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Almost looks like a highly-modified rear-engine MGB.
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Darchangel posted:I think it's just a picture they grabbed from Google images, that someone was using to mock up their sick modz. Aren't those Supra wheels? Yeah, grabbed the first picture that turned up. I honestly didn't even notice the MSPaint skills on display.
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Some of the interesting/wild/weird poo poo I've seen on the street the last couple months:                       
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Jul 20, 2017 05:00
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I don't think that's a real sheriff.
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Powershift posted:I don't think that's a real sheriff. What gave it away, the hot pants or the rainbow plush leg things?
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new boot goofin'
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Ether Frenzy posted:Some of the interesting/wild/weird poo poo I've seen on the street the last couple months: This one stood out, I've never seen one of those as a 3-door before. Neat!
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:Anyone want to tell me what this awesome car is:
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Ether Frenzy posted:Some of the interesting/wild/weird poo poo I've seen on the street the last couple months: Every time I see these Porsches my brain sees OMG MORI. OMG MORI!
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Ether Frenzy posted:Some of the interesting/wild/weird poo poo I've seen on the street the last couple months: I was really hesitant to scroll down but I did and drew the greatest sigh of relief at seeing it wasn't slammed
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The one mistake is that idiot luggage rack over the engine lid.
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Memento posted:This one stood out, I've never seen one of those as a 3-door before. Neat! Even more rare/interesting is the 3 door FX16 GT-S Corollas of the same chassis. I had a beat up one with like 240,000 miles on it in the early 2000's. Started my love of 4AGE motors.
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Famous Porsche man Magnus Walker wrote a book and kicked off his signing tour here in Miami at a specialty Porsche shop. Unsurprisingly some neat cars showed up so if you're a Porsche fan here you go (and if you're not there's still a few other cool things): Matt Farrah showed up in a Lamborghini press car        Full album here, too many to post without junking up the thread: http://imgur.com/a/mwTWb
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net work error posted:Famous Porsche man Magnus Walker wrote a book and kicked off his signing tour here in Miami at a specialty Porsche shop. Unsurprisingly some neat cars showed up so if you're a Porsche fan here you go (and if you're not there's still a few other cool things): This was refreshing, and I'm not even that big of a Porsche fan. Great album!
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TotalLossBrain posted:What gave it away, the hot pants or the rainbow plush leg things? Standard issue in reno
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Finger Prince posted:Every time I see these Porsches my brain sees OMG MORI. DMG MORI makes some of the best CNC milling machines in the world. Super high end expensive stuff.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:DMG MORI makes some of the best CNC milling machines in the world. Super high end expensive stuff. I did wonder.
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Powershift posted:I don't think that's a real sheriff. I searched the character's name to get a still from the show for  , and I think I found the exact cosplayer/celebrity lookalike Ether Frenzy saw. He's available for hire for your event!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIBaRYuJTV8 Modern rally cars are unreal 
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I don't understand how every rally stage doesn't end with "...and eighty-six spectators were injured, nine killed."
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Sagebrush posted:I don't understand how every rally stage doesn't end with "...and eighty-six spectators were injured, nine killed." Especially out of the Group B era where they'd line the course and part as the cars came.
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hackbunny posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIBaRYuJTV8  Those dudes at 1 minute is me watching this video. This seems more nuts than a usual rally, is that just me?
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net work error posted:
WRC cars got a huge power and aero boost this year, so they're approaching Group B levels of insanity again.
