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george's authentic greek yoghurt ?

Afternoon Mangs, Just got up, how do we all feel about yoghurt, specifically the passion fruit gourmet variety ? Thinking of picking some up before I head to uni and grab my teins later tonight.

+1 I think they call it flexifuel or something like that don't they ? I think it would be interesting to see how the major manufacturers react to the widespread availability of E85 in terms of their engineering decisions with mapping and performance targets etc ?

This is highly relevant to my interests, do you mind sharing your set up or specs ? that's pretty farken quick

Lulz, By inviting the police along to your cruises your essentially acceding to their perception of the issues at hand, which is for f**king girls. Martin Luther King never rode at the back of no Bus. Fight the power !

I agree with all these points, Glad to see someone else here watches the league and it's not a complete pit of AFL bum jabbers. LOL Keen as mustard for 24 racing.

It's not the ride, its the rider.

1: at the flywheel, there are probably a fair few just look at the range in Australia and America, not to mention a heap of the Japanese saloons, but FWD cars are generally light because they cant handle higher power levels, hence they are required to be light to make up for the deficiencies in handling and power. 3:I get the feeling that If they could run 4wd within the F1 regs, they would. 4:Not true, if he had an Asian boyfriend or 12 year old chick, an Integra type R or Civic type R would go down fine I'm sure

GCG have a special on at the moment Gates racing cam gears and gates racing timing belt for $260 for rb26, I bought it Lol.

I'm not arguing any of this to be a dick, or stir people up, this is simply what I have learnt some people may not agree and that's totally fine but I'm just putting this side of the opinion out there. Cheers, Mitch.

Mega Mac is great, needs an extra shot of mac sauce definately. Any of you Mangs know how much of a dick around it is to become a member >? Those shirts are cool.

Mate for that sort of transgression I would seriously Consider taking a dump in his letterbox.

If they did something about the front end that would be a nice looking car.

No I haven't my experiences are theoretical But I never said I had raced them, just explaining it as I understand it is all. I never said FWD was shit, because obviously cars can be made genuinely quick in that guise, just that RWD and AWD are better.

The driving technique used and how it differs between a RWD and FWD platform will only ever be able to marginally mask underlying fundamental deficiencies with the FWD layout. You are correct in saying that this is not Formula 1 we are talking about, however, It is on even amateur level racing and racetracks that the FWD starts to drastically lose ground to it's rear wheel drive and (4WD/AWD) counterparts. As for the torque steer issue, I see it as another negative aspect of the FWD handling dynamics, however, it is not central to our issue at the moment. The main point I was trying to make is that although FWD platforms may be able to be engineered to perform at a certain level, as you are still requiring the same two wheels to provide both propulsion and steering, something which drastically reduces the ability of the tyres contact patch to do efficiently, this means that a FWD layout will never perform as well as some of the other platform available. You may be able to mask these detrimental conditions with some of the measures you have mentioned, such as LSD's and ARB's however, all of these solutions are those which may also be applied to the RWD and AWD/4WD platform meaning that all three systems have fairly similar levels of tune-ability however with front wheel drive you are simply starting from a less efficient platform in my opinion. As for the tuning of the handling characteristics, inherent oversteer/understeer this may be adressed and changed dependant on the various requirements of the driver and are not mutually exclusive to any one drive platform. Cheers, Mitch.

Going to have to disagree with you on this one, when you actually look at say the traction circle of opposing RWD and FWD platforms you can see that the way power is fed through the front of the chassis dynamically affects the slip angle causing understeer. There is actually a pretty good evaluation of the concept in one of Carroll Smiths books, fairly certain it's 'Tune to Win' that we used at uni for this unit. Fundamentally it goes on to actually draw the traction circle showing how requiring the front wheels of the vehicle to play a dual role (turning and propelling) will result in detrimental vehicle handling dynamics, or at least that's what I took from it anyway. Cheers, Mitch.

If you have a look on the AUTOSPORT website you can see where marks Tyre has rolled off the outer bead and is 5mm from rolling of the wheel itself, whichever Bridgestone mechanic put that wheel on today deserves a cold one I think

I love seeing Lewis hamilton constantly pay for his attitude.

People who haven't watched the sport for a long time don't realise that being fast over a single lap isn't the be all and end all of a formula 1 drivers talents, NPK 3 times WDC no one considers him fast...

The kind of people who ask why are the kind who don't really appreciate cars, not truly.

Nothing wrong with a small rear end

5' 7/8" Fit into my 32R like a glove

For the amount of coin your looking at laying out, if you can see your self in an R32 then maybe you should do it. Because then you would have the money to bring it upto spec in any way you find it deficient. Plus enjoy the lower weight.

1 and 3 stand out for me as being more related to the cars and the driving thereof, whereas 2 and 4 have the most disgraceful storylines imaginable only made worse by the hideous cars and ludicrously irrelevant depiction of the scene and the people in it. Lol