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Spiffness posted:Terrible music choice. It looks like it just mounts to the wheels, cradling the tire sidewall, with rollers transferring power from the bottom and a hub thing securing it firmly to the wheel. I mean its a good song its done well for the composer but yea it screams amateur marketing. Anyway I can barely see what appears to be a .5-.75" steel connecting rod to a hub. The reason I asked was if that is all that controls the distance of the center of the wheel to the track it seems like it'd get fatigued really fast. There are chains to keep them from flying out from under the truck but it just seems like that rod would go from tension to compression a lot unless its actually a small, rigid shock absorber. I cant find any website or anything about that I think it'd make for a neat buckling problem.
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GTi_guy posted:Motherfucker, the V8 Atom is fast. Maybe im anal but what shithead at drive thought it was a good idea to "type out" the subtitles on the bottom of the screen like a bad powerpoint presentation. Chris harris isnt even hard to understand. Its so distracting from whats going on in the video i actually have to cover up the bottom of the screen.
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GTi_guy posted:Motherfucker, the V8 Atom is fast. God drat it that video was poo poo. I wonder if they could've added a few more cuts to terribly placed cameras so we can see less of how it performs.
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jamal posted:whoops, front wing scion blows up: How is he not required to have a fire suppression system?
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Lord Gaga posted:How is he not required to have a fire suppression system? Read the description. It failed.
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jamal posted:whoops, front wing scion blows up:
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Seat Safety Switch posted:What is that wing mounted to under the hood? I can't seem to find any good pictures of it with the hood pulled off, and it must be dealing with a lot of downforce. Did they fabricate some kind of weird extension to the radiator support? yeah the car in front of the strut tower is all tubes. I saw it in person while under construction and should have some pictures of that one or the other car around somewhere.
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A documentary on Pagani, its showrooms, offices, factory and philosophy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz4KBh5I4WE
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I dunno if its the quality of the sound but holy poo poo the transmission whine(?) is loud in this car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgy9vc4rf90
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Zonda porn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beutB6R0Zqg Good. God. That noise.
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platypusmalone posted:I dunno if its the quality of the sound but holy poo poo the transmission whine(?) is loud in this car: 45 seconds in and I realized my jaw was just hanging. That was amazing.
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I think I need a car with straight cut gears and a gear driven V8. That would be about the most obnoxious thing.
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VikingSkull posted:I think I need a car with straight cut gears and a gear driven V8. hahaha a timing light I havent thought about a timing light in years
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APR posted this and goddamn does it sound awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yzEDjQKFVY&hd=1
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Haha that loving spherical coolant tank is everywhere, I swear my 1 litre Polo had the exact same one.
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jammyozzy posted:Haha that loving spherical coolant tank is everywhere, I swear my 1 litre Polo had the exact same one. I assume it's small and lightweight, hence use on a racecar and an econobox? Or does the R8 pack one stock because it's also under VAG?
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Really cool Z06 "burnout". http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=IdLHAqL8KJw#t=38s  Then he goes to find out where the smoke is coming from and opens the trunk. How stupid do you have to be to know your car isn't mid engine? b0nes fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Apr 29, 2012 |
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good god that "burnout" was brutal hahaha Also, I believe c5's and c6's have rear mounted transmissions with the clutch being in the back too, hence opening the rear hatch?
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economic haircut posted:good god that "burnout" was brutal hahaha OK that makes some sense.
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2ndclasscitizen posted:Zonda porn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beutB6R0Zqg This is definitely a proclick. I watched it earlier at lunch when Jalop linked it. It's EVO Magazine's Director and Founder Harry Metcalfe taking a Pagani Zonda 760RS up and down some twisty canyon roads with PHENOMENAL sound. The beginning of the video is just Harry talking about Zondas and rich dudes into a handycam, so if you're ADD and want to go straight to the aural sex skip to 7:08.
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economic haircut posted:good god that "burnout" was brutal hahaha The clutch is mounted on the engine in the front and runs via torque tube to the transmission in the rear.
