A few years on, but...

Have you guys worked out what an EGR vale does yet?

Aii - I still visit, and I know of a few of the old crumblies visit occasionally too.

Thats a FMIC or front mounted intercooler. (real life examples) The mitsu Evo has a FMIC as standard, which differs to the Subaru Impreza which has a TMIC or top mounted intercooler

It doesnt take any air in. It has been mentioned that is a radiator. Well in a sense it is, but a radiator is for cooling the water in the cooling system. Any air being taken in, is induced through the airbox or induction feed.

An intercooler, cools the air and exhaust gas mix, that is fed back into the engine from the turbo.

Turbo and Compressor (supercharge) vehicles have intercoolers.

Hope that clears that up.

I play when I get chance - still the most realistic sim on the market for me.

Quote from TV[cz] :

I've got these. And you can grab it too, hint: ~
LFS_PATCH_Y_TO_Y19.exe
LFS_PATCH_Y19_TO_Y22.exe

Just calm down man.

I have those as well..... not so sure I would distribute though. Quite why you you would want to mess with a bug that has long been resolved is beyond me, unless you are looking for something in particular.

I have used a speech to text app - when running league races. I had a team of marshalls covering the corners and when they called an accident, that required a yellow flag - then I said a key word for that corner. When the accident cleared I would say another key word for that corner and the green would be displayed.

It was quite complex and occasionally messed up - but it was clear when it worked.

Pulp Fiction my good man

Has to be B for my misses. Rants at me every time I do the A... .so I now take it off the roller, and go freestlye, lying it on the top.

I cant do with conforming. We all have to wipe our buts but we dont have to compare how we do it do we???

Don't worry about the distance. I flew to the states and went golfing with guys whom I met through on line Golf. Had a great time, meeting new people, seeing new cultures etc.

I went to the first UK LFS Kart meet, It was great, everything/ everybody was spot on.

If you want to do it, you will. You just need a strong minded individual to organise it, and your away.

Go for it.

Make it an attractive enough event, and you never know who might turn up???

Some one has posted up a karting session in Kent - some time... I dont recall it being a formal LFS event type thing - just more of a like minded get togethor thing.

Ahhhh Blackbird, you have stumbled accross an old path I used to follow most often. Although the AI's are a little rigid in performance, they do often entertain. They do learn, and get better with time, even though there ability is flawed.

I found my next avenue of progress was as follows. You may choose to take the path?

3 or 4 class racing, with a slower class, to ensure some over taking and mixing up of the classes, prevents the hitting of every corner spot, as the occasional back marker gets in the way.

Lan racing - if you have the capability....

Take 3 or 4 pcs, and race them against each other - either 1 car from each class on each pc, or race each class on each pc.

I found that often, the lowest spec pc won.

I lost many hours devoted to this cause, however it was most enjoyable. Even tried to set up and AI league with my team mates, but it didnt capture their imagination.

Sounds like your having fun. Enjoy!!!!!

Great Vid - just some info on the car you seem to be discussing.

I have had the pleasure of chatting with the Driver and CO Driver of the Pink/Orangey/Red car at Chatsworth House @ the Rally show.

Olaf Dobberkau - Drives for ProRallye Team Porsche. He actually races that car in the German Rally championship, and he was the first driver to win a round in the GRC in a Porsche since 1983.

He also owns a rally school at the Ring, if your ever that way. Really nice fella.

The car itself, is awesome - standing on the start line next to it, it pops and bangs on the over run into a corner and gear changing. Awesome bit of Kit.

If you do want to get up close and personal with this type of car, and you live in the UK, or are visiting the UK on the 5th/6th June 2010, get your self up to Derby, Chatsworth, its a great weekend - not too expensive either. Its the most spectator Friendly rally I go to, and there's a mass of things to do. The Rally operates over 12 hours saturday and Sunday.

Last edited by Widdowmaker, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 10:23.

How about, before the test area and car park where accessible, except to those that knew how.....

When the BL rally track, last straight (off the back straight) was flat and had large(r) banks.

When you could find Popeye at BL...

Learning how to get on the roof of the building behind BL pits.

to name but a few.

I am not saying I advise it - its common on the Mark 4 - The handling is pretty terrible as it is - and you cant make it any worse.

The reason it has be removed is that it fouls the drive shafts. This can be avoided tho with an uprated or adjustable ARB (whiteline). An standard Audi TT Front ARB will fit and goes over the top. The whitline actually goes over the drive shafts rather than under it so it doesnt catch.

Having done a bit of reading on this this morning, its possible to do this and "recommended" (possibly by certain mechanics and the manurfacturer themselves) by VW/Audi on the RS4 to remove the ARB with out any detrimental effect.

Going a bit OT here....

Last edited by Widdowmaker, Sat 10 Oct 2009, 07:27.

