scientific steve
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He he he
Catching aint it?
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Some very very cool yank old skool picks
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110219
Spent a few hours checking out the pages from that site
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its all good mate. just being the outline it took just over week to heal..
back in on the 15th of next month
....i might pop in over the next week or two and see if he can fit me in for a 30min hear and there and get the cherry blossoms done..so when the last big sit-in comes on the 15th hopefully he can get it finished.... i can get the touch ups done after the oasis gig
..canny wait
Tis looking well sweet lad
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Didnt know that you guys were expecting
Congrats to you both and wish you all the very best
Dont know or care on what has gone on in the past, all I know is you put yer hand in yer pocket when my other half was going on the NY marathon, thats good enough for me
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....me too!
Me three
Planning on taking a wee jaunt down to knockers in the splitty for a larf
Will have to see if I can badger John to let me take it on the track for a photo op
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Nah, its ballacks...
Right, firstly, I wouldn't wish it on anyone, thats not my beef, but I couldn't stand her before she got cancer, and I hated her more after, in my opinion, shes done NOTHING to raise awareness of cancer, because lets be honest about it, who has NOT been touched by cancer at some time in their lives???? some of us have been struck worse than others but its still affected us all.
Ive heard some say that "but shes just trying to make some money for her family" em no, thats crap, nothing like dying with dignity eh? and dragging your family though the media circus on such a personal subject... Just staggers belief... I really feel for her family, I really do, they have lost their mother and wife, and thats tragic, it really is, but it happens every day, but how many people get this kind of attention or sympathy?
if she really wanted to do something for her family, theres other things that she could have done for them, that didn't include broadcasting their pain... I think its just sick... I really hope that it was worth it, for all that extra pain...?
The media hated her, right up untill she got cancer, then suddenly they couldn't be nicer? really? how much did they make off the back of all of this anyways?
Well said that man
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Cheers Steve, ye could do with a bit of colour.
Had your old car in yesterday, still pulling like a train.
Miss her?
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Aye and no, it's only when I hear the bikes and cars blatting down the coast road and I hanker after a bit of B road madness, was thinking about getting a older M3 and having a wee bit of fun with summit like that.
The thing I dont miss is the fuel bills
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Cars lookin sweeeeet as Andy
Just think you could be doing with a bit more BLUE in and on it
Best of luck with the season
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Missing this for Rockness this year
Me, my other half and the splitty will be going there to
then off round the heelands for a jolly jaunt for a week
Was wanting to go back to Download as this years line up looks a cracker, but the other half werent so keen
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Jodie, looking good lad
Are you going to get more on the backround or is that going to be as is?
Thinking more and more about getting a sleeve done, just cant decide on what to go for!!
Chap at work got his first the other day, was the oldschool transformers symbol/mask on his arm
each to their own I suppose
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I think he got a VW camper van didn't he? Or was it one of those replica thingies
Pppppfft, It's deffo Not a replica I'll have you know
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Sounds like a good idea lad
Only thing is I need to get the twin carbs sorted as it's still spitting and poping flames
The place in Aberdeen that was going to do it has run into a wee bit of a problem and had to close the doors.
So I'm kinda stuck at the moment.
To be honest, I dont want to be driving about with all the salt and cr&p thats on the road just now, had it waxoiled but dont want to temp fate. Its also a bit toooo cold to be driving about with no heaters!!!!!!!
Where about are you thinking about doing this lad?
Cheers
Steve
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Eye drops are better and you cant taste ANYTHING
Job done
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Like I say, headline facts always look good until you check them out.
They are still immensly scary cars though
and I thought that I had too much time on my hands
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Someone must of got a huge bonus for thinking up the Ad
Check out this lot too
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Why is comparing a Moto GP bike to a Top Fuel Dragster completely irrelevant?
Would it be better to compare it to a Touring Car so it looks even better for them Jade Goody grabbing headlines?
No, I don’t think that would be fair.
