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fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

This CTS-V launches hard enough to think that it's been in an accident.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2009 21:44

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# ¿ May 18, 2024 03:16

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

destructo posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32yyvmlGOdo&feature=player_embedded

VEYRON (LAMBO?!) INTO THE POND

edit: whoops already in other thread. welp.

Hahahaha

quote:

Bugatti is owned by the same company that owns...
Volkswagen
Audi
Bentley
and 2 other not rly important ones

# ¿ Nov 14, 2009 08:24

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VruWHHEnZGw

Pretty great new motorcycle safety awareness ad

# ¿ Dec 28, 2009 07:58

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5wvmbaHvMo

Slide throttles are cool, especially when you can see the injectors firing

# ¿ Jan 23, 2010 07:52

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

oxbrain posted:

And massively sexist.

Excuse me but men have been held down for years,

# ¿ Feb 9, 2010 01:46

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

Ziploc posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LATwSlHdiPY&NR=1

Ouch.

From the related videos somewhere:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho0DipiACm4

# ¿ Feb 9, 2010 22:35

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

Toucan Sam posted:

Massive Lemons crash, one of the hardest i've seen.

Incar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2QTjjheyGE

External
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h01Enj8zHTY

WELCOME TO SEARS POINT'S TURN 10

# ¿ Mar 8, 2010 07:54

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

2ndclasscitizen posted:

That green Corolla(?) with the speedway spoiler is amazing.

It's an E30 with a small block Ford, the 302i :haw:

# ¿ Mar 8, 2010 19:23

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

Cat Terrist posted:

On cars that cant really get much pace going, it's kinda overkill with the very low chance it will actually be needed.

I don't think it's as much to do with the speed of the accident as it is with the frequency of the accidents. LeMons isn't full of people who don't know how to drive - it's full of people who think they know how to drive but don't.

Which is way worse.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2010 05:05

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

wav3form posted:

Tell that to the many people with a few 100k miles on their VR6s.

Okay, then it's like having two engines with bad headflow characteristics strapped together!

# ¿ Mar 29, 2010 23:21

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

kimbo305 posted:

Krider Racing has done pretty well at Lemons, so you could say Rob Krider has at least a modicum of driving experience.

Their first LeMons car was good enough (and pretty enough :3:

) to turn into a NASA-spec car.

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2978926

# ¿ Apr 10, 2010 03:13

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

2ndclasscitizen posted:

Was there anything left of him after that? Nasty nasty nasty.

Wikipedia says this:

quote:

In his book, "Rapid Response", Dr Steve Olvey, Indycar Medical Director between 1979 and 2003, made the following comments about the incident:

"During an attempt to qualify for the Indy 500, Gordon Smiley, a cocky young driver from Texas, was determined to break 200 mph or die trying. Several veteran drivers...had warned him that he was in way over his head, driving all wrong for the Speedway. Smiley was a road racer and was used to counter-steering his car to avoid a crash if the rear wheels broke traction.

While rushing to the car, I noticed small splotches of a peculiar gray substance marking a trail on the asphalt leading up to the driver. When I reached the car, I was shocked to see that Smiley's helmet was gone, along with the top of his skull. He had essentially been scalped by the debris fence. The material on the race track was most of his brain. His helmet, due to massive centrifugal force, was literally pulled from his head on impact...I rode to the care center with the body. On the way in I performed a cursory examination and realized that nearly every bone in his body was shattered. He had a gaping wound in his side that looked as if he had been attacked by a large shark. I had never seen such trauma." (Rapid Response, pp 98-99).

# ¿ Apr 27, 2010 07:19

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

Boat posted:

A lot of that was "holy poo poo."

What the hell were they still doing racing in that snow/sleet/whatever towards the end? It was just a cavalcade of F1 cars sliding into each other and off the track.

The '07 European GP was hilarious. They red-flagged it shortly after a lot of those cars found their way into the gravel trap.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2010 08:38

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

Dave Inc. posted:

Article that goes into some depth about the Mini - Porsche challenge. Of particular note is this:

"Porsche, come race us at Road Atlanta...'s parking lot..."

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/jun/12/minisbrifs/

Porsche should have accepted and brought a '73 2.7RS :haw:

# ¿ Jun 13, 2010 17:49

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

Wanna see Walter Rohrl drive the Porsche.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2010 06:17

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

Enjoyable video, well-edited and it did have some interesting shots. Any idea what it was shot with? I'm going to take a wild guess and say an EOS 5D MkII because that seems to be everybody's go-to camera for (relatively) inexpensive high-quality HD stuff but obviously Vimeo isn't the greatest venue on which to judge that.

meatpimp posted:

Advertising for monetary support of a "drifter" in AI? Oh, that's rich.

