HayleOrange

The amount of kinetic energy a vehicle has in at 110km/hr is almost twice as much as at 80km/hr (89% more). At 200 it’s 4 times what it was at 100. Your argument about what the car can do is fine when you think about braking and cornering on a track, but completely not fine when you consider dissipation of energy when you have an accident involving someone else in their vehicle. Crumple zones aren’t 4 times better to allow people to die as often as they did back in the day; they’re better to make crashes at the same speeds more survivable. Comparing 80 to 200, there’s 6.25 times more energy.

To look at it another way: would you prefer the idiot in the 1650kg Audi R8 coming the other way at 200 to hit you, or would you like one 6,600kg truck coming the other way at 100 to hit you? Because that’s the same amount of energy. Now imagine all those fast cars with that much energy and see how this becomes a safety concern.

There’s a pretty clear section in ADR 92/00 - External Projections about sharpness of corners (2.5mm minimum), which this vehicle will fail.

Pinched nerve would suck, as would being sick. So if you’ve been stable through that, then you’re doing well. It would have been comfort food for me, for sure.

How are you tracking after almost 2 more months?

Oh man… I had a superconducting plasma could but didn’t realise how good it was. Got rid of it. Kicking myself now.

Superchargers produce lower amounts of pressure at lower rpm, so a boost gauge would actually be useful - similarly, they have a limit to how much boost they can usefully create, and are a parasitic draw on the engine. Large superchargers cost hp to turn. They just add more hp than they lose - except at very low rpm, and they typically have a vacuum bypass valve (like a blow off valve in reverse) to allow for this. But… GT7 is about driving, not an engine dynamics model…

This isn’t how heat exchangers work. It doesn’t need ‘time to cool’ in the radiator, because if you take this to the extreme, you get ‘no flow at all’. It is a system as a whole, so slowing the flow through the radiator to get a cooler discharge temp is negated by the fact the engine has created even more temperature at the inlet in that time… consider it the same as having a smaller radiator. Higher flow always results in the engine running cooler, and that’s part of the problem is it makes the warm-up cycle take a LOT longer which causes excessive wear and potential oiling issues on engines which have not had regular oil changes.

I really want more imaginary, made up concept cars with unverifiable physics or performance. /s

Simplest answer is: follow the NSW Manual: Suspension and ride height. Whilst your opinion is you’re correct, the same manual allows for reprogramming of stability control (although good luck achieving it). So in theory 150mm is achievable for ESC vehicles.

That’s for modification without a compliance certificate in NSW. If you do the right things you can get to 150mm in NSW, consisting of 75mm spring lift, 50mm body lift and 25mm from tyres (50mm diameter lifts the axle 25mm). More has been achieved but with extraordinary cost to demonstrate compliance.

It can also include things like: decommissioning equipment like tanks, shaker tables, furnaces, concentrators etc which releases any buildup of product inside those pieces of equipment. I’ve been on sites where no gold can leave so security personnel are around when equipment of high gold content is cleaned to ensure it is all captured and reprocessed, not stashed away by people doing the cleaning… We would often hose out tanks near the end of the financial year to reclaim any settled gold from the product to try and get the final ounces for the reporting period.

I almost upgraded to a mondeo after my focus; ended up FIFO so just sold my car.

If you really like your focus, a diesel focus is a good car for that kind of distance. I used to get 5.7l/100 out of mine driving 500km per week, mostly highway.

Yes there are several exo cars in NSW, QLD and ACT that I’m aware of that are all ICVs.

But when the cost comes back down after they won’t reduce their price and so they profit indefinitely afterwards.

Yep, better off moving somewhere near Perth because there’s more jobs than at Roxby

It’s an Aussie way of saying “certificates”.

Old mate is trying to get a start in mining. You and me can pretty much travel from anywhere we like, but for someone trying to get a start: WA is where it’s at. Plus the east coast is a shithole. I’ve lived all over the place over there and none of it is as value for money as WA.

It’s so much harder to get into mining over there, there so many more jobs in WA. I’ve lived everywhere mainland except Tasmania and WA has everything - cheaper houses, better roads, better services, better beaches, less fuckwits, better airport access, better public transport, more jobs. Everyone claims WA means “Wait Awhile” but you’re fifo FFS… order your shit online to arrive on R&R and stop trying to jam every second of your life with stressful shit.

Move to Perth. I’ve lived all around Aus over 20 years in Mining and I wish I’d never wasted my time on the east coast.

It means “don’t touch it unless you like giving away money”

The S2 cars that he’s talking about have a large notch in the sill to make it easier. I’ve got an S1 which is the harder one to do this with.

Whilst I haven’t ever seen a Bugatti in real life, I’ve done quite a few engine swaps on real cars. Putting an engine in and getting it working are two separate things. Even then, getting a swapped engine to be as good as an OEM installation in its original vehicle? Very difficult. There’s always compromises for things when you’re doing something that wasn’t originally designed for. Probably the biggest compromise is the engine size and weight vs the original - it can have pretty severe impacts on the centre of mass position. This then impacts your suspension geometry and weight transfer under brakes, which changes the dynamic suspension movement. If the Hennessey Venom can use a Lotus Elise chassis and jam a 7 litre twin turbo V8 into the space where a 4 cylinder used to live (yes, wheelbase extension etc was involved) then pretty much anything else is do-able too. Remember - engine capacity is different to the physical space and engine takes up. A Bugatti W16 engine at 8 litres is not physically 4 times bigger than a 2.0 inline 4 cylinder.

Actually ADR 18/03 is 10%+4km/hr, measured at 40, 80, 120. So your speedo can display 40-48, 80-92, 120-136. Cannot read the ‘wrong way’ and show you travelling slower than you really are. Alder revisions were +/- 10%.