Ah well it's s**t then

I obviously know nowt but if it's so low how come they have always handled so well? Is the stiffness proportional to it's weight? In some way? I hope you get what I'm on about

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My old man wrote me a letter from prison once. It said if you don't want to end up in here, stay away from crime, women and drugs. Trouble is, that don't leave you much else to do, does it?

i was going to buy a civic type r once, i owned a clio sport trophy at the time and fancied the civic type r, after a few test drives i decided my clio was better, a few months down the line i traded my clio in for an integra type r cause it simply was astonishing but lacking that extra something

my 205 gti6 finally got completed and this car has that extra something

and to be fair the ep3 type r isnt a real type r now is it, if you want the real deal its gotta be the ek9

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205 gti6 now sold up, but gonna stick around and see whats what

Not so accurate claim, the centrifugal force that act on the car is much more depend on the velocity.

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French military victories?
Did you mean French military defeats?

BTW, as you knew the Elise chassis is made from aluminium extrusions, read further a copied post :

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Bearing in mind there are variations in how chassis stiffness is measured, this link http://www.germancarforum.com/test-data/12334-list... gives some interesting and credible data and also suggests that plenty of steel and aluminium cars are much stiffer than the McLaren. That is not to say better in strength to weight, ability to package the structure around the occupants/mechanicals, or even crash performance. But perhaps stiffer. If I find the data for Bristol I will post it, but if you accept the figure of 13,500 Nm for the Mac it is not unreasonable for a car with a heavy gauge steel chassis and improved loading shared by the roof pillars (603 vs previous Bristols, but pre-Fighter) to achieve or surpass this stiffness. Many mass produced steel monocoques are now indisputably much much stiffer than 13,500 N/m.

Anyhow and OT, apart from the fact that McLaren wanted to build a landmark car that reflected contemporary Formula 1, the F1 could never have been built from aluminium. Ally differs from carbon in it's fatigue response; Bugatti learned as much when they were developing the five aluminium EB110 prototypes and found that the aluminium chassis lost 20% of it's torsional stiffness after 30,000 km testing - hence the carbon production car. (That Bugatti was a very thoroughly developed car, the quote about the chassis stiffness is again from EVO, March 2005). The drop off in performance with fatigue would not have been acceptable to GM"

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French military victories?
Did you mean French military defeats?

Ignorance is bliss.

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French military victories?
Did you mean French military defeats?

In real life the car wouldn't be subjected to 20,000nm of twisting force unless you were regularly riding kerbs at speed, so the threshold at which the chassis fatigues would be greatly increased. Basically the chassis on the Lotus exceeds by far all the criteria necessary for it to be fit for purpose. You don't need RSJs in the sills of a car that weighs less than a tonne.

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vtec is just exaggerated noise anyway, the gti6 will be a nicer car to drive everyday with more mid range torque, the gti6 just put your foot down and it goes, with vtec your dropping gears and thrashing it

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205 gti6 now sold up, but gonna stick around and see whats what

come on it is lol! altho yes it does sound amazing, it sounds like its going a 150mph when in actually about 50mph

i had a dc2 type r so im allowed to have my opinion

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205 gti6 now sold up, but gonna stick around and see whats what

You're a f**king idiot

Take a look at any rolling road graph of a vtech and youll realise why I said that. I can only presume you didn't take your Dc2 over 5k

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and i used to take my dc2 all the way to 8.5k

gawd theres some proper tools in here

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205 gti6 now sold up, but gonna stick around and see whats what

kicked in just before 6k actually

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205 gti6 now sold up, but gonna stick around and see whats what

Depends on the Honda

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Nothing to see here

Possibly to be fair. I do have a close ratio box in mine which could exaggerate it. Either way, V-Tech exists

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