I have these on my car ATM. They are a dual compound tire that works well in both wet and dry but sacrifices the max on both to be able to handle both very well. http://www.tirerack.com/tires/ ... Model=g-Force+T%2FA+KDW+2



Potenza's are always a good buy. I will probably go with those for my next set. That way I don't have to import my BFG's

Haha =) I used to play Motor City Online aswell. Some of the makers of MCO have remade the project and are creating MWO but the project is in their free time and has not reached alpha stage yet.

http://www.motorworldonline.net/index.php

Quote from SamH :

Awwww!!

Yay! Even now even myself isnt neglected =)

It can easily happen if you don't speak english on a regular basis =)

Put a nice big smile on my face =)

Last edited by Viper93, Sat 24 Mar 2007, 10:19.

Quote from FOGlegsy :

Good to hear Im sure it will be fixed in the not too distant future

Nothing in STCC is neglected =) Well nothing but me! =)

Quote from danowat :

Cheers man, cheques in the post, love you to mate

Seriously though, everyone I have met IRL to do with LFS has been a cool person, all the chaps I met at the karting event, and the devs are all decent down to earth people who you would have no qualms about spending a bit of time with.

=) I think this would go for alot of people playing LFS. As a whole drivers in in LFS are fairly responsible and good people to know =)


I hope to eventually meet alot of the UK LFSers now that I have immigrated from the states =)

Sam, When is your next UKCT party? A big bash to celibrate the end of the STCC season maybe?
:drink::bannana_g:ernaehrun:slap: :rock_band :hidesbehi

Fordman, have you told Tristain yet that you want to drag him along when you come my way? =P

If you want to give more money to the devs just simply keep buying licenses =)

Quote from spiderbait90 :

would like to point something out that may not be true to everywhere in the uk.

where i live near aberdeen, my dad is in middle managment at the harbour. I have been at the harbour before. there are maybe 20 or so of these huge silos that contain the same oil, the same petrol, the same diesel. At 9pm a shell truck will come and fill itsself with "shell petrol / desiel" then maybe 20 mins later a BP will come, fill itself from the same tank. Tesco truck- same fuel same for asda, and all those other places. so for people in the aberdeen area, you are being conned if you go to a BP store for 95p / gallon (litres maybe, dont pay attention lol) where you can go to tesco and get it for 87p / litre

It's also possible that say BP has the higher price because it costs them that much more to get it to the same store than it would Tesco.

Quote from danowat :

Made it, phew, was a bit of a bottom clencher though, filled up, and my car has a 60 litre tank, it took 58 litres, so it was quite close to being empty, but the OBC still read around 60 miles left, go figure..........

Glad to see you made it =)

Quote from tristancliffe :

I believe so, although I have very limited experience with diesels. The reason is the fuel pump in a diesel is made with very tight tolerences, and requires the fuel (oil) to lubricate it. Attempting to make it pump dry (or with petrol in it) will quickly knacker it.

Of course, the owners manual should inform you whether it's required on your particular car.

Yes and the car manufacturers also use the fuel to cool the pump off so if you are running it low the pump is not submirged and you could cause fuel pump issues. Older cars this is a non-issue because the pump is either on top the tank or along the rail being able to cool better, but with the new cars it's near the bottom of the tank and they can get quite warm when they are trying to pump 200plus LPH (well in my case I think it's 175 or 200)

Koolby please remove the replay.

You were banned for a few days because of your swearing on STCC servers which is strictly prohibited, it had nothing to do with any racing conduct that happened.

The incident with Venus is being looked into. If you have any more replays this would be helpful for us admins =)



Admin Reminder:
Please people keep any questions about STCC license issues to PM's and emails, this does not belong the LFS forums. If you have to post on a forum please use the STCC forums, thats what it's there for :wink:

(nothing against you koolby, just a friendly reminder for everyone =)

Last edited by Viper93, Thu 22 Mar 2007, 17:53.

Quote from Gentlefoot :

Actually yeah - good point lol. For those who can't heel toe there is a benefit to it you're right.

Silly me

I tell you what though. I wouldn't do it in my track prepared mkII Golf. Gearbox is likely to let go at any moment anyway without me banging it through the syncros everytime I change gear

Well if you want to put it that way sure =) Honestly that is the case though, I always find that in brake zones that are less than full brake or almost full brake I always find a way to tap the brake as I try to blip upsetting the car. I will have to learn it though for when my car gets here for when I do track-days.

Hehe yeah this method doesn't work with syncro's. There needs to be free movement and with Sycro's the gears are speeding up and slowing down at rates different than just the RPM(front 1/2 of transmission) and MPH (back 1/2 of transmission) giving you 2 more variables to work with, well 3 if you add in a quasi LSD like the one in my car that never really locks =)

Quote from Vykos69 :

well, I might quote (again) BMW F1 Testdriver Timo Glock: "Wow, that really gets close to the real thing, I wanna play with the setups" after playing LFS. And honestly, if no one comes up with something at least comparable by one of the 4 guys that drive a BMW F1 irl about the rf-sauber, this is the ultimate judgement atm.

