Cloverfield, not a bad movie at all considering it's all shot through a video camera.

2hrs 14 mins 22 secs

Personally I would just get a taxi and stop off at every boozer on the way, but good luck with it

Hello,

I'm currently working out in Italy and am bored shitless in my hotel room at night. I've tried searching around for somewhere in Ravenna that sells racing wheels without any success. I don't suppose any Italian race buddy could have a look on the internet and see if there are any stores in or around Ravenna that sells racing wheels? Anything will do, DFGT, G25, momo, whatever.

Thanks for any help.

Grazie mille!

Last edited by AlienT., Mon, 7 Sep 2009 19:46. Reason : my Italian sucks

Yep, looked a good game, Cloughy would have been proud

1. Well done FM-Failure for a fab achievement.
2. When will CTRA be back?
3. When will Tristan and Becky announce their engagement?
4. Is Shotglass really German?
5. Why do people have a general disregard for Americans?
6. I miss Kev!
7. Why do the LFS developers laugh at their own community!
8. Is iracing a waste of hard earned cash?
9. Will locked diff ever be removed?
10. Where the ferk is my Shirroco?
11. Will the Scots ever be able to pass a football?
12. Was Bob Smith born to natural parents or was he actually cut to size on a lathe?


All will be revealed in the next episode of the LFS forums!!!!!

Last edited by AlienT., Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:13.

Quote from Forbin :

This forum helps and has helped me greatly in that respect.

Or at least insofar as understanding the geeks in the rest of the world.

Hehe!

Quote from Scrabby :

How can I promote? I've met my MPR for Road and Oval...?

Promotions will be Monday August 3rd, and it should happen automatically.

You are just the sort of person this community needs. There can be great fun and competition to be had here!

Unfortunately not by me on the competition front!

Quote from DamiVaro :

Good day all !!

My name is Mike, a 16-year-old boy from The Netherlands.

After going to all country's with my friends from the MX(motorcross), I decided that I wanted to do something virtual aswell!
So I played Test Drive Unlimited.. It took me 4 minutes to discover it was good fun, but not a sim in any kind of way.

So next I bought LFS S2, without looking what it was, kinda foolish, but all worked out just fine.
I had an old Thrustmaster Joystick wich was breaking down quite badly, so I saved some money and bought a G25, and I love it So I've hit a lucky combination I guess, LFS + G25 = Great addictive fun

So now I play LFS for about a week seriously and It's all steady going.
My achievement, where I'm most proud of is to drive the FBM on BL GP round in 1:16.34EDIT!:1:15.600(with someone crashing me 10 ft in front of the finnish so I Lapped sideways)
Still about 3 seconds slower than the fastest at LFS, but It's a start hehe!

A friend of mine plays this sim aswell, ended up with the same wheel as me! He bought S2 yesterday.

We made up a little Team named Forza Fuel! And we drive with the >>Forza<< Tag. Just for fun till we get better and stuff, and know why we keep getting time outs on our own created server hehe! (FAIL!)

So in daily life I'm a musician, aswell studio work as live performance. And that is were my passion lies. But when inactive with the music I play as much LFS as i can.
(music btw: www.youtube.com/MikeRoelvink)

My hobbies are playing guitar, longboarden, LFS ofcourse, computer, hanging out with friends and enjoy musical things.

Hope to have told you something 'bout myself!
If you want to ask a question, do not hessitate!

Righto?

Cheerio,

Mikey

Sad soul unfortunately

Right got an EVGA 8800GTS sitting gathering dust, will run LFS and iRacing(on one screen) nae bother. I will send it to anyone that needs it for the price of shipping +£20. It's a good card just can't be arsed to package it properly or clean all the dust of it! It does work very well but upgraded recently to GTX 275 cos i needed a decent 3 screen view.


Anyone I know on here can get the 8800GTS for free if I know them.

Just reply and a card that runs well can be yours! Just don't expext me to package it like I loved it!

Edit: Gone to a good home

Last edited by AlienT., Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:15.

Welcome guys, sorry about my stupid earlier post...not god!

Welcome Alastair fraser to LFS AND iRacing all at once, good choice in sims you've made there mate

faraboots in aeberdeen ye fe loon?

Fantastic, he's a wonderfdulk looking bloke, you are a lucky man to have such a lovely child!

.

Last edited by AlienT., Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:08. Reason : umm

Damned sexy, surely while they're over in the UK Knockhill could be scanned.

If they scanned Knockhill then I'd be i-wettingmypanties racing

Well done!

• "Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare." ~ Ed Asner quote
  

http://www.c00lstuff.com/1133/Do_s_and_don_ts_with_babies/

Last edited by AlienT., Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:48.

Stop it Spanks! Now I'm going to spend all day on the 13th pressing F5 key ya sod!

I'd be surprised if they brought it out mid iRacing season but you never know.

My willy is huge!


em sorry I lie!

Rediculous that more folk complaining about this than actually enetering it.


hmm I add to that I see!

iRacing.com is proud to announce it's joining forces with NASCAR to create the sanctioning body's first officially licensed and sanctioned online competition division. The fact that iRacing is now a partner in NASCAR-Sanctioned Online Racing is not only a landmark development for the company, it's a tribute to the talent, competitive spirit and sportsmanship of the more than 12,000 members who have joined the iRacing family since 2008.

