Quote from Nock44 :

Well to even put this to the test, get in a BF1 Shift up to 7th with 0.500 Ratio get wheels spinning to about 400mph, put the clutch down and shift into reverse and let the clutch go, yeah 400MPH > 40MPH In Reverse, Time Taken: 0.1 Seconds

Did you have auto clutch on? because if you turn it off and with the XRG you get to 60KM/h, press the clutch go into reverse and pop the clutch the back wheels (traction wheels) lock and the engine stops spinning, hence, it turns off.

Bump.

Accidentally did this in my car today at 5MPH with the clutch fully depressed (and then slipping it out gently).


CRUNCH.

Actually did it again at a much lower speed while I was barely moving by accident and again...

CRUNCH.



EDIT - I was practicing parking in a super-market car park, basically I kept going perpendicular to a space, reversing in, then driving out and reversing in again - I was hurrying myself, and hadn't stopped fully before engaging reverse...

Don't try this at home kids!

(FWIW it didn't go in gear anyway).

In conclusion - I was wrong and you should NOT be able to do this in LFS.

youre diong it wrong... i engage and declutch into first while still rolling backwards all the time (not with reverse though since the gear isnt synched on a punto)

I was going forwards, and engaged reverse - it made a very loud crunch.

I did it wrong? :sadbanana

sounds like an unsynched reverse (hardly any car has a synched one)
try the same with first and you should have no problems at all

Quote from texas12 :

haha if u wanna see how car totally messes up then take xfg and go to black wood and ket into 5 gear and then immidiatly change to R and then look speedo meter and power meter XD thats fun and u cant get it run again

Only cars I know with a power meter are the prius and the veyron!

RR Phantom - "Power Reserve"

I've been trying to break my corolla for the past 8 months, the gear box only gave up this week. I've been ramming it through the gears with out using the clutch, forcing it into reverse while rolling forward, managing to get it into reverse three times. It makes some crunching noises. I find it very amusing to damage my cars especially when other people don't know what's going on, the look of horror on their faces. Anyway the reverse stopped working and the car would not drive forward, so I forced it to go forward and bust a piece of the gearbox casing, which then drained all the oil out of my gear box, but I still made the 40km journey home and swapped the gearbox. I did not have a chance to open the broken gearbox to see what happened yet.
I have a lot of experience with this kind of thing so I could keep rambling on about how much abuse some cars can take before breaking, that would suprise a lot of people.

Yes, cars are actually over-engineering to cope with people like you that can't drive.

Quote from eight6er :

I've been trying to break my corolla for the past 8 months, the gear box only gave up this week. I've been ramming it through the gears with out using the clutch, forcing it into reverse while rolling forward, managing to get it into reverse three times. It makes some crunching noises. I find it very amusing to damage my cars especially when other people don't know what's going on, the look of horror on their faces. Anyway the reverse stopped working and the car would not drive forward, so I forced it to go forward and bust a piece of the gearbox casing, which then drained all the oil out of my gear box, but I still made the 40km journey home and swapped the gearbox. I did not have a chance to open the broken gearbox to see what happened yet.
I have a lot of experience with this kind of thing so I could keep rambling on about how much abuse some cars can take before breaking, that would suprise a lot of people.

how many gallons of gearbox and engine oil would you guess you've left for other poor ****ers to clean up after you over the years?

Oil costs a lot of money to clean up, especially if the council have to do it.

...not an attack just a pissed off forks driver that spilled a lot of the above mentioned substance in work today

120 liters everywhere

Lol don't worry it was in a supermarket car park and I cleaned up the 2.5L of oil I left on the tarmac.
@tristancliffe Thanks for your remark, I just do this for fun and also to see what a car can put up with. So I have experienced a car in more situations than you have which would make me a better driver than you.

What odd logic. I don't wreck my cars, and therefore you're a better driver? You might be, but that's not the logic to prove it...

