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Draco-REX

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  1. Honestly, I think that if Metal was around back then, some of these composers would have written metal songs.. There are some really dark and "brutal" classical works. EDIT: whoops, wrong link
  2. I need to start a website called YouChain... So we have the Mortal Kombat piano cover to Mortal Kombat A Capella to Daft Punk A Capella to Daft Bodies to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG5EsSLSXP8&NR=1
  3. Why? Did an update furbar something? I have to wonder about the GTR in GT5PL. Either Sony's emulation of it sucks, or the magazines that have been singing its praises are lying. IT's so unstable and unpredictable in turns. It'll just randomly bounce between understeer and oversteer...
  4. I've got another commercial that should be taken off the air, the copies burned, and the people in it shot.. Ethamax http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJmcJnBBNng&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa6VxGoa0_c&feature=related What a freakin tool they cast as the spokesman. Is he famous? I don't know. But whenever I see his drugged-out, droopy-eyed face on TV I have this irrational urge to hit him with a breaker bar. He makes the product sound like it's for erectile disfunction. When I first saw it, I thought it was a joke! Really, the commercial, and him in particular, makes me want to stay as far away from this stuff as possible. (not that I'd ever put f'n snake oil in my cars...)
  5. Mortal Kombat... A Capela..
  6. THAT on the other hand is just plain cool.
  7. First time I saw that commercial I was extecting him to shout out "Can You Dig It?" If you want a good chuckle, read the fine print at the bottom of the screen. It basicly says "If you mod your car like this, you can go pound sand on any warranty work."
  8. You know, someone really needs to set a standard for timin on the 'Ring. I mean, I could beat that time too if I set the start and finish at different spots on the track. If you check the time on the vdeo, he does it in 7:25. Also, what mods are allowed for setting these times? Are race slicks allowed? What about suspension mods? That viper was low enough to scrape the ground multiple times. Until there's a standard for these claims, I'll just shrug. It's obvous that right now a fast lap around the 'Ring is a good number from a sales perspective, so it's wide open to being manipulated.
  9. True, maybe it's different with a carb setup. But usually the water is sprayed fine enough that it's pretty much evaporated before it hits the cylinders.
  10. Same issues.. Even moreso with water since it won't evaporate as quickly as Meth. That's what water injection is supposed to do. You inject it into the HOT air after the compressor so that it evaporates and brings the air temp down (potentially below ambient.) If you inject it into the low pressure area before the turbo, the air will actually be cooler and therefore the water will be less likely to evap. If he's done this before, I guess he knows something I don't.. But from what I'm seeing, and what I know about this stuff, the compressor will just get soaked down. And it will probably go through bearings like crazy as the water drips down onto the impeller shaft.
  11. Draco-REX

