Re: What happened here
Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2020 8:56 pm
Petrol is petrol. (Until you start adding ethanol... >_>) ^_^
Car looks really well planted - there doesn't look like it has much left to give considering how compressed the front is. I really do like a bit of body roll to help define tire grip limits. That's definitely a smooth progressive input to that corner - great photo / and photographer.
The long lateral G has always been a killer, early LS motors particularly. Fun class action lawsuit for GM selling a "race car" that couldn't deal with cornering without turning a bearing to golden glitter.
A lot of homemade baffle setups out there.
Similar for Honda motors that were designed to be mounted inversely. Have to account for the change in pickup geometry and baffling.
Older cheap car on slicks? I'd run some thicker oil and a half quart/quart too much. Assuming the gaskets were healthy worst case you lose 5%.
That pretty silver thing? Maybe go up a grade and swear off sticky tires if you're hitting a circle track. Otherwise I'd just drive the hell out of it and change fluids 2-3x as often. - fortunately you can fact check me with the bmw guys. ^_^
My indirect experience with accusumps hasn't been great. Concept is excellent, but motors still shred bearings when the time is right.
Comes down to the fact that at full load (on high hp builds) it takes all of 0.0000s to oops a bearing if you lose oil pressure. (Do the math on how long a bearing is loaded in a high hp 4 stroke motor spinning at 8k if you want to, I'm going with - margins aren't big. )
I'd definitely trust a standalone to kill timing and fuel before a low pressure switch actuated a pressurized reservoir.
I intend to actually run 2+ pressure sensors on the Supra when I get to it.
Along with coolant temp/pressure, and potentially 6 egts depending on risk/reward of having sensor elements fragment under normal daily driving.
Going from 2 projects to 0 projects really doesn't help planning.
"May as well grab billet caps and a full ARP set...."
Cheap insurance.
There's a "permaculture" trend here in the US that's having trouble main streaming. Oddly makes sense. Essentially works around the idea of improving your land to build towards self sufficiency while bettering the quality of the land itself.
Ie - pigs to clear brush and till soil creating pasture for cows and chickens. If you do dairy and can't deal with 10 gallons of milk a week you can feed the rest to the pigs, lol.
The chickens and pigs do the work to till the cattle manure into the gardens before planting. The ducks can eat all the slugs and beetles in the garden from time to time....
Likely seems normal there (I've got a stereotype in my head of ya'll aggressively working to do things that benefit the land and most things on it - not just because it makes sense...), but here it's looked at as pointless and old fashioned. (Due to modernization and growth of the corporate farm)
Unrelated - I still desperately want to visit and catch an eel with a sock.
Take that car forums. Oddball ramblings.
Car looks really well planted - there doesn't look like it has much left to give considering how compressed the front is. I really do like a bit of body roll to help define tire grip limits. That's definitely a smooth progressive input to that corner - great photo / and photographer.
The long lateral G has always been a killer, early LS motors particularly. Fun class action lawsuit for GM selling a "race car" that couldn't deal with cornering without turning a bearing to golden glitter.
A lot of homemade baffle setups out there.
Similar for Honda motors that were designed to be mounted inversely. Have to account for the change in pickup geometry and baffling.
Older cheap car on slicks? I'd run some thicker oil and a half quart/quart too much. Assuming the gaskets were healthy worst case you lose 5%.
That pretty silver thing? Maybe go up a grade and swear off sticky tires if you're hitting a circle track. Otherwise I'd just drive the hell out of it and change fluids 2-3x as often. - fortunately you can fact check me with the bmw guys. ^_^
My indirect experience with accusumps hasn't been great. Concept is excellent, but motors still shred bearings when the time is right.
Comes down to the fact that at full load (on high hp builds) it takes all of 0.0000s to oops a bearing if you lose oil pressure. (Do the math on how long a bearing is loaded in a high hp 4 stroke motor spinning at 8k if you want to, I'm going with - margins aren't big. )
I'd definitely trust a standalone to kill timing and fuel before a low pressure switch actuated a pressurized reservoir.
I intend to actually run 2+ pressure sensors on the Supra when I get to it.
Along with coolant temp/pressure, and potentially 6 egts depending on risk/reward of having sensor elements fragment under normal daily driving.
Going from 2 projects to 0 projects really doesn't help planning.
"May as well grab billet caps and a full ARP set...."
Cheap insurance.
There's a "permaculture" trend here in the US that's having trouble main streaming. Oddly makes sense. Essentially works around the idea of improving your land to build towards self sufficiency while bettering the quality of the land itself.
Ie - pigs to clear brush and till soil creating pasture for cows and chickens. If you do dairy and can't deal with 10 gallons of milk a week you can feed the rest to the pigs, lol.
The chickens and pigs do the work to till the cattle manure into the gardens before planting. The ducks can eat all the slugs and beetles in the garden from time to time....
Likely seems normal there (I've got a stereotype in my head of ya'll aggressively working to do things that benefit the land and most things on it - not just because it makes sense...), but here it's looked at as pointless and old fashioned. (Due to modernization and growth of the corporate farm)
Unrelated - I still desperately want to visit and catch an eel with a sock.
Take that car forums. Oddball ramblings.