He probably wants to have a .vob mod anyways... what's the point in requesting a skin with 4 straight white stripes on it? Nothing you can't do with paint...

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

I love the blue gauges in my Jetta. Driving late at night it looks so awesome. Blue gauge, red needles. Very snazzy.

Ever since I have seen those dials I found the contrast to be very very bad and I would have issues to focus on the blue numbers permanently.

Quote from G!NhO :

I have an E30 320i yes, looks perfect imo. Only on the back though yet.
Pics will follow when all 4 are on.

Oh.. don't know why exactly but I had the picture in mind you were driving an E21.^^

Quote from Agniz :

Have you totally gone nuts?! These are one of the best rims for E30, as well, as BBS RS and Borbet T

I know of no Borbet wheel that doesn't look extremely cheap and lame. Also the Borbet T looks like a nienties design so it absolutely doesn't fit the E21. By the way who said anything about an E30?

Quote from G!NhO :

4 White Borbet A 9Jx16 ET15 all round, 4 Brand new Pirelli P zero nero 215/40/16.

Have you totally gone nuts?! Please, please don't fit those ugly rims because a) thousands of other people have done it and b) they are ugly as shyte!

Quote from E.Reiljans :

So true.. and so sad

It is true to some extend, because popular music nowadays is mostly dumb. I hate how people still fall for turning on hit music radio stations but in the end it's your choice so who's fault is it?

I don't listen to that crap if I can avoid it.




Edit: For the threads sake




Edit2: -.-

Last edited by 5tag, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:49.

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

Ford made a fantastic little engine with their 1.8 N/A diesel. With nothing but tick over it was able to pull Vanessa up a rutted hilly dirt track. DIESEL POWA!

Can you tell I had nothing to do today?

Unless somebody let it idle at over 2000 rpm that's a very long first gear.

Quote from Bose321 :

You mean bezel compensation?

Didn't know there's a name for it but yes, I meant that.^^

Quote from PMD9409 :

You gotta line that up better, or at least I would. Disturbs me so much.

If he has three seperate monitors each of them will have a case of some sort sticking out so from the left end of the middle monitor to the right end of the left monitor there would be a certain distance between the pixels (20-50mm I guess). He just compensated that effect I think.

Quote from hazaky :

Animal abuse, no?

Are you blind? It's a photo shop, dude...

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

rotor! wankel engined e30! epic!

Quote from G!NhO :

I don't know all the right words..

I guess he meant the cooling fan.

Quote from Lu-Kaida :

Ah well, guess this topic is pointless now

I am not interested in vob mods as they are not allowed on the servers I go to.

Nice move there! Personally I'd not mind if anybody wanted to change the cars shape but the problem is, if two clients have different models for the same cars and they race next to each other closely, crashes are likely to happen, from what I've heard.

Quote from dadge :

in a race against a wookie, yes. even the slightest improvement is an improvement non-the-less.
WRC cars use wings and they don't handle too well at low speed without them. anyways, i think we're veering off topic.

You still haven't got it, have you? All I was saying is: Yes, there may be a downforce and thus there's a theoretical improvement in handling but there are many many other things to concern too which may "weight" far more.
You may be faster with a complete skin head than with 5mm long hair on your head. Now say you were to have a sprint race would you start thinking: "Hmm, how could I get faster? Yup, I'm gonna shave my head first!" ? Appearently, if you really would, you're just as weird to me and make no sense just to defend your points. However...

Quote from Lu-Kaida :

Haven't really thought about it that way, but gotta admit it is a fair point.

Guess i wanted the cars to be alike too much

Many can't take the LFS cars as what they are. That's why .vob modifications are pretty popular. They feel their immersion will increase if they know that their car looks like a real one counterpart from the outside... roughly.

Quote from dadge :

so would adding more wing increase low speed downforce?
the reason i ask is because that's what i was getting at when i posted:

Does your weight lower after you loose three hairs? Yes but will it improve your 100m sprint time?

Quote from dadge :

i assumed we were talking about a working wing/diffuser.

A wing (that stands out properly from the rest of the cars shape in contrast to a spoiler) will work standalone, a diffuser won't.

And yes, you do have to go fast to get downforce in a reasonable amount because air drag/lift/downforce rise exponentially related to the speed.

Quote from dadge :

you don't need to go fast to get down force. you just need a big enough wing/diffuser.

Without the under side of the car being fully covered and without air guidance (small "fences" from front to back) a diffuser will be pretty useless...


Edit: Plus a minimal ride height.

The example with the Porsche fake is actually something different, because the FZ50 is pretty much all based on a 911. It's got the same engine in the same place, the overall shape is loosely the same (except for the chunky back of the FZ).

A Corvette C3 is a totally different car, it's much much older, the back is shorter and higher off the ground (no engine there), it has no second side window... I hope you get this will just be probably a waste of time and will look totally wrong and nothing like a corvette.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

I think I'm gonna install 2 wings, and a diffuser. need more downforce at the rear. the rear slides out too much in the corners. Damn FWD.

:feedtroll

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

It's just "pointless, why are you trying to add downforce/speed"?

Most of the time the mods are pointless, too. For instance the BMW drivers here, why do they all have to get "angel eyes", smoked or white indicators or gay LED rear lights?

People tend to follow tuning trends, remember the Euro style clear chrome rear lights? ... awful!

I find it that ugly that I sprayed the indicators of my car (built in 1982) orange, because they were white from stock but I found it absolutely didn't match.


It's the same with all these spoilers and wings and body kits. Look at an Austin Metro 6R4. Doesn't it look sexy although you'd have a 70% chance of damaging the bodywork when trying to push it anywhere with your hands? That's because you can see the design, the appearence is a consequence of all the technical details.

"Tuning" on the other side is trying to imitate these designs so to act as if the technical reasons were already there for it - with the outcome often looking utterly senseless. For instance people like to drive cars with 18" rims but then the brake discs found on these measure some 250mm... it just looks ridiculous.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Either stfu or gtfo.

Dude... this is still an online forum... for discussions, opinions and that sort of stuff, you know?

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

Also comes from a guy who was taking the piss.

When you can out drive a tart in his knobed up Corsa, it is a lot of fun hooning a van. Try it one day, you'll realise why I enjoy beating on a van.

I've driven fast cars (on and off the track) and they have a completely different kind of pleasure.

I had the most ponderable pleasure of having a ride in an Escort van, just like yours but in a very lovely red gloss paint. That engine truely is a masterpiece!

You may have fun whilst driving but the driving itself being fun is actually something very different to me.

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

It is FWD, who needs the rears pushing into the ground? You need lift over the back, then it'll be more tail happy.

Mind me adding this comes from some bloke who thinks driving an 1.8 naturally aspirated Diesel with flat springs in the back could be anything close to "fun".

Quote from [Audi TT] :

Very good job turned out. Impressive.

I think the motion blur turned out pretty good. The rest is rather amateur-ish

Quote from PMD9409 :

I was hinting toward incest.

So, were you, huh?