Congrats Tristan sounds like you had a blast. Hopefully you can pull it off again.

I am happy to be a mechanic for a wekend if you would have me. I grew up around tools and shops. With the military I have the discipline to use the right too for the job. I probably take 50 pictures a week at work I just have not been around racecars for years, and never around a single seater.

Ajp71 would be your best bet though I would think. Would understand totally if you didn't want me, American's do tend to be 'abrasive'

:edit: Doh Ajp71 already said he couldn't make it... and a new lap record!

Last edited by Christopher Raemisch, Fri 11 Apr 2008, 16:02.

Dodge Viper GTS-R

http://infynyteon.iespana.es/1998gt2.jpg

Quote from Mike Bingo :

Just out of curiousity how many ginger people will be attending???

Depends on how many boxes of cookies I bring with me

Quote from tristancliffe :

DOT5 is Silicon based, which is MORE compressible than Polyglycol fluid. Your brakes will feel worse.

It does NOT absorb water, so the boiling point will remain pretty constant after several years. But if additional water is introducted then that will boil at 100°C, giving you no brakes anyway.

Some seals can be damaged I think, but the main problem is that it's less lubricating, so the seals wear more, and the fluid is more prone to airation, so it's REALLY hard to bleed.

DOT5 tends to not eat paintwork, but you have to be a bit stupid to spill it on your car anyway.

Only a complete muppet uses DOT5 fluid, because it's rubbish.

Cheers for the clearup, all I heard was rumors. Your statements tend to revolve around facts so

Racing Dot3 for me here, Wilwood 570 Dot3. Which reminds me... I could another change out again.

Quote from Tomtheman70 :

Damn. :o

LFS has really taken off.

What would you expect? =) Quality products will attract people =) Considering that very little promotion is done and this 200,000 was virtually created by word of mouth says something I think =)

Quote from tristancliffe :

DOT4 fluid boils at 230°C dry, so it cannot be 'one of the best fluids money can buy'. DOT5.1 boild at 270°C, and it's considered rubbish for anything in a racing environment.

The brake fluid you quoted is not DOT4. In fact I doubt it's DOT rated, but if it is, it will get a lower rating because of increase hydroscopic action.

What IS the deal with DOT5? I heard it has really good resistance to compressibility and heat resistance, but because it's silicon based if there is any water in the system at all it will separate and give you a boiling point of 100degrees =)

I have also heard that it damages seals, especially in a system that has already had Dot3 or dot4. You know anything else or any information I have inaccurate?

Quote from BaDfiSH07 :

Graham Rahal wins St Pete Grand Prix! amazing hes the same age as me

http://m.floridatoday.com/news.jsp?key=66032&rc=ne

Must be nice to have a connected family =)

Grats to him, sounds like he is on a promising career!

Quote from Stang70Fastback :

Note to self: Do not steer to right on left-hand oval track.

If it was only that easy =)

Quote from Stang70Fastback :

Completely off topic now but still related. Say, for instance, that I was looking to buy a new car RIGHT NOW, and was very, VERY interested in the new Diesel Subaru Outback sold in the UK. How complicated would it be to bring a car like that stateside. Are safety requirements and such vastly different, or would it take very little to get a car like that certified to drive in the US? Or is any of that even necessary? I've always been curious what the complications would be of buying a European car for use in the USA.

If you want to drive it yes it will have to have the lights converted and few other things to have it road legal. If your bringing it over for parts no you don't have to. You will have to pay an import duty though. It depends on the make of the vehicle and I wouldn't be able to give specifics, sorry. A conversion company probably could help.

Last edited by Christopher Raemisch, Sat 5 Apr 2008, 20:16.

Yay :dance:

Seems healthy to me, now just to get those demo people over to S2 =)

Quote from sam93 :

Well thanks for saying they were copper was what I said but Christopher Raemisch must of read my post wrong as I said they used to made with copper but no longer.

They ARE made with copper, just something around 1-5% of what they normally were, they are COPPER plated which means the outside is still 100% copper or a type of copper alloy, by definition copper MUST be present...

Last edited by Christopher Raemisch, Sat 5 Apr 2008, 08:37.

Quote from sam93 :

No, they used to use actual copper in them, but they haven't for years only found out the other day. Obviously for health and safety reasons they changed it. I know that it was copper because my step mum said if you weighed in a old 1p coin what was actual copper it wouldn't even be worth 1p it will be worth less.

Whoever gave you that information is wrong. They are copper-plated steel.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4900524.stm

Quote from ajp71 :

Maybe because they're copper plated?

=) That thar be the reason =)



I think Edmunds sum these cars up properly.. "...in French etymology, which reveals that "MR2" pronounced phonetically en francais sounds like the word for…excrement..." =P So in France these cars are only called MR.

