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Detroit, 11:49 PM
Sat Nov 28
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09:13 PM
I'm good with that.
I like how, to this day, movies for US consumption show idiots slamming into each other, side-to-side, repeatedly, yet these guys have mastered the PIT maneuver quite well.
I've gotta find some electric Eyetalian horns like that. Used to have a small air horn set, but I've never liked how the compressor is sensitive to moisture/grime/heat.
Mercedes, and likely other Euro makes, has, over there, a dash switch for a "city" horn and a "country" horn. Hell, I just want two so I can freak people out who aren't paying attention.
I'm gonna wire mine up with Italian-style horns on "country", and the four-tone Cadillac horns I've collected on "city".
I really like finding gray-market cars in the junkyard. They have all kinda neat stuff...like vacuum-powered headlight aim adjustment.
06:59 PM
The Wreckord looks amazingly like an old Falcon but you can tell Omar wasn't really trying that hard to stop the Fiat. Which did have magic axles--you can tell after that one bad curb hit by the stadium, they did a cut away, there was a lot of odd smoke.
And I think we now have definitive proof where Caddy got their Euro-ad with the candles blowing out.
Great piece of video! Thanks!
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06:16 PM
Btw, I spotted a video of the Top 10 car chases
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Thanks!
08:52 PM
11/23/09
Grand National, though...I'm good with this.
Personally, I want this package in an automatic, and I'm not anti-Jalop, or anti-manual, just can't do it, long-term, any more.
Caution, the really fun hobbies can kill you...if you're doin' them right.
11/23/09
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11/23/09
No. Not the same system. Audi generally uses TorSen AWD system, which apparently has been vectoring all along. The exceptions to the audi=torsen rule are the A3 and TT.
Haldex (which is the system in this opel, and also in my new audi A3) is used mainly on vehicles with transversely mounted engines, platforms originally intended for FWD.
Sidenote: most people say that TorSen is superior. I can't say yet as I have only had my car for 1 month, and no snow yet :) Also, Bugatti Veyron supposedly uses a Haldex system.
11/23/09
The "vectoring" of the haldex rear diff is a bit misleading (just like all the other marketing BS from haldex). It's a good system, but it's basically just a rear diff that can lock up. It has a single clutchpack on the rear diff that can lock the two halfshafts together, as opposed to something like the (heavier, more expensive, more complicated) tw0-clutchpack system used on the Audi and some (not all) of Acura's SH-AWD systems.
The Audi uses a system with a clutchpack on each of the rear half-shafts, which lets you disengage one of the halfshafts progressively. Because of the way differentials work, this effectively "vectors" torque to the other wheel.
The Haldex system progressively locks the rear axle, which prevents the inside wheel from spinning, but it doesn't technically vector torque to the outside wheel. Any situation where one rear wheel has a different torque split than the other would require one to have more traction than the other, and indeed, Haldex's examples show one wheel on ice, which is intentionally misleading, IMO.
That said, this system is better than having an open rear diff, and is cheaper and more compact than a system with a true center diff and two rear-axle clutchpacks.
11/23/09
#tips
11/23/09
Yeah, you know me.
11/23/09
And 4,000# for a sedan this size with manual transmission? That's just incredible.
I'm still down with OPC, just saying.
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11/23/09
But still, clocking in at a small dog shy of 2 tons is disturbing.
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11/10/09
What about the Vauxhall that became a Saturn that became an Opel that didn't become a Vauxhall and became a Daewoo instead?
11/10/09
While they came out around the same time, (actually the GT came out first by a weird quirk if I remember right) the Sky was designed for Saturn and moved to Opel, not the other way around. #buicklacrosse
11/10/09
The Pontiac (Solstice Concept) that begat a Chevy (Nomad Concept) and a Saturn (Curve Concept) that never was, that begat a Vauxhall (VX Lightning Concept) that almost became an Alfa Romeo that became a Pontiac (Solstice) and a Saturn (Sky) that became an Opel (GT) that didn't become a Vauxhall and became a Daewoo (G2X) instead. #buicklacrosse
11/10/09
Nothing is really new. Who here remembers the Buick Opel by Isuzu (yes, that was its official name)?
11/10/09
11/10/09
@Jim7: A Datsun F-10? Oh my. I haven't seen one of those in ages. Those had the biggest googly-eyes ever. The wagon looked at least semi-normal by Deep-Malaise-Japanese standards. The hatchback coupe was something else altogether. #buicklacrosse