Super Jamie

i don't know anymore, rob presents a good argument for the former. and he is the aircraft engineer here. if we were as smart as him, we'd be fixing the planes for virgin instead of sitting here arguing on the internet :) i am sufficiently confused enough to say f@$k it, i'll just wait and take another flight :)

haha i'll be going halfway home again, ah well, drive car gets some Ks put on it, yay :)

"wait a minute. can we come up with a biting pre-numptual contract with medical plan? shouldn't take more than a couple of weeks to get it all legalised and signed. your people will talk to my people, we'll do lunch" *walks off, snake with questionmarks in its' eyes*

my mate had one of those hsv-branded rc cars, i think they're like $200. it was good for a cheap thrasher, kept breaking diffs and shit with worked electric engines in it tho :)

yeah well if a big mofo snake like that was headed for me, and i had a gun or a shovel, they can f@$kin send me the court summons in the mail

don't get a yokomo one, they are crap quality as far as RC cars go tamiya :)

well, geoff just related a story of wheels coming off with spacers i have also driven a car whose wheel nuts came undone with spacers on, tho i pulled over before i lost the wheel you need to be making alot of power to shear studs off with spacers, but it does happen. i reckon, why risk it?

actually guys, i'm planning on being on brisbane's southside on that friday night. i guess you'll all be heading down the freeway about 1030-1100, so might just head out to highway 1 then and wait for all the phat cars to go past or maybe we could have a 5 minute break at yatala or something at a planned time, then continue on

that is awesome, it's so neat and tidy, you've done well what's that piping stuff? it's different but not ricey clean strolla dude :)

work rosters for 2006 are out, i'll be attending :) i have no idea where m'bah shell is, but i'm sure we'll find it :) would a meeting spot at nerang be any easier? where is this dam place? like what exit do you take or what suburb is it in/near?

"crikey" :)

stop postwhoring you... you... postwhores! like i am now :)

yeah, bolt on spacers. that's the only real safe way to do it. floating spacers are the sucks, they're illegal for a reason you'll need a press to do the rear wheel bearings

sweet, new toys again :) if you have a cams license, the 2005 competitor handbook has alot of really good designs of rollover bars and half cages and full cages

if you google for allan taylor, or his phone number has been posted on here several times, you'll be able to get in touch with someone who has a conception of how much those parts are worth, or may at least put you in touch with someone who can take the wreck off your hands and use the parts, which is what it's all about. give him a ring

i believe no, guard mirrors are not legal here, because of the risk to pedestrians (you know, those silly mofos who walk in the road and jump onto your bonnet then are all like "he hit me, he hit me") you can still find bits for old coronas, people like the rising sun collectors register and jon from the japanese restorer should be able to help you. you will be very hard pressed to find them on the internet, that's for sure

bill sherwood calls it an ae86 corolla on his website. drift king keiichi tsuchiya calls it a corolla in his drift bible video. club4ag calls it an ae86 corolla. toyota called it a corolla when they put "corolla gts" and "corolla levin" badges on the car in america, japan and europe when you have finished convincing your idols, and the people who actually made the car, that an ae86 isn't a corolla, come back here and we shall believe you. until then josh, you own a 20+ yearold corolla just like the rest of us. welcome to rollaclub :) ps: it's likely not faster than mine :) rob's would eat you for breakfast, so would fook's, until about 160km/h anyway

even just a rollbar over the seatbacks and something triangulated to the floor or back parcel shelf would be good. you'd have to get it engineered, and may have to legally modify the seating capacity to 2 it depends if you want an all-out project car, or your vehicle to be useful for carrying mates, junk in the back seat, etc. which is a choice we've all had to face at some point good seats are so useful, you can control the car better too, as you can feel more responsively what the ass end is doing and react accordingly :)

correct. they are cheap taiwanese copies, they are pressed inaccurately and the holes are always slightly off the position of the stock ones. a good panelbeater can get them so perfect you won't be able to tell, but that all costs money. if you can get the aftermarket guards cheap/free then i'd say it's worth it, but not for $110 each, ke30 parts are just not worth that much

they look so cool :) comfy seats are nice hey, i could sleep in rob's velo seat :) you shouldn't really have harnesses without a cage. if you roll the car and the roof comes down on you, you can't move out the way and you compress your brain down into your spine and die. it has happened a normal lap sash seatbelt is designed so the occupants can move their body into the center of the car, should the roof collapse down on them. just some food for thought, grisly death is a big price to pay for cool looking harnesses. they're also a defect without an engineering cert, and no good engineer should certify harnesses without proper rollover protection

white interior = clean clothes every time you get in the car, it will get grubby quick and require alot of cleaning to keep looking good. quick, go swap it for black or brown while you still have the receipts :)

that will look hot :) any more enginebay shots? rotaries rock!

there are heaps of "someone did this somewhere" posts if you google threads like this. until i see a video, or a proper scientific test, i refuse to believe anyone has actually done the experiment. if it's on the internet, it must be true :) i still think the plane can fly tho :)

ps: this thread is still f@$kin stupid :)

nah, they are actually right with the brakes on, there is a force attached to the body of the plane (brake calipers) resisting movement against the freespinning wheels which are attached to the ground, hence the plane will never move with the brakes off, there is nothing except bearing friction to resist the force of the engines thrusting the plane through the air. the plane does not NEED the wheels to move, they are just there to ALLOW it to move over ground. on an airliner, bearing friction is negligible imagine this same hypothesis, but instead of powering the engines of the plane on the runway, there is another plane flying overhead with a towrope. as it flies past, the towrope tightens and it pulls the other plane along this runway. logic dictates that the ground plane will have to move, as the towing plane is moving through air and the ground has no effect on the force it can apply to the ground plane how is the towing plane any different to engine thrust? it's not, they are both forces moving the ground plane's BODY through AIR. axle bearing drag from the conveyor belt will have a miniscule effect on the speed of the runway plane, but essentially the wheels of a plane are DESIGNED to freespin, with as little friction as possible, to allow the plane can take off under thrust that propels it through the AIR to me, the thing that makes it click is that the plane does not motivate itself along the ground, it motivates itself through air. the air is not resisting the force of the plane moving through it. the near-frictionless ground surface is irrelevant once the engines apply thrust to the body of the aircraft