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Powershift posted:That's just the momentum of the wheel. that front wheel is probably still spinning at 60mph after he hits the wall. It sure looks like it gets traction and helps pull the car from the dirt. It's rotating backwards, slows, begins to rotate forward, then accelerates and throws all the dirt up as it pulls forward.
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toplitzin posted:It sure looks like it gets traction and helps pull the car from the dirt. It's rotating backwards, slows, begins to rotate forward, then accelerates and throws all the dirt up as it pulls forward. It just looks like it's spinning in the same direction the whole time to me. Are you watching the video on some non-60 Hz/motion smoothing display? 
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Lord Lilf posted:2015 Z06 leaks: panties drop world- wide. I absolutely love the interior on these too.  Everything driver focused, easy to access. gently caress the passenger.
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Powershift posted:That's just the momentum of the wheel. that front wheel is probably still spinning at 60mph after he hits the wall. I'm watching this on a $700 computer monitor and the wheel clearly accelerates.
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EightBit posted:I'm watching this on a $700 computer monitor and the wheel clearly accelerates. Is this a $600 exhaust joke or something?
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Stealth Like posted:Is this a $600 exhaust joke or something? It's an attempt to dispel any suspicion that I'm using a cheap piece of poo poo that has smoothing always-on. It doesn't even have smoothing, just overdrive to compensate for the slow response of IPS displays.
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TrueChaos posted:I absolutely love the interior on these too. reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrr0YH-dm6k
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TrueChaos posted:I absolutely love the interior on these too. Hey, the passenger gets a vent and some oh-poo poo handles. That should be all they need anyway.
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Linedance posted:Like Mini who are a British brand that are technically German too.  Potential AWD 'Vette chat - I think it's just the wheel spinning freely, I don't think there's anything driving it. Here's a closer look at the wrecked front end:  http://www.motorsport.com/alms/phot...571228&sz=1&s=2
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toplitzin posted:It sure looks like it gets traction and helps pull the car from the dirt. It's rotating backwards, slows, begins to rotate forward, then accelerates and throws all the dirt up as it pulls forward. The tire isn't rotating when the car position is sideways compared to the directional vector of the car. No force to accelerate/decelerate the tire in correlation to its desired rotational direction. Once the tire lines up with the vector the car is traveling on it speeds up to match the velocity of the car. Frictional forces cause the tire to accelerate to match the car's velocity, not an AWD driveline. Didn't think this would be so hard to understand.
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doughboy1013 posted:The tire isn't rotating when the car position is sideways compared to the directional vector of the car. No force to accelerate/decelerate the tire in correlation to its desired rotational direction. Once the tire lines up with the vector the car is traveling on it speeds up to match the velocity of the car. Frictional forces cause the tire to accelerate to match the car's velocity, not an AWD driveline. Normally i would agree, but it either the angle of the shot or something that just trips my brain into saying "nope, something more than friction here folks."
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toplitzin posted:Normally i would agree, but it either the angle of the shot or something that just trips my brain into saying "nope, something more than friction here folks." Except for the fact that those vetted are rwd. It's pretty easy to look up and see.
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TrueChaos posted:I absolutely love the interior on these too.
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Valt posted:Except for the fact that those vetted are rwd. It's pretty easy to look up and see. 2wd LeMans cars have gone 4wd (via KERS) lately, so this is not completely crazy. I see what the guy's saying, to me it does look like there's a split-second where the wheel is going backward and stops right on the edge of the track, then the front really shoots some dirt back. I think it's just that the wheel is turned slightly into the direction of the slide, plus camera angle. Most of the dirt is actually going sideways, but as the sidewall digs in it is imparting spin, put them together and it looks like the wheel is flinging the dirt. It's a neat effect.
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Some local drag racing photos. No idea on the background on this one. Local 1/8th mile track up the road from me. (Mooresville, NC Dragway)  Another local one, different 1/8th track. The definition of torque  These next two are the same car with different setups. My son and I help out on the crew with a local Top Alcohol Funny Car racer. We're not a team capable of winning National Events, mostly match race stuff, but we win the occasional round here and there.(Still running a Roots Blower instead of a screw Blower) Mostly run tracks around the Southeast. First round of the Fall Race at Zmax Dragway last September, There had been a power outage and we ran late so our crew communication got messed up. Someone didn't set the wheelie bars when we went in the water box and this happened. (Funny Cars should never be pointed this far up)  Again, this is the same car, with a different body on it. We use it to run match races at small tracks up and down the East Coast. This was at Capitol Raceway in Maryland.  Yes, it has working lights and sirens. Runs, the 1/8th mile in 3.8 to 4.0 seconds.
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TrueChaos posted:I absolutely love the interior on these too. Wow, uh... I can't possibly get three lemons in a row, can I?