Quote from tristancliffe :

What odd logic. I don't wreck my cars, and therefore you're a better driver? You might be, but that's not the logic to prove it...

He's Irish you'll never beat him.

No my logic is, I like to try every thing I can in a car so I have experience of every situation, breaking the car is not always necessary but it is fun.

Quote from eight6er :

No my logic is, I like to try every thing I can in a car so I have experience of every situation, breaking the car is not always necessary but it is fun.

Yh and your irish so he'll never win.

/me knows after argument with his irish mate.

Quote from eight6er :

No my logic is, I like to try every thing I can in a car so I have experience of every situation, breaking the car is not always necessary but it is fun.

Lol, breaking a car DOES NOT make you a better driver.

I have spent lots of time doing things like hitting large pools of standing water with wheels on one side of the car at greater and greater speeds or inducing understeer and oversteer (All in SAFE locations) because this DOES enable you to recover from situations when you encounter them.

But just breaking you car is just dumb and does NOTHING to improve your driving. You should have learnt not to put the car in the wrong gear WELL before you passed your test. If you still do not understand why you should NOT select the wrong gear your licence should be taken away from you as you are too stupid to be on the road!

Quote from Woz :

Lol, breaking a car DOES NOT make you a better driver.

is easy if you have enough time to react. rev her up to about eight thou revs/into reverse throw the clutch in and stopping distance is halved!

brutal yes, fun in rain snow yes

Well maybe the gearbox is a bad example because that is just for fun. But it's what I do to try and break a car, like driving on rough surfaces at high speeds, ramping while sideways and hitting bumps which blow the tyres off the rims, etc. you get the Idea.

Quote from eight6er :

I find it very amusing to damage my cars especially when other people don't know what's going on, the look of horror on their faces.

Hehe qft

(stolen cars ftw!)

Quote from eight6er :

Well maybe the gearbox is a bad example because that is just for fun. But it's what I do to try and break a car, like driving on rough surfaces at high speeds, ramping while sideways and hitting bumps which blow the tyres off the rims, etc. you get the Idea.

You fail at life.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

you Fail At Life.

+1111111111

Quote from eight6er :

I've been trying to break my corolla for the past 8 months, the gear box only gave up this week. I've been ramming it through the gears with out using the clutch, forcing it into reverse while rolling forward, managing to get it into reverse three times. It makes some crunching noises. I find it very amusing to damage my cars especially when other people don't know what's going on, the look of horror on their faces. Anyway the reverse stopped working and the car would not drive forward, so I forced it to go forward and bust a piece of the gearbox casing, which then drained all the oil out of my gear box, but I still made the 40km journey home and swapped the gearbox. I did not have a chance to open the broken gearbox to see what happened yet.
I have a lot of experience with this kind of thing so I could keep rambling on about how much abuse some cars can take before breaking, that would suprise a lot of people.

Please die in a hole. That's exactly the kind of idiotic behaviour which causes hundreds if not thousands of motorcyclists and scooter users to fall off.

You and lorry drivers....

All I know is a friend finally let me try to shift an actual car yesterday... his Scion tC with intake and like practically slick wheels.

I swear when I was done the transmission was all over the parking lot. With those tires if I didn't engage smoothly (which was 92% of the time) they didn't slip, they just GRIPPED and the whole car LURCHED so violently.

Should have tried going into reverse at 10 mph... lol.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

You fail at life.

So because in my spare time I like to enjoy myself driving cars I fail at life? That comment says more about you than it does about me.

@s14 If you bothered to read on you would know it happened in a car park and I cleaned it up. I drive a motorbike myself so had this in mind. So keep your idiotic requests to yourself.

Quote from Stang70Fastback :

With those tires if I didn't engage smoothly (which was 92% of the time) they didn't slip, they just GRIPPED and the whole car LURCHED so violently

that has nothing to do with the tires, it has everything to do with lack of experience.