Quote from SamH :

The rest of the community? Like as a whole? You WISH!

My ass you don't. What a complete and utter troll you are.

You suck. I mean it, you really suck. God, I hate trolls.

Settle Sam, Settle =)

LIke most people at my work everyone seems to think that everything takes ten minutes and everything is a quick fix. How little do they know...

http://www.dragtimes.com/Dodge-Neon-SRT-4-Timeslip-9091.html

Here's my Timeslip.


http://www.autoblog.com/2005/0 ... track-day-dodge-srt4-acr/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_SRT-4

I donno, I might go EBC, wanted to stay away from them though.

You actually think you can get a clear picture by reading some words and looking at a few pictures on the net? By the pure nature of the written language and photo's you only see what the person wants you to see and you miss everything else.

If 1000 people say it's true, most who have never been anywhere other than their little computer screen it has to be true

Get out there for yourself, see how people live instead of pointing at pixels on a TV or computer screen.

I know lets go lynch the leader of (Insert country here) because they sent troops into a place I don't think we should have been in because they don't tell us every scrap of information. Information that would probably scare the pants off me and my 1000 other friends and send us all into panic.

You make it sound like your an expert because you have seen a bit of text on a computer screen. I am not saying what has been happening is right or wrong, I don't know I don't have all the information and the mass media sure as hell is not going to have it. They are after new yes, but their lives depend on them selling that bit of news so they are going to glam and season that bit of news as much as possible to get people to read it.

I have been to Iraq and have seen how those people lived, that was a crime in itself. Granted people can only be helped if they help themselves but you honestly think you can trust words form the internet. I bet I could surf the net and find a site somewhere to say that the whole Iraq war invasion was all conducted by a batch of supermonkies that were grown in a lab. I bet you somewhere, someone has written it on the net and because its on the net it's the gospel truth and I should believe every word of it.

Sure this post is immature but honestly, Imprison a Bush and Blair for Warcrimes? please you really are delusional, I hope the next time the spaceship lands to examine you they take you back.

Quote from Gnomie :

For comparison, how are the figures for rFactor? Do they have a smaller or larger online community?

There cannot be a direct comparison exactly, but we tried to figure it out a while ago. The maximum you will see online in RF or and GTR was around 200-300 or so. We could be wrong though.

Well compared to 6 months ago there are many more racers than before. When patch y came out LFS hit a new record of 1800 people online at once, small when compared to MMO's but for any type of racing game I don't think you will ever find a larger number.

Quote from Lateralus :

NASCAR venues are generally much closer together. Most of the races are in the southeast, and the others are in the contiguous US, except for Mexico. (Someone who follows NASCAR verify this, because I'm not sure).

It's a lot easier to move race cars, a team and all its equipment 300 miles from, say, North Carolina to Georgia than it is from Japan to Australia.

19 is a quite a few compared to other open-wheel series. I wouldn't say it's too many, but like I said some of the smaller teams might struggle to make it to the flyaway races especially.

I agree with the distance =) There are far more ovals than temporary street courses or road courses in the states so more wouldn't be possible I don't think.

It costs alot to move everything too. I know F1 will pay to move equipment for a team if they score a point I don't know how IRL does it. Hopefully IRL can bring in more than one car make too will see.

Quote from Lateralus :

Yeah this can pretty much only be a good thing. 19 races in a season is a lot though, considering that it's already February and they haven't even confirmed the dates yet. A lot of the smaller teams in both series may have problems raising the money to show up at each race.

That and it seems that the cars are not even prepped yet =)

19 doesn't seem THAT much. NASCAR runs over 35. Sure there are differences but car prep is car prep.

Finally! It was a sad day when they split 13 years ago(IIRC). I used to really enjoy these cars duking it out on the street courses.

Quote from Albieg :

C.R., there's a little problem with your post: no one, in this thread, said a bad thing about Americans, so it would be nice if you bring your irritation somewhere else.

Cheers Albieg, no your right. I will delete that post...long story short I am stressed out and wanted a place to vent, this just not being a proper place. Sorry.

:edit: Deleted because of obvious reasons...

Last edited by Christopher Raemisch, Wed 20 Feb 2008, 17:12.

I would love to monitor both oil temperature and pressure but I don't have sensors or gauges for either yet.

My rotors were definatly warped. They had to take 0.020 out of each side to get them to run true again. Because I didn't center the caliper when I first installed the brake kit when I went and put the track pads in they dragged on the rotor and gouged the inside which then caused the warp from too much heat.

When I first put the pads and rotors on I got deposits, but after some nice hard stops from a decent speed it went away. IIRC it was from the zinc plating used on the rotor mixed in with the top layer of the brake pad and you just need to bring the brake temperature up enough to bring the zinc past it's melting point and the deposits should go away.

I will try out my pads I use for the street on the track and see how they fair who knows when that will happen though.

I think it would be wise to delete your message and try again before your banned from the forum too =)

I understand where your coming from but this is not how to handle it.

Have a look at www.raceauthority.com and try those servers.

I have an 05 Dodge SRT-4 ACR so I am not shopping for anything =).

Well I could go back to a factory rear pad, I have been thinking about it but... I have not had the car corner weighted yet, I had a chance to get it done for free but I couldn't make the date... But TBH there isn't much I can do, my coilovers are not adjustable (Other than a 5 click dampening(bound and Rebound), eventually going to be running BC coilovers)

My street setup is a willwood BP10 (equivelent to HP+) compound on the front with the HP+ in the rear. For the Track I run wilwoods B race compound on the front with the same rear pads.

http://www.tceperformanceproducts.com/pads.html

I have not had a ton of tracktime so I have not had much of a chance to test this compound setup. I had warped my rotors the first time due to an improper caliper install (some dumb*** forgot to shim the caliper centered on the rotor and the pad dragged ever so slightly...) so I could not brake into the corners hard and had to come in, by then the damage was done.

