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| Coche Blanco | Aug 28 2014, 01:48 PM Post #16 |
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That would involve me making sure it had the stickiest tires on it I can find, and only being driven when the roads were clear and dry, preferably pretty warm too. |
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| myredvert | Aug 28 2014, 02:40 PM Post #17 |
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Sadist. Having first hand experience with numerous of examples of people with too much money upgrading from a "normal" high performance small aircraft with say 300 hp up to 750+, and in a few examples get their hands on a <3,000 lb experimental jet with 3,000+ lbs. of thrust, I can say that kind of leap in performance capability usually doesn't go as well as those who did it had hoped. I defer to my previous statement about money, ego, training, and add not having even a minimal amount of respect for performance that far exceeds anything they had previously been exposed to, and didn't even begin to understand. Having experience doing first flight/flight testing of high performance aircraft I have never flown before (or anyone else for that matter), I would be ecstatic at having the ability to get some proper adult supervision/training before I attempted to drive a beast mode car like that - on a road no less. I'm far too old, slow, unskilled, and chicken to figure those kinds of things out on my own when there is no need to. I enjoyed reading this general description of the spoiler system on the Veyron... DIY aerodynamic guessing can be an enjoyable hobby, but damn, isn't real engineering, design, and testing just too cool?
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| rmcelwee | Aug 28 2014, 04:35 PM Post #18 |
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Still one of the best TG videos on YT: |
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| myredvert | Aug 28 2014, 05:02 PM Post #19 |
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That was fantastic rmc, thanks!
I hate when that happens. I doubt I couldn't afford just the cost of tire wear from one of those runs.
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| perfesser | Aug 28 2014, 10:51 PM Post #20 |
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Even better is when they brake hard at speed and the spoiler goes up to about a 60-75 degree angle and exerts 6g of aerodynamic braking force!! Those must be some really stout struts!! |
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| perfesser | Aug 28 2014, 10:57 PM Post #21 |
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I've mentioned before my student with the 2013 GT500 who pulled about 900 HP on the chassis dyno and broke a couple of world records with it. He dropped in yesterday to chat. Has a 2015 model on order that he's going to try to pull 1200-1300 HP out of (and I wouldn't bet against him!) He told me he's "retired" the record breaker and "detuned" it by a couple of hundred HP for tooling around town in. That puts him somewhere around 650-700 HP. Just barely enough for school zones! But this guy has driven it above 200 mph, so he has really good skills to handle that kind of power. Heck, if I had 10% of that in my Geo, I'd probably get in all kinds of trouble!! Edited by perfesser, Aug 28 2014, 10:59 PM.
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