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Dec 5, 2017 14:39:52 GMT
Post by Tim on Dec 5, 2017 14:39:52 GMT
He has a real name. It is Adam Towler.
In the EVO review of the new 911 GT2 - all 690BHP of it - there's a reference to using an additional 2mm of throttle travel to achieve something (probably a beautifully held slide!). Really. I find it hard to believe that you could modulate the throttle that accurately in any car, let alone such a powerful one.
No wonder they don't rate relatively normal cars like the RS3 over something like the M2!
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Dec 5, 2017 15:08:30 GMT
Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2017 15:08:30 GMT
I smell bollo, too.
Can't warm to the GT2. Fugly, and definitely for the Hard Men of motoring.
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Dec 5, 2017 17:01:07 GMT
Post by Tim on Dec 5, 2017 17:01:07 GMT
No, it's gone on my list of utterly pointless cars along with, well pretty much all the supercars and stuff with silly amounts of power that you'll never be able to use.
From reading the article it's not a car to be enjoyed at normal fast road speeds but then its probably too fast to really extend it for more than a couple of seconds. The remaining 99.9% of the time you'll either be secretly irritated with it or, far more likely, looking at its shape under its breathable cover in your heated/dehumidified storgae space and marvelling at how rapidly its appreciating in value while accumulating 0 miles.
I notice that in the 'What 4x4 supercar would you recommend' article at the back of the current issue the same writer would pick a 911 996 turbo which, apparently, has 'a Metzger out the back'. Surely it'd go better with an engine?
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Dec 5, 2017 19:34:15 GMT
Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2017 19:34:15 GMT
For me the old GT2 RS was the pinnacle - I'm cold towards the new one
For me, the F40 and 997 GT2 RS are THE supercars regardless of all the new stuff
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Dec 5, 2017 21:09:15 GMT
Post by Stuntman on Dec 5, 2017 21:09:15 GMT
As an engineering exercise, the GT2RS is impressive. As a sportscar to enjoy on UK roads, I'd far rather have a GT3 - or my lovely GT4
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Dec 6, 2017 11:13:10 GMT
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Post by franki68 on Dec 6, 2017 11:13:10 GMT
It must be terrifying frankly,no place on the road for it really.
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Dec 6, 2017 11:52:30 GMT
Post by Blarno on Dec 6, 2017 11:52:30 GMT
No, it's gone on my list of utterly pointless cars along with, well pretty much all the supercars and stuff with silly amounts of power that you'll never be able to use. From reading the article it's not a car to be enjoyed at normal fast road speeds but then its probably too fast to really extend it for more than a couple of seconds. The remaining 99.9% of the time you'll either be secretly irritated with it or, far more likely, looking at its shape under its breathable cover in your heated/dehumidified storgae space and marvelling at how rapidly its appreciating in value while accumulating 0 miles. I notice that in the 'What 4x4 supercar would you recommend' article at the back of the current issue the same writer would pick a 911 996 turbo which, apparently, has 'a Metzger out the back'. Surely it'd go better with an engine? When people start bringing engine designations or chassis codes into the conversation, you know they are the worst kind of car bore. Avoid these people at all costs.
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Dec 6, 2017 13:35:49 GMT
Post by Tim on Dec 6, 2017 13:35:49 GMT
I notice that in the 'What 4x4 supercar would you recommend' article at the back of the current issue the same writer would pick a 911 996 turbo which, apparently, has 'a Metzger out the back'. Surely it'd go better with an engine? When people start bringing engine designations or chassis codes into the conversation, you know they are the worst kind of car bore. Avoid these people at all costs.
A couple of my mates once had a fairly long (and boring) conversation about what size of carburettor jets they would be best running in their mildly modified twin carb Alfasuds!
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Dec 6, 2017 14:06:42 GMT
Post by johnc on Dec 6, 2017 14:06:42 GMT
When people start bringing engine designations or chassis codes into the conversation, you know they are the worst kind of car bore. Avoid these people at all costs.
