Stick with standard profile tyres, going to low profile tyres will increase noise, reduce comfort, reduce fuel economy and grip. By sticking with higher profile tyres you shouldn't have to worry about kerbing it even with a set of alloys on.
It may be worth putting a K&N air filter onto the car when you need to change it, not for performance gains, but a better quality air filter (K&N come with a lifetime guarantee and do not effect insurance) will only need cleaning out rather than replacing so can be more convenient and save money in the long run. Having said that we are talking about an old car that you probably don't want to keep for long.
Rolling roads can't give accurate power readings, and most will always choose the highest to make customers happy. Manufacturers can't just dream up figures in the same way so a lot of rolling roads will probably tell you a standard car has more power than it says on the tin.
ECU tuning will have limited advantages (and always have disadvantages) for standard engines, there is probably only really any point when you've done a full rebuild with major internal modifications on a road engine. Modern ECUs should adapt to changes in fuel and intakes without needing to be re-mapped.
You've got carbon fibre body panels on a road car that presumably hasn't had any other form of weight stripping (more likely had weight added?). Can you please explain the logic in that? You can easilly shed that amount of weight for free by stripping down a door.
Because it is expensive it must be good?
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Much better looking.
Not the ones in your avatar then?
Even with limitless budgets F1 teams will not be putting new soft compound tyres on cars that are going to do burnouts in a car park, they will either use worn out hard tyres that are of no use on a circuit or in the case of F1 cars they sometimes run special demonstration tyres (very hard and low grip). You should have no issue doing burnouts in LFS just like in real life use suitably low gearing, dump the clutch and away you go.
No, the Rover V8 (as fitted to Rover SD1, Land Rover and lots of British sportscars) is a 3.5 litre all alloy pushrod V8. It was originally derived from a Buick design which was thrown out because the engine was considered too small for the US market.
You can operate a car (automatics only?)? That is not difficult at all, in order to drive safely on the road you need to have experience on roads there is no substitute and before you think you can drive any car fast you need to know what it will do when you push it to and beyond your limits, a race track is the only safe place to find this out.
You are a responsible driver who wants to take his car to illegal drag races and for some reason wants it to handle well? Don't fool yourself, the faster a car you choose to do silly things in the faster you'll end up wrapped around a tree. If you are interested in handling then there's no point spending money on a Camaro, there's no getting away from the fact it will be very heavy, automatic (unless you're getting serious), no where near stiff enough and that's before you even get to the solid rear axle.
Having driven two very similar cars, one with a Rover V8 and another with a Ford V6 with side exhausts, I can assure you that whilst the V8 rumble is nice under power it isn't as satisfying as a good 4 or 6.
An overweight automatic muscle car is probably going to be far less tempting or enjoyable to drive fast in and as a net result will probably be much less likely to be wrapped around a tree than a small hatchback.
There's still the issue of licensing, the Devs wouldn't be able to endorse real content. Modding really has to be open or none at all, and with open modding you will get mainly rubbish however straight forward and idiot proof you make the modding process. Given the Devs current policy towards including real content I don't really see that modding would help increase it, more community members coming up with attractive content opportunities may be more relevant.
The Frex adapter is for the DFP not the G25. You don't need any additional parts to fit a standard pre-drilled 6 (or 3) hole wheel to the G25, just unscrew the existing wheel and unclip the wires for the buttons.
Niels please could you post a link to the Nurburgring version you're using? I think I've got the most recent but the TDF files have different names to the ones in my folder.
Looks like they drove the old model into a wall, a shame because Volvo were about the only people who hadn't gone for silly vertical aggressive fronts.
For the kind of work they need to do the Evo would be extremely quick and easy to drive and certainly far faster than any yank tank in any conditions. Cars targeted at the European and Japanese markets tend to have better build quality and much better quailty interior finish compared to American cars, whose buyers tend to prefer cheaper cars with more shiny stuff and extras bolted on them. If you define uncomfortable as in having reasonably firm ride and having a gearbox then yes most European cars are uncomfortable, they also have little trouble escaping from wallowy automatics.
Did you read what I posted? Reducing downforce would if anything reduce the chance of a car taking off due to wing failure.
Cars taking off at high speed is usually caused by sudden failure of aerodynamic devices through physical breakage or poor design that produce downforce on the car. Simply having no downforce or some lift won't cause cars to take off if balance is maintained, GT40s, 917s and Lotus 49s all ran at around the speed modern F1 cars do and they didn't just randomly take off when they felt like it.
