No spool. It's a torsen. So under braking the fronts lock together. Which means if you try and turn at all under braking it swaps ends.

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Maybe I'm missing something, but this would seem to be an undesirable performance characteristic in a race car. And also a lot more weight and complexity than is necessary.

I am nearly as puzzled by this rather unusual arrangement of the electrical service entrance into a medium-sized apartment building I drove past earlier today. I had plenty of time to take pictures, as owing to the gay parade it took me over an hour to travel what is nominally 2.5 miles.


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Our Club did a day run to Jasper, AB yesterday (about 1,000 km, round-trip). Beautiful weather, no interactions with the local constabulary and some of the prettiest sights in North America. First, we saw this:

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Sunwapta Falls


Then this:

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Lake Annette


And finally, this:

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Gassing-up in Jasper


Even though it was close to the longest day of the summer, we still travelled the last few hundred km in the dusk/dark. It was then that I almost collided with a humungous deer at highway speeds. It would have been an unwelcome sequel to the event, about fifteen years ago, that sparked my forum name.

Well it's less weight because no rotors and calipers in the wheels. It was the first car palatov built, and he hasn't used that design since, if that tells you anything about it.

Something tells me it'd be pretty easy to screw up service to those apartments for a while.

:party:I get that there's less un-spring weight, but I have a hard time believing that a torsen and a pair of axles weighs less than a second caliper and rotor overall, especially as the center rotor & caliper would have to be twice as big as a pair of outboards.


And yeah, that does tell me something about it. :giggle:


I found this lying around the engineering offices at my station today:

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While I admit that some of our infrastructure technology is a bit old (we still use 10b-2 ethernet in some places, for instance), I'm pretty sure there are no C-64s.

Presumably the working theory was that making it AWD would be worth the weight.

I dunno if it was built for a particular class or not, but if so then it's got a minimum weight anyway.

--Ian

Some photos from the Aidan-drives-electric-sports-racer event today:

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There was one guy there with an EV Miata conversion. Aside from the complete drivetrain replacement, the car looked mostly stock. Even had a carpool lane EV sticker!

https://photos.smugmug.com/Cars/REFU...P7A8344-X2.jpg

The freakiest thing about this event was the lack of noise from the EVs.


--Ian

Other shots here:

REFUEL 2017 - codrus

--Ian

I specifically chose a neighborhood with buried power lines. I seriously get angry with a i see power lines and poles. such a legacy failure-prone approach.

I hiked out to Tonquin Valley Lodge a while back. Great trip. Gorgeous areas. There were even glaciers there back then.

I even canoed a bit on Amethyst Lake. Amazeballs.

pretty much anytime i hear a cover of a song i like:

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:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

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hey gays:

not a sandwich shop
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gun control.

Now there is a politician who sounds like a politician...

Totally serious question: What does that have to do with gun control? All I see is some asshole attacking a business owner and her daughter with her fists.

I am confuse.

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I know most of you dislike drifting. But this miata here in Iceland is a serious machine. BMW M60B40 And a Precision 6766


And a friend and coworker with his ls2 IS200 wagon and a lot of custom work in drivetrain, suspension and subframes

Seems obvious- if everyone in this situation would have been carrying a gun, the disagreement would have been put aside with polite words and without any violence, because everybody would have been afraid to escalate.

Do not get in the way of a man and his fried chicken.

If the chickens had guns, none of this would have started in the first place.

everything is about gun control:



because gun control will end crime. also jails are racist. and jihad.

I'm not sure how a gun would have helped the guy that was clean knocked out (from behind) and is now in critical condition in the hospital.

so happy to be alive today.



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And people say this generation is the worst... What did my parents have for television? M.A.S.H? pfft.

Speaking only for myself, I tend not to pay much attention to other people's penises.



Three times as long as the actual war, and nearly twice as funny!

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Tanks and coffee?

Didn't know they made Mustang tanks:rofl:

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I would've chosen an 8.8 myself, but I'm biased.

Photos from East Germany in the 1970s and 80s.


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Yesterday I saw a Ladder Truck deploy on a call to a restaurant.

The name of the restaurant is "Matchbox."

Wow...

That's an amazing sound.

That's also an amazing amount of complexity for 65 HP. Pistons smaller than Hustler's dick, more moving parts than Hustler's Mom's vibrator... I mean, who doesn't want a bike that has 94 gears and is incapable of idling?

Did it win? It's a race bike, right? That's all that matters. :)

--Ian

... and the other shoe has dropped. Core-X is on the market, and goodbye AMD, yet again.

Knock, knock.

Who's there?

10 cores, with the highest GFLOP-per-TDP and GFLOP-per-$ available.


AMD:

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Intel:

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I have always liked the simplicity and torque of a thumper. I have owned twins and fours, and they do make more and smoother power, but I keep going back to the single. You can get them cheap and they are really easy to work on.
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I mean, I totally get what that bike was about. It conformed to the rules for a particular class, and nuked the competition back to the stone age. But for crying out loud, I pity the customers who actually bought into the homologated street-version of it...

And yeah, in terms of raw production numbers, the two cylinder engine in the Honda Rebel / Nighthawk is by far the winner in the 250cc class, at least in the US. I assume there is some automatic step-through that wins the overall 250 category worldwide because China / India / etc, but again, I'll guarantee you it's a twin.

Bummer the new Intel Sky Lake and Kaby Lake CPUs have a hyper-threading flaw, but motherboard BIOS updates should fix the issue even though the probability of encountering it is low.

https://www.extremetech.com/computin...y-lake-skylake

OMG MY HERO:

A few minutes of distraction can be found at this A.I. inspirational poster generator:

InspiroBot


These gems came from there:


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