So, will you be at the All Ford Nationals in Carlsile this weekend? Looks like about a 4 hour car ride from your area. I'll be there with my car if you wanted to chat.

http://www.dmv.state.pa.us/vehicle_code/index.shtml

specifically, part iv

Conform to these standards, and you're gold as far as PA is concerned. In what county do you live?

Thanks Blackbird! At least someone cares enough about state revenues to call me out. I'm not really concerned about a fine since all of my documentation matches the mileage I wish to report.

Quote from sgt.flippy :

They have inspection in the US?

Over here you can even fail for having a too pointy bumper..

Depends on the state. In PA, we have state-wide safety inspections. Then, depending on what county you live in, you may or may not have emissions testing. Furthermore, the extent of the inspection depends on the age and yearly mileage of the car. Since I roll my odometer back each year, I am exempt from emissions testing (~$50 savings).

I should add that in Delaware, there is no inspection, except whenever the automobile changes ownership. Believe me, you see some scary stuff while driving through that state.

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http://www.screaminsho.com/What_is_ScreaminSHO.html

This is pretty much the limit in Pennsylvania. Cops are okay with it, and I have passed inspection the past two years in this condition.

braille

Untill the sun comes overhead. Then it gets burning hot. Still better than the caustic atmospere on other planets, but not well suited for life as we know it.

Just one. This one. http://www.westinghousedigital.com/details.aspx?itemnum=165

I'm still getting used to looking up to see what position I'm racing for.

Quote from The Moose :

Having just read some of the garbage on her site I'm inclined to agree.

Jeez. Rachael Ray might be the face of evil, but that might be going a little too far.

Most modern cars have an inertia switch that cuts power to the fuel pump in the event of a crash. BTW, on a Ford Taurus, it's located inside the driver's side rear fender. Good for a prank, or as a way to prevent theft.

Race cars, and prepared road cars generally disable the switch, since bouncing off of curbing, or short offs can upset the switch and stall the car.

Quote from Hyperactive :

Force feedback brakes is an imaginative solution, there is no feel translated through the brake pedal, just the amount of force (or pressure) you are applying to it. Sometimes you may feel some rumbles and vibrations thought the brake pedal but that's all. What we need is real pressure sensitive brake pedals, which already exist. But you need to make it yourself or pay big bucks for readymade pedal set.

I'm thinking it would be like some sort of inductor where the core is attached to the brake pedal. The windings on the outside generate the force that keeps the pedal at its rest position. This, along with an optical proximity sensor to detect a range of motion. This would give you the feel of pushing against the master cylinder and feeling the pads press against rotor. You could also simulate a 'warped' rotor, or even ABS firing up. It's just money, right?

If we're gonna go that far, I think I also need a team of little people to push me around in the seat. My wooden chair would be a little out of place for this, but I digress .

Quote from Technique :

How do you adjust braking force on your road car? I'm asking seriously - I'm no mechanic I know front-rear bias can be adjusted and there's kits available to make this easier in certain cars.

From my experience (modified road car on a race track), I have found that overall brake force is dictated by your foot. Want less force, don't press so far. The interesting thing is that during a race, the brake pedal is likely to change its feel unless you have a really well sorted out braking system. When your brakes get a little too hot, the fluid will boil, create gas withing the caliper and cause the pedal to feel mushy. A mushy pedal limit's force greatly. Heck, even the thickness of pad material has an effect on brake force.

On a related note, I would love to see brake temps come into play. Cold brakes at the start with less friction, then building to a maximum. Abuse the system and the friction drops. We could even set up a couple pad friction profiles for the race cars.

http://brakepads.wilwood.com/02-graphs/ahjbc.html Example of race pads performance (temp vs. friction) Note that the rotors will begin to glow once over 900 deg.

edit- I also should mention that when you use the brakes on track (ABS or not) your sense of g-force and experience tells you where optimum braking is. In LFS, we have basic brake simulators (I'm not aware of any force feedback pedals) and zero sense of inertia.

