merry christmas you lazy bastards

Quote from Matrixi :

I got this Mac for way less than half of what it's actually worth, can't really pass an offer like that.

are we talking its actual worth here or the amount of money apple would charge you for it?

i kinda get the impession youve got too much money toni

something must be wrong with that dyno!
that wing that cage those wheels and removing all the interior should at least have given you an extra 100hp

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

I was waiting for someone to say that but nobody likes to argue with Todd

i rather enjoy it
especially when im right

i cant quite figure out what a post about steady state cornering wierdness has to do with my response on a video of a 500+hp car being whipped around from standstill with full throttle

Quote from roadrash17 :

But a healthy-running engine doesn't put out carbon monoxide, it puts out carbon dioxide, which isn't lethal, but it's not the best, it's what we exhale. it's when the engine begin to run out of oxygen to burn that it begins to produce Carbon monoxide, such as in an enclosed area i.e. a garage. So, when the fuel/air mixture isn't right, yes, it's dangerous, but when you have plenty of oxygen to burn and a good mixture, you should be fine...at least that's what I remember from school.

rubbish on so many counts
first of all any engine produces carbonmonoxide when its running which is the whole point of having a catalysator which converts that into comparably harmless co2 (amoung other poisonous gases that also get catalysed into less dangerous forms in it)
secondly co2 is deadly in concentrations above about 8%

Quote from ajp71 :

I've seen someone loose consciousness of a tin top race car within 20 minutes of trying to put up with a leaking exhaust. Even on a race track he was damn lucky to end up coasting to a stop without hitting anything surrounded by the best help possible.

Admittedly a race car will be putting out far more emissions and generally has less sealing between the underbody and cockpit, but they also don't normally have shut windows and a nice cosy engine bay fed heater for hours on end down the motorway...

well the car certainly did let quite a bit of the fumes inside
the smell was very very noticeable while standing still
no idea why he never experienced any health issues although it might be related to it happening in the summer and hum driving around with the windows down going as fast and full throttle as he can while enjoying the incredible racket a 75hp golf engine is capeable of

Quote from ajp71 :

What KiRmelius said is very important to remember, make sure the exhaust is vented away from the underbody of your car. A typical exhaust mounted under a central tunnel down the car will find its way into the cockpit, even a small leak is very dangerous, if you have to drive a car with a leaking exhaust open all the windows and stop if you can smell/feel the effects of exhaust fumes. They're really not fun.

usually as long as you keep the car moving theres enough airflow to pull the exhaust fumes away from the cars ventilation intakes (friend of mine drove around with a golf that had completely disintegrated its flex tube right behind the exhaust manifold for a couple of weeks... usually flooring it cause quite frankly it did sound awesome)
also while certainly dangerous its not like youll instantly die if you inhale a bit of exhaust gasses

i this some sort of iq test? it sure does seem that way from the responses

Quote from jibber :

I think i'll keep my comments to myself this time...

go ahead i think you cant tell him often enough how much of a plonker he is for completely ruining a perfectly good shopping trolley

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EDIT: Just one question... is it my eyes or do you use zip ties to hold together the parts of the seatbelts that are too long for your setup (the lashes going back from the seat to the cage)? How's that gonna perform for your safety in a crash?

im guessing the metal bit just below the folded up belts is whats shortening them and the zip ties are just to stop the lengthy ends from flying around everywhere messing up his tidy lack of any interior

if you can be arse to do it you can also change the bearings yourself
if you go with plain bearings youll also have the benefit of having a fan that quieter than it would have ever been if it didnt have a manufacturing error

Quote from Hyperactive :

Or to say that human centipede is essentially the same thing as the system astronauts use to reuse their piss for drinking water.

heh best analogy ever

woudlnt it be easier to rma it if one of the fans quite obviously has a broken bearing?

happy birthday

a lot of which is completely sanitized
most likely you wont find this in any korean restaurant anywhere in the west
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiJkdOZEjXU
and my ethiopean work colleague always tends to point out how little chili the ethiopian restaurants use here

uh its the same in pretty much any larger city in any part of the civilized world mate

i refuse to have any part in this

translation "they offered me a boatload of money"

overtaking through a blind corner... very very smart of you

Quote from tristancliffe :

The downside is pizza that tastes of socks because the plates are contaminated.

might be the best day in your life if youre a foot fetishist

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

Can't be any worse than the "food" you Brits come up with anyway... (eh?)

ah yes north america the mecca of the gourmet

Quote from Hyperactive :

The socks getting lost in dish washing machine is a scam too.

im used to finns doing weird shit but putting dirty socks in your dishwasher is just disgusting

Quote from tristancliffe :

Or missing the bus by seconds more often.

im shocked
you of all people i would have expected to look down upon anyone who cant afford their own bentley to drive around in and now youre telling me you understand the plight of the proletarian bacteria who are forced to go places via busses?

i feel like i should claim i did it just to see what terrible consequences it might have
probably stuff like socks getting lost in the washing machine more frequently

Quote from jtw62074 :

What's a trainer port?

its a port that passes the ppm signal that would normally go into the rf hardware out of the transmitter
its extremely common on flight radios and is meant for hooking up 2 transmitters so that the master can switch between having full control over the plane himself and handing some control functions over to the slave radio so that someone whos new to rc flying can fly safely with a more experienced flyer who can take over any time the plane is going to crash

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Is the usb adaptor you're using something like ours that lets you use your real radio?

yeah

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Vectors are so '90's I've got a brochure sitting here from that car. It was one of the first things Pieter sent me probably in 2000 or early 2001.

looking at the 966 other than the chassis braces round the engine (which presumably wouldnt fit with the rather large electric motor we use anyway) and the lower sitting steering servo (one of the cars we readied was a vector nt so that doesnt have that particular "problem" either) i dont really see anything that would make the car go significantly faster
1:8 onroad development has been entirely stagnant at least since the excel and propbably even longer than that