A couple of my mates once had a fairly long (and boring) conversation about what size of carburettor jets they would be best running in their mildly modified twin carb Alfasuds!
Just as well you weren't around when I was racing - I could tell you the size or number of the Main jet, the air correction jet, the emulsion tube, the pump jet and the idle jet, as well as the size of the choke and the length of the trumpets - and that's before we went on to the cam timing, max ignition advance, thickness of LSD shims etc etc. And we used to change some of them for different circuits!
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Dec 6, 2017 15:50:29 GMT
Post by Tim on Dec 6, 2017 15:50:29 GMT
Sorry I nodded off for a while there....
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Dec 6, 2017 18:42:40 GMT
Post by Boxer6 on Dec 6, 2017 18:42:40 GMT
A couple of my mates once had a fairly long (and boring) conversation about what size of carburettor jets they would be best running in their mildly modified twin carb Alfasuds!
Just as well you weren't around when I was racing - I could tell you the size or number of the Main jet, the air correction jet, the emulsion tube, the pump jet and the idle jet, as well as the size of the choke and the length of the trumpets - and that's before we went on to the cam timing, max ignition advance, thickness of LSD shims etc etc. And we used to change some of them for different circuits! Don't remember you wearing a beard and anorak when we met John!!
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Dec 8, 2017 12:39:00 GMT
Post by Roadsterstu on Dec 8, 2017 12:39:00 GMT
When people start bringing engine designations or chassis codes into the conversation, you know they are the worst kind of car bore. Avoid these people at all costs.
A couple of my mates once had a fairly long (and boring) conversation about what size of carburettor jets they would be best running in their mildly modified twin carb Alfasuds!
But they had Alfasuds, surely that gave them at least half an excuse?
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Dec 9, 2017 10:36:52 GMT
Post by johnc on Dec 9, 2017 10:36:52 GMT
Just as well you weren't around when I was racing - I could tell you the size or number of the Main jet, the air correction jet, the emulsion tube, the pump jet and the idle jet, as well as the size of the choke and the length of the trumpets - and that's before we went on to the cam timing, max ignition advance, thickness of LSD shims etc etc. And we used to change some of them for different circuits! Don't remember you wearing a beard and anorak when we met John!! I am a man who likes the detail Ian. I still get friends from racing circles asking me to work out volumes in combustion chambers and how many thou to take off the head, block or pistons to get a specific compression ratio - that all came from a year when I had done all my calculations and I took my engine to a well known engine builder/machine shop in Stirling to do all the work. I got it all back, built the engine, fitted it and ran it in only to be massively disappointed with the results. I spoke to the machine shop and they told me they hadn't quite done what I asked because they thought it was taking too much metal off and they were afraid it might fail. I rolled the car that year trying to extract more from it than it could really give because I was down on power. The next year I did all my figures again and got each bit machined at Blanefield engineering (a small shop in the country where I met Robbie Coltrain a few times when he was in to get bits of his American car fleet machined or remade). I checked everything before I put it all back together and it was a flying machine. I was Scottish road car champion that year as well as winning the Class championships in the Scottish Hillclimb and Sprint Championship and setting a class record up Doune which stood for 15 years until they changed the class splits and specs - I even beat Andy Priaulx to drive of the day in the Motoring News report.
Now I just sit behind a desk getting worked up about tax details but I am pleased to say I have never had a beard or an anorak!
