Quote from tristancliffe :

Ensures that you input and output shafts of the gearbox are matched, so that the gears can engage quickly, smoothly and without damage. It is vitally important on non-syncro engines, but gearbox designers invented the syncro ring as most people are too stupid to do the simple movement required.

Synchronization of the input and output shafts only happens if you double clutch and heel and toe iirc. Although, I did read somewhere that if the engine and input shaft aren't engaged, and you give a blip, the input shaft still speeds up little bit. But I haven't tried doing that on a dog box though.

great thread...

I took it out for a drive, and although I've never driven a subaru (well, i've driven a subaru pesha once ), it's very nice to drive with.
I also drove the porshe setup for the fz50, and i must say that some more people should make these authentic sets with accurate setup values.

:huepfenic

Seriously, the link andriod provided has all the information you need. If however you also don't know how a basic diff works, then you better go to howstuffworks or you can wikipedia it.

Btw, I also saw the connection queue integer going 1 up. Did an admin join and do they have priority in the queue system, or was something weird going on?

Apparently the stress test servers died, or it was something on my end, but when I wanted a new server list after restarting lfs I got this error:
Could not find host (2)

it still loaded the list though :S

Quote from ste_ :

I have a feeling Xeno's going to be 'accidently' wrecked at T1 for a few days now

He will

Quote from Tomtheman70 :

That's not entirely true, you could always release the software way early on deadline and have tons of bugs and glitches. :P

That is true, but only bad programmers do that (or bad companies like microsoft)

Anyone who makes software knows it's hard to comply to a deadline.
But I'm glad patch X got delayed and that we get a nice addition to lfs in return for the extra few days of waiting

Quote from Dru :

OH we forgot to mention that last night our very own Mike Golan
(Mikey_G) did get a valid WR at SO5 in the UF1.

I think this is the frist time a member of ZWR has made a worls record.

I wish I could win money for a world record, so I can buy you a spell checker

Good luck tomorrow in division 2 moo racing. May the best man/team win the championship

I usually watch nascar which is sometimes nice, but my favourite racing series is v8 supercars. V8supercars always provides good commentary, good action, good drivers and no wrecking like in btcc (in short, everything you want).
I also kinda keep a repository of v8 supercar onboard clips, so feel free to browse through it

Well, was to be expected to be perfectly honest...

I thought F1 only had 2 compounds, a control tire and a softer tire

The thing dadge talks about is a process called thinking in case you're wondering.

Firstly, you ask for a speedometer mod, so maybe you should search in a dictionary what that is.
Secondly, maybe the tracks are situated in countries where they use kmph? I know, a pretty outrageous idea

If you turn in really fasst, and exit the corner really fast, you're creating a big yaw angle. A big yaw angle doesn't automatically mean understeer or oversteer, it just depends which side of the car has a bigger slip angle.

@nighthawk
Indeed, didnt really think it through, scrap that idea.

@osco
the 5mm was just for an example

I'd like a bullbar too for stupid people on the track

LOL!

You're quitting lfs because you suck at having a common sense while driving?

Anyhow, I think I speak for the majority, you won't be missed along with your weird ass flames on the forum.



btw, 1 tip. If you say you leave, don't come back and post in your goodbye thread

Ripped some onboard V8 supercar action of last weekends race.

Will Davison
Garth Tander
Mark Winterbottom

enjoy

Quote from Woz :

The aussie V8s have a button on the gear stick that when pressed will throttle cut to allow flat shifts. The drivers dont use this at lower speeds as they use the clutch then

Also when they shift from 2nd to 3rd and from 4th to 5th they sometimes use the clutch because if they do make a mistake (putting it into 1st or 3rd), at least the clutch is disengaged to prevent bigger damage.

Anyhow, I ripped the part out when they spoke about it in sundays race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TjO_hi8woQ

I think something like this is possible too with lfs scripts. If you search for it you'll find a topic by vain which has plenty of code snippets.

Adding brake wear is a very good idea, because it makes driving the stock cars a lot more difficult and you have to resort to more engine braking (without blowing up the transmission offcourse ).
Here are some ideas:
As the heat goes higher, the braking force should go down in lfs.
As the wear continues, so does the travel before any braking takes place (like if there is 5mm wear, the brake only starts working after 5% of travel).

Also while your at it, don't forget about knockback in the braking system. Here you can see a vid I ripped which explains it.