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Just makes logical sense to me, that's all. I've got exactly 0 seconds of actual race seat time in my life. I watch F1 for the engineering aspect of it.

Harder to drive from a lack of grip but attached to a rocket aspect, yes. From a knowledge of how the car works when the radio breaks (like happened to Hamilton last year), these cars are much harder to drive. The physical demands on drivers now, I think, are much higher, and they have to do all the steering wheel settings.

 

80s and 90s just needed balls and natural feel. Now you still need balls, but you need some technical know how, plus a bit of feel, plus extreme physical fitness.

 

Edit: Also, didn't Grosjean spin off in Hungary last year on the formation lap? The year before?

You never really knew how anyone would screw up - and with less in-car driver support it was harder to drive then.

 

Eh, maybe from a technical standpoint, it was harder. But cars in the 80s and 90s weren't doing 6g in the turns and 5g braking, all while the driver is changing 30+ settings on the steering wheel. I'd say cars now are harder to drive.

 

It's not like the 80s and 90s cars had telemetry to the pits like they do now, either, so what would the pits tell the drivers? Maybe they got basic telemetry but...

Someone mentioned during the race that Mercedes (I guess all teams do, probably) tracks pit windows based on all variables but VSC was probably so unlikely, they didn't pay attention to it much.

Slo-mo showed the front guy putting his gun down though... might have been grabbing for his back up. Either way, terrible luck.

 

Bad luck for Hamilton but I'm glad Ferrari got the 1-3 finish. I doubt that VSC/pit lane rule will survive the end of the season.

One more hicksta....

 

The clip that holds the clutch fork tight to the pivot ball, I am pretty sure I installed it backwards. How could I fix that you may ask? Well, I JUST have to seperate the trans from the engine. That's all

Fortunately, the fork stays in place fine. Just rattles a bit under high load and low rpm.

 

That could be from a lightweight flywheel or even the WRX singlemass. The dual mass flywheel damps that noise.

Considering how hot a flywheel can get, it could degrade the locktite to the point where it doesn't work anymore.

 

I happened to use blue on mine but how well that works, who knows.

Fuel line recall?

My car is low enough that visual inspection isn't possible. They still walk around it with the mirror but there's no way they're going to see that the only cat is vertical, in front of the firewall. I doubt even if I had the stock downpipe on there that they could see the rear cat.

 

I pass e-check because it's the OBD2 scan and the AP sets all the readiness codes. Technically illegal, but meh.

Just don't go WOT in 5th gear at 40mph and you won't get overboost or wastegate duty cycle CEL codes. I see it all the time on the NEOSOC FB page because a bunch of kids on there don't know how turbo cars work and don't care to, they just know they're "fast."

What does catted or catless have anything to do with the AP? Catless should be cheaper anyway if budget's the limiting factor although it's recommended to use a catted one to control overboost and it doesn't offer any power gains to go catless.

No pulls needed.

 

1. Connect the two green connectors in the front passenger footwell. Look up under the glove box by the firewall.
   
2. Car off, key in the ignition, plug in the Accessport.
   
3. Turn car on but don't start it, navigate AP menus
   
4. Marry the AP to the car. It'll download the stock tune to the AP and then you can flash a new tune to the car.
   
5. Flash the new tune. DO NOT START THE CAR, TURN THE CAR OFF, DISCONNECT AP, MOVE, OR BREATHE WHILE IT'S DOING THIS. You'll brick the ECU.
   
6. Once its done, turn the car off, key out of the ignition.
   
7. Disconnect the green connectors, stash them up and away.
   
8. Key in the ignition, turn car on but don't start it. Let it sit for 30 seconds or so.
   
9. Start the car. It'll stumble a lot at first but let it idle for a couple minutes.
   
10. Drive the car. If it's a manual, it'll feel like it wants to stall in between shifts until you drive it for a little bit and it re-learns the fueling parameters. Automatic should drive just normal.
    

 

Done.

The Accessport can log whatever you want... it loses resolution if you try to log more than 10 things at once but that's an OBD2 limitation I think. The live gauges are nice (AP2 only does one at a time, OP3 can do six) for watching real time data.

I've had the generic Cobb stage 2 tune on my car for 65k miles without an issue. There's nothing wrong with them other than they run a hair rich which is safer than lean on these cars.

 

An Accessport is the easiest way to get an e-tune onto these cars unless you're good with the alternative (romraider?) and have a laptop with appropriate OBD2 cable.

I went to the 2004 Indy race and sat about 20 rows up from where Ralf hit the wall coming on to the main straight.

 

I then suffered through a 13 year drought until I went to Austin 2017. I've talked my fiance into going with me to Montreal to see the Canadian GP sometime in the next couple years, as long as we make a week out of it and do some stuff she wants to do.

 

My brother and I went and even though he's not a fan, he agreed turn 7 is a cool place to watch that's generally devoid of other people, and you can watch them do 8 and 9 as well. I liked sitting on the hill between 18 and 19 too.

Always an odd number, never even. Design 101.

 

I wish my fiance understood that when buying plants for the flower beds.

Could this be the end of the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders ?

 

Sad, how are those girls going to earn a living now...

 

I don't understand. As a Browns fan, we've never had cheerleaders. Hell, we haven't had a logo since I can remember.

When I went to the race in Austin, I never saw them and honestly, I usually DVR the taxes and fast forward through the pre-race anyway. No loss for me.

http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/11230563/grid-girls-will-not-feature-in-formula-1-from-2018-season

 

Grid girls officially done for 2018 season.

Saw that. Seems like he was an Adrian Newey from 30-40 years ago... way before I got into cars and racing.

 

'bout 2 months until F1 starts back up again, no? When's the first test session with the 2018 cars?

I guess it depends on the size of the animal. I've seen prettified rats under cabinets on all kinds of home improvement shows without millions of maggots. I imagine a raccoon or something getting into your attic in the summer is a different story.

Curious how a dead animal ran $7,200

Of course... just would've been nice to know these things. I only picture homeowners covering things like trees falling on my roof and fires.

Not a joke. Most states have a limited fungus/rot endorsement form. HO 0475 is the form in CT... HO 0431 in other states, etc.

 

Would've been nice to know before I dumped $3000 on mold abatement in my basement.

I'm not saying that Renting is better than ownership, just that ownership isn't an "investment". You generally don't get to keep the money you "make". As in, it doesn't generally pay for anything.

 

My point is you hear people say things like "I really want to sell my house because it's gained so much value!"

 

Great. Now what? Oh right, you need to buy another house. It's not an investment. It's just a better use of money than rent in most markets.

 

Except I could sell my house, recoup the $20k gift of equity, $35k increased value, and $15k I've paid on the mortgage. Sitting on $70k, I'd pay off my ~$32k remaining student loans. I could then get an apartment instead of a house, and while that would cost me more per month in rent compared to a mortgage, it wouldn't tap out or wreck my budget. The only downside to that would be, like I said, I'd be flushing $1500/mo down the toilet for a roof over my head (instead of dumping it into a saving's account of sorts) and that because the rent is higher than a mortgage, I couldn't grow my rainy day savings as fast.

 

Or sell when the housing market is good, sit in an apartment and wait for the next crash, and buy in at the bottom again... you know... like when you invest in stocks to make money. Buy low, sell high.

 

To each their own, but seriously, compare the cost of renting versus the cost of a mortgage. They intersect after 20-30 years depending on house cost and interest rates and rent, where apartments are "cheaper" for the first 20-30 years and after that, a house is cheaper. Are you in it for long term or short term?