The comparison was to give a fair indication of the amount of acceleration involved and with the GP bikes going about the same speeds as the F1 cars (not around corners that is) but without the protection, also hints of the dangers involved to the drivers.
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Yep, absolutely fantastic figures, but how well does it get round the first corner (never mind the following twelve that make a track) - there is more to speed than straight lines.
I'm still trying to figure out your response to this, I mentioned in the title that it was for "Our 1/4 mile folk"
And if you have a wee look here
http://forums.sidc.co.uk/index.php?showtop...0&start=720
You can see that there is quite a few folk from here that do go on the 1/4 mile and therefore may be interested in this kind of stuff.
The figures quoted will do bu&&er all for getting you round a corner but thats not the point.
Yes, there is more to speed than straight lines but if you do go bloody fast in them then you have a better chance of being first dont you
Is there not some chap for the Edinburgh area that does these 1/4 mile thingys AND can do corners too
Stephen
Yep, hats off to them folks, big respect for what they got up to
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Thats just ACE
Always had a hankering for some of them old US big block cars
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Sir,
You realy are as mad as a fruit pastel stuck up a badgers nose
Cool car, not 100% on the body kit though but its yours to enjoy and I'm deffo sure that you will
I think you may need one of these to go with your banana hammock
http://www.filmfodder.com/reviews/archives/borat.jpg
that would be a sight for taking a set of spoons to your eye balls
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May take you up on that Iain
Its bee to bloody cold of late to do owt with it but will give you a heads up when I do plan to get it out
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Looks like its going to be a cracker there mate
Not 100% on the colours myself but I’m sure that once its finished it will blend a whole lot better
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Seen this on another forum and thought that it could be and interesting read for our 1/4 mile folk
LESSON IN ACCELERATION -
* One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows at the Indy. 500.
* Under full throttle, a Top Fuel dragster engine consumes 1 gallon of nitromethane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced.
* A stock Dodge 426 Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to drive the dragster's supercharger.
* With 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle.
* At the stoichiometric 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitromethane the flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F, 3800 degrees C.
* Nitromethane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapour by the searing exhaust gases.
* Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.
* Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After ½ way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting off the fuel flow.
* If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with sufficient force to blow the cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half.
* In order to exceed 300 mph in 4.5 seconds dragsters must accelerate at an average of over 4G's. In order to reach 200 mph well before half-track, the launch acceleration approaches 8G's.
* Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have completed reading this sentence.
* Top Fuel Engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light!
* Including the burnout the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load.
* The red-line is actually quite high at 9500 rpm.
* The Bottom Line; Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimated $1,000.00 per second. The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.441 seconds for the quarter mile (10/05/03, Tony Schumacher). The top speed record is 333.00 mph (533 km/h) as measured over the last 66' of the run, (09/28/03 Doug Kalitta).
If that hasn't made you think enough, let's put all of this into perspective:
You are riding the average $250,000 Honda MotoGP bike - a seriously fast machine. Over a mile up the road, a Top Fuel dragster is staged and ready to launch down a quarter mile strip as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the RC211V hard up through the gears and blast across the starting line and past the dragster at an honest 200 mph (293 ft/sec). The 'tree' goes green for both of you at that moment. The dragster launches and starts after you. You keep your wrist cranked hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums and within 3 seconds the dragster catches and passes you. He beats you to the finish line, a quarter mile away from where you just passed him.
Think about it, from the standing start, the dragster had a 200mph disadvantage, and not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320 foot long drag strip.
Now tell me the straight line racing is boring!
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hi m8 i sometimes re drive some of the stages in my head that i drove 25years ago
was walking in davilia forest one day with wifeand told her every corner as before we came up to it the humps the camber everything about it
then she said pity you dont remember our wedding aniversary or birthdays soo good
cheers geo
Thats ace
Funny how we just remember the important stuff
Old Skool American Metal
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No need to like the old cars old bean, just appreciate the pics, craftsmanship, time and effort that’s went into them