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ajp71
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Quote from Jakg :I was thinking about new wheels (atm I have hubcaps) but that sounds rather expensive.

Are air filters expensive...?

Stick with standard profile tyres, going to low profile tyres will increase noise, reduce comfort, reduce fuel economy and grip. By sticking with higher profile tyres you shouldn't have to worry about kerbing it even with a set of alloys on.

It may be worth putting a K&N air filter onto the car when you need to change it, not for performance gains, but a better quality air filter (K&N come with a lifetime guarantee and do not effect insurance) will only need cleaning out rather than replacing so can be more convenient and save money in the long run. Having said that we are talking about an old car that you probably don't want to keep for long.

Quote from Klutch :For the people that don't believe me.

http://img84.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dyno1wc7.jpg
This is my brothers dyno sheet from a few weeks ago (Registration+full name blanked out)

Rolling roads can't give accurate power readings, and most will always choose the highest to make customers happy. Manufacturers can't just dream up figures in the same way so a lot of rolling roads will probably tell you a standard car has more power than it says on the tin.

Quote from BAMBO :Then the only real engine modification that is more cheap-ish is a chip tunning or box tunning. The tunners claim it will give you more power and more miles per galon .

ECU tuning will have limited advantages (and always have disadvantages) for standard engines, there is probably only really any point when you've done a full rebuild with major internal modifications on a road engine. Modern ECUs should adapt to changes in fuel and intakes without needing to be re-mapped.

Quote from sam93 :
If the bonnet was actually black the paint job will be less then what the carbon fibre bonnet cost.

You've got carbon fibre body panels on a road car that presumably hasn't had any other form of weight stripping (more likely had weight added?). Can you please explain the logic in that? You can easilly shed that amount of weight for free by stripping down a door.

Quote from sam93 :The rear bumper and side skirts are from Imercher who tune vauxhalls, the mirrors are actually nice, oh yea and you go and buy those wheels, they will only set you back £2,000

Because it is expensive it must be good?

Quote from sam93 :It does turn heads, it was individual but people have started to copy doing the astra vans, but I have yet to see one better then it.

http://search.autotrader.co.uk ... ;max_pr=&max_mileage=

Much better looking.

Quote from sam93 :I tend to actually stare at the decent looking girls.

Not the ones in your avatar then?
ajp71
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Quote from Bluebird B B :
Using r4 tyres? nobody uses very hard compounds irl nor should we in lfs.

Even with limitless budgets F1 teams will not be putting new soft compound tyres on cars that are going to do burnouts in a car park, they will either use worn out hard tyres that are of no use on a circuit or in the case of F1 cars they sometimes run special demonstration tyres (very hard and low grip). You should have no issue doing burnouts in LFS just like in real life use suitably low gearing, dump the clutch and away you go.
ajp71
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Quote from Luke.S :IIRC it was the v8 from a mustang.

No, the Rover V8 (as fitted to Rover SD1, Land Rover and lots of British sportscars) is a 3.5 litre all alloy pushrod V8. It was originally derived from a Buick design which was thrown out because the engine was considered too small for the US market.

Quote from f4sttr@ck :ajp, just curious, when did i say i was taking it to illegal drag races?

Quote from f4sttr@ck :Which means it will be drove as a car, not as a race car. (except maybe a few dark nights on the highway!).

ajp71
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Quote from f4sttr@ck :sir, u are quite ignorant, i have been driving different cars since i was 13 years old, and yes, i can, and will, handle it as well as anyone else in here.

You can operate a car (automatics only?)? That is not difficult at all, in order to drive safely on the road you need to have experience on roads there is no substitute and before you think you can drive any car fast you need to know what it will do when you push it to and beyond your limits, a race track is the only safe place to find this out.

Quote from f4sttr@ck :As for it being horrible in corners, i already know this and plan to change suspension, and anything else i can to make it better in the corners then a stock camaro.

You are a responsible driver who wants to take his car to illegal drag races and for some reason wants it to handle well? Don't fool yourself, the faster a car you choose to do silly things in the faster you'll end up wrapped around a tree. If you are interested in handling then there's no point spending money on a Camaro, there's no getting away from the fact it will be very heavy, automatic (unless you're getting serious), no where near stiff enough and that's before you even get to the solid rear axle.

