I am always forgiving to non-English speakers on this forum if their punctuation, grammar or spelling is not quite right. To someone from let's say Estonia, it is their second or possibly third language.

But this txt speak, 1337 sh*t has to be not tolerated. If someone spoke like that in the real world, they should get their a** dropped kicked.

So for the ones who make posts or threads like they are using a phone or a blackberry: Please stop. Your sentences are confusing, and I will make it a point to mock and/or ignore you.

Quote from XCNuse :

speaking of this, i got a question for everyone that knows/saw it

what are those lights behind the car numbers that lit up, and when the car restarted its lights they would flash down, then up, then all turn on

what are those things there for?

The lights show what position they are in, 1 light for 1st, 2 for 2nd, etc.

If there is anyone who downloads torrents, and belongs to a certain community that involves fish (those who know understand), my friend has uploaded the first 2 hours, and then all the rest will be later.

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Ive always wondered what the difference between AWD and 4WD is. Sombody could mabey explain it to me?

Here is a good example. My WRX has AWD; thus, all 4 wheels propel the vehicle all the time. Power deliver is 45% to the front, 55% to the rear. The nice thing is that it has an active differential, so if lets say the rears are losing grip, it will send more power to the front.

If a vehicle is 4 wheel drive, it means normally the rear wheels get 100% of the power. If you engage the transfer case, it will send XX% of power to the front wheels. The transfer case has 2 speeds, 4WD high and 4WD low. The downside of 4WD is that you can only go so fast with it because the front axle ratio is very high.

Basically, 4X4's are good for getting you unstuck. Or if you need extra traction, like if you are at a boat launch and need to get up the ramp. AWD can also get you unstuck, but is functional at ANY speed.

And that, is the beauty of All Wheel Drive.

Also, whenever the area I live in has a major snowstorm, it is always the 4X4 trucks that are in ditches, because the drivers think 4X4's are useful for driving speeds. Instead, they understeer badly. I myself have seen Geo Metros driving 60 mph in 4 inches of snow and Ford Explorers go flying into ditches.

Quote from BMWM3GTR :

Well guys/girls i have a report. some of u may have heard that midwest drift team has been canceled or shut down "" im here to tell you that it hasent! and some more stuff cr!t!cal drift is a fake infact he had told me he had become the new owner of [mw] but guess what i had a long talk with [mw] ezo " REAL OWNER" and told me that critical was saying that he was owner and that makes me mad because he started a new drift team called 360 and why should a liar be the maker of a new clan/team so im here to tell you that we should all be suspicous of critical because he tells stories and most of all he lies. you dont want your kids/ you hanging out with a no body! we shouldnt have to put up with this and more so i want to impose the " silent treatment " to him so next time you see him. DONT TALK TO HIM he might start telling you a story about " johnny bay" any stuff like that DONT BELIEVE HIM and what a poser dont ya think lying about being an owner its sad really

One of the funniest posts I have read in a long, long time.

"Dont talk to him! He's a poopyhead!"

Dude, it is the internet.

4 SONIA.

My wife.

For the moment, this is making me happy, my new car:

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The video was confusing until it dawned on me, "oh...its about chavs!"

I have found a correlation; when somebody joins from the pits, you get the pit stutter if that person who joined is lagging. Like if you do the de-bug, you see their lag time is .025 or more. Or is it .25?

Yeah, I am working in 2048. Give me a day, since I am becoming too inebriated to properly do a skin today.

Oh, and Danny? Just call me Jay.

See what you think so far. Obviously I need to refine my lining up.

Okay. Well, let me give it a try.

Looks like an SCCA roster!

Could you provide the cow?

Oh yeah, old article. I think I have that issue of Sport Compact Car.

This is why I have a folder for every old .dds file.

Who else read the title and the thought "Please let it be Tom Cruise, PLEASE let it be Tom Cruise..." popped into their heads?

I know one thing, where the 323 (we in the States call it a Protege) lacks in horsepower, it makes up in the suspension. Take a look at the back suspension; it is really set up well.

Here is a good set for Fern Bay Rallcross long reverse, I gave this set to someone and they were getting 1:22's with it. For the short rallycross, set the final ratio to 4.700. and obviously flip the cambers around for the non reversed combos. What it really comes down to, is finding a rhythm on the rallycross tracks. Blackwood has a great rhythm to it. Also, rely less on brakes and get used to sliding to burn off speed.

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Anyways, mabey somebody could help me out. What exactly is the skidpad for? Is it like more slippery or somthing? I never understood the concept of it.

Quote from AndroidXP :

Simply to test cornering ability in a controlled environment

From some boffin:

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Skidpad is a circular race track with a 300 feet radius (For metric system places, they use 100m radius). The test driver drives the car around the skidpad and slowly increase the driving speed. He/she drives the car until the tires at the outer circle starts to slip/skid. At that point, the test driver obtains the maximum speed the car can travel in a 300 feet radius skidpad. By using this speed, the car magazine can deduce how many g's a car can pull. When a car is moving in a perfect circle, due to Newton's First Law, there must be a force acting perpendicular to the car's motion pointing away from the circle because of the inertia of an object to maintain a straight line movement. This perpendicular force is called the centripetal force and it is defined by mv2/r where r is the radius of the circle. Number of g's is recorded as v2/gr. It is originally defined as how many times of the earth gravity you can feel when a car is turning.
Here is a brief description of the physical phenomenon surrounding a skidpad test. Note that when a car is moving in a circle at a constant speed, the tires are rolling. The rolling action ensures that the tires are momentarily at rest. Thetires are subjected to static friction. However, as v increases, the centripetal force acting on the tires increases. When it exceeds the limiting friction of the car, the tires will be locked and no longer rolling. It will now begin to slip/skid towards the direction point away from the center of the circle. If you are slowly increasing the speed, you will find that you cannot maintain running in a 300 feet skidpad, your car must now turn in a curve that has a radius greater than 300 feet. At the point, when the test driver can't maintain the 300 feet radius circle, the speed is recorded and the number of g's is deduced.
An easy way of deducing limiting friction coefficient is to equate μlfmg and mv2/r. This will imply the limiting friction of your tires is actually equal to the number of g's your car can pull in a skidpad. For example, our Skyline pulls 0.94g on a 300 feet skidpad, so μlf is also 0.94.
The real number is higher than 0.94 (how much higher depends on how fast you are running the skidpad). This is because the car develops yaw angle (ie the angle between the direction of the chassis and the direction the car is traveling) while turning, so the tires loses grip.

If anything, the road tires have too much grip.

so, -1!

Eh, I am torn on that...so +.5

Like the picture...holy ancient Blackwood!

Why not? This would be perfect for leagues, so you could have a pace car for a timed period (let us ten minutes) and then either the pace car has to go to spectate or will be kicked to spectate after set period of time.

This way, you can a full grid without the one person being sh*tbirded, so to say.

A Corrado! Awesome!

Anyone else noticed these? They are all placed where you start to brake, where you say "oh ****!" and brake, where you start turn in, and where you should be at the end of a turn.

And I only noticed this at westhill....

Quote from JTbo :

jayhawk, true that place is where quite wild weather effects tend to happen and seems like those will be even wilder in future.

Eh, I do not feel like arguing about global warming, but this kind of weather is actually normal. What we have had for the past 5-6 years, at least in Wisconsin and Illinois, is low precipitation and above average temps. Just part of the cycle. Nature seems to balance itself out; in January we had above average temperatures, now we pay for it in February and March.