Uh, how is saying that a guy "shows some mad skills video-wise" taken to be that he's a drifter?

# ¿ Jun 27, 2010 02:23

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

Is it an unwritten law that all 4-rotor Mazda clips have to be short, terrible quality and poorly shot? I mean besides 787 stuff and even those aren't too common.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2010 19:45

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

Number_6 posted:

What the gently caress is wrong with people like this? No matter how drunk or hosed up you are, you gotta notice all the cars passing you in the other direction. Suicide is the only reasonable explanation I can think of.

I could almost kind of see it in socal only because the carpool lanes have double yellows separating them from the regular traffic lanes (which as far as I can tell violates what the DMV/caltrans says about lane marker colors) but yeah she must have been pretty hammered.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2010 08:37

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

mobby_6kl posted:

Yeah at this point it looks like the cop is the one going the wrong way, though maybe it's because we thankfully don't carpool lanes here.

I'd like to see if her lawyer is going to use this as a defense.

Yeah but those lines are white, which indicates that it is a lane separator from another lane that is going in the same direction. That would be a hell of a desperate attempt from the lawyer, but might as well I guess! :v:

# ¿ Aug 22, 2010 02:59

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

VikingSkull posted:

I'd imagine it makes it easier to approach and climb sand dunes when it's not retracted and trying to look like an old Rolls.

content - Here, have some IMSA GTP at Laguna Seca

That guy has the best channel on YouTube.

Oh hell yeah, the old track. I wish they'd repave the connection from the current turn 2 to the current turn 5 so clubs can run it if they want.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2010 23:43

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J47eK55kOvI

This DTM Mustang sounds pretty good!

And more glory-years DTM goodness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw-AxiVqihM
(yes I reposted this from jalopnik)

# ¿ Sep 6, 2010 19:18

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg6WdboK1nY

Not sure how they managed to make it take 7 seconds to 60mph, but it sure sounds good doing it

# ¿ Dec 20, 2010 07:10

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

kimbo305 posted:

The description says the big cam almost pushes the valve spring to coil bind. It doesn't look close to that. Is there some other condition that qualifies coil binding?

I dunno, in the first part of the video the valve spring looks like it's close to binding to me.

# ¿ Dec 23, 2010 08:54

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

kimbo305 posted:

I'm no MechE, so correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't coil bind happen when contact is made between consecutive coils? Even at its most compressed, there seems like like at least one wire diameter between coils.

You're right about what coil bind is, and I still think it's close to getting there:

I think it's the funky lighting but the way it oscillates so much faster when it's fully compressed tells me that it's close.

# ¿ Dec 25, 2010 01:01

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF_xLui8ig0

God bless this country!!!

# ¿ Dec 30, 2010 04:56

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

Seems like when the driver's not trying to run over spectators, the car's trying to light them on fire.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2011 00:15

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

canadianclassic posted:

hopefully wasn't posted already:

http://www.dump.com/2011/04/09/ken-blocks-gymkhana/

FYI that video's about 6 months old (and it was posted pretty much immediately when it was released)

# ¿ Apr 11, 2011 06:06

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

Beep beep coming throuuuuuugh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx35BcQFpkA

# ¿ Jun 23, 2011 01:45

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

Have some small displacement V8:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdxI3faucvM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TG7f2imRQo

fishmech_1.1_RC fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Jul 19, 2011

# ¿ Jul 19, 2011 20:11

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

Ziploc posted:

If all race cars handled like this one, imagine how exciting racing would be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ84Fa-AqXY

Bias-ply tires :allears:

# ¿ Sep 20, 2011 00:37

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

gently caress your S14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSac7nz8B80

# ¿ Nov 13, 2011 06:16

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

More good noises care of LeMans 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oupeu8ouWtQ&t=230s

# ¿ Nov 14, 2011 07:48

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

Thanks for the description.

"engine explodes during uphill stunt" :confused:

# ¿ Dec 29, 2011 00:35

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# ¿ May 18, 2024 03:16

fishmech_1.1_RC: Jul 22, 2003

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

I meant in the post. I prefer to get some sort of description before I click a link. That way I don't accidentally open "Doritfu tits everywhere look at that model bent over a car" at work.

It has the title on the embedded video for me, but strangely enough a lot of other embedded YouTube videos don't seem to do the same v :shobon:

# ¿ Dec 29, 2011 19:59

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