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Dec 9, 2017 11:10:08 GMT
Post by Boxer6 on Dec 9, 2017 11:10:08 GMT
Don't remember you wearing a beard and anorak when we met John!! I am a man who likes the detail Ian. I still get friends from racing circles asking me to work out volumes in combustion chambers and how many thou to take off the head, block or pistons to get a specific compression ratio - that all came from a year when I had done all my calculations and I took my engine to a well known engine builder/machine shop in Stirling to do all the work. I got it all back, built the engine, fitted it and ran it in only to be massively disappointed with the results. I spoke to the machine shop and they told me they hadn't quite done what I asked because they thought it was taking too much metal off and they were afraid it might fail. I rolled the car that year trying to extract more from it than it could really give because I was down on power. The next year I did all my figures again and got each bit machined at Blanefield engineering (a small shop in the country where I met Robbie Coltrain a few times when he was in to get bits of his American car fleet machined or remade). I checked everything before I put it all back together and it was a flying machine. I was Scottish road car champion that year as well as winning the Class championships in the Scottish Hillclimb and Sprint Championship and setting a class record up Doune which stood for 15 years until they changed the class splits and specs - I even beat Andy Priaulx to drive of the day in the Motoring News report.
Now I just sit behind a desk getting worked up about tax details but I am pleased to say I have never had a beard or an anorak!
You'd have got on well with my dad in that respect I think. He was an engineer to trade, granted, but he had all sorts of scales and graphs he devised for different applications both work-related and for his own use. As an example; every time he got a new car ~ which was every 3 years on the 1st of August! ~ he would plot a graph for many different petrol fill-up gauge levels and mileages driven until he had a literal graph showing mpg for any given amount used. It's why I do the same thing now, I think (though I don't note the mileage for every day, like he did)and have done pretty much throughout my motoring life, including bikes. He did the same for any and all consumables, including tyres, screen wash, the lot. He used these details, partly at least, to infirm his decision on his next car, comparing his own information to official figures and making approximate "fibbing allowances" for the various manufacturers. He tended to stay to mainstream makers, i.e. Ford & Vauxhall, with a single foray in to Fiat ownership before settling down to 20-odd years of Volvodom!
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Dec 9, 2017 15:52:40 GMT
Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2017 15:52:40 GMT
In my second job out of school while still just 15, I was working as an odd jobs person in an 'Engineering workshop', actually they reground cutting tool parts and was reading about turbo engines which I mentioned to the 'engineer' and he rather sarcastically pointed out that he had worked on turbo engines all his life in the Navy and no turbo thing with less than 2000 bar would work. I said that I was talking about cars but he would not have it repeating they would not work. Strange how the memory brings up all sorts of stuff.
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Dec 11, 2017 13:44:49 GMT
Post by Tim on Dec 11, 2017 13:44:49 GMT
A couple of my mates once had a fairly long (and boring) conversation about what size of carburettor jets they would be best running in their mildly modified twin carb Alfasuds!
But they had Alfasuds, surely that gave them at least half an excuse?
It made a change for them from discussing rust
To be fair one of them had a 1.7 motor out of a 33, took it down south (in the boot of his 75 V6) to some place to get it lightened and balanced and then got intake trumpets, etc made and fitted. He spent a lot of time getting it running just right and it was a flying machine but with PROPER torque steer.
He let me have a go a couple of times and one time I got a huge dose of 2nd gear wheelsping coming off a roundabout. When I loooked at the rev counter it was coming back down from somewhere north of 7k but the engine was completely unharmed.
Having said that a schoolfriend had bought a Sud 1.3 as his first car and his dad had used it while the insurwnace was getting sorted. His dad was a former club racer and delighted in demonstrating how sweet the engine was up to 7.5k despite a redline at 6 and a bit.
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Dec 11, 2017 14:30:54 GMT
Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Dec 11, 2017 14:30:54 GMT
I had a mate with an Alfasud and he was fed up of being burned off by XR3i and GTis so he had nitrous oxide injection fitted. He could get wheel spin in third gear.
He still maintains the next 232 miles was the most fun he's ever had in a car. Then the engine blew up.
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Dec 11, 2017 16:13:10 GMT
Post by Tim on Dec 11, 2017 16:13:10 GMT
One of my aforementioned mates also had a Sud Sprint Green Cloverleaf, packing a mighty 105BHP from its twin carb 1.5. In a head to head blast with my MG Maestro 2.0 EFi there was nothing in it and I think the Maestro's performance was equal to the Golf GTI Mk2 8V and slightly ahead of the puny XR3i.
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