probably the same reason I get modded to oblivion for mentioning any negative experience with micro$oft, one man's 'interesting' is another shills 'flamebait'
not surprised if I get modded flamebait for this. truth hurts.
oh good gawd, my eyes are now bleeding. they just need to add a large vacuum pump hooked up to those skirts and they could clean the debris off the roads while they drive. there are a couple of those around here but nowhere near as extreme, one is for a DJ hire company just north of Auckland.
Well, I wouldn't. Furthermore, I wonder how 4k rpm is not revving.
4k doesn't meet the definition of 'insanely high RPM' I would consider that anything over about 5k5rpm. so what is your definition of a small engined car then?
Well, since to you 'ringing the crap out of it' seems to start somewhere above 4k rpm, I'm inclined to believe that either the road didn't have much traction, or you were in fact ringing the crap out of it.
It was the current owner who demonstrated that to me... needless to say I didn't buy it after that:) he would've been under 4krpm (I've got a good ear for rpm and that model mini had no tacho, and on a cobblestone street. the mini's only have 10" wheels which probably helps. less torque required to spin up small wheels with the gearing they have.
also, if you pull the headrest out of your seat, the metal spikes which mount it are pretty good for busting a car window, same with holding the seatbelt latch in your hand and striking the window with a corner of it. assuming you have enough seatbelt movement to get a bit of a swing in. yes those window hammers do usually have a belt cutting blade attached. I just wonder where is the best place to keep one of these in your car, in the event of a accident it it likely to be hurled around the car and difficult to find, you really want to rubber band it to your seatbelt receiver.
With some practice, you can time the gas and the clutch just right so that the wheels will lose traction ("spin") when starting yet the engine doesn't go to insanely high RPM ("revving").
That does not work with lower-hp engines. Please find out at what revs you get the highest torque out of common gasoline engines.
I drive a 1500cc proton saga, I can do exactly this without going above 4k rpm. would you consider 1500cc to be 'lower-hp' because I would.
And this can even be done with a very modest engine
No.
yes, back in the 90's when looking for my first cheap car, I test drove an old 850cc mini, that could spin up the tires on the flat in the dry without ringing the crap out of it
all that's needed is mastership of the pedals...
...and the way you keep talking about "mastership of the pedals" makes me suspect that this is a skill you very recently acquired. Otherwise you would kind of realize it's no big deal, and fairly easy to master.
some people go their whole lives never mastering the manual transmission, it's an important skill to learn which I think is why the poster brought it up.
Me too, it's not quite like this in New Zealand yet, but it's very close, when I got my license there was no restriction on what you could drive, now-a-days if you sit your licence in an automatic, you're only allowed to drive automatics so I've been told.
that is when you swerve wildly and when the kid falls out you yell 'Darwinisim!' it's almost guaranteed that the kid will never do that again... for obvious reasons.
Once a new technology is made available to the public, people tend to hack it and tweak it to purposes that were not thought possible till then.
Like the time I was using IBM ImageUltra and needed to set up a dual boot image, IBM said it couldn't be done... 5 minutes inserting a hook into the right batch file on the boot disk and a bit of grub4dos scripting and I had a functioning dual boot ImageUltra setup.
weird... I saw a large gull attempting to eat a roadkilled minor bird... it kept trying to swallow it hole but couldn't, would gag it up then try again, all while another minor bird watched...
some guy in NZ was going for certification of the worlds first turbo diesel airplane some years ago, cant find a citation at the moment, last I heard he was nearing the end of his flight time trials. also, Cessna offer a turbo diesel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_diesel_engine
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they're actually quite hard to puncture, did you do high school biology? even in a socket they just smoosh to one side most of the time.
probably the same reason I get modded to oblivion for mentioning any negative experience with micro$oft, one man's 'interesting' is another shills 'flamebait' not surprised if I get modded flamebait for this. truth hurts.
Is there a point where senility takes precedence over the right to own a gun?
oh good gawd, my eyes are now bleeding. they just need to add a large vacuum pump hooked up to those skirts and they could clean the debris off the roads while they drive. there are a couple of those around here but nowhere near as extreme, one is for a DJ hire company just north of Auckland.
