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ajp71
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Quote from mcgas001 :Hey! Thats no fair lol. I have a 2001 Vauxhall Astra 1.6 with a 600 watt sub and amp thats fairly loud. Does that make me a chav and my car worth £5?

Yes and yes (case study)
ajp71
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Quote from pb32000 :I never said a word about speakers. Don't make things up thanks.

I never said you did. The discussion started with a not terribly well thought out suggestion that buying an expensive head unit would allow Jakg to have an input jack.
ajp71
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Quote from pb32000 :Ooh it looks 'chavvy', you must be a chav for buying that. Who cares if you it produces 100x better audio, you must be a chav. No.

You're missing the point, the suggestion was to get a new head unit and keep the standard speakers, which is even more pointless than trying to get decent audio in a car.

Quote from sam93 :Can you prove that?

Yes.
ajp71
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Quote from sam93 :I would of posted a link to some Clarions I know of, cost £400 a piece. Built in hard drive, MP3, Ipod and so on, amazing stereo's, my dad got one, couldn't find a fault with it

Two problems. Firstly it looks chavvy and secondly it is worth as much as the car and would significantly increase the chance of some chav taking an interest in the car.
ajp71
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Quote from sam93 :It doesn't really take much to do though does it, I know it may take a while the first time he installs a aftermarket stereo, but everyone has to start some where.

Chance of an after market radio not looking naff is pretty low given that they are mainly designed to attract boy racer chavs. The few that are stylish would look silly in a Proton and are probably worth more than the car itself. It is a pretty stupid suggestion, if the replacement does not fit as a straight replacement then putting it into the dashboard subtly would at the very least require a good blank to be machined to fit it (assuming he doesn't want to go the chavved up Corsa route).
ajp71
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Quote from MAGGOT :I believe running online with any such mods automatically voids such records from being set (personal and world) so there shouldn't be a problem there. Additionally, I don't believe there is any problem with running a league with mods like slicktyre. Just be sure to keep it a private server (which all leagues should be doing during race times anyways).

That isn't the case, autocross layouts (shorter than track) also set PBs. To run a league with mods it is probably best to choose obscure tracks and slow them down a bit with autocross objects to stop messing up peoples' PBs.
ajp71
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Fuel consumption in LFS is already far too simple. Real racing cars normally have no idea how much fuel they have in them, those that have a capacity to refuel mid race will often only have a low fuel warning light and when a guage of some sort is fitted it usually acts in a bizare non-linear way and normally only on the lower fuel cell. When real racing cars run out of fuel there is often no warning, proper fuel systems always hold about a litre in an anti-surge tank meaning unlike road cars they just stop dead without warning.

At the moment in LFS we know exact fuel consumption and never have an excuse to run out, which takes a lot of the guessing out. If we had to rely on a warning light and conventional guage it would be much more challenging and people wouldn't be able to cut it so fine.
ajp71
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If you want really old threads (and people who are a bit slow at finding this forum) then you want here.
ajp71
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Quote from Bladerunner :Ordered it over an hour ago...VERY surprised that I have not yet received the "Confirmation E-mail" that usually arrives within seconds of me clicking "confirm order"...
Bah...got them all anyway, just would have been nice to have a boxed set

I ordered 3 and got the confirmation e-mail straight away.
ajp71
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Quote from harjun :mate thats why it's called MINIMUM wage, go get a proper job, educated people like my parents, and me going to haberdashers boys school, is gonna grow up to become something like a dentist or go into medicine.
if you're educated enough Minimum wage is minimum to live, you should be taking £0 in for your social life. that money is to live on all the minimum luxuries in life.

Oh dear you have just totally and utterly failed.
ajp71
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Quote from Christopher Raemisch :
The honda Civic weighs 2800 pounds, see lots of people driving those too in the UK.

Mazda 3 again 2800 pounds.

I fail to see much of a difference in the car weights with the newer cars. Older cars are a different story and I think that shows how the brits live and afford more than anything. I don't see many new cars on the road that weigh under 2600-2700 pounds in the UK.

Here's another one that they sell in the states now I believe.

http://www.edmunds.com/new/200 ... stra/100913114/specs.html almost 3k pounds.

http://www.edmunds.com/new/200 ... ocus/100924402/specs.html

Another popular car in the States when I went. 2600 pounds.

All European/Japanese full size cars or super duper compacts for the US market. The fact that an Astra is now so heavy is a rather sad reflection on how car design has gone backwards, in just two model updates it has managed to add 50% onto its weight, imagine building a mark 3 Astra with todays manufacturing techniques and materials and a modern engine, it would absolutely fly and be far more economical and relevant to the whole environmental front.