Considering all the noob mistakes concerning equipment choices. I have made recently I am beginning to wonder if I chose the wrong hobby =)

Cheers Tristan,

I will have to do more searching then for wilwood. I must have done a piss poor job the last time, having a quick look I probably overlooked because most of what I see are rally shops selling them must remember to do my homework better...

I have already done my search when I initially bought the kit but I will have to have another look seeing as I missed wilwood dealers from the UK the last time. Since I am switching brands on the rear it will take a bit of calling so that I get the right size and compound. Not something I want to be doing on a saturday, ahwell, the joys of having an imported car.

I was thinking of going with mobil1 synth. but I didn't know if there were 'better' brands that were as well known. How does redline compare? I see that they were promoting at the the trackday I went to last year.

I was debating about going to a 10w-30 for the UK. The reason Dodge ran 5w is that these cars need the ability to start in sub 0 conditions and I will never see it that cold in the UK. I don't know though, I have to do more homework.

Another thing, does anyone get their oil analyzed? I am thinking of starting do monitor my oil through these samples to see how my internals are fairing but I didn't know if it was really worth it.

I have been running Royal Purple 5w30 in my car but I have to import the oil into the country every 6k miles and I was wondering what people in the UK use for good performance motor oil? I do a trackday or two a year and go drag racing a couple times a year but otherwise the car is a daily driver.

I have heard of Redline but I am wondering what everyone thinks about their oil? I have not really heard of them. Is there any other good brands available?



The second bit is pads. I am currently using a Wilwood pads on the front but again I believe I have to import Wilwood components. My Rear pads are Hawk HP+ but I am considering going to a pad with less of a bite because of the brake proportioning valve I really don't use the rears that much unless I am just driving around. What is a good brand for performance brake pads in the UK?

how many hp do people get with a pedal bike? =)

Quote from 11SuLLy11 :

Run it in on a Dyno ? if you don't want to toodle around for ages lol

Dyno a moped?!

ROFL 27 people voted NFSU2 ROFL

Someone is taking the micky of this poll.

Considering that you asked in the LFS forum I wonder what insight you would gain from asking here? People who view this forum are mostly LFS players and they are going to be playing LFS because of the realistic environment which would include the racing bit.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Best way to run an engine in is to use it - that includes full throttle and high revs to generate sufficient gas pressure to bed the rings in (which only work properly with gas pressure), low revs full throttle, medium revs part throttle.

Don't thrash it. ALWAYS let it warm up before using full throttle. Your running cool issue WILL reduce reliability on a 2-stroke, so get that sorted. Running an engine cold not only reduces power, but also increases wear as it decreases piston:liner clearances.

ANYONE who says run an engine in by NOT using full throttle at all is a twat, and that includes the manufacturer (who, after all, are merely covering their own backs). Do the girly "must not rev it" bedding in will merely make your rings leak, and you'll lose cylinder pressure and power - and it will not recover without some hard thrashing later in life, so just avoid it in the first place.

Your manual is wrong Jack. Don't bring in alot of heat into the engine but the only way the rings are going to seat is if there is gas pressure pushing them against the piston wall. I don't know how your engine is exactly but most engines from the factory now have scoring on the piston wall to help bedding and from what I read MOST of the bedding in happens in the first 20 miles.

Just get the engine nice and warm, give it a hard pull, run at a steady slowish speed for a bit and give it another hard pull. The key is to create lots of gas pressure, without alot of heat so keep the revs down.

I know when my neighbor bedded in his ceramic rings they would do first gear launches for the first few miles to get the chamber pressures up, without having too much heat.

Rejetting would mean you buy a little nozzle, unscrew the old one, and put the new one in. The nozzle should be living in the carburetor.

FYI stuff like this should be posted in the leagues and events section.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Take one ugly BMW, add ugly bodywork bits and hey presto a REALLY ugly car.

Might be quick, but I bet the driver is an **** and never uses his indicators I'd take a slower, prettier car any day

We know Tristan, someone caught you the other day with a new perm sitting in your MX5

The car doesn't do anything for me. Nothing on it screams "get out of my way" or "don't mess with me" It does look well put together, most BMW's do, but they don't give me any emotion.

Last edited by Christopher Raemisch, Sat 9 Feb 2008, 14:19.

Quote from tristancliffe :

£99 two years ago at Silverstone for all three days, with open grandstands on the Friday. Woodcote Grandstands would be mega bucks, and I didn't even look that far down the price list!!!

£99 is roughly $195 at the moment, but was probably closer to $175 then.

A three day grandstand at Silverstone for F1 starts at 209 pounds and if you want to go just to the race on Sunday you will need to find 160 pounds to have any type of reserved seating, which is what you would get at Bristol.

You can get roving grandstand 'seats' but you will have nowhere to sit and your not allowed in the stands and must find a place on the grass. A three day ticket for this is 100pounds.

http://www.silverstone.co.uk/php/rm_britishGP.html

Quote from lizardfolk :

FYI Tristan NASCAR drivers has never really had a problem racing in the rain. In fact quite a few have requested it. So dont give hollow insults

He just likes 'getting people's goat' and intentionally says things to piss people off about NASCAR because he knows it's a sore spot for people. Generally he's a really smart guy but when it comes to NASCAR his IQ tends to drop...

Quote from wheel4hummer :

What about teh internets?

I was thinking the same thing, not to mention cable television which broadcast most races

You put an F1 on a banking see how they fair, didn't they try that at indy two years ago and out of 22 starters they only had 6 finishers because the tires couldn't handle the cornering forces and the tire manufacturers had to design a new tire?