First startup 2013 after some new upgrades preparing for more boost and a remap...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeDLw1BU_M4

Quote from ImudilaSkyline :

Insane stuff: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=799_1369655555

This is awesome. And I'm not even in to motorbikes.

Quote from Sueycide_FD :

Unless console is different completely, i remember both wheels spinning on the futo, and most of the luxury coupes/sports cars as i drove those exclusively when I was given the chance.

Try to do donuts in them. IIRC that was the point when the diffs "failed" in the supercars and others like that.

The reason why the more powerful cars didn't have a proper diff is because the Ferrari alikes and others had much more grip too (power versus grip like I was talking about).
Torque or power it doesn't really matter which term you want to use, you are still basically talking about how much force there is to brake traction.

There's no line in the physics file what would have anything to do with the diff, but it was simply the amount of power / grip what defined how the diff worked. Less traction = "tighter" lock. Maybe the duke then was powerful enough, shame I don't have GTA installed now so can't go and test it.

Quote from Scrabby :

They even had some cars have locking diffs. Most of them where just open (wich was simulated pretty good with just one wheel spinning) but cars like the Duke (dodge charger-esque car) had a locking diff etc..
I still play it allmost every day. Just do dick around in cars and run over people.

Actually IIRC none of the original cars had properly locking diffs, but if you modified the physics and gave enough power the car would get two wheels spinning too.

Maybe this is a bit wrong, but I literally couldn't breath while laughing when watching this from telly.
http://youtu.be/XnIZ7e53g58

Put three middle-aged guys with tourettes on a caravan road trip across England. Best television ever.

I dunno what kind of car he has, but FWD cars usually have the gearbox under the bonnet, on either side of the engine. On my friends 205 GTi the gear linkage is very visible and I bet many other FWD cars have the linkages on the open like it has too. Of course you can't usually see if the gear physically engages inside tho. But it's not bad idea to see if the linkage moves normally or not.

Quote from BAMBO :

That can't possibly be a language. He's making it up...isn't he?

It's a Finnish show making fun of Danish language. So no, it's not real. But sounds very authentic if you don't speak Danish.

It looks like the tire has some kind of a horrid disease.

Quote from doyal :

I will be stripping it down starting tomorrow. Plan is to fit a metal headgasket & new ARP bolts and feed it 1.5bar example here

Will update how I get on (if I survive)

Nice. I admit I like how you can get these things to go with relatively little modifications. 6 pots and decent amount of boost + good tune will get you quite far.
Still going to stick with my puny 4-pot tho.

Quote from doyal :

Elise seats? I was going to do that to mine. Sourced some from a breaker but the blood on the seat put me off! (car must have been in a bad smash )

I was going to post this in a month or so, once I had changed a few bits.. but my bmw 5 series project! Will be getting a cage and a few more bits in the coming months, then a summer of track days, hopefully




Small Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DscldxGiTWs

Lovely. I was going to say boost it for awesomeness, but then realized it's already that awesome.
Megasquirt FTW.

Quote from kars19 :

Mercedes V8 Supercar sound

Presenter doesn't know what he's talking about.
Nice sounding engine any way.

I love Matra V12, but that video is not much of an enjoyment since the thing keeps missfiring.

Here's a lovely turbobrick:
http://youtu.be/RY802Nwevgk
http://youtu.be/AlfP1LfIvJY

Has Lamborghini run out of ideas (styling wise)? Back in the day they were able to look beautiful and be attention whores at the same time.

This is just an attention whore who screams I have a bad taste and I like space ships.

Here's some Audi shit for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAfWsecE75w
I love the fact that the driver is absolutely nuts!

Got myself a new camera for incar recording.

RWD + ice / snow
http://youtu.be/Bu_3_oHMoNQ

Now this is a sleeper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3QVQ9cI7tg

Quote from robt :

The one Matrixi posted is a mk1 model. think its an XR4i 3 door going by the rear spoiler stack. Cosworth 3door had a slightly different layout and was on the mk2/facelift.

This one looks like it's the USA model, Merkur XR4Ti. Very similar to the European Sierra XR4i, but different engine (turbo US Pinto). The legendary whaletale Cossie you guys are talking about, was made from the mk1 Sierra. Mk2 had a Cossie too, but this is the more conservative looking 4-door Sapphire, a "Taxi-Cossie" as we Finns call it.

Oh and about Eclipsed mentioning the word "coupe", Sierra's never were coupe, just hatchbacks. The styling of the 3dr just seem to make people describe it as a coupe.

I won't be swapping the head, just don't see much point in it. However I'm planning on building a 2.0 Pinto with a little more poke. But this is only happening if I have any money and energy left after my main project car is ready for the hoonings of summer 2013.

Last edited by BigPeBe, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 00:44.

Ah now you mention this I actually recall reading about it someday.
Cars like this are an acquired taste I'd guess.

Quote from BlueFlame :

A sleeper is effectively a car that looks slower than it actually is.

Yes, but I at least won't call it a sleeper before it can surprise some decent performance cars.

Well that is pretty much what I said. It's not a sleeper, but could be made to be one.

Quote from BlueFlame :

It's not a slow car, that's the point.

Well the ones in the videos were. Also quick googleing didn't seem to find any kind of performance version of a Passat B2.

If I'm wrong I'd like to be enlightened.