0 to 60 times, kit car owner delusion??!

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slomax said:

Speedo said 80 once, I was stting my pants. I still have fun though - that's the point of kits right?

Indeed it is, indeed it is. If you look up 'fun' in the dictionary, you'll see a little kit car picture next to it. Easy to forget it sometimes though. Nice one Slomax

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Crippo said:

This is the way I have always done my time.
1. I don't trash my drivetrain

I'm glad to hear that Crispin!!

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jeffw said:

Cough....lb ft or ft lb but never, ever lbs/ft

Quite! Though lb ft and ft lb are totally different things I believe?!

Edited by FuryCossieSteve on Friday 21st August 12:09

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Huff said:

It's lb-ft for torque measurements, ft-lb is a unit of energy (one pound hoisted one foot).

Exactly, not the same at all!

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jeffw said:

"Foot-pound" is sometimes also used as a unit of torque (see Pound-foot (torque)). In the United States this unit is often used to specify, for example, the tightness of a bolt or the output of an engine. Although they are dimensionally equivalent, energy (a scalar), and torque (a vector) are distinct physical quantities. Both energy and torque can be expressed as a product of a force vector with a displacement vector (hence pounds and feet); energy is the scalar product of the two, and torque is the vector product.

We should stick to Nm.

Well it would simplify things I guess. Until some numpty like me goes and puts N/m or sumfin equally incorrect and starts world war 3!

Re; the video you postd jeffw. That car looks a real handful but I guess you get used to dealing with something like that with practice? There are some mad mad mad machines around in the UK that is for sure!

Edited by FuryCossieSteve on Sunday 23 August 10:29

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jeffw said:

Cough....lb ft or ft lb but never, ever lbs/ft

Double cough, in my defence I would say I am slighlty dyslexic (not even sure if that is how to spell it!!) and get my slashes and dashes mixed up at times. As I understand it it should actually be ft-lbs or lbs-ft, ie WITH dashes??