No they are not the best and I don't like them, just silly talk about junk food. Don't forget ho-ho's and ding-dongs.
FYI twinkies have 150 calories almost 1/2 that of a snickers or Mars bar.
These things are like eat twinkies! Never really liked jaffacakes or jammy dodger, but I would have to agree that a Jammy dodger is worth more than a Jaffacake!
well at least they don't have a shelf life of something like 10 years a twinkie does...
Hehe wait until you do the event before you say that 
It's fun getting together with people, but his setup isn't much more than a glorified projector setup. He wants motion simulators, but he would need some serious investment to bring those in.
It's fun getting together with people, but his setup isn't much more than a glorified projector setup. He wants motion simulators, but he would need some serious investment to bring those in.
Ahh cool, I didn't know it was a competition in Autosport, I always thought it was because Tristan won the Mono2000 championship in his Reynard.
Getting closer to being able to go, only 3 more peopel need to drop out =) I have not raced LFS properly in about a year IIRC =(
Getting closer to being able to go, only 3 more peopel need to drop out =) I have not raced LFS properly in about a year IIRC =(
Kinda, it will want to keep changing gear though on let offs and again when the power is applied.
Hehe thats good to hear!
If I am able to go I will be driving. I haven't had a chance to get on the road for a while in my car and want to see how my MPG has changed since the new o2 housing and 3" exhaust.
Yeah your right, it's the other way around
They do the same thing, get them confused =(Tough luck, how fast were you going? I see it's on a bend, that didn't help. On top of that it looks like the hedges start getting higher just at the bend so you really couldn't see oncoming traffic =(
Least you are alright, that could have gone much worse.
It's always a good idea to stick to the main roads when the weather is poor. Someone else is usually bound to find the ice before you then! They are better maintained too and they would have probably been gritted, saying that for all I know your GF lives in a village with only single tracks going to it =)
Least you are alright, that could have gone much worse.
It's always a good idea to stick to the main roads when the weather is poor. Someone else is usually bound to find the ice before you then! They are better maintained too and they would have probably been gritted, saying that for all I know your GF lives in a village with only single tracks going to it =)
Well it's a bit bend, but not quite 90 degrees. The factory exhaust was 2.25 bent in the same configuration. They had to route the exhaust back up and around the rear control arms, there is no other place to run it. It doesn't help that there is a cat and muffler in the system either =) You are right, they don't help, but it's 3 inches for an i4. There are V8's out there that don't run that large of an exhaust =)
Ideally I would have gone with the sidepipes, but not with a baby in the car.
Still, between the housing and exhaust I should gain 10-15 HP and 10-15 ft-lbs. I get a better spool now too and holds longer. In the higher revs I was dropping to 8-9 PSI, now it holds around 11 after the 14PSI that kicks in at around 2200. The ECU regulates the boost so HP remains fairly constant so drivability is better from day to day. If I would have gone with their single straitpipe I could see gains of almost 25HP, but need a cat for emissions, and a muffler for noise sooo....
It's a nice cheap car with a great engine. I have the ACR so I have a great suspension too, if only still cheap. Never know the difference though when you see Porshe's in your rear view mirror =) Insurance is dirt cheap too. Ideally I would have gone with something more 'advanced' but a big (for an i4) engine and struts this car is great.
Resale value is showing it too, you can't hardly get ACR's now for less than they were new and the standard SRT4's haven't dropped that much in price either.
Thats how I do it, though I do get problems sometimes of increasing the brake pressure on top of trying to blip.
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Hehe, better yet maybe their car should have an ECU that can cope with it =P But if your going atmospheric your not really thinking with performance in mind...
Hehe, mine came loose too, lock-tite FTW.
GPL is alright, good for some laughs =)
The only difference between gpl and lfs is that he has a sector timer that shows up on the screen for gpl, where lfs he has nothing.
The only difference between gpl and lfs is that he has a sector timer that shows up on the screen for gpl, where lfs he has nothing.
Well if the blowoff valve is active you want as little power as possible, since the blow off almost always occurs when you want little or no power, hence getting rid of the excess air charge so HP is irrelevant to having recirc vs. open.
You will get a faster spool with a recirc valve than atmo. but some of that pressure makes it back to the engine while deacceling. A/F ratios mean very little during deaccel but it will mess with A/F if you swap to atmo from recirc.
Its rare to see a maf and map sensor on the same car. One can easily calculate the other.
You will get a faster spool with a recirc valve than atmo. but some of that pressure makes it back to the engine while deacceling. A/F ratios mean very little during deaccel but it will mess with A/F if you swap to atmo from recirc.
Its rare to see a maf and map sensor on the same car. One can easily calculate the other.
You can almost get a Vette for the price of a Boxter S. You can get FWD hot hatches that are faster than than it for 1/2 the price.