Take a golf Mk4, put coil overs on it - if you really want to lower the car, so excuse the phrase - to put it on its arse, then yes, you can remove the ARB and run with out a problem. However... the MOT man (in the UK), will have issues with this. The car was designed with a ARB in place, and if the MOT man (or Woman) knows it should have one - it will fail its MOT. The other way is to cut the ARB and only have it going half way - so effectively, cutting the centre out. This allows additional lowering - but again the MOT man (or Woman) if they know there golfs, will again fail the car.

May I ask the OP - why are you asking? I am just trying to understand the thought behind your question or as to why you came to consider the theory.

Edited as I have just read Bobs response on the z16 thread.

Good work Devs. loving the new updates.

Last edited by Widdowmaker, Sat 3 Oct 2009, 21:43. Reason : Issue resolved

I am having a few issues, that I thought I might raise.

I personally dont like the new 3 screen setup. Just to add I am running windows 7 and a THTG.

Now with the 3 monitor view, both the left and the right screens seem to angle away, and the perspective is very wrong in my eyes, to the point of after 1 hours off line testing I now feel sea sick. I have changed back to running 1 monitor (ie the old view) and it feels so much better.

I have noticed a 30% frame drop running the new set up. dropping from a consistant 80 frames to 50 - 55.

Lastly - I have run a few test with the new setup , seeing if I change the view point around, FOV and Bezel to see if I can sort out the issue (ie make it feel better for my self - to try and persevere and see if I can get used to it), and have now found the following.

I have changed back to the single center monitor view (the old setup but still suing 3 monitors) and when I tab from car to car, I have various different views, when changing from car to car. As though each car I have viewed from - now has individual settings. Really strange. its as though each AI that was running now has its own view settings. Should this be the case?


Q - How can I change the colour of the sky messages - as white text on a cloudy sky is difficult to see sometimes. in terms of the sector interval times.

Quote from Krane :

Just fyi, registration date isn't the same as when one started to play LFS. LFSW registration become possible in January 21st 2003, but the first public LFS version was released around august 2002 IIRC. ed: not around, in august

My join date is prior to Jan 21st 2003 and is displayed as so in LFSW. Ill let you have fun looking

It sure does work.....

Quote from Cannabist :

I almost never go on race servers anymore, I prefer to hang out in cruise now and then and just relax. Put on some music and drive around...

Looking at your post count - you do not bother with posting in this forum this forum much either - and I thought I did not post a lot.

Is that because you just prefer to chill and do not like the competitive element of racing?

What would you need/LFS need to get you racing again?

Might as well throw in my 2 cents, seeings as I am an old timer..... and all the old timers seem to be coming out.

I dont care much for the insim servers, Horses for courses, I do how ever miss the pickup races.

The arcade element and the desire to be winning points in every race, does not turn me on. I used to spend hours, into the early mornings, whole weekends, doin 5 lap pickup races.

Glad you mentioned the CRC Fordy,, its been a long time gone, and evolved a lot over time. However, the whole point of the CRC was lost, amongst rival teams and hot headed attitiudes. Egos got the better of it, and for one it kept we away from my wheel for a duration.

Regardless, as time moves on and so has LFS, it evolves with time, it grows, changes. THe big unanswered question is, whats next? We only know at some point were gettin the Scirroco, but nothing else else apart from the subtle hint. Anyway back on topic, there is a place for the insims and I am not quite sure Where Becky is going with her latest creation, but it sounds quite...... intersting, but pretty samey... impo.

Either way - good to see you about again..

I understand what you want to do, your video was very informative. I am not what I would call a virtual motorsports spectator. I can sit and watch my team mates racing a couple of laps - but thats about it.

I am an avid fan of motorpsort tho, and If I had a particular person or 2 - who I was interested in watching - then yes - I would.

I normally fall asleep for the GP... watch the start and finish - but I think that an LFS race day would be a good idea and may hold my interest.

I only say "May" as I am not sure.

Good luck with the Project

You would probably gain more from trail braking in to corner rather than heal toes.

Check you current lap times against the current World record and look where you are slower.

In the xfg you can flat shift without issue over a few laps, and heal,toeing wont give you the 0.6/0.8 second improvement you need.

Personally, I think the Devs are working hard, on something, at least, I cant be specific because I am just guessing.... but definatly working towards a possible final version of S2, whether that be a beta stage or even a total rework of the sim itself.

This is not a critisism, and like the OP, this is just my opinion, occasionally the devs have something up there sleeve, and they have never failed to dissapoint. Many times over the years, and I have been with LFS from the start, suprises have come, in the forms of sublte changes, to massive unexpected updates. They may even be distracted from the development of the game, for commercial progress, using the platform as it stands.

I just hope they are actually working on it, and not completly pished off by those who demand, cry, winge, bitch about updates not coming out.

For me pitspotter was good for oval racing - brings an added sense of reality to the race.

For normal circuit racing tho I think its a bit lame.