The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Cam" Thread Vol II
Discussion
silentbrown said:
Then your rev limiter is set too high, or faulty.
(Old-school rev limiters were crude mechanical device built into the rotor arm which simply cuts the spark using centrifugal force and spring-loaded contacts. Anything half-modern has the rev limit built into the engine map, which is a lot 'softer' and more accurate. Still can't stop you buzzing the engine on due to bad shifts though...)
yep as in old school Fords , wow showing your age ! (I remember them too) Yes some engines have soft and some engines have hard limits , with soft limits being much kinder, what does the damage is the high rpm load/no load. (Old-school rev limiters were crude mechanical device built into the rotor arm which simply cuts the spark using centrifugal force and spring-loaded contacts. Anything half-modern has the rev limit built into the engine map, which is a lot 'softer' and more accurate. Still can't stop you buzzing the engine on due to bad shifts though...)
I'm not taking about simply clipping the limiter on a clumsy shift but holding it on the limiter or doing a burnout
xjay1337 said:
I've abused the f
k out of 3 cars and none of them have blown the engine and 2 of them have been heavily tuned.
(double stock horsepower in 1, +60 in another and plus 100 in the third).
On the other hand, miss a gearchange on a caterham and buzz the engine...k out of 3 cars and none of them have blown the engine and 2 of them have been heavily tuned.(double stock horsepower in 1, +60 in another and plus 100 in the third).
All the way to nurburgring f1 circuit for a race weekend dragging the car behind a slow motor caravan, for the driver to do that in the first race, first corner.
Smoke, oil, red flag, engine parts not where they're supposed to be.
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Ferrari video: the car is purposely continuously driven hard to reach the breaking point of the engine; a short video clip doesn't tell us if it took him two minutes, 20 minutes or 7 hours to achieve that. Also, the engine is under load shifting a tonne and a half or so of metal. Not exactly the same as opening the throttle on an engine with next to no load for a couple of seconds.
I heard the Ferrari explosion isn't half as bad as it looks, simply a water hose blowing off, no permanent damage to the engine
Ferrari video: the car is purposely continuously driven hard to reach the breaking point of the engine; a short video clip doesn't tell us if it took him two minutes, 20 minutes or 7 hours to achieve that. Also, the engine is under load shifting a tonne and a half or so of metal. Not exactly the same as opening the throttle on an engine with next to no load for a couple of seconds.
I heard the Ferrari explosion isn't half as bad as it looks, simply a water hose blowing off, no permanent damage to the engine
Byker28i said:
On the other hand, miss a gearchange on a caterham and buzz the engine...
All the way to nurburgring f1 circuit for a race weekend dragging the car behind a slow motor caravan, for the driver to do that in the first race, first corner.
Smoke, oil, red flag, engine parts not where they're supposed to be.
"That's motorsport" All the way to nurburgring f1 circuit for a race weekend dragging the car behind a slow motor caravan, for the driver to do that in the first race, first corner.
Smoke, oil, red flag, engine parts not where they're supposed to be.
The aftermath of some poor driving so not really caught on camera. I would be off
getting myself a Lottery ticket after walking away from this crash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=415XR5mye3E
getting myself a Lottery ticket after walking away from this crash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=415XR5mye3E
disastra98 said:
The aftermath of some poor driving so not really caught on camera. I would be off
getting myself a Lottery ticket after walking away from this crash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=415XR5mye3E
The driver must have been a schizophrenic. getting myself a Lottery ticket after walking away from this crash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=415XR5mye3E
it gets better.xjay1337 said:
Oh my god who is that total dhead.xRIEx said:
Byker28i said:
Second video:- rusty old engine on a stand, blows the instant it starts up - it was shagged before they even touched the throttle
Ferrari looked more like radiator hoses had burst. Terminal engine failure is usually visually unspectacular. Maybe a blue smoke and some steam, and a puddle of fluids under the car.
disastra98 said:
The aftermath of some poor driving so not really caught on camera. I would be off
getting myself a Lottery ticket after walking away from this crash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=415XR5mye3E
Probably saw a crowd of people on the side of the roadgetting myself a Lottery ticket after walking away from this crash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=415XR5mye3E
xjay1337 said:
So my comment which had the word fag and wimp in it gets removed by the mods for being homophobic, despite the fact it is used in the context of the definition of being weak, yet poofter is ok to say????WTF
(fag - official definition a junior pupil at a public school who does minor chores for a senior pupil. "a fag at school who has suffered a well-earned beating")
BigLion said:
So my comment which had the word fag and wimp in it gets removed by the mods for being homophobic, despite the fact it is used in the context of the definition of being weak, yet poofter is ok to say????
WTF
(fag - official definition a junior pupil at a public school who does minor chores for a senior pupil. "a fag at school who has suffered a well-earned beating")
That's the British definition which has now fallen almost completely out of use, you know perfectly well how your comment would have been read by almost everyone.WTF
(fag - official definition a junior pupil at a public school who does minor chores for a senior pupil. "a fag at school who has suffered a well-earned beating")
Not that the poofter comment is particularly acceptable either in the context it's used, but it's not widely considered as offensive as calling someone a fag.
Anyway, what we can all agree on is that the guy in this video is basically a massive cock, of the highest order.
This might have been posted back when the accident happened in March, but my local paper published an article yesterday with the dashcam footage of a bus crashing into a car.
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/crime/vide...
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/crime/vide...
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