Quote from G!NhO :but a V8 just sounds MUCH better than a inline 4, an inline 4 sounds more like a small electric motor from an RC car.

Having driven two very similar cars, one with a Rover V8 and another with a Ford V6 with side exhausts, I can assure you that whilst the V8 rumble is nice under power it isn't as satisfying as a good 4 or 6.
ajp71
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Quote from Bawbag :
Yea, I saw that picture too, it's a tradition for them to be "spanked" on the buttox, but Mr G W Bush was to embarrissed (Or gay) to actually spank her bum so he patted her lower back, poof.

A job for Mr Mosley then
ajp71
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An overweight automatic muscle car is probably going to be far less tempting or enjoyable to drive fast in and as a net result will probably be much less likely to be wrapped around a tree than a small hatchback.
ajp71
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There's still the issue of licensing, the Devs wouldn't be able to endorse real content. Modding really has to be open or none at all, and with open modding you will get mainly rubbish however straight forward and idiot proof you make the modding process. Given the Devs current policy towards including real content I don't really see that modding would help increase it, more community members coming up with attractive content opportunities may be more relevant.
ajp71
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The Frex adapter is for the DFP not the G25. You don't need any additional parts to fit a standard pre-drilled 6 (or 3) hole wheel to the G25, just unscrew the existing wheel and unclip the wires for the buttons.
ajp71
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Niels please could you post a link to the Nurburgring version you're using? I think I've got the most recent but the TDF files have different names to the ones in my folder.
ajp71
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Quote from JO53PHS :New Volvo!!11

Looks like they drove the old model into a wall, a shame because Volvo were about the only people who hadn't gone for silly vertical aggressive fronts.

Quote from kamilek12 :if cops actually had the evo then they would all lose a bunch of money cause they are ugly and slow and very uncomfortable. cheaply made and not sturdy

For the kind of work they need to do the Evo would be extremely quick and easy to drive and certainly far faster than any yank tank in any conditions. Cars targeted at the European and Japanese markets tend to have better build quality and much better quailty interior finish compared to American cars, whose buyers tend to prefer cheaper cars with more shiny stuff and extras bolted on them. If you define uncomfortable as in having reasonably firm ride and having a gearbox then yes most European cars are uncomfortable, they also have little trouble escaping from wallowy automatics.
ajp71
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Quote from jonny__27 :Yes, i know it's not common, but the danger is still there, and the best thing to do is to avoid it as much as we can. We don't want to return to deaths in F1, or do we?

Did you read what I posted? Reducing downforce would if anything reduce the chance of a car taking off due to wing failure.
ajp71
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Quote from jonny__27 :
Since the first time i saw a racing car "takeoff", and with those amounts of speed and little weight, i am a bit concerned about this.

Cars taking off at high speed is usually caused by sudden failure of aerodynamic devices through physical breakage or poor design that produce downforce on the car. Simply having no downforce or some lift won't cause cars to take off if balance is maintained, GT40s, 917s and Lotus 49s all ran at around the speed modern F1 cars do and they didn't just randomly take off when they felt like it.
ajp71
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Personally I would like to see pressurised refueling banned and only gravity fed dry break containers being allowed, along with more typical refueling rules, engine off whilst refueling and no other work on the car whilst refueling, not for grounds of safety or cost saving but to make refueling a less attractive prospect. I would also like to see something to make tyre changes less appealing.

I personally feel that F1 should take much shorter races, maybe 45-60 minutes, it is not endurance racing and would make much better viewing in a shorter race.

Quote from evilpimp :Do the drivers we have today have the guts to put up a fight like the one Villeneuve and Arnoux put up? I doupt it. I doupt that it would change the situation of the lack of close racing.

The drivers today certainly have the guts to do that kind of thing, far too much in fact, feeling too safe they take silly chances and any attempt to race like that would end up with taking each other out. The older battles like that work better partly because the cars were shorter more maneuverable and had better visibility and manly because both drivers new the risks attached to proper contact were far more than just ending their race.
ajp71
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Quote from Jordan2007 :Iv been trying to find a g25 For Months, u ring up the stores and there all out of stock.. I think the only place you will get it, it on dell Online but there taking forever to get mine to me... they said 1-2 weeks.. 4 weeks now!

