I haven't seen more than the first page of this thread, but I made this video many years ago of my drive to high school. It's really lame, and stupid, and silly, and dumb but I thought I'd post it anyway.

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

Alright godammit. I tried my very best to not let my curiosity get the best of me, and I just spent $20 on this game. Any chance I can get added to this "whitelist" so I can try some multiplayer out? Playing offline is kind of fun, but it's like playing LFS offline, lol.

My username is the same: Stang70Fastback

Last edited by Stang70Fastback, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 21:09.

I realize with resolutions higher than 2560x1024 you start running into walls because cards sometimes don't support resolutions higher than that, but just wanted to mention that I ran LFS at 2560x1024 for quite a while on a 6800GT perfectly fine, so I highly doubt that with newer cards it really is a lack of raw power...

Uhh, I have a 6800 GT and that ran LFS maxed out at a resolution of 2560x1024, lol. Stop worrying and start racing!

Two of my favorites:

A car driven by a hot GIRL with license plate: AMD X2

This car:

Generally!

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

Viper racing Anyone remember?

Oh my god YES. I spent so many childhood hours on that game. That game was the SHIZZLE.

Had this:



It broke, so now I have this:

Thanks to anyone who actually voted!

Yeah, I know, I really thought it was a smart design. It definitely deserves to win something, lol.

Hey y'all! My friend is a graphics design major and she has entered a competition for a T-Shirt Design contest. I actually think her design is pretty smart/funny and I was hoping I could help her garner some extra votes.

UNFORTUNATELY, when you vote on it, it asks you to sign up, but it's one page just basically wanting your email and like two other things. It takes all of 1 minute to complete and then you get the confirmation email instantly. I don't expect anyone to go though that, lol, but if anyone is bored and would like to help out she would greatly appreciate it. Thanks guys!

http://www.threadless.com/subm ... 6363/The_ABC_s_of_America

Holy crap. I expected this to be... crap... and it wasn't! Well done!

Apparently we're all in Virginia, lol:

City, Country: Blacksburg, Virginia
Time (local): 3:34AM
Weather conditions: Clear, Sunny, 75 deg F
How you feel about it: First warm week since... EVER!!!

A lot of times you are going to need a torx set to unscrew those star-slot screws. I replaced the outer screen on my dad's E90 (swapped screens) with just a torx screwdriver - it just came right out and unplugged. Your phone is probably more complicated though, lol.

Quote from Shotglass :

generally the method of generating downforce (or rather of how to decrease lift in "normal" cars) on cars (with the exception of anything ground effect related) is to do the exact opposite of filling the wake in eg by using spoilers at the trailing edge of the boot and thus the car
i think the general idea here is that when viewed from the side a car roughly resembles a wing profile (particularly obvious if you look at the 911 which is one of the worst lift generators out there) and to stop that profile from generating lift you want to keep the flow across the top from mixing with the flow across the (usually flat) bottom

You're right. I wasn't really thinking. I guess it would have to be a trade-off. It always is a trade between downforce and drag.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

I thought the dimples on a golf ball made it fly further by increasing the lift as it spins rather than lessening air resistance?

The dimples act to rough up the boundary layer of air flowing over the golf ball. A smooth ball will have a smooth (laminar) flow of air over it until some point on the backside when that flow detaches from the surface of the ball. What you are left with then is a space behind the ball of low pressure before the air comes back together. This area of low pressure acts to slow the ball as it is literally sucking the ball back. There is increased drag as the air did not come together cleanly. This is the reason anything that is designed to cut through fluids (planes, ships, etc) taper to a point. To allow a smooth reattachment of the air flow with minimal drag and no low-pressure suction zone.

A golf ball obviously cannot be tapered to a point, however you can cheat by adding dimples. Dimples "rough up" the laminar flow over the surface of the ball, turning it turbulent. A turbulent layer of air has more energy, and is able to hang onto the surface of the ball longer. This allows it to stay attached a little bit longer as it travels along the backside of the ball. This means there will be a smaller low-pressure zone behind the ball, and less drag, allowing it to fly a little bit further.

Your explanation of spin doesn't really work, because as far as I know, a gold ball does not only spin one way in the air. The ball will exhibit increased lift on whichever side is rotating in the direction of travel, as the relative airspeed over that surface would be the ball's speed PLUS the rotational speed, which would lead to less pressure than the opposite side. However, if the ball spins the wrong way, you suffer REDUCED lift. So unless you can control the way in which the ball rotates, there is no way to influence lift in this way.

Quote from Scott Mckenzie :

You may gain on fuel efficiency and reduced drag but the counter effect would be reduced downforce and obviously the aesthetic argument.

I don't see why there would be less downforce if this was applied to a car. The effects of these dimples are only to allow the flow to remain attached to the surface of the vehicle. I don't believe it would have much of an effect on downforce. A dimpled wing on the back of a car will still be deflecting the air in the same way as a non-dimpled way. In fact, I would think it would be likely to increase downforce as it allows the air flow to stay attacked to the airfoil longer, allowing the air to flow better and increasing the efficiency of the wing. Not too sure about that though.

Last edited by Stang70Fastback, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 00:55.

Yeah, in the corners my car would pwn all of u...

...Outback style. Lol, who needs to go around corners when you can offroad in a straight line.

Quote from Shotglass :

could you tell me what kind of mental processes are involved in deciding to ask a forum for a racing game instead of visiting a doc first?

None, lol.

Quote from tristancliffe :

But I won't win on the horsepower stakes, but I don't believe that lots of horsepower makes a good car. In fact, it generally ruins them.

EXACTLY! Lol, I try telling that to all the kids in the car club, but they don't believe me. My 165 HP is better than their 800.

Those are the early signs of radiation sickness. First step is to buy a Geiger counter and find the source.

Quote from squidhead :

You have a suicidaly fast car that resembles a flat soap chunk with a GT wing in your avatar, your opinion doesn't count

There are few cars that look even better than the Zonda.

The CCX is one of them.

SO STFU.

I LOVE the R. The F is a big... bug-ish?

And yeah, the guy putting on the steering wheel looks like a stuck-up prick, lol.

I've obviously won this:



/thread

Yeah, it builds up and then its just a bunch of clips. The last two slow-mo clips are sweet tho.

I just love looking at the car tho. :lovies3d:

I need a towel...

You MUST click through and watch in HD glory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYOundkNxGE&fmt=22

Quote from tristancliffe :

If the car oversteers, just let go of the steering wheel. The car will probably sort itself out for you.

That's a little gem of information that I'm surprised isn't emphasized more. You always hear about countersteering and this and that, but no one ever seems to make mention of the fact that the car will DO the countersteering FOR you if you just let the wheel slip through your hands. The only time people ever learn this is when I sit them down in front of LFS, lol.

Pretty sure if more people learned that, there'd be fewer accidents.