Inappropriate Drag Racing Cars?
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B'stard Child said:
Bill said:
Blog post is 
Mod note: please stop pushing your blog.
Mod note: please stop pushing your blog.
This is the internet, linking to thinks is how it works - preventing linking is not good.
If he were posting his blog into threads about other things (drag racing = drag racing, CHECK!) or into EVERY thread (not the worlds heaviest poster is he?) - making threads for no other reason than to promote his blog (no sign of that?) it might be different, but it seems to me he shared a motoring experience on a motoring forum and I'm a bit curious what rule he broke and if there is one, why it exists?
Edited by 405dogvan on Thursday 3rd September 15:47
Agreed, don't see what harm the blog link was doing - back off, mods!
Scuffers said:
Are there any turbo-shaft powered cars?
Not that I know of in drag-racing (but then I know nothing whatever about drag-racing anyway). However, Chrysler and Rover were at the forefront of turbine-powered road cars. Sadly, Chrysler recalled and scrapped most of theirs. Rover never sold any, but there was the P4-based Jet 1, and subsequently the T3 4WD turbine sports car, the T4 (a front-wheel-drive 200hp turboshaft P6) and the Rover-BRM Le Mans prototype, which raced at LM in 1963 as an experimental car and so was not qualified to take places, but did very well anyway (finished eighth) in the hands of Graham Hill and Richie Ginther (who had driven the same chassis with a 1.5 litre V8 in F1 the previous year, and crashed it at Monaco), and again finished tenth at Le Mans in 1965 despite engine damage.405dogvan said:
B'stard Child said:
Bill said:
Blog post is
Mod note: please stop pushing your blog.
Mod note: please stop pushing your blog.
This is the internet, linking to thinks is how it works - preventing linking is not good.
If he were posting his blog into threads about other things (drag racing = drag racing, CHECK!) or into EVERY thread (not the worlds heaviest poster is he?) - making threads for no other reason than to promote his blog (no sign of that?) it might be different, but it seems to me he shared a motoring experience on a motoring forum and I'm a bit curious what rule he broke and if there is one, why it exists?
Now I will say I read it (OP's Blog) and quite like it - the reason I gave Bill a round of applause because I think it was about time someone said it.
Where do you draw the line - New thread started, no content, no pictures minimal just a link to a Blog
Yeah PH would be freeking great then
JM2pW
B'stard Child said:
For a while recently that was all the OP did minimal words and pictures and a link to his blog it was getting a bit lazy and repetative
Now I will say I read it (OP's Blog) and quite like it - the reason I gave Bill a round of applause because I think it was about time someone said it.
Where do you draw the line - New thread started, no content, no pictures minimal just a link to a Blog
You're right that there's a fine line but what makes a forum like PH great is hearing from people who attend/take part in events, from people who own/run/restore interesting cars - it's that sort of content/comment which makes the place worth visiting and a lot of that may come with "if you want to know more, my sNow I will say I read it (OP's Blog) and quite like it - the reason I gave Bill a round of applause because I think it was about time someone said it.
Where do you draw the line - New thread started, no content, no pictures minimal just a link to a Blog
t is over here" links (tho if that's ALL it contains then delete it entirely?)We can't expect people to wait until someone else talks about something before they come in with the interesting stuff - that's not really wise?
Also - making such threads ToTD isn probably not the way to discourage it either - it kinda proves it works!? ;0
405dogvan said:
B'stard Child said:
For a while recently that was all the OP did minimal words and pictures and a link to his blog it was getting a bit lazy and repetative
Now I will say I read it (OP's Blog) and quite like it - the reason I gave Bill a round of applause because I think it was about time someone said it.
Where do you draw the line - New thread started, no content, no pictures minimal just a link to a Blog
You're right that there's a fine line but what makes a forum like PH great is hearing from people who attend/take part in events, from people who own/run/restore interesting cars - it's that sort of content/comment which makes the place worth visiting and a lot of that may come with "if you want to know more, my sNow I will say I read it (OP's Blog) and quite like it - the reason I gave Bill a round of applause because I think it was about time someone said it.
Where do you draw the line - New thread started, no content, no pictures minimal just a link to a Blog
t is over here" links (tho if that's ALL it contains then delete it entirely?)Bit like Just sticking a link to your ebay auction in a another forum where they have a "for sale" section - sure everything you could want to know is probably at the end of that link but it makes really crap content.
405dogvan said:
We can't expect people to wait until someone else talks about something before they come in with the interesting stuff - that's not really wise?
I'd agree with a caveat - do you read every thread? I don't have time to do that so skim subject lines for stuff that interests - I'd be peeved if the majority of threads were just a link to somewhere else405dogvan said:
Also - making such threads ToTD isn probably not the way to discourage it either - it kinda proves it works!? ;0
ToTD?
1.9 cdti 150 remapped to around 200hp meant it wasn't slow, but the black smoke was the main spectacle RoverP6B said:
Agreed, don't see what harm the blog link was doing - back off, mods!
Ambivalent about the link, not knowing the back story, but moderation has been a bit over zealous of late.Scuffers said:
Are there any turbo-shaft powered cars?
Not that I know of in drag-racing (but then I know nothing whatever about drag-racing anyway). However, Chrysler and Rover were at the forefront of turbine-powered road cars. Sadly, Chrysler recalled and scrapped most of theirs. Rover never sold any, but there was the P4-based Jet 1, and subsequently the T3 4WD turbine sports car, the T4 (a front-wheel-drive 200hp turboshaft P6) and the Rover-BRM Le Mans prototype, which raced at LM in 1963 as an experimental car and so was not qualified to take places, but did very well anyway (finished eighth) in the hands of Graham Hill and Richie Ginther (who had driven the same chassis with a 1.5 litre V8 in F1 the previous year, and crashed it at Monaco), and again finished tenth at Le Mans in 1965 despite engine damage.More importantly, that's some interesting stuff about jet cars.
Jay Leno actually has a Chrysler Turbine Car and also a (Y2k is it called?) turbine bike. Search something like "Jay Leno's Garage Turbine car" on youtube (or just "Jay Leno's Garage for hours of petrolhead pron, god I love that man.)
As for drag racing, look up Turbonique, stuff of legends, much sketchy, such interesting, so awesome, wow.
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