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Yes, WRC has gotten crazy with the new regulations: wider restrictor plates, wider stances, lighter cars, better aero. They hadn't significantly changed the regulations in decades, and when they did change them, it was only to make them stricter, so it's a very welcome change. Now let's hope we won't get a repeat of the 1986 season with several spectator and crew deaths and a rollback of the regulations... and that video of the Poland rally isn't exactly promising on the front of crowd control It seems to me most of the "magic" is in the suspensions, though. The cars are so stable and level they don't even look like they're running on a road, much less a gravel road at 200+ km/h, and they recover immediately from some seriously crazy jumps hackbunny fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Jul 21, 2017 |
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iospace posted:WRC cars got a huge power and aero boost this year, so they're approaching Group B levels of insanity again. Approaching? No, I'd argue they gone past it. They are faster in every possible way... the only thing missing is the noise of say a Audi S1. And they are delivering spectacting that not even Group B could do.... Finland this year is going to be completely mental hackbunny posted:Yes, WRC has gotten crazy with the new regulations (wider restrictors, wider stances, lighter, better aero) but most of the "magic" is in the suspensions IMO. The cars are so stable and level don't even look like they're running on a road, much less a gravel road at 200+ km/h, and they recover immediately from some seriously crazy jumps The magic isnt in the suspension which hasnt really advanced that much for a few years - The magic is on the now returned active differentials. That really stabilizes the car and allows the drivers to really throw the cars about
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hackbunny posted:Yes, WRC has gotten crazy with the new regulations: wider restrictor plates, wider stances, lighter cars, better aero. They hadn't significantly changed the regulations in decades, and when they did change them, it was only to make them stricter, so it's a very welcome change. Now let's hope we won't get a repeat of the 1986 season with several spectator and crew deaths and a rollback of the regulations... and that video of the Poland rally isn't exactly promising on the front of crowd control There's rumors that Poland may lose its rally because of the lack of crowd control 
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iospace posted:There's rumors that Poland may lose its rally because of the lack of crowd control That's a pity altho I understand there's a lot more to it than just that. It's apparently just not well organised at all. Personally I hope they get their poo poo together as some of the footage that has come from Poland over the last couple of years has been legit mindblowing. Especially this year.
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Suspension these days is pretty much magic compared to the 80s though.
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Kind of. In racing environments we pretty much nailed suspension design down by the 80s. Multilink suspension was comonplace in F1 by the 1960s. Problem back then was tire tech. Tire compounds have advanced leaps and bounds in the following decades. Allowing for higher grip with lower distortion and yet more compliance all while increasing wear life and reducing weight.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:The magic isnt in the suspension which hasnt really advanced that much for a few years - The magic is on the now returned active differentials. That really stabilizes the car and allows the drivers to really throw the cars about Oooh that makes sense. It also explains how they can maintain control so well after sideways jumps mekilljoydammit posted:Suspension these days is pretty much magic compared to the 80s though. Boy howdy! Look at the 205 T16 at 7:15 in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrlhepfy9-I&t=435s Pity we'll probably never get to hear unrestricted turbos again
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um excuse me posted:Kind of. In racing environments we pretty much nailed suspension design down by the 80s. Multilink suspension was comonplace in F1 by the 1960s. Problem back then was tire tech. Tire compounds have advanced leaps and bounds in the following decades. Allowing for higher grip with lower distortion and yet more compliance all while increasing wear life and reducing weight. There's a lot more to suspension design than geometry (and even that is far from a solved science). The big thing that I'm looking at is damper internals. Most of the Group B stuff has much better suspension geometry than the modern WRC stuff... but the modern WRC stuff sticks tremendously better. It's not just due to rubber; look at the body movement between the 205T16 linked in that video and the modern WRC stuff. That's not tire doing that. And yes active differentials are amazing too.
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Not sure if they're used in WRC but those new fancy magnetic shocks are some voodoo poo poo too
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They're not used in motorsports basically anywhere. I came across a shock guy from McLaren talking about them once - apparently they couldn't get them to hold consistent forces for more than about half an hour because you're basically forcing abrasive through a small hole to make it work. He was of the opinion that OEM ones overcome that problem by just not holding consistent forces.
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Im sorry but Group B does NOT have better geometry. Not even slightly close... the modern WRC suspension came into being with the second Ford Focus WRC with the extreme castor and allowance for massive driop and the subsequent camber changes. Do not mistake the fact a WRC having struts and those massive camber changes as worse geometry I cant emphasis enough just how revolutionalry the second Focus was for suspension design. Sure not much has changed since then outside of evolution since but every car since copied the Focus for good reason
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What happens at extreme droop on WRC suspensions? They keep camber? Lose it but not as much?
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I don't really know cars of this (apparent) era but I found this in my phone and was wondering what it was. Let me know if I need to post it in the other thread and/or commit honorable sudoku. 
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I don't really know cars of this (apparent) era but I found this in my phone and was wondering what it was. Let me know if I need to post it in the other thread and/or commit honorable sudoku. Owns KakerMix fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Jul 22, 2017 |
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