Personally I would like to see pressurised refueling banned and only gravity fed dry break containers being allowed, along with more typical refueling rules, engine off whilst refueling and no other work on the car whilst refueling, not for grounds of safety or cost saving but to make refueling a less attractive prospect. I would also like to see something to make tyre changes less appealing.
I personally feel that F1 should take much shorter races, maybe 45-60 minutes, it is not endurance racing and would make much better viewing in a shorter race.
The drivers today certainly have the guts to do that kind of thing, far too much in fact, feeling too safe they take silly chances and any attempt to race like that would end up with taking each other out. The older battles like that work better partly because the cars were shorter more maneuverable and had better visibility and manly because both drivers new the risks attached to proper contact were far more than just ending their race.
I personally feel that F1 should take much shorter races, maybe 45-60 minutes, it is not endurance racing and would make much better viewing in a shorter race.
The drivers today certainly have the guts to do that kind of thing, far too much in fact, feeling too safe they take silly chances and any attempt to race like that would end up with taking each other out. The older battles like that work better partly because the cars were shorter more maneuverable and had better visibility and manly because both drivers new the risks attached to proper contact were far more than just ending their race.
I got mine for about £160 from Amazon, direct from Amazon not a market place sale, so free delivery in 2 days
Personally I'd strongly recommend you don't start doing your first proper track days in a Ford GT, or anything else particularly fast. If you turn up in a fast car you'll find it much harder to gain confidence and improve your driving, and should you fall off (you will at some point) you're more likely to get away with it in a slower car and you won't be the idiot who's got all the gear and no idea. Something low powered and reasonably well balanced, like an old hatch back or an MX5 would be far better to get the hang of driving on the limit.
With suitable bucket seats in a relatively upright conventional driving position four point belts should be fine, five or six point are better but not required for a lot of competition use and more convenient in a road car.
The modern Ford GT is probably a pretty capable car but you would want to strip it down to make a good track car, which seems like a horrible waste of money. If you want a modern V8 track car a stripped down Corvette might be a better option. I would certainly look at what second hand racing cars or track day specials could be had for much less than a Ford GT before buying one for solely track use.
With suitable bucket seats in a relatively upright conventional driving position four point belts should be fine, five or six point are better but not required for a lot of competition use and more convenient in a road car.
The modern Ford GT is probably a pretty capable car but you would want to strip it down to make a good track car, which seems like a horrible waste of money. If you want a modern V8 track car a stripped down Corvette might be a better option. I would certainly look at what second hand racing cars or track day specials could be had for much less than a Ford GT before buying one for solely track use.
Nonsense there are FIA approved open face helmets available with HANS posts and there some drivers using them in much higher level competition than BTCC, certainly some in FIA GT. If you don't know don't speak out your arse.
Separate shifter and sequential gear controls
At the moment the same button can't be used for shift up/down and H shift gears. This creates problems for people with controllers that convert from H shift to sequential shift and vice versa (namely G25 users). Would it not be possible to allow the same buttons to be assigned to the different gear shift methods seeing as they won't clash?
I know this is probably already possible with the scripting system but TBH there's no reason why people should have to mess about with that to get this to work.
I know this is probably already possible with the scripting system but TBH there's no reason why people should have to mess about with that to get this to work.
I think Sam's horrific life threatening accident is somewhat different though because in fairness to Jordan he was only making a thread to get a bit of attention rather than stealing our money with some frivolous claim and then trying to do the whole sympathy routine.
Do we really need a third thread over this topic? I feel that posting threads like these are pretty pointless and a bit annoying and I think Tristan's post pretty much sums up how I feel about these kind of threads. I don't think that some of the other cheap shots at the OP are appropriate.
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Driving standards are appalling and there is no question that they have been allowed to drop to please primitive TV viewers, as soon as a serious accident happens it will all change, unfortunately given the number of big accidents caused by car to car contact I don't think there's long to wait.
Only if LFS then automatically adds scuff marks and generally tatty looking interiors like all real life racing cars can't avoid and people would soon start painting them grey...
LFS's aerodynamics will be a lot more complicated than just one number you quoted (presumably that's a coefficient of drag), an aerodynamic centre and a resultant force from moving in all 7 degrees of freedom are the bare essentials for each car and if the CoD is the same then frontal area must be modeled to get vaguely correct aerodynamics.
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