Well, I wouldn't. Furthermore, I wonder how 4k rpm is not revving.
4k doesn't meet the definition of 'insanely high RPM' I would consider that anything over about 5k5rpm. so what is your definition of a small engined car then?
Well, since to you 'ringing the crap out of it' seems to start somewhere above 4k rpm, I'm inclined to believe that either the road didn't have much traction, or you were in fact ringing the crap out of it.
It was the current owner who demonstrated that to me... needless to say I didn't buy it after that :) he would've been under 4krpm (I've got a good ear for rpm and that model mini had no tacho, and on a cobblestone street. the mini's only have 10" wheels which probably helps. less torque required to spin up small wheels with the gearing they have.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheDrivingDogs the funny thing is the dogs are better drivers than some of the humans here.
maybe you should have driven a car with DOORS then. I'm pleased to say I've never had an arrow in the knee, I always drive with doors.
also, if you pull the headrest out of your seat, the metal spikes which mount it are pretty good for busting a car window, same with holding the seatbelt latch in your hand and striking the window with a corner of it. assuming you have enough seatbelt movement to get a bit of a swing in. yes those window hammers do usually have a belt cutting blade attached. I just wonder where is the best place to keep one of these in your car, in the event of a accident it it likely to be hurled around the car and difficult to find, you really want to rubber band it to your seatbelt receiver.
That's funny, a fair few of the kids over here like putting rotary engines and couches in their mini-vans. like a lounge that can do burnouts.
With some practice, you can time the gas and the clutch just right so that the wheels will lose traction ("spin") when starting yet the engine doesn't go to insanely high RPM ("revving").
That does not work with lower-hp engines. Please find out at what revs you get the highest torque out of common gasoline engines.
I drive a 1500cc proton saga, I can do exactly this without going above 4k rpm. would you consider 1500cc to be 'lower-hp' because I would.
And this can even be done with a very modest engine
No.
yes, back in the 90's when looking for my first cheap car, I test drove an old 850cc mini, that could spin up the tires on the flat in the dry without ringing the crap out of it
all that's needed is mastership of the pedals...
...and the way you keep talking about "mastership of the pedals" makes me suspect that this is a skill you very recently acquired. Otherwise you would kind of realize it's no big deal, and fairly easy to master.
some people go their whole lives never mastering the manual transmission, it's an important skill to learn which I think is why the poster brought it up.
Me too, it's not quite like this in New Zealand yet, but it's very close, when I got my license there was no restriction on what you could drive, now-a-days if you sit your licence in an automatic, you're only allowed to drive automatics so I've been told.
that is when you swerve wildly and when the kid falls out you yell 'Darwinisim!' it's almost guaranteed that the kid will never do that again... for obvious reasons.
yeah, it's a bit obscure but I think the basics are you can use a common power rail without leakage to adjacent memory cells.
Once a new technology is made available to the public, people tend to hack it and tweak it to purposes that were not thought possible till then.
Like the time I was using IBM ImageUltra and needed to set up a dual boot image, IBM said it couldn't be done... 5 minutes inserting a hook into the right batch file on the boot disk and a bit of grub4dos scripting and I had a functioning dual boot ImageUltra setup.
Let me leave this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode_memory
Please note - Tin cans are actually made of steel, not tin... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_can
I think the solution to that is to not live any longer.
Close, that would be 'angel dust' and just think of all the poor angels who will be murdered for their dust just to feed to unicorns.
my double bad... I was referring to the request to mod up that comment.
my bad, you're correct.
funny, that's the same thing I saw when advertisers were telling me to get HD TV... never could tell the difference from their ads on my old CRT.
weird... I saw a large gull attempting to eat a roadkilled minor bird... it kept trying to swallow it hole but couldn't, would gag it up then try again, all while another minor bird watched...
some guy in NZ was going for certification of the worlds first turbo diesel airplane some years ago, cant find a citation at the moment, last I heard he was nearing the end of his flight time trials. also, Cessna offer a turbo diesel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_diesel_engine
Thank you, correct answer.
no, there's more than just 'muricans here.