I just watched that stream and it made me realise how much i miss racing in lfs.

Only league i really participated in was stcc but i might look at doing one at some point.

im currently playing this myself.

my friend gave us all a challenge, which is as follows

1. Deploy a satelite around Duna
2. Deploy a satalite around Duna's moon
3. Have a base on duna that can house 6 kerbals
4. Land 6 or more kerbals on Duna
5. Have TWO rovers available for research and travel


here is my progress so far.





im currently working on a space station to take me to duna.

Yup, they told me to **** off..

Thats ok tho because rather than renew in a couple months i wont bother and will just wait to hear good things on the tyre model.

it automatically ticked and setup a billing agreement when i last subscribed 3 months ago.

never though to check because its NEVER dont that before.

emailed for a refund, probably be told to GTF

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The autorenew thing was activated for me when I made an account, so seems as it is standard from 2013 at least. Dunno how it was before.

But I am surprised paypal could autorenew stuff, though you had to confirm it first? Every payment I mean.

Thats exactly why i chose to pay via paypal.

I just got an email from paypal saying id succesfully renewed my subs..

1. I didnt think that paypal could auto renew
2. Why has it done it in the first place when it never did it before!

How do i get a refund?

Cool. Just wondered.

I wonder if its anything to do with heat soak from the engine.

What makes you think you will loose hp's? With it off?

Here is a little vid i took.

Just a quick 2nd to 3rd.

http://youtu.be/TnCqNUR7gAs

Thats better, i can see pics now.

blueflame,

the car has more than twice the standard power and torque over standard and this car is capable of having very fast performance figures (0-60mph in sub 4 secs, 0-100mph in sub 9 secs, 1/4 mile in sub 11.5 secs, 170mph top speed) this isn't a car that is all standard underneath and i have just bolted some parts to.

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Well why not lower it for images so it doesn't look shit.

It's uncool to howl on another mans ride but here's how it is :

For the power that you have, a diffuser is only going to slow your acceleration. I can't understand why you'd want a diffuser anyway since this VX220 designed by Lotus built in Lotus factory should be already perfectly balanced.

So no, I am not the stupid one.

the diffuser will not slow my acceleration down, why would it? the extra weight?. since lotus didn't build the car to this specification id say that anything they did would be out of the window now in terms of aerodynamics..

the cars profiles have been put through cad programs and they have worked out they do actually do something, granted there should be more veins (down parts) but generally as long as the edge veins are there they will work.

and anyway.. if diffusers did nothing why is there one here on this one?



aesthetics? quite possibly..

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Diffuser with road ride height

yes mate.. road height as to get over speed bumps and out of my drive.. i have this wonderful device on my car called an adjustable shock where i can alter the ride height of the car making it lower (for track) and higher (for MOT) and then like it is now for just normal road driving.

you know, you trying to be smart isn't doing you any favours.

erm, pretty much yea. still need to put a 3rd and final catch at the bottom of the coupe to stop it lifting and so i can lock it.

i am actually, i did many year before last but last year and this year has been taken up with the UK Time Attack so ive had to give up the trackdays for that.. next year tho i expect to be at a couple .

here is a vid of a couple years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOnq4S7sP6A

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They are upgraded. I have a folder full of papers, documentation and past bills from the car, it's in there.

does it say what to?

some of the early spitfire ones had issues with bearings drying out and breaking. just check

Can you do me a favour,

Take your rear undertray off, and take pics of the rear tie rods for me.

Im hoping they are already uprated but sometimes they dont get done.

250hp with sticky tyres causes them to break under loads.

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Waiting for the sun... :smash:

Pics

Very nice, good colour 2

Have you any plans for it or are you leaving it as is?

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This particular one claims 300bhp and doesn't have a silly roof scoop.

And this one is also Supercharged and claims similar power output.

http://i223.photobucket.com/al ... JamJerusalem/MSE_5552.jpg

No roof scoop there either... hmm

There's easily enough cooling coming from the side vents.



Your Speedster did look decent apart from the fact it's an Opel but now it looks about as tacky as this :
http://vx220.ukct.net/DSCF4742.jpg

I suppose the god-awful rear bumper on that Opel Corsa is a diffuser then is it?


All this roof scoop is gonna do is cause drag, let in leaves and stones and other shit into the engine bay from above and create a higher pressure area in the engine bay causing even MORE drag.

Oh where to start..

Ok..

No1. The first car you posted was a turbo not a supercharged car, it was a turbo which doesnt suffer from the same issues as a sc. (More below)

No2. The 2nd car you posted was and still is a 250bhp sc car. I know this because i was one of his pit crew in 2010 for the uk time attack.

No3. The side vents feed the air filter with fresh clean air.

No4. I agree it will cause drag but The drag created by the vortex behing the rear window is actually more than what will be caused by having the scoop. There are cad diagrams floating around showing the differences on the exige.

No5. With being supercharged the intake temps get very hot (being mid engined) with no really practical way to cool them other than an already overworked charge cooling system in the manifold. The intake temps only become an issue at about 360bhp, im aiming for a safe 350bhp but im going to modify an area (under the coupe) to direct the fresh cold air over the charger and manifold to try reduce the heat build up, granted blowing air over an object only does a little but a little is better than nothing at all and seeing as in the safe zone its more as a precaution than a solution.

No6. The coupe back and roof come as 1 set, i didnt want to modify them to remove the scoop when i can just make use of the scoop, the coupe setup works very well to remove that vortex and increase downforce. As proven in the 2011 uk time attack season.

No7. You do know some varients of the exige come with a large airfeed on the roof from factory dont you??

I suggest you keep your trap shut in matters you do not have the faintest clue about.

Last edited by R3DMAN, Fri 12 Apr 2013, 10:06.

the Mclarens seem to bring in a lot of peeps.

Someone had a coke party and didnt invite me!

roof done