aren't semislicks clearly better than roadtyres?

Quote from 5haz :

Because a Caterham dosen't have a roof (a piece of cloth dosen't count), very important in the UK!

they could've made one with a solid roof... good enough to be waterproof... what's 10-20kg more in a car this fun?

no, i'm afraid not... but, thanks for your help

anyone ever heard of a company that is, maybe, related to fiat/lancia and makes engines or tuning with the name of AKF? or something like that... akf? acf?

Quote from atledreier :

I'll give an impression on semi-slick versus road tyre performance then.

huh...
don't bother, the difference is already well known

Quote from Intrepid :

Yh, but Lotus, the real Lotus, was more than just a hollow name. The principles that Chapman instilled in the company won't be there.

get a caterham/westfield and you're set.

not particularly pricey cars either.

i'm baffled as to how most people in the uk don't have a caterham

i live in greece in which it is not certain how you can get one to drive.

only when reading or writing a huge file the drive reads/writes sequentialy. in every other case, it's jumping all over the place. even then, the file has to be in one piece.

the entire drive is 'a bunch of small files' anyway, drivers, config files, dlls, programs, etcetc. even many games have lots of small files instead of huge ones. look at lfs as a quick example.

anyway, whatever floats your boat

i said latency, not throughput

defrag is one thing, different files at different positions on the drive is another thing.

the minimum/maximum latency of a drive is determined by the period of its rotation.

7200rpm-> 1 rotation every 8.333ms
10000rpm, 1 rot every 6ms

can't get away from that

it's a physical limitation

and mobile bartons were operational at 100C. that doesn't say much.

i'd rather not have a component inside my computer that reaches those temperatures. the gpu itself can take it, alright, but the gpu is not alone in there and i do not want it dumping the heat around. it's one thing the gpu blowing air at 90C and another to blow air at 60. also the motherboard will heat because of the gpu.

no component in my machine reaches above 59C even at full blast cpu+gpu

faster at sequential read/write, but slower at normal usage which is access to lots of files all over the place.

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- lifting any tire from the surface of the road (wheelies or stoppies)

no emergency braking for riders, huh.

or, when i have to brake in an emergency, i will also have to make sure my rear wheel doesn't lift.

great stuff.

Quote from Gentlefoot :

petrol.

but you said that there was too much nos. how can you say too much nos and then say that there is fuel to burn?

(some) bmw motorcycles (r1200gs at least do) have this mechanism where when braking the nose doesn't dive.

the weight is transfered, that is, load balance goes to the front, but the front suspension does not compress.

for those who are used to the normal way, it is disorientating

Last edited by george_tsiros, Tue 8 Sep 2009, 14:33.

you call it 'nitpicking' i call it 'understanding so that we can have a discussion'.

you prefer to have a discussion where a possible misunderstanding is ignored?

Quote from samjh :

And I could take that as a petty threat.

no, you have no right to feel 'threatened' because you started it, by implying my english is not up to par.

and to stay on topic:
i know how the car behaves under braking, under various circumstances (empty, loaded, old suspension, new suspension, wheels misaligned, wheels aligned, rear tyre deflated, tyres overinflated, very hot slippery asphalt, tarmac, snow, wet, dirt) and i am pretty familiar with it (because on a motorcycle you need to control the nosedive properly when you want to brake hard). "lurching forward" is not a phrase i expect to be used, on a racing forum, from a native english speaker, for when a car shifts its weight forward. EDIT: that is why i think he meant to say something else

Last edited by george_tsiros, Tue 8 Sep 2009, 14:30.

soooo... "the car lurches forward" is not very accurate, since the car does not, actually, "lurch forward".

right?

so the "car lurching forward" = "car's weight is shifted to the front" and "heel and toe" can fix that.

why am i feeling like there is no progress done discussing this particular tidbit?

it's my ****ing fault that i pointed it out.

also, samjh, if i were just a bit more hotheaded i could have taken that last line as an insult

i really would want to see that. while in the process of braking and downshifting, the car not only doesn't brake,but it also lurches forward?

Quote from obsolum :

Exactly. I think it's pretty obvious that what is meant is that you (ie. the driver) lurches forward due to the car slowing down harder It was just badly phrased.

i think it's not only not obvious, i'd say he specificaly speaks about the car

Quote from dawguk :

heel and toe here keeps the car from lurching forwards

Last edited by george_tsiros, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 21:49.

how can the car lurch forward (= accelerate) when braking and downshifting??!?

Quote from samjh :

A lot of cars would do that if you don't match revs properly, like if you downshifted from 5th to 3rd while still on the brakes and not applying any throttle.

it would lurch FORWARD?

while BRAKING and DOWNSHIFTING TWO GEARS?

Quote from Gentlefoot :

Combustion.

of what?

so let me get this straight

compression of the air in the cylinder does not contribute to engine braking, because the compressed air will "bounce back", returning the energy?

what process would generate that heat?

all i want to say is this:

the behaviour of the contact between tyre and ground and the behaviour of the tyre itself is ridiculously complex, simply impossible to model accurately, even if one started having a perfect model of the asphalt and a perfect model of a tyre, modelling the dynamics of the contact between these two is nearly unfeasible, let alone done in realtime. many different materials in different conditions etcetcetc.

lfs is nothing short of a miracle. can't talk about any other sim.