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Puddin posted:Bugatti posted a video like a week ago showing the Chiron doing 0-400-0 in a shade under 42 seconds. Also spinning the tires in the first 3 gears. I swear if ever I had the means, it would be a tough decision between Koenigsegg and Pagani. (Not that I will ever worry about it.)
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Koenigsegg would be my number one. Everything he does is extracting crazy hp by whatever means using cutting edge tech while still making the things bullet proof. That and he just seems like he would be chill to have a beer with and just listen to all the crazy stuff he's tried but didn't make it.
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Twistershift posted:Also spinning the tires in the first 3 gears. Pagani interiors are the most disgusting things I've ever seen. I genuinely couldn't drive one as I'd feel like such a twat, they're the most chintzy looking poo poo ever.  Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 10:12 on Oct 6, 2017 |
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Oct 6, 2017 10:10
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Powershift posted:I tried looking to see if Fred Durst had a twitter to make a joke in another thread. Holy poo poo no loving way that owns so loving HARD
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Oct 6, 2017 11:59
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Pagani interiors are the most disgusting things I've ever seen. I genuinely couldn't drive one as I'd feel like such a twat, they're the most chintzy looking poo poo ever. it's like someone looked at a Spyker interior and didn't really get the point
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Holy poo poo no loving way that owns so loving HARD I don't get it.
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Oct 6, 2017 13:16
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Fred Durst likes wagons and they are cool and good.
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Oct 6, 2017 13:23
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Puddin posted:Koenigsegg would be my number one. Everything he does is extracting crazy hp by whatever means using cutting edge tech while still making the things bullet proof.
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Alaois posted:it's like someone looked at a Spyker interior and didn't really get the point Yup, that was my thought too "this is so cool but y'know what it really needs? MORE OF EVERYTHING!"
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InitialDave posted:"...And then the bastard uses a laser in his watch to cut through his restraints, and runs out the room! His loving watch! Of course, he took out all my henchmen as well, and pulled the plug on the missile launch just in time. Anyway, that's why I don't have that hollowed-out volcano island anymore. We'll probably go to Monaco this holiday. Hey, you ever seen a shark with a railgun built into its dorsal fin? Check this out..."" Holy poo poo I wish I could 5 posts.
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Larrymer posted:Didn't see this in the description the first time: $43 of $18 goal hahahaa wait sorry I mean "THIS IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH A?MERICA I WISH PEOPLE WERE KILLED"
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The Locator posted:Probably right. Thank you for making me look forwards to what I'm going to have to do to get competitive power in the SCCA roadrace class I'm building the rotary Miata for. Go go gadget homebrew modified Weber IDAs!  I really should write to the board and ask if they would please please please accept Weber style TBs modified to accept the same chokes (42mm in my case) that the Webers have to run.
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KakerMix posted:Fred Durst fuckin owns motherfuckers Why would you want to own a motherfucker, much less multiple motherfuckers? Olympic Mathlete posted:Pagani interiors are the most disgusting things I've ever seen. I genuinely couldn't drive one as I'd feel like such a twat, they're the most chintzy looking poo poo ever. The difference between that and chintzy is that in the Pagani, all that silver stuff is actually *metal*. That said, yeah, it's a bit much.
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Darchangel posted:Why would you want to own a motherfucker, much less multiple motherfuckers? I think gaudy is the word he was looking for
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No, I think he was right the first time. Just going by that picture, it doesn't look gaudy, it looks fuckin cheap and trashy If in 1999 Chuck E Cheese had a fuckin rocket ship ride that you fed quarters into and it would shake or something, that's what the dashboard would have looked like That said I once heard a Pagani go flat out in the Robin Williams tunnel and it's still the best sound I've heard irl
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http://www.hotrod.com/articles/photo-gallery-video-jon-kaases-amazing-mel-engine/ Here's some awesome poo poo if you're an engine nerd.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Pagani interiors are the most disgusting things I've ever seen. I genuinely couldn't drive one as I'd feel like such a twat, they're the most chintzy looking poo poo ever. I sort of agree but also want to live in whatever techno future universe where that shits the norm.
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If you're driving a futuristic space ship maybe the interior should look like a futuristic space ship?
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Galler posted:I sort of agree but also want to live in whatever techno future universe where that shits the norm. I'd like to see it under normal lighting where there aren't a billion things reflected on every surface, too.
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I don't understand why Koenigsegg doesn't get more attention. Everything they do seems to be pushing the envelope in ways other car companies aren't, yet all the focus is on Ferrari, McLaren, Bugatti, etc. They only showed up on Top Gear what, twice? Haven't been on the Grand Tour (only a couple seasons, but still). Do they just not do press cars? I can understand that given their size, but Pagani's no larger and at least up until a couple years ago they were all over the place. I want to see the One:1 or Regera vs the Chiron.
