die one. LoL

 

[eyong]

Internals: For reliability (unless you are talking about 2.8l)

Turbines: For performance, however limited, say if you are going high boost without good internals, you are not going anywhere ...



I personally would go for internals ... At least you know, whatever you throw at later, she's not going to blow

 

[cosmicgate]

another incident happened when one of the captain who steers one of the two standby vecile told me that he saw lights hovering the platform, moving zig zag around it. He confirmed with the other captain who was on another boat and both of them saw it. He tried to page the installation manager but shrugged off the idea as nobody would have believed them. It hovered up on the platform for a good 15 mins before it stopped.

still pretty much skeptical, i think these captains must be delirious from the days of offshore. Sometimes i pity Russ too.I GET DELIRIOUS and the longest i've stayed is 3 weeks for some mad ass project, i don't want to imagine staying at the sea for 3 months!i mean, yeah you're paid ludicrously but for the health hazard, sanity and the insecurities of wife/gfs at home, a handsome amount just doesn't justify for all the other risks involved.

This told me to quit offshore and looking back now and then, the offshore experience paid off for a exotic income at office now, and if u ask me if i ever wanted to get back to offshore wearing smelly coveralls staying in a filthy bunk bed with ghost stories to torment u just to pass time with the pay of 5 digits i'll happily decline it for the rest of my life

 

[omaroDDin]

wah. that scary ar.
kinda see it now why people who do it are paid so much.

 

[[PIMPIN]]

Pimpin is "upgrading" again ...

Service lah bro. Check everything to make sure the 2.8 is holding together just fine.

Plus, they need to take it round to various shops - do aircond, wheel balancing and alignment and maybe to CV if they need access to boot so safe estimate is one week.

yo guys.
need opinion.
upgrade internals or upgrade turbine better?

Bump: eh, i heard u guys who work on the platform stay there for like 6 months strait rite?
how ar if u get 'needs'? 6 months tahan can die one. LoL

Internals: For reliability (unless you are talking about 2.8l)

Turbines: For performance, however limited, say if you are going high boost without good internals, you are not going anywhere ...



I personally would go for internals ... At least you know, whatever you throw at later, she's not going to blow

I would go for turbo, but then again that's just me. My reasoning is that with stock turbos you are nowhere near the limits of the engine whereas you can change turbines many times larger and given proper tuning - still make power while still keeping within the limits of the stock internals.

With the stock internals but upgraded turbos, I managed to get 520ish on 1.7 bar thereabouts but brought it down to roughly 480ish at 1.4 bar and that was what I ran all day everyday full throttle for nearly 20,000kms - stock internals, stock oil pump, stock water pump. And sustained high revs for long periods cause I like to do top speed runs and if I'm bored I drive down South or North just to drive.

Anyways, this is not a democracy and you have no choice. I'm telling you to change turbos and you do it now, understand?

Then ask DC for the 500hp club membership forms

 

[DarkChild]

500 Wheel HP club membership forms? I don't even qualify myself yet too... *laughs*