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Well, then it's yours for 155$, as of now...
Questionable modifications: pictures inside!
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Well, then it's yours for 155$, as of now...
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- GTP_TheCracker
i love this bit...
"This particular Carrera GT will be the envy of most Ferrari's and Lamborghinis when you park and the doors go up, 90 degrees in fact"
After the Lambo and Ferrari owners have stopped laughing their asses off at your $80k body kitted Boxter. Give them a Koenigsegg style movement and they might envy your doors.
"This particular Carrera GT will be the envy of most Ferrari's and Lamborghinis when you park and the doors go up, 90 degrees in fact"
After the Lambo and Ferrari owners have stopped laughing their asses off at your $80k body kitted Boxter. Give them a Koenigsegg style movement and they might envy your doors.
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But Famine, where do you find all those bits of information, like the drag coefficient (getting confused with the unknown english words), and what do you need to know providing you know how the frontal area looks like?
(BTW: What thing is it exactly, that is "IN MY STUMUK"? I mean, what micro-organism is it?)
(BTW: What thing is it exactly, that is "IN MY STUMUK"? I mean, what micro-organism is it?)
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Actually, it has to be said that wing mirrors do kill you for speed.
So you'd be surprised at just what effect wing mirrors can have. But they're compulsory on the track (and in the UK you must have at least the driver's side wingmirror and any one other mirror - so you can knock the passenger side one off and get 4mph extra...).
Or do that, AND shave the door handle on that side for even more mad tyte top speedage.
Sure, the mirrors give you more top end, but I'm still not convinced the lack of practicality is worth the earodynamics (which, I've just figured out, is the lack of wind noise you might get if the mirrors were still in place. It's better for your ears).
There's always going to be someone quicker than you on the track, especially because VERY few tracks have the kind of straights required for any normal car to hit speeds ~150mph (thats cars like the Golf or Rover, not your gazillion horsepower Bugatti or the like), and being able to see them before the shove themselves down the inside seems more important than being 4/8 mph closer on the straights.
And, Burnt_Clutch: How many people with track cars do you know who have shaved one side of their vehicles? I actually do track days, and can honestly say I'm yet to see a serious track car with shaved ANYTHING, except maybe badging.
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Oh yeah, those standing Mercedes badges sure create a lot of drag
And you'll better not get run-over by one. That badge will cut through...
*remmembers a Simpsons episode* There's this one episode when Bart is run over by Mr. Burns, who drives, I think, a Mercedes. In court, Bart describes the accident as if Mr. Burns went mad and started using the badge as some sort of aiming device...
*finishes quoting*
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- GTP_TheCracker
I very much doubt that this Golf will ever go anywhere near a track, not with such little clearance between wheel arch and tyre. It would shread them within a couple of spirited laps.
It's also fairly poor as a show car with one un-shaved door handle. Either shave both or leave them as they are, it looks half done as it stands.
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- GTP_Famine
Manufacturers will provide it, but there's also other online resources for vehicle stats.
The frontal area is simply the widest, tallest amount of car. If you look at a car dead-on and draw the outline, that's what the engine has to push through the air, and that's what the air resists by pushing back. Manufacturers will provide that too.
Salmonella.
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Thanks for pointing that out. Did these folks not realize Diablo owners make up the biggest percentage of Lamborghini owners (Next to Gallardos), and that their doors in fact raise up to? Some folks are too funny.
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lada powr!!
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"I should be able to run over a thousand little boys! I'm rich!"*remmembers a Simpsons episode* There's this one episode when Bart is run over by Mr. Burns, who drives, I think, a Mercedes. In court, Bart describes the accident as if Mr. Burns went mad and started using the badge as some sort of aiming device...
Famine(and in the UK you must have at least the driver's side wingmirror and any one other mirror - so you can knock the passenger side one off and get 4mph extra...
And the car pulls to the left with increasing force.
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Mmm.. Salmon. *drools*
That hood on the Civic looks like the "standart ricer hood" over here in Israel. Modding is half-legal here, so most young people with cool crappy FFs limit themselves to some stickers (like that Cavalier yesterday, with painted bullet-holes), new rims (they don't look that bad, mostly) or an exhaust.
But some people just can't resist, especially in Jerusalem. They've got the same hood everywhere - almost exactly like yours, only slightly bigger, and no central part. They also limit themselves to one type of front bumper - always in a somewhat different color than the car, and the bumper is so extended in the lower side they could plow snow (or children) with it (they also lower the car slightly, to save money on sideskirts and rear bumpers
They're not very original.
To Toronado: Countersteer, or always turn left in gigantic spinouts..
Quiz: How many exhausts does a Golf GTI of the latest generation have?
That hood on the Civic looks like the "standart ricer hood" over here in Israel. Modding is half-legal here, so most young people with cool crappy FFs limit themselves to some stickers (like that Cavalier yesterday, with painted bullet-holes), new rims (they don't look that bad, mostly) or an exhaust.
But some people just can't resist, especially in Jerusalem. They've got the same hood everywhere - almost exactly like yours, only slightly bigger, and no central part. They also limit themselves to one type of front bumper - always in a somewhat different color than the car, and the bumper is so extended in the lower side they could plow snow (or children) with it (they also lower the car slightly, to save money on sideskirts and rear bumpers
They're not very original.
To Toronado: Countersteer, or always turn left in gigantic spinouts..
Quiz: How many exhausts does a Golf GTI of the latest generation have?
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EDIT: Asked and answered.
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Sakiale
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No, I honestly like every car posted in the last 5 pages. They are all so unique, and exhibit such creative ideas. Why can't I put spinners on a Tiburon? Carbon Fibre taillights on a Hummer? Roofscoops on an Escalade? Nitrous on a Navigator? Hydros on a 240SX? A spoiler shaped like a flat noodle? A hoodscoop bigger than the 24's on that Civic? Be different. Express yourselves! Honestly! This is as bad as saying that all Europeans are weird because theyre from Europe! Its outright prejudice and I wont have it!
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You are serious, aren't you?
Okay, I get it, since I've met people like you. But, if we think they're stupid, why can't we say so? We know people do this because they like how thier car looks when they're done. But we can say we don't like them. and it's not fair to compare cars and people. cars don't have feelings.
we do this in jest. sometimes, we make fun of each other's cars. we do it because we like to have alittle fun.
Okay, I get it, since I've met people like you. But, if we think they're stupid, why can't we say so? We know people do this because they like how thier car looks when they're done. But we can say we don't like them. and it's not fair to compare cars and people. cars don't have feelings.
we do this in jest. sometimes, we make fun of each other's cars. we do it because we like to have alittle fun.
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Well, when that happens war usually breaks out (at least it has for both of the times I've seen it happen). Better to not do that.
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Toronado: Point taken.
Sakiale: Now you're mocking me.
Sakiale: Now you're mocking me.
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