Seriously though they seem good cars, just hope you have another car to get groceries or to do any errands in because you won't get much of anything in that car. Could have a bit more power I suppose, but with MR maybe less power is a good thing.

Last edited by Christopher Raemisch, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 22:07.

Quote from Shotglass :

i dont remember having a personal vendetta against you so i supposed that wouldnt pose a problem
however apparently the only "london" airport i can get to cheaply is stansted

=)

That works too, long as you chip in for fuel =)

Quote from Becky Rose :

Just to confirm it is still my intention to be there, i'm just not in a position to pay as i'm currently on sick pay for another month or two, i'll be fine by then though.

=) Hopefully you can make it =)

Still working on finances here, bought tires and road tax this month so that was 500 pounds =/

Quote from tristancliffe :

It's Tristan.

But a) I was joking and b) it doesn't cost that much for a crate on a ship between the US and here - we do that quite regularly for customers cars, and they can be unloaded at Lotus, where they have a ramp for such things!

If you do RORO it cost me $900 to ship from the New York to Southampton. There were other costs like shipment to NY and safety conversion, but the transport itself was really cheap. At least it was for me, thinking about it, it's been a year ago this week that I drove my car off the dock =)

A container shipment IIRC is about $2000, that was the cheapest I had seen IIRC.

Quote from Shotglass :

sounds lovely but both the ferry and the petrol to go the ~600km wont be cheap
plus i dont know what kind of car ill have once i earn my own money



iirc ryanair offers cheap flights from frankfurt to newcastle (did apparently as i cant find any on their site) and air berlin has cheap ones from here (nuremberg) to london
too bad trains to frankfurt are sure to be stupidly expensive

I don't know where you stand with me personally but I am happy to pick anyone up from the airport in london or gatwick.

Quote from BBO@BSR :

The estimated value of triple7racing.net is: $5,830


dnscoop.com
uses (like most other sites of that kind)
totally random and useles stuff to generate
complete unrealistical values.

It's funny, nothng more

Well I donno, I think the site's trying to be serious.

Value of CTRA www.raceauthority.com $34,814

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Personally I'd rather have a bunch of extremely fat people next to me. For blast absorption, and because they run slower.

lol that works too =)

Quote from Mazz4200 :

Yeah yeah, joke all you want, but i know i'd never do anything like that.

This guys a chuffin hero..

.. or suicidal

If you have ever worked with commando's or Marines it's usually the latter Won't find a closer knit or better bunch of people though and if I was in their situations they would be the ones to have next to me, thats for sure =)

Nice =) Must have been fun =)

What car was that? I want to say Camaro but I can't really tell, can only see a little bit of the dash =)

Have a quick look at the original thread for a little more information =)

Quote from Richard Torp :

If just I was from UK or IRE...

Even I couldn`t win I would support this. If you can`t win, LFS can win..

I want to pay for two drivers. You must got a PayPal account. If you want to join this, then contact me in a PM. You must be DEDICATED to the series, but doesn`t matter if you are slow or fast...

Only for people who hasn`t signed up yet..

Woo, makes me tempted to join myself =)

Cheers for the support everyone! This is indeed where the best races in LFS league racing will be held, no doubt about it. With CTRA governing and sanctioning all of E-Sport's events you are Guaranteed to have some fair racing =)

Hopefully we can drum up more interest, check out this fantastic opportunity!

UK ETM SIGNUPS OPEN!
The Inaugural season of the UK ETM is finally up and running, with the schedule decided, ready, and waiting for drivers. If the other ETM divisions are any indicator this division will be an exciting one! With the top drivers being sent into the international division to compete with the best and greatest in Live for Speed touring cars, this is a chance for the aspiring driver that they just can’t pass up! Last season in the international division we saw Nils Naujoks and Marco Schade both receive an all inclusive trip to watch a Formula 1 race weekend at Monaco, after Nils won the championship and Schade won the final race of the season. Couple with this is the opportunity to be broadcast LIVE on eSports LIVE-streams, eSports really is where it’s at.

There will be 8 races, all held between April and the end of June. The winner of UK division will have the opportunity to run in the International Cup. See below for more specifics.

Start Date: Tuesday 01 April 2008
Number of events: 8
Finish Date: Tuesday 24 June 2008
Start Time: 1930 UK Time
Qualify Length: 15 minutes
Race length: Aproximately 1 Hour
Entrance Fee: €5.95 Euro

Original Thread
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=39608

Signups now open!
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Quote from Stang70Fastback :

I guess maybe out west? IDK, on the east coast I really don't think that holds true at all...

Pretty much everywhere but the east coast then It's the same way my Uncle made his house in Portland and they are made that way in Texas roughly from what I have seen and when I lived in Georgia thats how it seemed too.