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Ok, thanks for the replies. I LOLed in my cube at lunch today, and have an answer to my question.

I'm trying to come up with a trick mount for my computer's hard drive. What I would like to do is mount it to a custom aluminum plate in front of a 120mm cooling fan.

My question is this: Does the HD need to lie flat in order to function properly, or can I set it at an incline of 10-15 degrees?

If I can present the metal top face of the drive to the wind, it will cool more effectively than if it were just placed straight on in front of the fan.

This is really and unneccessary mod since the hard drive runs ice cold anyway, but I just can't leave things alone. This will also allow me to get rid of the ugly sheetmetal chassis that the drive is currently mounted in.

Kelly's Heroes. Best WW2 movie ever made.

Clint Eastwood
Telly Savalas
Don Rickles
Carrol O'Connor
Donald Sutherland

Quite a few scenes are on YouTube if you're interesed.
http://www.youtube.com/results ... s+heroes&search_type=

Why yes, yes it is.

Since we are traveling upward through the ether, what would happen if the earth started to tip. Let's say we travel through a meteor shower and get hit a few times. I guess we'd start to rotate. Enough tilt and we lose the oceans. Oh save us Al Gore!

Then again, how do they explain day/night, sunrise/sunset?

So, do you need help moving the old TV? It must be heavy. Perhaps a neighbor can assist.

Quote from Zonomar :

Well i dont know much about parts etc but i do know i want an 8800GT graphics card or better maxed out on ram best mother board and a quad dual core processors or if thats the right one...

What do you need out of a system? Are you doing anything more intensive than LFS?

For example, I have no issues with running LFS, Napster, IE, whatever backgroud programs happen to be running. That's with an AMD dual core 3.0ghz cpu, 8600GT, and 3MB of generic RAM.

One question that may seem a bit odd. Where is your computer located? If the screen was large enough, is it in a good place to use for HD television or movies?

Quote from Zonomar :

i need a full setup lol. and links maybe for each part so i can just buy it form them :P

It's a little over your limit, but I purchased a prebuilt system from Newegg a few months ago. For $1600 I got a Cyberpower Gamer Ultra 7200 and a 37" 1080P display. Yes, that is 37", not 27". Make sure you have desk space.

It's been performaing well so far. I did have a memory card go bad a couple weeks in, but I replaced it with anothe pair of 1G cards. It would have been hard to build a system for a similar price.

New Jersey Motorsports Park. They've got two tracks. Lightning Bolt and Thunder Bolt.
www.njmotorsportspark.com

Newark, eh. A couple of the guys from my group are from up that way. One from Toms River, and another from Branchville.

VIR is worth the drive every couple years or so. I can't wait to go to the new NJ track in August. It's owned by the same people who own VIR.

Quote from Forbin :

Cool. I want to go motorcycle racing there some time, just need the funds to go to racing school and get a pickup truck for bike transportation.

http://www.teampromotion.com/tpm.php

www.njmotorsportspark.com

Quote from Riders Motion :

You should look for ugly American cars scrapping a nice grid of luxurious cars haha!

All I'll say is that we had a blast.

My father and I had a nice surprise when the event coordinators bumped us up to the advanced run group.

A good group of friends and I took our cars out to do battle with the Germans. I think we put on a good show.

http://picasaweb.google.com/nj ... Fut3o#5195821314789953234
My buddy and me. ^^

http://picasaweb.google.com/nj ... l2628?authkey=-axpQKFut3o

What do you think?

Quote from Racer X NZ :

See my earlier post where the building owner, Larry Silverstein stated that Building 7 was pulled, ie demolished, ie controlled demolition.

Perhaps people will believe the owner as they seem to have difficulty believing what I say !

'Pulled', as in allowed to burn. Sorta like what happened to the bowling alley in town that burned last year. They let it go since it was way past saving. The only difference is that after while, the steel roof softened and collapsed. Wait, there is no difference. I guess the government was in on that one as well.


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