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CharlesM posted:Please, I don't get it. It seems to be the ignition switch.
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Aurune posted:The commenters on YouTube are bitching about his driving. Crap track driver or not, it's a very very very expensive car, which is notoriously hard to drive and he's got it out on one of the hardest circuits in the world. Guy deserves props for not leaving it in the garage. Seriously, it's just some guy with his extraordinarily expensive car having fun. Do these commenters think that 100% of people on the 'ring are pushing their cars at 10/10 all the time or something? glyph posted:NOnonono, THIS is how you drive a Porsche around the ring: Dave Inc. fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Mar 24, 2013 |
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Dave Inc. posted:If ever there were a car video that needed a blu-ray release A Blu-ray of a videocassette? 
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Dave Inc. posted:If ever there were a car video that needed a blu-ray release, it would be this one. I remember my 14 year old friends and I sitting around my computer watching this over and over. It's also the video that taught me how to counter-steer in a slide, which I credit my "gently caress gently caress gently caress saw the wheel as fast as possible!" car-handling skills to. my awesome grandpa handed the keys over to keys of a 1970 beetle to me and my cousin, on a rainy day, and told us to go drive it around his farm. neither of us had licenses. this is when I learned to countersteer.
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If you didn't learn how to counter-steer as a kid riding bicycles or driving a go-kart (or gently caress, a pedal-car), you had a bad childhood and I feel sorry for you.
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glyph posted:NOnonono, THIS is how you drive a Porsche around the ring: Holy mother of... that's maybe the most terrifying 'ring lap I've ever seen. I just watched it twice back-to-back. You can almost hear the "don't lift don't lift don't lift" except that you know that dude doesn't need to remember that.
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Jari-Matti Latvala Incar video in a Mk2 Escort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWBOKD6fGu0
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Dave Inc. posted:If ever there were a car video that needed a blu-ray release, it would be this one. I remember my 14 year old friends and I sitting around my computer watching this over and over. It's also the video that taught me how to counter-steer in a slide, which I credit my "gently caress gently caress gently caress saw the wheel as fast as possible!" car-handling skills to. 1) Massive RWD power going through an 80's 911 chassis means that it wants to lead with its rear end and he's correcting the front end to align with the back end's drift, or... 2) He knows it's going to break the tires loose anyway, so he's chopping the wheel to get it to break loose when he expects it and plans to just control the rest of the slide.
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:Yeah, I always thought that sawing the wheel like that was bad because it upsets the car's balance. Can someone who's a more skilled driver than me explain why he's doing that? I can only think of two reasons: Option 1. And he has to saw like that because you need the full steering reaction immediately to prevent it from really breaking loose. Following recovery you need to get back into steering for the turn or you'll just spin off in the other direction.
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sofullofhate posted:Holy mother of... that's maybe the most terrifying 'ring lap I've ever seen. I just watched it twice back-to-back. You can almost hear the "don't lift don't lift don't lift" except that you know that dude doesn't need to remember that. Hopped up older 911 being driven hard. It's like a murder/suicide pact between the car and the driver. I love how he keeps pushing almost as much as I love the seemingly random times the car just decides it wants to step out of line and he has to saw it back into submission.
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Motronic posted:Hopped up older 911 being driven hard. It's like a murder/suicide pact between the car and the driver. Somebody feel free to school me, but I have it in my head the reason old 911's have the reputation they do is they tended to slide reeeeeeeealy gently one way, and then when you corrected it they came back into line at loving warp speed and you tended to spin the other way. Presumably the guy doesn't wanna end up reversing it into a tree and that's why he's sawing so drat much.
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jammyozzy posted:Somebody feel free to school me, but I have it in my head the reason old 911's have the reputation they do is they tended to slide reeeeeeeealy gently one way, and then when you corrected it they came back into line at loving warp speed and you tended to spin the other way. Presumably the guy doesn't wanna end up reversing it into a tree and that's why he's sawing so drat much. The main one is that it want to swap ends if you lift too fast. It's like the back of the car doesn't quite get the message when you lift too fast and wants to be out front right now. The rest of their bad habits, including what you mentioned, are basically all from the same root cause. They are awesome cars to see driven well. The guys who know what the are doing know how to use that heavy rear end to slingshot themselves out of corners. I've always wanted to get another air cooled 911, but I know that I simply don't have the skill nor the time to acquire the skill to drive it as hard as I'd want to on the track. I got rid of the last one when I realized that and bought a set of training wheels instead (944, which makes even me look like I know how to drive).
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Terrible Robot posted:If you didn't learn how to counter-steer as a kid riding bicycles or driving a go-kart (or gently caress, a pedal-car), you had a bad childhood and I feel sorry for you. thanks for bringing it up
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Motronic posted:The main one is that it want to swap ends if you lift too fast. It's like the back of the car doesn't quite get the message when you lift too fast and wants to be out front right now. The Porsche 911 is quite remarkable in that it's actually a sentient being. It is acutely aware it's engine has been installed incorrectly and thus constantly does it's best to rectify the situation by attempting to put the engine up front.
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trouser chili posted:The Porsche 911 is quite remarkable in that it's actually a sentient being. It is acutely aware it's engine has been installed incorrectly and thus constantly does it's best to rectify the situation by attempting to put the engine up front. Or if you want to put it in a more mechanistic sense, it's a pendulum.