When I went to the US last Summer we hired a Ford Taurus X, a car just shy of two tonnes, 4WD, soft and automatic. This seemed to be pretty typical and in no way a big car for the US roads after a few hours on US roads it felt perfectly normal to be driving around in such a big car and nice and spacious and we couldn't believe how little it cost to fill up. A fortnight later the roof lining had fallen off, interior lights didn't work and it had some strange rattles (this was a brand new car that we had to wait to be driven off the transporter when we picked it up). In short the build quality was appalling, the ride was so soft it was bouncy, fuel economy was non-existent (because it was dragging around 2 tons and needlessly powering two wheels), driving experience was totally detached (what you expect in an automatic American car really). The only good bits were the perception of luxury, the amount of metal you can buy in the US for a not very hot hatch here and the engine, which was fantastic though you'd be forgiven for not realising it had 263bhp when you opened the taps and the thing just bogged down like you might expect an underpowered hatchback to.
ajp71
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Quote from DHRammstein :
"The same way you do in any car" Yeah, it's real safe accelerating at that slow of a pace getting onto the highway, you probably have to redline every gear to get to the speed limit, while I'm just gently pressing the thottle in 6th gear.

A 1.6 isn't small, it is still the top of the range model on a lot of small cars over here, the Fiesta 1.6 can do 0-60 in under 10 seconds and it is just an everyday cheap hatchback that, like all new cars, is hugely overweight (but not in American proportions). How many cars and pick ups on a US highway can actually keep up with with a small hatchback in a straight line, let alone round a corner?

A modern 1.6 litre engine is perfectly capable of running at motorway speeds and is more than you need for a good thrash on road or track. If there isn't enough power the car is too heavy.

Any sports car with more than 250bhp that can't get 60 in under 5 seconds has a major issue and it isn't lack of power, more lack of lightness.
ajp71
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Quote from Hyperactive :Even booze is cheaper in usa/canada

They drink piss water though and don't have the capacity of the stereotypical Finn
ajp71
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I can't see the camera in that photo. IIRC they used to have to carry either a roll bar camera of a blank of the same weight in its place. Now though I'd be suprised if they haven't made all the cameras compulsary all the time, it's not as if there is a cost worry.
ajp71
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Quote from STROBE :
At the end of the day, you're the one getting extremely defensive. I thought my post was quite reasonable - it acknowledged that it could have been much worse if you'd been doing it in a less appropriate area, but that it's still a public road and just isn't ever totally appropriate. But your response just confirms the stereotype I was suspecting all along. You're 27 and a father, but have the "I can react/drive quicker than anything in my path" attitude of a 17 year old. Grow up.

TBH I say so what? The risk of injuring yourself let alone somebody else on a straight piece dual carriageway with clear visibility in the middle of no where is so remote not to worry about, you're far more likely to hit someone or something as you drive innocently around town minding your own business. I don't think you appreciate how remote large parts of the 'states are, we simply don't have areas south of the remotest reaches of Scotland where you genuinely can drive for 40 miles without passing anything of any note. After all who here would be so opposed to legally driving down the Autobahn at this speed in the middle of the night?

The only two somewhat dodgey things done in this video are coming to a stop/meging from a standing start onto the highway (but I'm sure if visibility was good this wouldn't really be an issue) and the fact it was filmed, which is always a bit contentious and whilst I'll happily do stupid things in cars I'd rather there wasn't any quite so incriminating evidence, and definately wouldn't post it publically.

You might be horrified to hear of a sport called 'road rallying' which does produce cheap laughs and the odd spill, certainly far more dangerous than driving down an empty motorway at speeds which would be legal in certain parts of the world, still no body has banned it yet

EDIT - apparently something in this post is hugely offensive to the OP any ideas?
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ajp71
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Quote from STROBE :http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Naa3qhFUlUE

If you didn't notice it was tipping it down with rain and the car very nearly stayed in control, I think it is safe to assume that had that happened in dry conditions with a competent driver the car would not have lost control. That aside the fact the driver was alert meant the actual collision was reduced to far less than what an inattentive driver would have had at half the speed.
ajp71
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Quote from S14 DRIFT :
Well, working 41 hours a week + unpaid voluntary overtime for £2.73 an hour does often put you in touch with the real world.

Diddums, you're not a working man are you? Don't pay any bills and the low wage is because you're choosing to do a job that is interesting/your being trained in and are not very good at instead of doing something that pays well because your parents still pay for everything but the odd luxury? Consider yourself lucky and stop making up bullshit about things you don't know about just because you're jealous.
ajp71
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Quote from Jakg :
On a long staight deserted road at night it is more dangerous to do 100 than to do 50, but at the same time it's a hell of a lot more dangerous to do 40 - 45 through a 30 MPH village, and yet people seem to do that all the time.

I think the danger traveling a well bellow the natural flow speed of a road is far greater than driving above it, driving fast the chances are you will be much more alert concentrate a lot better, naturally be in control of the car rather than bimbling along and will be much more attentive to any other traffic on the road. Of course the consequences are much greater should something go wrong without warning, but the chances of that are pretty remote.

