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Hello Spaceman posted:Wonder no more. That is so cool. I would imagine the average radial would be like "gently caress you I'm out" after about minute five. Is that some kind of wide six adapter? Crazy poo poo.
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I'm glad RedBull uses their sugar water profits for things like this.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:That is so cool. I would imagine the average radial would be like "gently caress you I'm out" after about minute five. They're forklift tires and wheels.
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Octopus Magic posted:I'm glad RedBull uses their sugar water profits for things like this.
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Octopus Magic posted:I'm glad RedBull uses their sugar water profits for things like this. I think its mainly because the son of the guy who owns red bull is very, very much into cars and poo poo and his father/the company saw a marketing oppurtunity.
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From the pictures it looks like only the front left one was solid and the rest plain old radials. A lot less weight in the rear of course. I would guess you need a pretty stiff tire to be at all able to steer it.
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Only required equipment is zero regard for their own life.
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xzzy posted:Only required equipment is zero regard for their own life. I guess you are unfamiliar with their culture..
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Didn't the people that did the Goodwood on two wheels say they nuked the tires on one pass?
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West SAAB Story posted:I guess you are unfamiliar with their culture..  ??Edit: actually it's more like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SzWS6GHwm0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9eMkUu5Lno (skip to 1:21 for wheel removal) GnarlyCharlie4u fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Nov 5, 2016 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keiUSSCeGdc Related video.
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https://vimeo.com/190263751 Race start procedure with annotations for what buttons the driver is pushing on the wheel.
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A friend just posted this on irc and I had to share. http://www.riceracing.com.au/apex-seals.htm It's like timecube, but written about wankels instead of time.
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kastein posted:A friend just posted this on irc and I had to share. http://www.riceracing.com.au/apex-seals.htm Believe it or not this guy is practically lucid compared to the full-throated screams of blinding, inarticulate rage I've heard come out of rotary rebuild shops when looking at housings that got ate up by parts-store seals.
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`Nemesis posted:https://vimeo.com/190263751 Man I love these videos. Absolutely amazing how much these guys are doing in just one lap.
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kastein posted:A friend just posted this on irc and I had to share. http://www.riceracing.com.au/apex-seals.htm That guy is... uh... pretty passionate about whatever his current position is. Note how he's slagging ceramic apex seals? A few years back he was a dealer for them.
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InitialDave posted:http://i.imgur.com/lcYhMc3.mp4 That was both unexpected, and awesome. Haha..
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InitialDave posted:
I would be impressed as gently caress if some "stance" fan slapped a camper body onto that chassis for shows.
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What is the fascination with having unsafe, unusable camber anyway?
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Falken posted:What is the fascination with having unsafe, unusable camber anyway? Same reason kids wear pants hanging around their ankles or hats turned sideways or spiky green hair or whatever. Kids find a style to try and distinguish themselves, old people sit on their porches and get mad about it.
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xzzy posted:Same reason kids wear pants hanging around their ankles or hats turned sideways or spiky green hair or whatever. Kids find a style to try and distinguish themselves, old people sit on their porches and get mad about it.
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I don't think super-stanced cars are particularly dangerous to the people around them, seeing as they never seem to get above 20 miles an hour.
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Sagebrush posted:I don't think super-stanced cars are particularly dangerous to the people around them, seeing as they never seem to get
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Well, given that they can't handle or brake for poo poo that is definitely a little dangerous, although probably no worse than any other shitbox with blown shocks and bald tires. I remember seeing a video of I think a super low 350z driving down the freeway, loses control when it hits an expansion joint. Can't seem to find it on youtube right now though. jamal fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Nov 7, 2016 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Believe it or not this guy is practically lucid compared to the full-throated screams of blinding, inarticulate rage I've heard come out of rotary rebuild shops when looking at housings that got ate up by parts-store seals. I don't know, have you seen his About Us page? E: If you listen to The FPlus, this engine builder's(???) site reminds me Dr. Rev. John Kitchen Esq. The Door Frame fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Nov 7, 2016 |
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kastein posted:A friend just posted this on irc and I had to share. http://www.riceracing.com.au/apex-seals.htm If I had paid actual human money for a seal that was so clearly not straight I'd be pretty angry too. Having said that, I've rebuilt about 30 or 40 13b engines and I put every single seal across a straight edge before installation. Even seals straight from the factory can have manufacturing defects.
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jamal posted:Well, given that they can't handle or brake for poo poo that is definitely a little dangerous, although probably no worse than any other shitbox with blown shocks and bald tires. I remember a similar video, the car's just cruising. It hits something and with not having any suspension travel throws the balance off completely, back end lifts and the driver attempts to catch it but it's already well on the way into the other lanes sideways.
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I had never even heard about the 1964 GM Bison before today. What a horrible oversight.  Sure, it looks a bit frogmouthy, but wait, there's more! It was a gas-turbine engine prototype, and the front end detaches:   Oh my god!  Interior looks like this: 
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Canopies that must swing open so you can enter the vehicle are always awesome.
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50s, 60s and 70s US car design was the best. Concept wise the poo poo was incredible and things like that, especially interior wise look more futuristic than the concepts of today.   1962 Ford Seattle-ite XXI If you don't want to drive around in a space car more than the boring poo poo that's on the roads today then you're wrong in the head. ^^^ Also this: 
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Is there no application where a turbine would be useful for a road vehicle? A truck is the closest thing I can think of. Needs lots of torque, spends most of its time at one speed. In other news I found the guy on Facebook who made this thing: https://youtu.be/wQM_TyyRye4 You remember that thing. He said he still drives it for exhibition runs at drag strips. He also has a jet powered minibike and a pro mod dragster. His YouTube channel has been active all these years.
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Best use case would be some sort of emergency range extender, otherwise they're not very efficient at small sizes and would be best used in an electric hybrid operation anyway due to rpm range.
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mobby_6kl posted:Best use case would be some sort of emergency range extender, otherwise they're not very efficient at small sizes and would be best used in an electric hybrid operation anyway due to rpm range. I'm kind of wondering why there hasn't been a revolution in gas turbine hybrids. Although I'd guess it's because things like the EcoBoost 1-Liter are pushing what we can do with tiny cheap ICs and the hybrid systems are already too expensive. But matching a gas turbine to a hybrid seems really badass. It is finally the time for a gas turbine hybrid to take Le Mans! Maybe.
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um excuse me posted:If the jet engine economy scales it would still be impossibly expensive to use a turbine. Shoving a power turbine into a truck would cost something like $400,000 and the maintenance for the life of the engine may be similar. The exotic metals needed to run jet turbines at efficient compressions make them very difficult to be economically feasible. For consumer cars sure, it would be a long ways out and probably impossible. But we haven't even had a crazy supercar maker attempt one, that I know of. My only point about the tiny ecoboost motor is just that I think bits like that restored confidence in IC as a concept, so that there's less push to try alternatives.
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revdrkevind posted:For consumer cars sure, it would be a long ways out and probably impossible. But we haven't even had a crazy supercar maker attempt one, that I know of. Uh, Bonneville? Ok yeah the stuff at Bonneville is all rockets that go in a straight line so may not qualify as a "supercar" like we think of them now, but they're certainly crazy.
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