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Do it. We need a thrilling conclusion to the Lutz/Volk slashfic. Various blogs are claiming more specs got leaked on it and that yes, there is an automatic version with the new 8L90 eight-speed slushbox. Wheel/tire size is same as the C6 ZR1. This honestly begs the question for me - can they even do a C7 ZR1 at this point? I suppose the C4 and C6 ZR1s didn't show up until later in their model runs when technology / GM had advanced enough to consider another 100hp on top of the previous king of the mountain.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Do it. We need a thrilling conclusion to the Lutz/Volk slashfic. Here is my very shaky guess. Awhile ago Mark Reuss said to not rule out a hybrid Corvette. If, and that's a big if, they do another ZR1 is suspect it'll showcase a KERs style system but based off tech GM uses such as in the Volt. It sounds dumb but head me out. GM supposedly tested out dct for the new Z06 but they couldn't find one that handle the torque. GM has also invested a lot into it's automatic transmissions. I'm willing to bet the 8-speed auto is going to be highlighted as it's crowning achievement in this car. So where does this leave the ZR1? A 700+ hp grand tourer with a KERs style system 8-speed auto just as good as a dct that get's great mileage and is easy to drive but also utterly bonkers when tracked. Lord Lilf fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Jan 13, 2014 |
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Lord Lilf posted:Here is my very shaky guess. Awhile ago Mark Reuss said to not rule out a hybrid Corvette. If, and that's a big if, they do another ZR1 is suspect it'll showcase a KERs style system but based off tech GM uses such as in the Volt. I've always wondered about how far automatics have come. Has GM explored dual clutch stuff? For content: my buddy decided to make his 370z engine bay a bit tighter. 
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Lord Lilf posted:Here is my very shaky guess. Awhile ago Mark Reuss said to not rule out a hybrid Corvette. If, and that's a big if, they do another ZR1 is suspect it'll showcase a KERs style system but based off tech GM uses such as in the Volt. It's not a bad idea, and it doesn't have to be used for a softie grand tourer. They'll probably be developing some kind of ERS for their lemans /endurance racing program, and that could trickle down into a limited run special performance model like the zr-1.
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Das Volk posted:Wow, uh... I can't possibly get three lemons in a row, can I? Not a chance. Buy one, then let me drive it.
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Das Volk posted:Wow, uh... I can't possibly get three lemons in a row, can I?
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toplitzin posted:Normally i would agree, but it either the angle of the shot or something that just trips my brain into saying "nope, something more than friction here folks." Regardless of what the wheel may or may not be doing, an AWD GT3 Corvette is against the rules and I think scrutineering would be able to catch something as flagrant as some system powering the front wheels.
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You know, an ALMS paddock isn't like in F1, they let people (even people like me!) inside the garages and you can look at the cars in pretty close detail; the Corvettes were not running some AWD variant.
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:I kind of feel like someone at GM just said "fine, gently caress it; here's a beautiful interior, find something new to complain about". They did. All I see in comments are "needs AWD and DCT" I guess for the people to whom a $50k car is just as out of reach as a 100k GT-R or a Veyron, it's all fantasy anyway so you may as well complain about something completely unrealistic.
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Neptr posted:Regardless of what the wheel may or may not be doing, an AWD GT3 Corvette is against the rules and I think scrutineering would be able to catch something as flagrant as some system powering the front wheels. I didn't think it was AWD either, but there was  during the viewing.
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This is awesome: This, I'm undecided:  http://trucktracks.com/en/ Probably awesome, though I want to see the home-built redneck copies.
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InitialDave posted:This, I'm undecided: They want  $25,000 for it. Just the kit.
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InitialDave posted:This, I'm undecided: Considering what my street looks like right now, it's a great idea. I wonder if they make a set for an E46 BMW...
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:Trying to keep my strong Corvette bias in check here, but the interior was always the thing people whined about, even though the Vette has better performance-per-dollar than almost anything else these days. GM made a $60k, 500hp monster that would eat the lunch of exotics four times the cost and people still whined about cheap "parts bin" switches. I kind of feel like someone at GM just said "fine, gently caress it; here's a beautiful interior, find something new to complain about". Jeremy Clarkson is still going to get in and tap his fingers all over, open and shut everything, and say something about how it feels cheap and Americans can't make interiors. Something something panel gap.
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MrChips posted:Considering what my street looks like right now, it's a great idea. I wonder if they make a set for an E46 BMW... no, but they do make these for subarus 
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Pham Nuwen posted:Jeremy Clarkson is still going to get in and tap his fingers all over, open and shut everything, and say something about how it feels cheap and Americans can't make interiors. Something something panel gap. Pushes on the rear bumper, harsh ride, too wide, pushrods lol, not british blah blah wahhh.
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dreesemonkey posted:Pushes on the rear bumper, harsh ride, too wide, pushrods lol, not british blah blah wahhh. Then Hammond, sporting a cowboy hat..
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InitialDave posted:This is awesome: I had one of these as a kid, looks like they haven't changed in decades. Can confirm they are awesome, along with hundreds of Hotwheels/Matchbox/etc cars Didn't every AI kid have one?
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Guinness posted:I had one of these as a kid, looks like they haven't changed in decades. Can confirm they are awesome, along with hundreds of Hotwheels/Matchbox/etc cars That's not a rug. That's carpet in the same pattern. Like, you could do the entire floor of a room in that pattern.
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Guinness posted:I had one of these as a kid, looks like they haven't changed in decades. Can confirm they are awesome, along with hundreds of Hotwheels/Matchbox/etc cars  I never had one.
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Guinness posted:I had one of these as a kid, looks like they haven't changed in decades. Can confirm they are awesome, along with hundreds of Hotwheels/Matchbox/etc cars I think you're missing the fact that what is pictures is not a rug. It's carpet. Also, I didn't have that particular road rug, but I did have a custom one that my aunt made. Edit: dammit.
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Powershift posted:That's not a rug. That's carpet in the same pattern. Like, you could do the entire floor of a room in that pattern. Ohhhhhh drat, now I get it. gently caress that's awesome.
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