=) These are the comments that usually get buried =)



Vykos69 This isn't the best place for this but I wanted to publicly say Sorry for any harsh words that I have said previously. It was nothing against you or anything that you work on and I was being immature (hmm go figure)

MoE is a great league, Muroc has tried to field cars before but we have always fell short and had to pull out. Goes to show what kind of caliber of teams enter MoE, that or how poor Muroc is at attending league races, I would guess a bit of both.

Quote from Gentlefoot :

Sure, you can change gear without a clutch even if the gearbox isn't sequential but there is absolutely no benefit to it when racing. The only time you might want to do this is if the clutch fails in your road car.

No probably isnt any real benefit, but for those that don't care for Heel-toe it works good =)

Quote from Gentlefoot :

most cars don't have semi automatic gearboxes though. The cars used in STCC definately wouldn't have auto clutch.

Well you don't NEED a semi-auto to do it, depends on how bullitprouf the transmission is that will allow the mating of the gears to happen under a little load.

Getting them out of gear is another matter, no chance of really getting it out of gear with full throttle, just let off quickly to release the pressure on the gears (IE coast, no engine braking) and pop it out of gear. Put gentle pressure on the next gear your going into until it slides in at the right RPM, ( key here is GENTLE, too much you will bend and break stuff, too little though and you will miss the gear)

It will cause more wear on the transmission than normal like shifter forks and you run the risk of chipping a gear but it can be done if your careful. Just have to have a transmission that doesnt use syncro's. I call them dog gear transmissions but I am from the backwoods in Wisconsin and I don't know the technical term =)

Quote from mikey_G :

I especially ripped this vid for people who don't heel and toe but still wanna blip the throttle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azpqTZ6WeJk

Glad to see pro drivers doing the same thing, I don't hear of many drivers not using the clutch, it can go horribly wrong if your not careful and tear the whole inside out of the transmission.

Quote from Gentlefoot :

How do you give a good blip on downshift without heel-toeing if you want to brake at the same time?

Why would you blip on upshift? You need the revs to drop to the next gear not rise.

Haha yeah that was me misstyping again...

Simply not use the clutch and give a nice big blip on downshift. I don't know about racecar transmisions but semi transmissions handle this just find. I use the clutch on upshift and just blip with my right foot as I brake with my left, same as I did driving semi.

Yep RF was based on old ISI physics platform that was modified. The FFB is done with pure effects and nothing is calculated, I have the game but it's nothing to write home about, nice to have real tracks, couldn't be fussed about real cars though as long as the cars handled realisticly.

Quote from AndroidXP :

Granted, my experience came from a South City set, and it was horrible.

The city sets for the RB4 on Inferno have massive understeer IIRC, while you get onto other sets there are massive oversteer issues. But at the end of the day it's all down to preference really and you as a driver feel comfortable and confident driving in, one driver that oversteers with one set can give it to another driver and that driver will have the car understeering worse than a snowplow in a foot of snow.

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

I assume this is because of the cornering forces?

prevents the diff from seperating under corners that really don't need it while still allowing the diff to open up easy for the tough corners like a hairpin which if you set pressure alone wouldn't open as easy if you didn't have preload and set the diff to say 90% in LFS terms.

If there was preload you could set the diff to say 40% letting the diff open up earlier in the hairpin allowing the car to turn easier for longer. While preventing the diff from unloading the power in a faster, less radiused corner. At least this is how I interpet preload. I could be totally wrong.

Preload in a factory car? Never knew it was that big of a deal, most cars I know of are open diff. anyways.

the Race cars would benafite from this but Preload alone isn't going to make LFS any better. Slow/fast dampening rates would help with the addition of the "third" spring into the formula cars. Then taking ideas from GTR having an option to increase or fdecrease brake ducting and having the brakes fade, I could keep going =)

dynamic weather =)

ok I will shut up, we have all heard this before.

Quote from danowat :

FXO = desperation to win

LOL

I hope soon the devs make the TBO class equal cars again, frustrating for both XRT's and RB's to try to keep up.

Quote from AndroidXP :

And for gods sake, don't try to use the WR setups with the RB4. Sure, they're fast when driven correctly, but for normal drivers this just translates to "understeering pig".

Odd for me they usually oversteer and smoke the tires =)

I put the cambers down to 1.5 or so and decrease the ARB's so the car will actually finish a race without having the tires falling off.

Quote from danowat :

Love the RB4, I can drive the XRT but I just don't find it as satisfying as the RB4, shame the XRT and FXO crucify the RB4 on any track with more than a 100m straight though............

Yeah I hate that. THe speed difference actually gets less the longer the strait, its just that on the long straits the difference is there for longer =(

At aston Cadet in STCC the RB's were a good 5MPH slower down the frontstrait. Where at Blackwood it was down to 2-3 MPH difference for the front runners just before hitting the brakes off teh backstrait

Quote from SamH :

I've been hoping some of your pace would rub off on to me! LOL! Still waiting! hehe

Hmmm well..... now is the time I shutup and wait until the next race is released! =)