The Lounge 2022

vinhnguyen54 said:

Just tested a MK38vn with SFT40 with OP reflector VS smooth reflector.
Smooth was about 500Kcd.
What do you think OP reflector is?

Whoever is closest wins a light

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440Kcd with OP reflector

This will turn into the Price Is Right where 1cd wins.

390 with the op

I once owned a 69' Chevy PU short bed stepside with a 396ci bored out to 427kcd

If you had it now you could trade it for a nice house !!!

330kcd with op reflector

knucklegary said:

I once owned a 69' Chevy PU short bed stepside with a 396ci bored out to 427kcd

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I had an old Chevy Nova. TurboHydro trans mated with a 454kcd engine.

vinhnguyen54 said:

Just tested a MK38vn with SFT40 with OP reflector VS smooth reflector.
Smooth was about 500Kcd.
What do you think OP reflector is?

Whoever is closest wins a light

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I think the effect of OP (depending of the type of OP) is generally less than many would think. I'll say 10% so 451Kcd.

442.5 Kcd with OP reflector

448kcd with the orange peel

405kcd with OP reflector

1st car, Bought new, 1970 El Camino SS 396, 375 HP version. About $3,200 IIRC. Last year before implementation of EGR and still had dual headlights.

BVH said:

1st car, Bought new, 1970 El Camino SS 396, 375 HP version. About $3,200 IIRC. Last year before implementation of EGR and still had dual headlights.

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That was a sweet 1st, new ride, Bob! Hopefully you still have some pictures of that memory. My first vehicle (not new) as a 1985 Ford F-250HD 4X4 with a 460ci and a four speed. The truck was nearly indestructible. On the downside, the emission equipment on that motor was terrible. I had to put it all back on every year before taking it to get the smog test done. Funny thing was, when it was tuned properly it easily passed the emissions part of the test without all the extra equipment on it but of course didn't pass the equipment inspection portion. I eventually took the guts out of the smog pump so that it wasn't pushing any air into the exhaust manifold, then I only had to add and remove the belt. I learned a lot, at 17-18 years old, about turning Ford V8's though.

I wanted to share some pictures of a trip that my buddy and I took, while visiting some ancient lava tube caves. It's a place that I've been to many times but this trip was a little different with new phone camera's and about 75,000 lumens worth of Sky Lumen hardware. I've never seen these particular caves illuminated to the level that we had them at. The videos are pretty spectacular but here are some pictures....




















At the end.

Some of the Sky Lumen lights used were:

H30vn
D4Svn W2 Super
D18vn W2
D18vn XPL HI V4
X80-GTvn
K30-GTvn SBT90

Some of the factory lights used:
Olight X7
Fenix HM65R
4X Harbor Freight, Magnetic folding work lights.

Incredible pictures. Thanks for sharing

I'll do 460.

WOW those cave photos are amazing. Must be scary as heck to sleep there at night. Is that a natural Cave?

Are we done with the guessing entries?
So far no-one came close but somebody gotta win

470-1/2 ?

365k.

Going from orange peel to smooth reflector is usually a huge difference.