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I used to use a Winamp skin that looked like the Pagani interior
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Powershift posted:If you're driving a futuristic space ship maybe the interior should look like a futuristic space ship? Nah, spaceship outside, 93' Camry inside.
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Wistful of Dollars posted:Nah, spaceship outside, 93' Camry inside. At least you don't have to worry about it breaking down anytime soon.
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Larrymer posted:I'd like to see it under normal lighting where there aren't a billion things reflected on every surface, too. Normal lighting like driving it in broad daylight with the sun beaming in? I can't see that being much more pleasant to drive in. I'm not a big fan of reflective material in or on cars. I don't even like dashboards to have fake textures to them because it just ends up reflected on the windshield.
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mekilljoydammit posted:http://www.hotrod.com/articles/photo-gallery-video-jon-kaases-amazing-mel-engine/ Here's some awesome poo poo if you're an engine nerd. Wow. That head is amazing. That's a lot of work to get that MEL up to something like modern capabilities, but I guess Jon is bored with "normal" race engines. I'd kind of like to see what he could do with an Olds V8 now.
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I want a Kasse Boss 9 in aluminum block flavor so bad. SO BAD.
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Coredump posted:I want a Kasse Boss 9 in aluminum block flavor so bad. SO BAD. Not emptyquoting. Though not sure what I'd put it in.
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In case anyone isn't looking at the page, there are two huge rule cheats in the engine that are incredibly clever.
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um excuse me posted:In case anyone isn't looking at the page, there are two huge rule cheats in the engine that are incredibly clever. The rules didn't say you couldn't have 1 inch thick head gaskets  They obviously will now, but that's still hilarious.
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That's the way the game's meant to be played.
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He's the Smokey Yunick of engines, for sure. Rules are changed literally because of this guy.
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Galler posted:I sort of agree but also want to live in whatever techno future universe where that shits the norm. 
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mekilljoydammit posted:http://www.hotrod.com/articles/photo-gallery-video-jon-kaases-amazing-mel-engine/ Here's some awesome poo poo if you're an engine nerd. I am not an engine nerd and there is a lot I do not understand about what's going on there, but I can tell that it is great. The contortions around the rules are amazing. Not nearly as cool, but there is a large portion of me that would bid on this thing if it wouldn't literally smoosh my driveway in warm weather. 1983 M923A converted from 6x6 to 4x4. 
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tetrapyloctomy posted:I am not an engine nerd and there is a lot I do not understand about what's going on there, but I can tell that it is great. The contortions around the rules are amazing. It's all done to straighten out the ports. The airflow has to take a downward turn to get from the intake into the cylinder. Having that turn be really quick and sharp is bad on any engine, but if you're running a carburetor it's a death blow; it creates a very low speed region that causes the small fuel droplets to combine into big ones that don't burn as well. It saps power and makes the engine run rough, just a bad day all around. All the compression, timing, etc in the world won't make you power if you can't get your air/fuel into the cylinder. The solution is to make the port longer and curve it more gently, but the rules say the head must be stock outer size, and those heads are particularly compact even for an OHV engine; there's just not enough metal to make the path he wanted with the valves in their stock location. So he moved the valves down. That "valve seat" moves the roof of the combustion chamber down a whole inch, and gave him lots of extra room to route the ports. It's legal because it's removable and not technically changing the head dimension. Thing is, there's not enough metal in the block to plunge down an inch to make room for the expanded valve seat, and appropriate connecting rods probably don't exist. So you lift the head away from the block. Usually a metal plate is used; some guys use it so they can run longer stroke than would be otherwise feasible. The rules ban those too. They don't say anything about making your head gasket arbitrarily thick, though. So all of that works together to lift the heads up and lengthen the ports, while keeping the combustion chambers in their original location. It lets that engine, which is notorious for being underpowered, breathe well enough to use more conventional tuning methods to make huge power. It's loving brilliant. Fender Anarchist fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Oct 7, 2017 |
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Enourmo posted:It's loving brilliant. ...And in the finest traditions of Motorsport, it will be illegal next year.
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Enourmo posted:Usually a metal plate is used; some guys use it so they can run longer stroke than would be otherwise feasible. The rules ban those too. They don't say anything about making your head gasket arbitrarily thick, though. Doesn't the metal plate seal perfectly, too?
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kimbo305 posted:Is the definitional difference between this gasket and the plate just that the gasket is designed to interface and seal between the deck and the head? You know, the article claims deck plates are prohibited, but reading through the rules I can't see where. I believe typically the deck plate has head gaskets above and below, to seal to the head and block respectively. Since on this engine the plate has o-rings and such integrated into it, it counts as the head gasket.
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