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Posted on Sunday, June 6, 2010 at 4:41 AM
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ihmcguinness
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Considering the importance of vehicle weight to the EVO ideal and efficiency, wouldn't it be worthy of a line in the Specification box in the Driven section? Certainly it's more relevant than top speed, if you really must prioritize - especially with all the German cars being limited to 155mph.
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Posted on Monday, June 7, 2010 at 8:15 AM
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MPG would be interesting, too 
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Posted on Monday, June 7, 2010 at 8:52 AM
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mik
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And expected life of synchro rings under "normal" usage. In both miles and years. 
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Posted on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 8:39 AM
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Preacher_Cain
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_mik_ said... And expected life of synchro rings under "normal" usage. In both miles and years.
The MTBF of synchro rings when subjected to "evo" driving is more relevant, shurely?
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Posted on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 8:46 AM
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_Steveo_
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ihmcguinness said... especially with all the German cars being limited to 155mph.
Not all German cars Cheers Steve
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Posted on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 9:56 AM
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mik
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Preacher_Cain said... _mik_ said... And expected life of synchro rings under "normal" usage. In both miles and years.
The MTBF of synchro rings when subjected to "evo" driving is more relevant, shurely?
But how to define "evo driving" Preach? I've literally been up all night for the last 4 nights thinking about it.  We have slammers, ticklers, one person who thinks DDC is still worthwhile, and Dan - who in one movement spins up the input shaft via dragging the clutch during a normal H&T change - thus mimicing a H&T DDC change without actually doing DDC. It's chaos I tell you sir.
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Posted on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 12:20 PM
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I just match speed and ram the gears home clutchlessly, Mik.
The crunk tells you you're doing it right.
Metal on metal. Like real men do. I then advertise my car for sale, claiming that I double declutch every gear change and that the car is immaculate.
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Posted on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 12:41 PM
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ihmcguinness said... Considering the importance of vehicle weight to the EVO ideal and efficiency, wouldn't it be worthy of a line in the Specification box in the Driven section? Certainly it's more relevant than top speed, if you really must prioritize - especially with all the German cars being limited to 155mph.
I agree, have often looked for the weight and ended up having to scan the text to find it. I'd go one further though. Invest in a set of corner scales and show us the corner weights for each car with a 75kg driver and half a tank of fuel. Not very relevant on some cars, but would be quite interesting (I think) on higher-end stuff.
Updated June 8, 2010 at 12:43 PM
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Posted on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 12:51 PM
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mik
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Corner scales - They have already invested, and use them for the full tests. Don't think it is realistic to expect them to drag them abroad for "driven" snippets, though listing the weight in the stats box should be perfectly feasible.
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Posted on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 12:58 PM
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But then you'll end up comparing evo weights with manufacturer's published weights.
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Posted on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 1:00 PM
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mik
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Si_G said... evo weights
The thrill of determining mass
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