LPs.

Getting there, glad it helped=)

One other thing, not sure if it's been mentioned earlier... Don't carry too much fuel around- the weight will rob you of a chunk of time. Most online races are short, so less than 10% fuel is plenty, 7 or 8% is perfect for the average 5 lap bl1 race.

Oh, and take Quinn up on his offer=) He has helped dozens, if not 100's of folk improve. He is great at advising on getting the basics right, and where to go from there. He knows his stuff!!

Here's the setup I use, was given to me by a team mate. PB with it is 1.33.4 I think, but more usual times are mid to high 33's in races.

It will be a wet race. The weather forecast for today is "Eddie Jordans armpits to soak the track 30 minutes into the race."

Quote from tinvek :

when i saw the title i though he'd found some unknown gossip about secret gay love amongst the apollo astonauts

not sure if i'm relieved or disappointed

"Houston, we don't have a problem"

Have you got the lfsworld.net webpage open while you drive? It refreshes itself automatically every 60 seconds and makes a click/tick sound as it does so.

Saw this pic on another forum. Absolutely shocking.


Thankfully it's only a bit damp here in Nottingham.

Ayup=)
I'm lurking in there now

What about a watch company: Rolex or Cartier or maybe a luxury yacht manufacturer, like Riva?

Quote from gezmoor :

I did rebuild my horn speakers using the same drive units in to a self designed TL design. It worked ok, but it was clear that it wasn't properly tuned and the bass/mid drive unit had the wrong properties as well. The bass was actually very dry and too low in level though it was obviously well extended.

I'm full of admiration for anyone that can build their own horn speakers, no easy task=)

I'd love to try some one day, but my room is too small for BIG horns, and I cant see the point in having a little one

The ipl kit T-line speakers are really very good, very nicely ballanced sound, Ivor Leslie has been designing 'em for years, and really knows his stuff. The Yams I use now are better, but so they should be... if they were made today, the cost would easily be over £2000... they were £1500 new in the late 70's I beleive. I was lucky to find a pair for a nice price from a gent I know that lives locally- I think he regrets selling them now, but he'll have to pry 'em from my cold dead hands to get em back

This.. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dVeJAlt05-g

Then the daddy.... GPL.

Quote from gezmoor :

Now we're talking audiophile!

How you find the IPL speakers to build ? I'm assuming you got the kit?
I've built my own speakers too, (own design), my last ones were horn speakers (horn bass loading) unfortunately they were far too big and I was told to get rid.

My current sytem (long in the tooth now):

Roksan Xerxes, SME IV, Lyra Clavis DC
Musical Fidelity MX Pre
Musical Fidelity A370 Power (modified with A470 input stages)
Kimber 4TC Speaker cable. Black Slink Interconnects
AE AESPRIT 309 speakers - seriously letting the side down.

You have a great system there, those MF amps are monsters=)

I did build my IPLs from kits, I've built a few speakers over the years, and got fed up of sawdust everywhere......so buying the pre-cut cabinets was a sensible idea.
Here is a work in progress pic of them


I no longer use them, I bought some Yamaha Ns1000m speakers a while ago and they are much better in the mid and treble, and the bass is MUCH faster and tuneful. The IPLs have a lot of very deep warm rich bass, but its not as well defined as the big sealed box bass from the yams.

I also built the World Designs preamp 3 and phono3 kits a while ago, and they are absolutely wonderful, especially with a few tweaky bits-posh caps and resistors.
Upgraded the internals of my amp too- blackgates, audionote copper paper in oil caps, tantalum resistors etc.

WD pre almost built




Glasshouse amp upskirt with its knickers off while being poked with a hot iron..

Any of the GPL era cars: Brabham BT24, Lotus 49, Eagle...

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0.172
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AVG 0.18119999999999997

Do I win the "longest number" prize?

Quote from Gopher04 :

I think the word here that is being overlooked, is , SIM, LFS was never made to be a console/arcade game, and i can't say i've seen cars in real life going round my streets with a arm chair strapped to the roof or on the bumper..

hi, need a set k pls thx, mine suks.

Michell Gyrodec (orbe platter upgrade kit) with an SME IV arm and Lyra Dorian cartridge into an EAR 834p phonostage. Preamp and amp are Glasshouse tvc and 300b SET amp kits, speakers are IPL S3 (ribbon tweeter version) t-line kit. All the kit stuff I built myself. Cables are a mix of Missing link, Zanash and chord odyssey.
NO Cd player.

Chequered Flag on the Speccy for me too. 1982-ish, so I would have been errrrrrr 24.

hehe oops, I guess I had a sense of humour failure=) Hard to tell if your smiley was a "happy" or " hmmm what you on about" smiley. sorry man.

Quote from 510N3D :

Hotlapper is an Insult

You think so? I don't...ok the vid was meant as a bit of humour, but I don't regard "hotlapper" as an insult. It takes skill and dedication. I've spent countless hours doing what that mouse does.....going round and round as fast as I can, often crashing like he did=)

http://video.google.nl/videopl ... 121170646340376&hl=nl

I can't remember if have posted here....must be getting senile.
Oh yeah btw, i'm 48.

The South City sprint1/fox redline server has had some brilliant races. Of course there are mishaps....some caused by me...but the RACING has been absolutely breathtaking at times. Courteous and respectful, fast folk helping those asking for hints/setups, folk leaving each other enough room.. 3 wide into the 180 isnt unusual.... and what is unusual is that all 3 (usually)come out the other side=). So I'd like to add my thanks to Redline..and to all the racers who have made it all such adrenaline filled FUN.

Hello George, good to "see" you again=)

Your gpl fun races were my introduction to online sim racing, I look forward to chasing you on track again soon