I got mine for about £160 from Amazon, direct from Amazon not a market place sale, so free delivery in 2 days
ajp71
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Personally I'd strongly recommend you don't start doing your first proper track days in a Ford GT, or anything else particularly fast. If you turn up in a fast car you'll find it much harder to gain confidence and improve your driving, and should you fall off (you will at some point) you're more likely to get away with it in a slower car and you won't be the idiot who's got all the gear and no idea. Something low powered and reasonably well balanced, like an old hatch back or an MX5 would be far better to get the hang of driving on the limit.

Quote from Christopher Raemisch :I have seen people use 4 point harnesses but the problem is in a hard collision you can slide out from under the harness.

With suitable bucket seats in a relatively upright conventional driving position four point belts should be fine, five or six point are better but not required for a lot of competition use and more convenient in a road car.

Quote from tristancliffe :We're not talking about the GT40 - a beautiful car. We're talking to the fat modern version. No matter what you do, there is no getting around it weighs a LOT. No only would an Atom or a Radical be quicker at most circuits, it would also be cheaper and more entertaining. In my opinion of course.

The modern Ford GT is probably a pretty capable car but you would want to strip it down to make a good track car, which seems like a horrible waste of money. If you want a modern V8 track car a stripped down Corvette might be a better option. I would certainly look at what second hand racing cars or track day specials could be had for much less than a Ford GT before buying one for solely track use.
ajp71
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ajp71
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Quote from duke_toaster :Banned from many/most series IIRC, highest level driver that I can think of that uses an open face helmet is Mike Jordan (who, let's face it, is a very good chequebook warrior but a chequebook warrior nonetheless).

Nonsense there are FIA approved open face helmets available with HANS posts and there some drivers using them in much higher level competition than BTCC, certainly some in FIA GT. If you don't know don't speak out your arse.
Separate shifter and sequential gear controls
ajp71
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At the moment the same button can't be used for shift up/down and H shift gears. This creates problems for people with controllers that convert from H shift to sequential shift and vice versa (namely G25 users). Would it not be possible to allow the same buttons to be assigned to the different gear shift methods seeing as they won't clash?

I know this is probably already possible with the scripting system but TBH there's no reason why people should have to mess about with that to get this to work.
ajp71
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Quote from pearcy_2k7 :
For an example, Sam when you had your bike accident, i bet none of your close family really take the piss out of you but me and most members couldn't really give a shit what you did, hence why we take the piss, its like walking past someone on the street and them drop dead 5 days later, would anyone give a toss? I don't think so, same goes for here in most cases.

I think Sam's horrific life threatening accident is somewhat different though because in fairness to Jordan he was only making a thread to get a bit of attention rather than stealing our money with some frivolous claim and then trying to do the whole sympathy routine.
ajp71
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Do we really need a third thread over this topic? I feel that posting threads like these are pretty pointless and a bit annoying and I think Tristan's post pretty much sums up how I feel about these kind of threads. I don't think that some of the other cheap shots at the OP are appropriate.
ajp71
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Somebody sent me a link for live onboard coverage, sounds to good to be true
ajp71
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It's a fake Chinese imitation piglet
ajp71
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Quote from mookie427 :you coulda fooled me the way btcc is going....

Driving standards are appalling and there is no question that they have been allowed to drop to please primitive TV viewers, as soon as a serious accident happens it will all change, unfortunately given the number of big accidents caused by car to car contact I don't think there's long to wait.
ajp71
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Only if LFS then automatically adds scuff marks and generally tatty looking interiors like all real life racing cars can't avoid and people would soon start painting them grey...
ajp71
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Quote from Jakg :No - atm the aero stuff is just one single number (0.35?) for all road - cars.

A better point is that iirc the "weight" of the body affects the weight of the car...

LFS's aerodynamics will be a lot more complicated than just one number you quoted (presumably that's a coefficient of drag), an aerodynamic centre and a resultant force from moving in all 7 degrees of freedom are the bare essentials for each car and if the CoD is the same then frontal area must be modeled to get vaguely correct aerodynamics.
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