Quote from Jakg :I think the point is that in Europe most of our roads are narrow and windy, however in America there a hell of a lot more direct. On my route to School (and work) I can only think of one area where it would be safe to go over 80 and thats on a dual carriageway - whereas there is NOTHING on that road and it's dead straight.

I think it is perfectly safe to do that kind of speed down empty country roads, the majority of accidents are caused by overtaking attempts and poor concentration, not from driving at high speed, anybody who uses the speed limit to give any kind of indication as to what is a safe speed shouldn't be allowed near a car, they really are a waste of time and shouldn't be necessary. A frighteningly large number of people seem to think that driving at 60 down an B road without question, reading the road or conditions is 'safe' because it is the speed limit. These are also the kind of people who tell you that driving at double the speed limit on a clear stretch of road with few hazards will result in instant death.

Quote from Jakg :i.e. if your wheels broke (my Dad has literally had the wheels brake off a car before)

If your wheels fall off your car then you've got a serious issue, but it isn't excessive speed.

Quote from squidhead :
Explaining what I have in mind - P Zero Nero is just a tire.... it's not Michelin PAX Run Flat tire, nor is it P Zero the Hero (stupidest name ever) run flat tire...

Run flat tyres will be of very little use in a violent deformation of the tyre, particularly if it is caused by something ripping through it. The car will still be unstabled, if the car is traveling in a straight line the effect of a blow out should be pretty minimal so long as the car can keep within the confines of the road and not crash into anything. When I had a blow out at 60mph nothing much happened, there was no real difficulty in keeping the car from traveling into oncoming traffic, of course the in attentive driver who is traveling dangerously slowly will still get a blow out from hitting an object and if they take there time to wake up in a panic are probably more likely to drive head on into another car.
ajp71
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I love this thing, wouldn't be suprised if I saw these headlines either

COULD THE GERMANS LEAD BRITAIN'S SWANS ASTRAY?

WILL THE BBC GIVE YOUR HOUSE CANCER?

COULD PAEDOPHILES ROB THE CONSERVATIVES BLIND?
ajp71
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Quote from BlueFlame :
And what Diesel cars have YOU driven AJP?

106, 306, 307, VW Transporter, Polo, Corsa, Focus, Fiesta, Bedford CF to name a few. So what diesels have you driven that are completely unlike any of the above?
ajp71
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Quote from sam93 :You make that sound like a beat up my dog, a little tap on the nose is all he gets and I mean a little tap, a little tap on the nose shows them that they have done wrong and we are the boss. I dont hit him hard very gently.

Watch out he doesn't sue you.
ajp71
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Quote from BlueFlame :
I just get the feeling you and AJP are bitter towards Diesel because you don't want to see it in racing. Have either you ever owned a Diesel car Alex, Tristan?

Never owned a car but have had the chore of driving too many diesels.
ajp71
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Why not get some big signs made up for him, or buy some professional dog training, £80000 would do nicely.
ajp71
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Quote from richo :The amount of waste from every team developing the same systems is retarded, there should be more common parts and electronics shared even if its at pit lane level .

F1 is not a spec series, it is meant to be the pinnacle of motorsport. There is a fixed amount of money that car manufacturers and sponsors have to spend on F1 the more you reduce the basic costs of designing and building cars the more will be spent on the precious little room left for design and development. A completely open series would only increase budgets if more money was poured in because the importance of F1 as a marketing tool had increased. If you leave the wing mirrors as the only free component on the car teams will manage to spend a £500 million budget designing them...
ajp71
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Quote from BlueFlame :*Clueless rambling*

Turbo charged petrol cars now routinely produce power figures the far side of 300bhp in cars that are reliable and reasonably economical. If you start tuning them power figures can easily go into 4 figures, completely irrelevant, so why turbocharged diesel engines producing a reasonable amount of power is anything special is beyond me. In a correctly geared car where the power is produced is irrelevant, so long as the powerband is reasonably large, typically it is a lot smaller in diesels, hence why they need to change gear more often and drivers of 'sports' diesels finding they are not in the powerband when trying to overtake makes them dangerous and impractical when you sell them to idiots thinking they're sports cars.

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So Peugeot didn't really bother at all? I see, because THAT is true. After all it was a French race anyway, so why would they want to even remotely perform well there, I get it now.

No they wanted to win out right and put a huge amount into developing a DIESEL car to take on the Audi. What I said was nobody was giving full scale backing to petrol cars with the intention of winning outright. I don't think Acura have any intention of winning out right, it doesn't seem to have full Honda backing that would be needed to take the front two on. Having said that there are quite a few contenders for the first petrol car home now the biggest team has gone off to play with tractors, and even better got a playmate to make it a bit less dull.
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