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Muffinpox posted:The clutch is mounted on the engine in the front and runs via torque tube to the transmission in the rear. Are the handles for the hatch and hood close to each other? It looked to me like he just grabbed the wrong one by mistake.
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Fucknag posted:Are the handles for the hatch and hood close to each other? It looked to me like he just grabbed the wrong one by mistake. The hatch one is behind the wheel. The hood release is in the footwell.
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The sounds of European V8 touring cars. Oh, and you get to watch them too. http://youtu.be/cMgZWgUiuEQ
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The Locator posted:The sounds of European V8 touring cars. Why NASCAR?! Why couldn't you have followed the same path as Euro and Aussie V8 racing?! 
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economic haircut posted:good god that "burnout" was brutal hahaha They do, which gives them AWESOME weight balance. Torque tubes are awesome. Edit: Muffinpox posted:The clutch is mounted on the engine in the front and runs via torque tube to the transmission in the rear. I should really read all replies before posting.
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The Locator posted:The sounds of European V8 touring cars. Oh, and you get to watch them too. I'm almost certain someone went into detail about this at some point (maybe a different thread though?), but what causes some of these engines to sound so vastly different? With a short listen, it's almost simple to pick out a rumbly American v8 from a screaming Italian or sinister Mercedes engine of similar size.
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Vectorwulf posted:I'm almost certain someone went into detail about this at some point (maybe a different thread though?), but what causes some of these engines to sound so vastly different? With a short listen, it's almost simple to pick out a rumbly American v8 from a screaming Italian or sinister Mercedes engine of similar size. American V8s mostly have cross-plane cranks, whereas most European V8s have flat-plane cranks. Cross-plane V8s have an uneven firing pattern for each cylinder bank which gives the burble and rumble. Flat-plane V8s are basically two inline-4 engines mated to a common crank and thus have even firing order within each bank. This is also why they sound more like two really angry 4-cylinders shouting at each other. Each design has different balance issues that need to be taking into consideration, but the general gist of it is that cross-plane V8s are slower-revving but smoother and flat-plane V8s are freer-revving, but have the same issues as inline-4 engines in regards to vibration. Exhaust tuning also plays a big role, obviously. As does the vehicles you mostly see the engines in. Americans generally love big torque and big cars, where V8s in Europe have mostly been used in sports and track cars. There's a bit more @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossplane
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Ah cool, I always figured it was just the exhausts or something. Thanks!  To contribute, have some Pretty Cars (hopefully none of these were recently posted...): Blue F40: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwPiv5FlCP8&list=PL00EE8B982B5866B9&index=7&feature=plpp_video Exige VS GTR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN5qCZ-hY6s&list=PLC3AD30D5480C3298&index=155&feature=plpp_video Veyron Vs GTR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgm2t6o6LZ8 Vectorwulf fucked around with this message at 04:20 on May 2, 2012 |
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Swiss time attack/slalom pure sounds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa5fyG3AcDM&feature=relmfu That little green VW just wails.
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angryhampster posted:Swiss time attack/slalom pure sounds:  It's like some amazing combination of autocross and time attack, with no runoff or safety margins!
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angryhampster posted:Swiss time attack/slalom pure sounds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa5fyG3AcDM#t=2m21s  So much good 3 wheel motion in that video.
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bung posted:Why NASCAR?! Why couldn't you have followed the same path as Euro and Aussie V8 racing?! Probably because NASCAR predates both and grew out of American oval racing, which itself grew out of an abundance of horse race tracks in the early 20th century.
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b0nes posted:Really cool Z06 "burnout". Dude: "That was not the tires." Driver: "What was it?" Dude: "I don't know."
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angryhampster posted:Swiss time attack/slalom pure sounds: Such a great video.
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That guy's whole channel is awesome...he's like a Swiss Amjayes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msbDrPRCpVs&list=UUVVoTx1J_Uc7VTiCJsXVKcw&index=5&feature=plcp
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