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I think by the time it's all said and done, by the time you get driver swaps in and everyone is situated after the rotation you will be lucky to push 4-5 total 30 minute races. I didn't practice GPL (Don't have it) and I lost the fasest lap by .01 seconds.
LFS I did a bit of practice, but not too much. I 'could' get very near my times from home ( I think it helped that I had the exact same wheel/pedal combo he does, Momo Wheel, with BRDspee7 pedals w/ a spring kit to get the brakes feeling more like real life) But it was a challenge, I think mostly because I had been driving on the road for 2+ hours just beforehand, and I was in new surroundings.
No, it was pretty tight when we were there. 1 thing that I didn't really like last time was the inability to talk to anyone from the other heat while at the venue. Another reason for mixing up the heats =)
Antt I am coming from Oxford way if there is a slot for me, maybe I could give you a lift, I donno about sitting in a car for two hours with someone I don't know though.
I like Becky's idea, you could run a heat A/B then to crown a champion rotate the bottom 4-5 from heat A to B and vice versa.
I like larger races because, like Tristan said, it would help prevent people overdriving early on. But I think it would get a bit tedious I think if we had a long race to wait through because at max only 10 people can race at a time, unless he's doubled his rigs since we went down. That was two years ago though wasn't it Bob?
I like larger races because, like Tristan said, it would help prevent people overdriving early on. But I think it would get a bit tedious I think if we had a long race to wait through because at max only 10 people can race at a time, unless he's doubled his rigs since we went down. That was two years ago though wasn't it Bob?
With a turbo it's difficult to run a MAP sensor on the intake manifold. The pressures vary widely and the sensors have problems coping from what I understand. My car varies pressure from 30 pounds of vacuum to 15PSI within a second or so. Hence the MAF sensor instead.
@ nathan If you run rich your engine temperatures go down, not up. I think what you mean is the unburnt fuel enters into exhaust manifold, causing an explosion in the exhaust, which may eventually cause problems with the cat.
You would have to go lean to have in increase in engine temps, and then the cat is the least of your worries =)
@ wheel4hummer Can't agree more, that noise comes from restriction of some sort. If there was no restriction than you would have no sound. No restriction = faster pressure bleed-off.
@ nathan If you run rich your engine temperatures go down, not up. I think what you mean is the unburnt fuel enters into exhaust manifold, causing an explosion in the exhaust, which may eventually cause problems with the cat.
You would have to go lean to have in increase in engine temps, and then the cat is the least of your worries =)
@ wheel4hummer Can't agree more, that noise comes from restriction of some sort. If there was no restriction than you would have no sound. No restriction = faster pressure bleed-off.
Bob the Ferrari was meant to be 'easy' and is the reason why we went with it. There are plenty of other cars they have that are much more tricky IIRC. Still I had fun preventing the car from going backwards into the corner, and I doubt many people will have much experience with GPL to use many of the other cars without having a crash fest without at least a little prior practice.
Is it possible for me to be put on the list please? I had fun last time, and it's good seeing people.
Is it possible for me to be put on the list please? I had fun last time, and it's good seeing people.
Doh looks full =)
I had fun when Bob put this on. The wheels are abused from constant use but still fun to play LFS with the BRD pedals and projector screens.
I had fun when Bob put this on. The wheels are abused from constant use but still fun to play LFS with the BRD pedals and projector screens.
The reason for such a big literage is for the torque available from nearly idle. Which is what a drag car/wheelie car needs. Having HP/Torque at a high rpm like you would have in a smaller engine wastes time that a drag racer doesn't really have.
A SB 'can' reach this much HP, but powerbands are more likely to be higher, with less torque. A forced induction engine, while still capable, wastes even more time and is extremely difficult to to tune accurately for each launch because the power is constantly changing dramatically as the weather changes. A roots will have parasitic losses at the end of the run, cutting down trap speeds. A centrifuge will have lag and parasitic losses...
Even waiting .5 seconds for turbo spool is too much for a drag racer when their race can last as little as 5 seconds.
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I understand dampers for the most part. I was only trying to to explain that the shock/coilover market explain each setting as an 'adjustment' and the C/O's I showed you were '32 way adjustable.
You are right, it has 32 settings and it's singly adjustable, like ajp mentioned.
I don't think they should call each setting a 'way'. When I first looked at shocks it made me confused too. I thought a way would be like adjusting the rebound separate from the bound and have slow/fast adjusters too.
I understand shocks and how they are used for the most part in setup. Just showing you that more than likely that the 8-way shock for the atom is probably a shock that has 8 different settings and not 8 different parameters that can be changed.
You are right, it has 32 settings and it's singly adjustable, like ajp mentioned.
I don't think they should call each setting a 'way'. When I first looked at shocks it made me confused too. I thought a way would be like adjusting the rebound separate from the bound and have slow/fast adjusters too.
I understand shocks and how they are used for the most part in setup. Just showing you that more than likely that the 8-way shock for the atom is probably a shock that has 8 different settings and not 8 different parameters that can be changed.
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