    I Lold

    http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x259/alastair_hm/facepalmbq8dj7.jpg
  12. Before the snail? Seems like the impeller will just centrifuge the meth out of the air. I really think it's supposed to be injected AFTER the compressor. If you have trouble tuning it, check to see if you're just coating the walls of the intake pipe. Part of the benefit of meth is that it will cool the intake charge, so it should be injected after the air is compressed (and therefore heated up.) But he's not going balls-out all the time on the street. A drag car does short bursts. A lot of faster drag cars don't even run radiators, and they don't have the benefit of airflow you get from street driving. Don't get me wrong, that's a cool idea for fitting more radiator in there. But I think it's overkill for a drag car and he could shed some weight from the nose if he ran with just the forward facing half. Oh, and because this is CR, I should inform you. If you put a red foam airfilter on that thing for the street, it's gonna look like a clown nose.
  13. Run, so I don't get sucked onto the grill of that thing.. Seriously though, are those nitrous nozzles on the turbo? And does he REALLY need that much radiator on a DRAG car?
  14. Not enough information. Do these better leagues play in the same fields? If not, can the parent get him to the fields they do play? If there is a fee to play, can they afford it? Can he join that league this far into the season; or will he be stuck not playing for the rest of the year? Will he really be able to compete in the better league with his 40mph fastball, or would that be too slow? Really it's like being bumped out of your class because you're too good a driver. What's wrong with driving in a Modified class if your car is supposed to be in a street class? Plenty. If this were an adult league, he'd be cheered for excelling. Instead, he's being penalized and basicly taught that you shouldn't try to be better. They're telling him that he should be Average and that it's WRONG to try and improve himself.
  15. Unfortunately, quads and high CG trucks won't pass tech if he wants to run the upcoming RallyX.
  16. +1, or to put it in more acceptable terms: A better player makes everyone else play better.
  17. Better Engine (and bigger in Thorne's case) Bigger Turbo Bigger TMIC Better Transmission (durability, strength, gearing) Better Center diff (Driver Controlled Lock-up) LSD Front Diff (WRX and STI both have LSD rear diffs) Stronger Hubs for 05+ (and 5x114.3 lug pattern) Better Struts Stiffer Springs Bigger Sways (same as Thorne's actually, but bigger than 04+ WRX) Wider Track (front and rear) Bigger Brakes HID Headlights Better Interior/HVAC for 05+ (02/03 Seats are better though ) Unlike, say, the WS6 or SS f-bodys, the STI is practicaly a whole different car from the trim level below it. When I first started seriously looking at Subarus back in late '03, I fell into the same line of thinking. I was amazed to find that the STI was so different, and then immediately fell in love with it. Thorne: Of the choices above, I say the STI. There is such a difference between the two that it's best to get the whole package if that's an option for you. With just a downpipe and tune on an 05 or 06 STI, you'll be roughly where you are now with your current car, plus all the other goodies that come with it.
  18. http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/8488564/9-year-old-barred-for-pitching-too-well?MSNHPHCP&GT1=39002 Yay for whiners and people who can't handle someone being better than them at something.. This really burns me. I'm sick of this opinion going around that if you're better than average at something you should be ashamed of it. THIS is where a national sports organization should be ready to step in and slap some people around. Too bad such an organization would be too busy doing just this sort of thing in the misguided concept that mediocrity makes good sports....
  19. Great, now I'm going to have to have a sticker made that says: I was Rally before FnF4 made it "cool"
  20. Draco-REX

    Beer Me!

    I don't drink, so you could have mine. http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m210/billandsusan_2006/DeadGuy.jpg I had plenty when I was young: http://tommcmahon.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/01/blatzbeer2.gif
  21. Boost alone isn't enough to guage how knock prone it should be.. In an STI, 9-10psi wouldn't be an issue at all for 87octane because the compression is 8.2:1 or so. But if his engine is already at 10:1 compression, 9-10 psi would definately need 93+.
  22. I don't know how sensitive the knock sensor is on your car. But a friend of mine was having a lot of timing pulled on his subaru, and a good portion of the knock that was being detected turned out to be a loose heatshield on his exhaust. Another guy was having knock issues and it turned out to be a bolt a mechanic dropped that was sitting on top of the knock sensor.. Just a couple random thoughts if the 94 doesn't solve the issue.
  23. I think I'm the only guy on the planet that thinks Borlas sound like ASS. Now the Random Tech... I think that sounded better than any mustang.
  24. I had a Random Technology catback on my T/A and LOVED the sound.
  25. If we're talking about the funciton of octane, then you're close. He was just asking if there was a difference. Octane is an actual molecule. It's very stable (doens't burn easily). The Octane rating of a fuel is a way to judge how much of that molecule is in a specific volume of the fuel. THe point of it is to make the fuel more stable. During the compression stroke in an engine the air/fuel mixture heats up. Couple this heating with the temperature of the cylinder itself and there's a risk the fuel will prematurely detonate. This uncontrolled detonation is bad for a gasoline engine. One way to combat this (and maintain the timing and AFR you want) is to use a more stable fuel (i.e. higher octane). Now when you boost an engine, you're increasing those pressures drasticly. This, obviously, increases the chance of detonation. So higher octane fuel is even more important for forced induction applications. WHereas most N/A applications that are tuned for low octane fuel wont' see a benefit from higher octane (and can sometimes run *worse*). Forced induction engines can always benefit from high octane. So ultimately, if you have a turbocharged or supercharged engine you want the highest pump octane you can get. (Custom applications of both forced induction and normal aspiration can require stupidly high octane, hence race fuel.)
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