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jammyozzy posted:Somebody feel free to school me, but I have it in my head the reason old 911's have the reputation they do is they tended to slide reeeeeeeealy gently one way, and then when you corrected it they came back into line at loving warp speed and you tended to spin the other way. Presumably the guy doesn't wanna end up reversing it into a tree and that's why he's sawing so drat much. The actual reason they have such a mean reputation is that when they oversteer, you have to do the reverse of what your head is screaming at you to do with the throttle. You want to gas the ever living gently caress out of them to weight shift as much weight on the rear end as possible. Dont pussy foot NAIL the throttle as hard as you can into the firewall. Otherwise, you crash.
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So I met one of my Hero's today.... Literally 1 of 2 cars that I need/want in life, the other being an F40 (or a 250 GTO). I saw the hood/bumper in my rear view while I was on an exit ramp and could not believe what was actually coming up behind me. Never in a million years would I have thought I'd see one in the flesh, let alone driving in real life on a road. He described driving it as, "Like a truck, except when it gets past 4k it's like the Millennium Falcon." Best. Description. Ever.     
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Geirskogul posted:In the lovely film version. The cartoon had rocket thrusters. Hold up just a second, Speed Racer is loving GLORIOUS... If you weren't cheering for Speed in the final race then you inner child is well and truly dead. 
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GramCracker posted:So I met one of my Hero's today.... Finding rare cars is a function of where you live sadly. I happen to know of a couple of F40s and a 250 TR (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8iwOzSRiY0) in the SF bay area. The easiest way to do it is often to go to a historic / vintage car race event. Here in CA we have Monterey Historics. If I can make out the plate, you're in Connecticut, have you tried going by the Limerock Historic festival? I have it on good authority that the 250 is back in working order and it's not a big deal as there were essentially no original parts on the car to begin with.
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GramCracker posted:Audi love Speaking of Audis, I keep seeing these two at my office parking lot and girlfriend's neighborhood.   That parking lot in the background used to just be a pay to park membership deal, until one day I noticed there were an awful lot of Mercedes and thought it might be coincidence, but it's pretty clear some dealership must now use it for overflow inventory.
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This morning, an RS6 (previous-gen V10 twin-turbo) passed me at like a million billion km/h on my way to work. It looked menacing, but made hardly any noise 
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GramCracker posted:So I met one of my Hero's today.... Its more beautiful than I ever imagined.  GramCracker, could I get a copy of those pictures? Do you have them in a larger size? CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Mar 25, 2013 |
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davebo posted:Speaking of Audis, I keep seeing these two at my office parking lot and girlfriend's neighborhood. There's a huge Mercedes dealer about three blocks south of there. That's my neighborhood! I'm pretty sure that lot is supposed to become an apartment or condo eventually since they tore down the funeral home.
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I'm genuinely surprised that this doesn't appear to be VGT. Unless it has a remote-actuator setup instead of having the controller mounted directly to the turbo?
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Those sure look like VGT vanes on the left cutout turbo. edit: nvm those are inlet stators or something, not on the hot side
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evil_bunnY posted:
I feel like this engine is missing an important part.
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It's a revolutionary new material, also known as the Emperor's New Block.
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IOwnCalculus posted:It's a revolutionary new material, also known as the Emperor's New Block. Holy poo poo. 
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Having transparent heads and a block that was strong enough to hold would be really loving cool (if it was real). It would make diagnosing problems a lot faster too...
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You do occasionally find windowed blocks/heads in engines used for research, or education. University labs and so on.
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InitialDave posted:You do occasionally find windowed blocks/heads in engines used for research, or education. University labs and so on. yeah, we had an acrylic (or something similar) SBC 350 in my advance auto shop class in HS. I'm saying it would be badass if they had the structural integrity to work and hold boost. It would make some repairs easier. You could check the plugs without even removing them!
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VanNuys posted:yeah, we had an acrylic (or something similar) SBC 350 in my advance auto shop class in HS. I'm saying it would be badass if they had the structural integrity to work and hold boost. It would make some repairs easier. You could check the plugs without even removing them! My shop class in high school had the front clip of a first-gen Camaro with a "visible" straight six. Certain parts were clear so you could see the internals moving. When you plugged it in, the engine would turn, albeit at about 10RPM. I had forgotten all about it until your post.
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Just imagine. Someday in the future we will have a transparent material that can handle that sort of stress. Possibly not even that far off. And even if the majority of people will have switched to electric cars by that time and petrol cars are only for rich people and old gearheads...someone will build a V8 out of that stuff. Just because it is the right thing to do!
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There actually is fairly transparent aluminium, it's just stupid expensive and I think kind of cloudy at best. I have no idea of its strength though.
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General_Failure posted:There actually is fairly transparent aluminium, it's just stupid expensive and I think kind of cloudy at best. I have no idea of its strength though. On a similar note, Koenigsegg uses a "ghost light" effect to light their dash buttons on the Agera. I've read it's aluminum with nanotubes going through it, so it looks like a solid piece of metal when the backlight is off. I'm having a hell of a time finding a good picture of it, though.
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Here's a video of it being described by Christian von Koenigsegg himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpIQI-YtMsA
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