"Our members are passionate about racing," said John Henry, iRacing's co-founder and chairman. "They love to drive, and they love to compete. And they do it in the context of their overall love for racing in both the physical and virtual worlds. We're pleased that iRacing has been chosen as the home of NASCAR-Sanctioned Online Racing and expect that many of NASCAR's most avid fans will find iRacing's NASCAR-sanctioned series a great way to deepen their connection to and enjoyment of the sport."

The new partnership represents a bit of déjà vu for iRacing co-founder, CEO and CTO Dave Kaemmer whose previous company, Papyrus Design Group, developed several popular NASCAR simulation titles including the ever-popular NASCAR Racing: 2003 Season.

"This is sort of a homecoming for me and several members of the development team," Kaemmer said. "Our NASCAR roots date back to the 1990s. We're thrilled NASCAR shares our vision of internet racing as a new branch of motorsport. With the power of NASCAR behind us, iRacing and our growing global community are about to take another big step forward."

The new partnership was announced this afternoon at Lowe's Motor Speedway during a press conference hosted jointly by NASCAR and iRacing.com, and attended by representatives from many leading media outlets in the motor sports arena. They heard NASCAR officials confirm what iRacing members already know, regardless of the cars or series in which they compete.

"The iRacing product is so realistic that a number of our NASCAR drivers, including Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Brad Keselowski, A.J. Allmendinger, Marcos Ambrose and Colin Braun are already iRacing members," said Blake Davidson, NASCAR managing director of licensed products. "From the beginning these drivers have raved about the incredible accuracy of the cars and the tracks that iRacing has produced and their involvement, along with NASCAR Competition, in the development will make the experience even more authentic."

The fact that NASCAR iRacing will be "authentic NASCAR competition" was underlined by the fact that Robin Pemberton, NASCAR's vice president of competition, was much in evidence at the announcement.

"Over the years, many of our drivers have helped develop their skills by participating in virtual training like iRacing," he said. "It's exciting to now have an online NASCAR-sanctioned series like iRacing that will be entertaining for our fans and help provide them with a greater understanding of what it takes to be a NASCAR race car driver."

Further details on the 2010 NASCAR-sanctioned series will be made available later this year.


!!!!Yes I know it was posted on a link before!

Very respected team that I always looked upto since joining LFS.

All the best!

*Right what's bawbags phonenumber. Quick Niels send some hookers round to his house to sweeten him up!

Good luck Kris,

Yer a sound and actually very fast racer, hopefully you'll get a good team together

Unfortunately I'm to friggin slow!

You'd bettter not abuse my iRaing account or I'll fly over to Estonia and kick yer butt

hairy nipples for the win!

Quote from atledreier :

I got a spare promo if anyone want it... $25 for 3 months... Pm me if you're interested.

Me too promo code is PR-3MONTHOFFER-MAY2009 .

LOL Gills, Congratulations to Gillingham, all the best at Wembley

I agree that is very nice mate Very talented!

Quote from tristancliffe :

No, I didn't get to that. I'm too stupid to get that far with real problems

Approx values
v = 810kg/m³
d = don't know, as I never measured it before building the engine! But it doesn't matter in the pressure calculation anyway
D = 0.0275 (I believe, from memory, the journal is 55mm dia)
w = let's say 5000rpm, which is 523 rads/sec

Which gives 2527 Pa, which is (for my old fashioned brain; I can't do SI units of pressure and understand what they mean in the real world) 0.36psi - which is wrong.

So, either the calculation is wrong (doesn't look like it), my units are wrong (don't think so), or you are correct that the solution is a uselessly small part of the whole thing, and that overcoming the rotation isn't much of a problem and isn't the main requirement of oil pressure.

Me likes interesting topics. Thanks.

Viscosity is measured in centipoise or centistokes and totally dependant on temperature and flowrate. The Reynolds number needs to be calculated in order to determine either laminer or turbulent flow in the system. Likely laminer in your case.
Once this Reynolds number (unitless constant) is calculated then the correct formula can be applied to calculate and pressure differentials over a given system. (I like Crane for these sort of calcs)

The value you have given for v is actually the density of the oil (rho).

Also

1 Mpa = 1x 10^-5 bar

1 bar = 14.5 psi (approx).

Try getting free download of "crane flow of fluids through valves fittings and pipe" for the required formula and easy to follow fluid dynamics guide. (I used to have pdf document but can't find it right now:shrug

In general I would say that the force of rotating bearing would require negligeable pressure to overcome. Infact likely you would get suction through a venturi type effect. So the pressure you will need is totally dependent on the diameter of the annulus and the temperature of the oil.


(Excuse my spellling)


If you are struggling with Crane let me know and I'll try and help although these days my Engineering involvement is totally employed with harrassing subcontractors

Unfortuantely I can't help with the calculation as it's no way a simple calc. as many variables need to be taken into account to get anywhere like an authentic result. You certainly cannot ignore the viscosity of the oil as this is paramount to flow and pressure drop calculations, the viscosity will vary greatly with temperature so you will need the viscosity/temperature curves and the specific gravity for the oil you are using.

I'll be very interested to see what you come up with for this so please keep us posted, good luck