Quote from Dajmin :

Come on now, how could you miss the other thread on this one? Tut tut

OK, I admit it, I didn't check before posting. I'm such a bad man.

I wanna know what people's teams names are now then?

If you are British and in your 30s I'd recommend the Shane Meadows film 'This Is England'.

If you're not particularly religious I'd recommend 'Life of Bryan'. I watch it every Easter , it's become tradition and it still makes me laugh.

When I first went to uni I found a shared house with a mate. In the first year you might have to share with people you don't know but that's could be good or bad.

You can't commute - you'll miss out on all the fun. And halls would be a bit restrictive in terms of behaviour

Shared house gives you complete freedom.

Found this: Highly recommended.

http://www.gpmanagerpro.com/

Fantastic site - lots of fun, free to join and registration is wonderfully quick.

Each night there is a race. It takes about 10 minutes a day to prepare for the race. Of course day 1 takes a little longer as you discover all the different settings you can change. In the morning you get a lap by lap race report and it makes for quite exciting reading if you avoid the temptation of looking at the result straight away.

I have two teams - GF-F1 (Div 35) and SPCS-F1 (Div 47).

The first team I am taking a customer approach and buying chassis etc. The second team I'm developing from scratch my own chassis so I'm struggling a bit for now.

Quote from george_tsiros :

but you said that there was too much nos. how can you say too much nos and then say that there is fuel to burn?

I never said there was no fuel at all. I just said there was too much nos. I'll explain:

Slightly too much NOS = Too much heat and melted head or valve seats;
Slightly too much fuel = clouds of black smoke and poor performance;
Way too much NOS = nothing, engine won't run;
Way too much fuel = nothing, engine won't run.

petrol.

Quote from george_tsiros :

what process would generate that heat?

Combustion.

Quote from george_tsiros :

if there was too much nos but not enough fuel, then the oxygen that the nos provides would just go through. if there was more fuel, more oxygen would burn the additional fuel therefore producing even more heat.

that's what the physicist in me says, anyway

No - because too much oxygen would result in too lean a mixture which would generate excess heat and melt something - either the head or the exhaust ports depending on the ignition timing.

Quote from danthebangerboy :

I know a guy who was a bit of a prat and decided to 'finish off' his old DT50 by putting nos on it for a laugh, he got up to the usual 50mph or so and then activated the NOS, he reached about 92mph, most of which on the back wheel before there was a terrible noise and he ground to a halt with an orange glow from where the engine was, he then jumped off once he was going slow enough and ran as the bike went up in flames on the grass verge, apparently some major engine parts kind of, well, melted.

And that is no joke, 100% true as i saw it for myself. I just wish that video phones were the norm then, as that would have been true youtube gold!

Too much NOS and not enough fuel. NOS is pretty safe in the right quantity for short periods.

Quote from 5haz :

I liked CTRA because it was like a 'retard sponge' that mopped up all the idiots from the rest of the online community, meaning we could have a good race by giving it a wide berth, now CTRA is dead they flood the other servers I used to frequent.

Of course there were a minority of good racers on CTRA servers, always up the front, while everyone else crashed behind.

Is it just me that thinks Blue2 sounds a bit like Skynet?

Not sure I agree with that. I think the CTRA system resulted in a generally higher standard of driving than other servers that were less well controlled.

However, the fact that it was so popular did tend to keep the numbers lower on the other servers and smaller grids always result in a higher standard of racing simply because the drivers who are idiots stand out like sore thumbs.

Quote from major_syphillis :

westhill is a tight track with FOX... one tiny mistake and half the field is in the grass

I know what you mean. So much of it is full throttle and that results in the field becoming very bunched up. That means one small error from a driver and all hell can break loose. A bit like lap 1 at Spa this weekend.

Quote from ScoobRX :

My iRacing subscription just ended recently and there is one thing I noticed that seems to be missing in LFS (or at least it's barely there). Every car I drove in iR would oversteer when lifting off the throttle, even the solstice would to some extent. Setup would make some difference but it was there most of the time.

I'm only a demo racer but I like the driving feel in LFS much more. Below the limit in iRacing the cars have some sort of point there go there handling if anyone knows what I mean. But the one thing that's bothering me is that I'm not getting any lift off oversteer in LFS. Even if the damper setup goes against it, don't basic car dynamics say that it should be there to some extent?

Please enlighten me, Thank You

Probably the front is too stiff or the diff has too high a locking percentage for the coast setting. Or you might have too much rear rebound.

Good to see TDRT are still going strong. And this endurance server is just what LFS needs. If it were FOX or FO8 I would be there for sure. Might even check it out in a TBO/GTR

Last edited by Gentlefoot, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 22:18.

