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    Vipers and Marriage

    Gerald, I asked mine the same thing.. and they said they would.. but I could see the doubt in their eyes, that they just didn't want to admit it to themselves. I know they've loved it and had a good time and all, but I think they've reached the end and realised there was a lot they missed out...
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    Vipers and Marriage

    Excellent.. thanks Chuck, I'll look to you for the "forward investigation". Hey, if I'm ever older than ya, I'll give you the heads up too :)
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    QUERY FOR PROPELLER HEADS - Driveline Loss - What If?

    Remember that on a dyno that holds the engine speed constant (by applying a braking force), the driveline is not *accelerating* and is therefore NOT absorbing power in the form of rotational energy. Frictional losses, though, still exist. It is *possible* to *approximate* the losses through...
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    QUERY FOR PROPELLER HEADS - Driveline Loss - What If?

    Hmm.. will it be a constant percentage.. I'm gonna have to get the old pen and paper out tomorrow morning. One last note. You would be surprised the HUGE amount of energy that can be stored in a rotating assembly.. 50-75 pounds of shafts and gears in the tranny, driveshaft ain't light, diff...
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    QUERY FOR PROPELLER HEADS - Driveline Loss - What If?

    Also, just a little "rule of thumb" you sometimes see in mech eng texts.. gear, belt and chain drives are REALLY efficient (well over 95%) at transmitting torque without producing heat. Heat is not where most of it is going. If you think you are losing 100hp in frictional heat, you aren't. That...
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    QUERY FOR PROPELLER HEADS - Driveline Loss - What If?

    Ben, little correction here I think (but it's 3:30am here so I could be speaking out of my a$$, will have to check in the morning - the text, not my a$$). Anyway. "It is constant for a given speed change (e.g. 60 - 150 MPH on the dyno) on a given car" The amount of energy stored is constant...
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    Vipers and Marriage

    Gotcha. Would 45 or an even bigger number be better? I'm 25 and I'm doin' my best :) Hopefully have a red RT10 on the road by 26 and I should be doin' other people's best too :) I'd already worked this one out myself, but positive reinforcement is always a good thing :)
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    Quad cams?

    I'm assuming the single cam is broken neatly into 4 pieces.
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    Front Plate hassle. Too funny!

    Heh heh great story! I'm not looking forward to the number of times I will get pulled over when I get a Viper on Australian roads. Sure, there will be a proportion of them that will just want to have a look and can be gotten rid of by humouring them a bit... but I know there will be a large...
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    QUERY FOR PROPELLER HEADS - Driveline Loss - What If?

    Heh heh, if it was fixed at 50hp, the Mustang would go backwards ;)
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    Viper vs Ford GT

    Heh heh sounds like the Supra "but I could get 2 for Viper money argument"... just kidding :) Seriously though, when I saw it at the NY show last year, it was nice.. real nice. Really looked exotic with the lift off back and 2 seats. Worth 150k though? No. Better than a Gen2 (I'm not a...
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    QUERY FOR PROPELLER HEADS - Driveline Loss - What If?

    The part that is the percentage is the inertial losses, which I would estimate to be a large portion of the loss. Think about it. If you are losing 100hp in your drivetrain, and most of that was going as heat, that is a HELL of a lot of heat. Your tranny would glow red and melt within a minute...
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    Mercedes SLR Mclaren - styled after the Viper?

    Mercedes make a lot of cars at not too bad prices for their (rated) power: E55AMG 469hp@6100 5.5L V8 Supercharged Intercooled $77k S55AMG 493hp@6100 5.5L V8 Supercharged Intercooled $107k S600 493hp@5000 5.5L V12 Twin Turbo $121k SL55AMG 493@6100 5.5L V8 Supercharged Intercooled $114k...
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    TERRIBLE NEWS - PAUL MUMFORD - PLANE CRASH?

    #23 has another legend now. I couldn't find the series anywhere on Australian TV, so I was trying to figure out if I could put in a dish and pick it up off a west coast satellite somehow. I enjoyed reading about Paul's racing so much. Privateer, Viper, rookie year, used to race bikes and a great...
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    Twin turbo Ferrari 512TR

    Yep Nexus, I read it often. Some of it is a bit scary.. like where they have a shot at the welding etc. I'm reading it thinking "that sounds like my welding and I wouldn't fly in a rocket I welded together"... So you know him?
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    Ultimate street car update

    Juan, you make a good point. Take a stock Gen1 or Vette, and treat it to a few items purely for looks. For performance, ONLY add super sticky tyres and some good brakes. This car, with a top notch driver, could take out or be at least close to the top in nearly every category. Price: close to a...
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    Cash discount?

    Heh heh so no job? Dangit... "Will Zaino for room and board" ;)
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    Ultimate street car update

    I just don't get trash talking like that, PC. Who gives a damn what the badge on the hood says.. the fact is, two guys have both spent heaps of time, love, hard earned $ and lost some hair stressing over their cars. These 2 guys are pretty much the same guy, right? But because one has a...
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    Cash discount?

    SRT... I was just gettin' at ya a bit when I said the bit about tax minimization heh heh. Of course we all do.. but my point is.. the gov determines your fair share, and minimizing is you (and I) determining our own rate.. and I guess some people determine that to be 0.01%? Now you and I do pay...
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    Ultimate street car update

    Haha when my buddies and I go to the track, and we see some hack in a ricer drop his engine out the bottom of his car, we have a name for it, and it's not a very nice one. Especially for something as stupid as lateral loading causing air suckin in a car designed for road course work. But then...
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    Lift kit for going over speed bumps/inclines

    Ahh thanks.. somehow I missed your post!
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    Cash discount?

    Man, believe me.. Uncle Sam don't bend over for noone!!
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    Lift kit for going over speed bumps/inclines

    Anyone got any pics of this? Sounds like a good idea for my Lexus... I know. "Hi, my name's Miles and I have a lowered Japanese car. I acknowledge I have a problem". But apart from that it's tasteful! (denial is sweet)
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    Cash discount?

    Oh, and another thing. I'm all for paying your tax to the US if you are planning on coming back for retirement - I get your point there and totally agree. But the IRS has rules for that too. If you show up and say "Hi, I'm 65 and I'd like my Social Security cheque now please", they tell you...
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    Cash discount?

    But I have moved out of the US, and am not moving back. Why should I shoulder the burden of the poor there? Why should I build American infrastructure I don't use? Yes, I would get credit for tax paid here. But get this. Over here, the government changed the way it collects taxes. We got a...

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