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Sockington posted:A friend of mine uploaded this pic of his Jeep to FB: Budget Monty posted:That sucks about the poor engineering. Why do people try to solve axle wrap with this abortion of a solution? NitroSpazzz posted:Saw the axle and was trying to figure out what the big deal was, then I saw the box steel sections It's really a good solution and good engineering. You're just freaking out because you don't like square section tube and don't understand the mechanics of the motion. The axle wrap itself isn't the problem. The problem is that the axle wrap messes up the pinion angle of the axle, and therefore, the driveline angles.
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grover posted:It's pretty obviously rigged. They've got a 3rd wheel where we can't see it. They also would have had to have modified the differential and/or brakes, too. locking diff
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Seat Safety Switch posted:It's not like mileage matters much to you if you drive one of those enormous motorhomes around anyway. Those things are like an Iraqi oil fire. They are basically medium duty trucks with a bunch of plastic poo poo strapped to the frame. They will get better mileage than some SUVs.
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kastein posted:I know you're kidding, but the only reason the Prius is even possible is the fact that buck/boost converters have made massive strides in efficiency and power capability over the last 20 years. And one of the only reasons they've improved so much is that the frequencies they run at have skyrocketed, allowing designers to use much smaller inductors and capacitors without losing efficiency due to switching losses. For instance the "picoPSU" is a 120 watt ATX power supply that takes 12 volt DC input and supplies all the power rails needed to run an ATX motherboard and a few drives, at 96% efficiency, in a package barely larger than a regular ATX motherboard power plug. The same power supply in the original IBM PC weighed around 3 pounds and was two or three times the size of a standard ATX power supply, and produced half as much power... at something like 60-80% efficiency. The EV1 had a 137 hp ac motor driven by a variable speed vector based controller off a DC bus in 1996. The EMD SD70MAC locomotive used similar motor control, and was pulling line haul freight in 1993. The prius has some sick tech, but the reasons for it not being produced earlier were political, not technological. The prius is possible without the buck boost converter. It is used because they desired to limit battery cell count and therefore, total battery voltage and system cost, while still using IGBTs for the motor controller. They could have sidestepped the buck boost converter by using a higher cell count pack with more output voltage, or a higher current lower voltage motor controller with MOSFETs and the same battery pack.
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Poing posted:Are those dampers rotating on single-shear pivots? Yes and it looks like it works just great so there's no need to obsess over it. Do you obsess over single sheer ever time you step outside and see a tree?
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jammyozzy posted:This is all well and good, but if you look reallllll close at the rockers you'll see the dampers are in double shear anyway. Look here, it's the palatov dp4. Look at all that single sheer. But we all know that palatov guy's rich and does whatever he wants:  And everyone's favorite, the C7 cervette. What were they thinking those steering links and ball joints are gonna just fly apart the moment it steps onto pavement. GM junk I guess.  And look at this moron, trusting his life to a single sheer fork. Serves him right for trying to be a unique snowflake when physics is involved:  And the god engineer must be smoking white pebbles, because this poo poo is in single sheer as well. I mean really, why doesn't the trunk connect to ground twice. Sloppy design if you ask me. 
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You Am I posted:That's pretty bloody impressive. I wonder what the brake setup is on that truck Probably some bigass air disc brakes up front and back, with an abs controller and a dedicated air reservoir for the rear axle. All the more impressive when you consider that all that braking force is traveling through solid axles front and back, suspending on only leaf springs in front, and with combination leaf member / air springs in back.
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Gatts posted:http://www.costco.com/VRX-iMotion-Custom-Racing-Simulator.product.100016149.html This will make that obsolete: http://www.oculusvr.com/
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NitroSpazzz posted:
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yyyyyy posted:Ran into this randomly in downtown Bellevue, WA, 2012 Pikes Peak winner this car is sick to drive in simraceway
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Dave Inc. posted:If ever there were a car video that needed a blu-ray release, it would be this one. I remember my 14 year old friends and I sitting around my computer watching this over and over. It's also the video that taught me how to counter-steer in a slide, which I credit my "gently caress gently caress gently caress saw the wheel as fast as possible!" car-handling skills to. my awesome grandpa handed the keys over to keys of a 1970 beetle to me and my cousin, on a rainy day, and told us to go drive it around his farm. neither of us had licenses. this is when I learned to countersteer.
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Terrible Robot posted:If you didn't learn how to counter-steer as a kid riding bicycles or driving a go-kart (or gently caress, a pedal-car), you had a bad childhood and I feel sorry for you. thanks for bringing it up
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Cenodoxus posted:Priuses are indeed terrible, but mostly from an environmental standpoint. I can't speak to their mechanical reliability. quote:Environmental impact Looks like you're wrong. But feel free to find other reasons to hate people for making responsible choices.  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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"I'm saving the environment by using less gas!"
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KozmoNaut posted:You know those huge 8x8 massively articulated Tatra etc. trucks we all love to make You can do it here with better physics for free. And it's french.  http://www.rigsofrods.com/content/
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smilies at? Now you can drive one in a completely badass vidja game! (provided its Kickstarter campaign is successful)
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kastein posted:Those things are fuckin' awesome but I think you should get an M123A1C if you're looking for brute strength. http://www.vannattabros.com/truck6.html i think the M916A3 is better
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MetaJew posted:What game has CoTA? I was looking for one on Wednesday to practice. https://www.simraceway.com/tracks/27?locale=en
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Slavvy posted:No. It's that I want to have fun driving a car. Not-manual cars aren't as fun. Q.E.D. http://justgivemethedamnmanual.com/article/just-give-me-the-drat-manual-transmission/
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I setup air suspensions for these at an old job, they have an unusual drive setup to accommodate the rear engine and 6x6
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Mooseykins posted:I always wondered why your concrete trucks were "backwards". Almost all of ours are 8x4 twin steers like this: It's to allow the driver to also operate the concrete dump. Saves on labor costs.
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ExplodingSims posted:Since we're on car game chat I'd to post another post about how pretty BeamNG Drive can be considering it's an unfinished car physics sim. Oh snap, I forgot I own this. Redownloading now.
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It's 100% awesome. We already established in the motorcycle thread that you have poor taste. I'm seriously questioning if you're actually a child of the 90s right now.
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Party Alarm posted:Don't be so quick to judge that, I have a friend who flew a few states away and drove back an old Nova he bought with his own money. He was 14 at the time. He's like 21 now and is almost done building a 37 model t hot rod I've got a friend who's in his 20s and has one as well 
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Tekne posted:
What's up with the angle between the engine and the transmission?
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