I used to prepare for the whole two weeks between GFC events but I had to make up for my lack of talent somehow. Most of that time was working on setup.

Most of the other guys I competed with would generally start preparing a week before the race. But then by that time I already had a pretty good set to give them.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Take your pedals to bits, and fit stronger springs or wedge a squash ball underneath them to act as a stronger spring. Or take your shoes off so that your feet become more sensitive.

Aah - the old squash ball trick. Works a treat.

Quote from JeffR :

Depends on the cause of the lift off oversteer. If it's because the coast side ramp angles in a limited slip differential are set too "loose", then you're just trying to mask a differential issue with a suspension setup.

That's a good point actually. Not enough coast diff locking can result in lift off oversteer but generally I stick with the same values for diff coast lock on all tracks and only really change one or two clicks on power locking.

Quote from BlueFlame :

I don't see how improving the back brakes can make your braking pro-sufficient enough to make you go through the windscreen, brake bias on road cars favours the front end and if your bias was all the way on the back, then you would just spin out.

It wasn't the increase in rear brake strength. As I said, it was the change in position of the biting point of the brake pedal. Whereas before the pedal would travel a good inch and a half before biting now it only travels about half an inch before biting.

This meant that the first time I heel-toed as I blipped the throttle I hit the brakes much harder than I wanted to. I've got used to the change in biting point now and back to heel-toeing as normal.

If I am suffering from lift off oversteer I don't change my driving style. I add 1 click of front-bump damping instead. Or maybe add 1 click of rear rebound although that has less effect.

If the extra click of front bump results in too much understeer then I would add a click of rear anti-rollbar aswell.

Quote from Furryappleseed :

Had some great races yesterday on FE3! There were minimal crashes and I broke my pb a few times.

I love FE3 - I think it may even be my new favourite. That or Aston Historic.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Nah, most cars allow heel and toe, you just need man-sized feet

I've only got size 7 and a half feet and I've never driven a car I couldn't heel-toe.

Yeah, I agree rubbing is racing in real life closed wheel racing but the LFS crash physics means rubbing is racing becomes rubbing is pinging cars all over the place. It's very hard to make any kind of contact in LFS without it resulting in an accident.

Quote from The Very End :

Feel with you mate, something that happens on all servers.
If you take it carefully in leaderposition, you will be wrecked from behind.. if you drive carefully midfield, you WILL be wrecked.. you try to start all behind and avoid people but STILL people will manage to hit you when they try to recover from a crash..

The most frustrating part is that NO ONE brakes, if there is an accident everyone goes full speed and causes abnormall pile-ups from hell. Sure, it's fun 1,2 and 3 times to see cars go everywhere, but when it happens in like 50-75% of all big field races it's starting to getting borring.

Again, that is not just a thing on FM server, it happens on any server nowdays, with big grids.

This is very true. But you know when I do play LFS these days I just accept that this happens and that I will probably get wrecked 3 out of every 4 starts in this way. If it happens I just go and smoke a fag or whatever and wait for the next race. Or maybe do a couple of laps and work on setup.

I had a race on FM the other night at KY Nat and I got hit so hard from behind when I slowed down to avoid T1 carnage in front of me that I was forced clean off the track even though I was just picking my way through. Then at T5 I was hit again from behind and then again at T6. So every corner where you have to brake basically.

But, I don't say anything to any of the drivers. You never even get so much as a WTF from me. What's the point? I didn't see what happened until I view the replay. And these days I just don't play enough to watch the replay and see what drivers to give extra room/pull over and let them past (cos you know they'll crash before the end of the race anyway)

But I think you just have to accept that's the way it is, that's the way it's always been and that's the way it always will be in LFS when there is not risk of personal injury or expensive crash damage.

The only way to avoid this kinda problem is to stick to servers with a few trusted racing buddies who you know you can go wheel to wheel with. That's why league racing is so good, because you get little groups of drivers who trust one another practicing together for races.

Last edited by Gentlefoot, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 14:47.

I adjusted my rear brakes last week. Where the shoes had worn down there was a massive gap between them and the drum. It meant I had a lot of peddle travel. Brakes feel much better now but the different biting point for the brakes has screwed my heel-toe completely. Nearly went through the windscreen the first time I tried it.

Gonna take a few weeks to get used to.

I've just been on FOX Junkies for an hour and a half and I've got a right sweat on lol.

I only saw one complete idiot tonight.

I really want to get back into some serious lapping but I do like to focus on one track for say a week and really hone my lines.

I remember in the old days there would always be a FOX server set to Aston National and one set the Blackwood. It seems all the servers these days, FOX ones at least are set to rotate. I think it's a shame because the racing is better when people get to know a track better. Also, you tend to get the same guys coming back night after night.