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He and Heikki will get perfect starts, Heikki will pull a swifty past Kimi into the first corner, then they will maintain their positions for a glorious McLaren 1-2 finish at the end of the race. Just wait and see

pretty much confirms what i was thinking as was stated towards the start of the thread, E85 is a much cheaper option than buying performance fuels in drums to get big power numbers, but anything less than a 20-25% price difference between E85 and E10 would rule out using the higher percentage blend as a way of reducing running costs in non-performance cars cheers p.s- yeah, i know gas is a better option than anything for that sort of thing

if you can't make the clutch slip with a typical high-rev then full throttle change up through the gears, i wouldn't worry about it (assuming it didn't do that in the first place)

May not be something you can answer, but if the engine was tuned to make the same power on Ultimate and E85 (say, 300rwkW), what would be the comparative specific fuel consumption in L/hr?

gives you the choice anyway- as Ben said, you could watch bathurst and record the F1 and watch it straight after the 'super' cars finish, or just wait for the SD broadcast the delayed broadcast actually starts at 10:50 p.s- you think James Allen is any better to listen to than our guys? lol

all very interesting stuff for turbo'd cars reading the figures on the last page, it would seem that the $/km ratio comes out almost the same as (or a little worse than) normal petrol- so there'd be no savings to be had in trying to specifically tune and run N/A cars on this just to save some dollars? re: the E85 giving lower peak, but higher average, cylinder pressures- the reason is because ethanol burns more slowly than petrol

it's not like they're operating in a sealed box they're just gunna suck in bulk hot air from the engine bay as per normal

1:18.404 my man, my man

what about streaming on the internerd?

I'll prolly flick over during the F1 ad breaks and see what's up F1 >>> V8 soupataxis

2pm race broadcast on 10HD this sunday. nice too bad for the poor suckers waiting 'til 10:50 to watch the SD broadcast. the shows that are on at the same earlier time are crap anyway. way to go 'home of motorsport'

pics? but if the body doesn't flex, there'd be no reason for the glass to deform- right?

love your work Drunkan

the fleeting pain of correction is better than the shame of a lifetime lived in ignorance... bitch Audis are the new chav-charriots; Jeremy Clarkson said so and i didn't really rate your mum

R35- the king is dead, long live the king R34's look too boxy and plain-vanilla boring when parked next to R35's

the thread title contains the following grammatical error: the word "your" (a possessive noun) was used in place of "you're", which is a composite descriptive word meaning 'you are' in the unabbreviated form. cheers

you really should use the clutch going up through the gears Pete... or at least lift the throttle a tiny bit

remember the heady days of the dollar at 106 against the Yen all gone. if i knock all my teeth out and leave 'em under my pillow tonight, you reckon the tooth-fairy will magically make a silver R35 appear in my garage by tomorrow? ...

manufacturing fault my ass it's a simple matter of people abusing launch control- how often would you bother to do brutal standing starts with a normal manual gearbox on the street? rarely ever

that's nothing to do with the gearbox i think you'll find one of the a/c lines or gas canister let go

all those pre-detail swirl marks and spider-webbing just reminded me why i'll probably never own a red car. so hard to keep looking nice great correction work though- 200% better in the end

1st the tranny obviously has a built in function where it doesn't try and select certain clutch groups if there is a drive irregularity detected

the thing is, doing these launch-controlled starts is so much harder on the transmission than any race track driving will expose it to (super high oil temps not withstanding). just think about the physics here- it's a 1740kg car, with wiiiiide&grippy tyres (140 treadwear rating from the factory), a super-fast response AWD system that almost instantly goes to 50:50 torque split, and an engine that makes at least 580Nm of torque at launch revs. doesn't take a real braniac to see where this is heading... i think the problem is thus: thinking back to high-school engineering science, metals have whats called 'plastic' and 'elastic' strain limits. the 'elastic' limit is how har it can deform and return to the original shape (think of flexing a metal ruler gently), whereas the 'plastic' limit is how far the object can be deformed before it fails catastrophically; though it won't return to the original shape after the 'elastic' limit threshold is exceeded (again, think bending a ruler until a permanent crease forms) what i think is happening with these R35's that have had gearbox failures, is that the owners that spend all day smoking everyones arse off at the traffic-light GP are taking certain teeth on the 1st gear gogs up to and past the elastic limit with every launch. eventually most, if not all, the teeth on 1st become deformed past the elastic limit, and the next time the car is launched with the cogs in the fatally weakend spot, it just lets go. that's my theory anyway- if it wasn't the case, it'd just die the very first time you tried it. and looking at the shots of the busted box, they really aren't small gear faces, either...

wow- he managed to spot the VIN from that distance, and through a closed bonnet and all must have really been taking his vitamin C tablets. lol

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