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m8, your going to go blind with all that porn!
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Poll: What happened to your first car?
Silver-Arrowz replied to Duncan's topic in General Automotive Discussion
Still see mine around. It's a 94 WRX. -
girlfriend may not go..... WOOHOOO! Beer, beer! Sweet delicious BEER!
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how much do you expect to get paid when your just a grad? remember your competing with people who have loads of experience who have been out of the job since the whole .com thing went bust. Companies know their desperate and take advantage of it.
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if they will get you for anything it would probably just be reckless driving or something like that.
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unfortunetly, i do
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hippy, Company is CSC (computer science corperation). I don't expect pay to be over 30k as it's a grad position. Position is based at Chatswood for now but the company is consolidation everyone in Sydney to North Ryde in December sometime.
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cruise 2 KRISPY KREMES!!!!!! 20/9/03
Silver-Arrowz replied to Lancer_Luver's topic in Events Archive
beware. cops are also attacted to donuts! Cops + modded cars = unhappy modded car owners -
Company has a few graduate positions if your interested in moving to Syderney. desktop engineer automation an,alyst helpdesk engineer helpdesk level 1 security an,alyst unix system admin there's a few numbers in each category.
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CRD Dyno day - DATE CHANGED - Now Oct 12th 2003
Silver-Arrowz replied to Blitz's topic in Events Archive
sorry nick. i'm out. -
Eastern creek drive Day - Thursday 4th September 2003
Silver-Arrowz replied to red900ss's topic in Events Archive
seal problem = exxon valdez -
and right at the end of the redline put Oh my god bro! take it easy!
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Eastern creek drive Day - Thursday 4th September 2003
Silver-Arrowz replied to red900ss's topic in Events Archive
It was only quick because it was wind assisted. -
Eastern creek drive Day - Thursday 4th September 2003
Silver-Arrowz replied to red900ss's topic in Events Archive
Duncan and I saw the inside rear wheel off the ground at turn 2. Now that's ful sik! -
Brabham stand it is folks! put hands up if you want to share apartment and how many people you bringing.
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Oh my god bro! I want a sik o meter too! I want to be sik! How about we go pick up some chicks with your fully sik car bro?
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Endless or Bendex Ultimate Pads??
Silver-Arrowz replied to NA_R33's topic in Suspension, braking, tyres and drivetrain
which endless pad? -
This Karl S. Kruszelnicki seems to know just about anything and everything! Geek! Taken from Dr. Karl's website: Formula 1 Racing A Formula 1 racing car carries some of the most exotic engineering known to humanity. The drivers pilot these fascinating vehicles at speeds up to 360 kilometres per hour, while semi-reclining in a tub made of expensive carbon fibre, with their backsides only a few centimetres off the road. At full blast, a F-1 fuel pump delivers petrol faster than water flows out of your kitchen tap. A Formula 1 car uses aerodynamics to generate, at full speed, a downforce of 2-and-a-half times its own weight, so that it'll stick to the road really well. At 160 km per hour, they're generating their own weight in downforce - so they could theoretically drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel. The downforce means that the car can corner at 5Gs - but when you hit the bend, the driver's head suddenly weighs 25 kilograms, and their 70 kilogram body now weighs a third-of-a-tonne. 5 Gs is enough to stop you from breathing. The drivers need supreme concentration, to ignore the G-forces and maintain their focus for the hour-or-so that it takes to cover 305 kilometres. And following in the slipstream of the F-1 car is the domestic car. Many of its features (disc brakes, turbo-charger, advanced tyre technology, and sophisticated valve trains) were spin-offs from Formula 1 cars. The very first car race was between Paris and Rouen in 1894, and the winning car averaged 16.4 kilometres per hour. By 1971, the Italian F-1 Grand Prix was won at an average speed of 242 kph. The very first Formula 1 race was in 1948. Today the Formula 1 Championship consists of a series of some 17 races, run every two weeks between March and October. After each race, the engineers have to frantically tinker with the car's design for the next non-negotiable race deadline in two weeks. And in each race, the car is substantially different from what it was in the previous race. Formula 1 today means that the engine is three litres or less, has ten cylinders, and can't be supercharged. The car also has to always weigh at least 600 kilograms, and have four wheels, only two of which are steered or driven. The engines are amazing. They generate some 600 kilowatts at around 18,000 rpm. Compare this to your average Holden or Falcon which generates about 140 kilowatts at 4,000 rpm. Actually, by the 1990s, the engines were limited to only 12,000 rpm, because of friction in the valve train. But then Renault invented pneumatically-driven valves, which let the maximum engine speed jump to 18,000 rpm. Each car has about one-and-a-half kilometres of wire, integrating the data from some 120 sensors that glean information such as the angle of the rear wing, the brake temperature, the oil pressure and the tyre pressure. These vital statistics are constantly relayed back to the crew in the pits. Each car is made of about 9,000 different components. The body and chassis are made from carbon fibre, which when compared to steel, is four times stiffer and five times stronger. The carbon fibre steering wheel alone costs $120,000. The software to integrate the data from the sensors, and to manage the engine and gearbox, comprises some half-a-million lines of code, which took some 20 person-years to write. The gearbox can have up to seven different speeds - and if the timing of the changing of the gears is off by even a few thousandths of a second, the gearbox will self-destruct. It takes a lot of money and brain power to roll one of these F-1 babes out onto the track. For example, McLaren has a budget of about $500 million per year, and employs 350 people. They have even constructed 3D digital replicas of each race track, so they can test the engine before each race. McLaren invented a new braking system (progressive electro-hydraulic power brakes) which dramatically shortened the braking distance - but it was banned. They also invented a unique rear differential, to better feed that awesome power to the back wheels without spinning - but it too was banned. In fact one engineer estimated that half of his 15-year career had been spent on developing engineering wizardry that was now illegal. The job of the scientist is to discover phenomena that are already there, but currently unknown to humans. The job of the engineer is creative - to design and build something that has never been built before. You could say that today, in the design of the Formula 1 car, engineering comes closest to art. © Karl S. Kruszelnicki Pty Ltd 2003.
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Looking at the map, Brabham is better cause you have a huge monitor in front of you. Jones stand, it's a little to far to see the monitor in front and have to look to the left to see the closest one (and the action is top the right). I'll make a call sometime next week.
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Look a skyline, another, another! another?
Silver-Arrowz replied to Staunch's topic in New South Wales
My next car will be 6 wheel drive coupled to 2 V8 quad cam/quad turbocharged supercharged air/air/water intercooled fitted to the latest 8 speed straight cut gearbox fitted with 2 LSD ten plated clutch with a .00000001kg flywheel with 30inch fully sik rims and the aerodynamic package of the Williams FW25 with michelin tyres and a supershort wheel base that makes the mini look like a limo! Seriously, I'm going back to basics with the next car. I want to learn control of the car (hint: must have excellent chassis). Not just mash the pedal to the floor. -
Look a skyline, another, another! another?
Silver-Arrowz replied to Staunch's topic in New South Wales
I've done the 4 pot turbo, 6 straight twin turbo, now it's time for something else (ie. no 200/180, another line, supra, soarer, etc...) Like two40 said, you gotta try something else and it'll probably be a NA motor. -
CAMS and drifting, drift is cool now?
Silver-Arrowz replied to FIL's topic in Motorsport Discussion & Builds
I'd like to see someone try and drift down the mountain at barthurst. -
Open Practice Day - Wakefield - Wed 3 September
Silver-Arrowz replied to Duncan's topic in Events Archive
Duncan, you should go into stand up comedy. May score a million dollar hollywood production movie! -
I won't settle for anything less than a drive at mclarens.