I'm bored... Car Porn thread!!!!!!!

[Rat_Fink_67]

MrKipling43 said:

Love this peak, it's like catching a cheeky glimpse up a girl's skirt.

By "quickest and fastest" do you mean, lowest time across the quarter and highest top speed over the quarter? I'm not really au fait with drag racing parlance.

Yeah that's it, the lowest elapsed time and fastest speed. Although the fastest recorded speed and "actual" top speed are different. The speed on a drag strip is calculated as an average over the last 66 feet of the track so on our 184.57 mph pass the real speed across the finish line would've been over 190 mph.

[KingRichard]

MrKipling43 said:

Love this peak, it's like catching a cheeky glimpse up a girl's skirt.

By "quickest and fastest" do you mean, lowest time across the quarter and highest top speed over the quarter? I'm not really au fait with drag racing parlance.

Also, is it the angle of the photo or is the whole car twisting?

Awesome work fella

Anyway. Back on track...

[dougc]

Edited by dougc on Wednesday 6th August 14:57

[KingRichard]

jonnylayze said:

Can someone tell me why the images I post are showing only this white box with the red cross in it??

Edited by jonnylayze on Wednesday 6th August 14:49

It's something to do with it being a flickr account I think. I can find the image using the url you posted, but then I can't post the pic on here either

Edited by KingRichard on Wednesday 6th August 15:01

[KingRichard]

dougc said:

Edited by dougc on Wednesday 6th August 14:57

Bloody hell, that's beautiful. Obviously a Maserati, but what model?

I want one

[dougc]

A6GCS/53 Berlinetta.

[KingRichard]

dougc said:

A6GCS/53 Berlinetta.

Gobful...

[Rat_Fink_67]

KingRichard said:

Also, is it the angle of the photo or is the whole car twisting?

Awesome work fella

Cheers mate. No your eyes are not deceiving you, before we fitted an anti roll bar it did indeed twist; the torque from the engine tries to drive the left rear tyre through the ground, as it can't it causes the axle to seperate from the chassis in the opposite direction resulting in the twist!







Yes that's me getting rather animated behind the car lol...





Now we run longer, stiffer wheelie bars and an anti roll bar the launch is a lot less dramatic;

Edited by Rat_Fink_67 on Wednesday 6th August 15:06

[K321]

[Obi Wan]

[Zod]

Rat_Fink_67 said:

Zod said:

is that from the Readers' Wives section?

Are you suggesting it's not aesthetically pleasing?

not all porn is aesthetically pleasing to all people.

[215cu]

[Rat_Fink_67]

Zod said:

Rat_Fink_67 said:

Zod said:

is that from the Readers' Wives section?

Are you suggesting it's not aesthetically pleasing?

not all porn is aesthetically pleasing to all people.

Lol yeah I suppose so, I guess drag racing is the scat fetish of automotive porn; there's only a select few who find it appealing and to everyone else they can't understand what all the fuss is about!

[Mikey_W]

[damci]

Apologies for the crap quality the room was very dark..

[jdw1234]

Rat_Fink_67 said:

MrKipling43 said:

Love this peak, it's like catching a cheeky glimpse up a girl's skirt.

By "quickest and fastest" do you mean, lowest time across the quarter and highest top speed over the quarter? I'm not really au fait with drag racing parlance.

Yeah that's it, the lowest elapsed time and fastest speed. Although the fastest recorded speed and "actual" top speed are different. The speed on a drag strip is calculated as an average over the last 66 feet of the track so on our 184.57 mph pass the real speed across the finish line would've been over 190 mph.

Love the deformation of the rear tyre.

Reminds me of this video (at 4:23) ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIMkskLhVHk

Edited by jdw1234 on Wednesday 6th August 15:57

[Rat_Fink_67]

jdw1234 said:

Love the deformation of the rear tyre.

Yeah it captures it right on the limit there. There's a very fine line between a good launch like that and developing tyre-shake. tyre-shake is where the tyre effectively loses and then regains traction over and over again to the point where the ripples that can be seen in the above pic develop in to waves and shake the whole car. We had one case a couple of seasons ago where the vibrations were so intense that it ripped the wheel tubs and boot floor out as well as splitting both rear wings down the middle! The tyres carried that much energy that they even managed to chew through the back of both original steel outer sills, it was so bad that my Dad momentarily blacked out behind the wheel.

Here's the video; http://s123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/Succulent_...

It doesn't look much on there and it was over within a second but the effects on the car were devastating.

Edited by Rat_Fink_67 on Wednesday 6th August 16:06

[NikB]

[patmahe]

Always loved this shot of my lil Lotus



ETA: click for clearer full size pic

Edited by patmahe on Wednesday 6th August 16:15

[whitechief]

Edited by whitechief on Wednesday 6th August 16:15