When measuring the power needed to ascend a hill....

[MotF Bane]

53mph on the fucking highway? you're a danger to yourself and everyone around you. get the fuck off the road.

 

[jlee]

53mph on the fucking highway? you're a danger to yourself and everyone around you. get the fuck off the road.

*waits for the "JLee stopped me for "obstructing the flow of traffic", is that legal??" thread*

 

[Capt Caveman]

Way to read the thread...some joker just like you made the same mistake in thinking that..

You're the retard that won't go to the gym unless your able to get 50mpg. What a moronic thought...

My main goal is to have a car that averages 50mpg when commuting to my gym. Once I achieve that goal, I'll be able to start going to the gym again..

 

[StageLeft]

Actually this is a good segue to a question I wanted to post. I have a small chip on the hood of my car and I've been unable to successfully touch it up. I know that the chip is upsetting airflow and hampering gas mileage. I have therefore decided to completely sand blast the entire car and then repaint it from scratch. My question is: should I use three coats or four. The reason I ask is that the fourth coat will increase the weight of the car by several ounces and I've calculated that it will inhibit gas mileage almost as much as the chip's airflow upsetting has done so far.

Please help me out. I need to know because I'm completely unable to drive to work until I can get this fixed and get my MPG up. And I don't make money unless I'm at work, so this is really costing me quite a bit of money, this chip in the hood.

 

[jlee]

Actually this is a good segue to a question I wanted to post. I have a small chip on the hood of my car and I've been unable to successfully touch it up. I know that the chip is upsetting airflow and hampering gas mileage. I have therefore decided to completely sand blast the entire car and then repaint it from scratch. My question is: should I use three coats or four. The reason I ask is that the fourth coat will increase the weight of the car by several ounces and I've calculated that it will inhibit gas mileage almost as much as the chip's airflow upsetting has done so far.

Please help me out. I need to know because I'm completely unable to drive to work until I can get this fixed and get my MPG up. And I don't make money unless I'm at work, so this is really costing me quite a bit of money, this chip in the hood.

Replace all your body panels with fiberglass or carbon fiber. It's lighter to begin with, plus you won't need to paint them because they won't rust (rust roughens the surface of metal, causing unnecessary drag).

 

[Demon-Xanth]

The solution!

 

[Fenixgoon]

Have you ever considered using first to gain speed going up the hill, and going into second on the way up? This works for me on long hills.....but it's second and third.

And 5th gear at 25.....wtf. My car would be bucking and shit all over the road....And I know for a fact that you don't have much more power than I do, if you can't make it up a hill in 2nd gear, lmao.

my usual shifting is 1st--->15mph--->2nd--->30-35mph--->3rd---40-45mph-->4th--->50-55mph--->5th/OD

this is on a VW 1.8T with tiptronic (150hp/150ft-lb). I can get into 4th/5th at relatively low speeds, but there's no point in it because of the lack of available power (the engines have good torque range, but 1500rpm is 1500rpm on a 4cyl, regardless). It takes forever to go from 30mph to 50-60mph in 5th. I bet fleabag uses more gas trying to accelerate up a hill in high gear than if he started in a low gear and worked his way up.

 

[PricklyPete]

Actually this is a good segue to a question I wanted to post. I have a small chip on the hood of my car and I've been unable to successfully touch it up. I know that the chip is upsetting airflow and hampering gas mileage. I have therefore decided to completely sand blast the entire car and then repaint it from scratch. My question is: should I use three coats or four. The reason I ask is that the fourth coat will increase the weight of the car by several ounces and I've calculated that it will inhibit gas mileage almost as much as the chip's airflow upsetting has done so far.

Please help me out. I need to know because I'm completely unable to drive to work until I can get this fixed and get my MPG up. And I don't make money unless I'm at work, so this is really costing me quite a bit of money, this chip in the hood.

Just remove all body panels. They are just "dressing". Problem solved. Use money saved by not repainting to join a gym.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Actually this is a good segue to a question I wanted to post. I have a small chip on the hood of my car and I've been unable to successfully touch it up. I know that the chip is upsetting airflow and hampering gas mileage. I have therefore decided to completely sand blast the entire car and then repaint it from scratch. My question is: should I use three coats or four. The reason I ask is that the fourth coat will increase the weight of the car by several ounces and I've calculated that it will inhibit gas mileage almost as much as the chip's airflow upsetting has done so far.

Please help me out. I need to know because I'm completely unable to drive to work until I can get this fixed and get my MPG up. And I don't make money unless I'm at work, so this is really costing me quite a bit of money, this chip in the hood.

What speeds do you commute at? If you stay under 30MPH then remember this:
What's lighter than a carbon fiber hood?
No hood!

Take off the doors, fenders, windshield, roof. As much as you can to reduce weight. You'll notice a marked improvement in performance as well as Sportcompact's test showed when they managed to cut two seconds from a Sentra's 1/4 mile time by removing unnecessary equipment like the trunk.

 

[MotF Bane]

Actually this is a good segue to a question I wanted to post. I have a small chip on the hood of my car and I've been unable to successfully touch it up. I know that the chip is upsetting airflow and hampering gas mileage. I have therefore decided to completely sand blast the entire car and then repaint it from scratch. My question is: should I use three coats or four. The reason I ask is that the fourth coat will increase the weight of the car by several ounces and I've calculated that it will inhibit gas mileage almost as much as the chip's airflow upsetting has done so far.

Please help me out. I need to know because I'm completely unable to drive to work until I can get this fixed and get my MPG up. And I don't make money unless I'm at work, so this is really costing me quite a bit of money, this chip in the hood.

I suggest you take small insects, and smear them all over the chipped area to form a coating. The cold will freeze their tiny insect corpses, making the coating even more solid. The smaller the bugs, the better. Try catching them in a bag of some sort.

 

[StageLeft]

I drive half the drive under 30 and the rest over. I think I have a plan. Thanks, guys. I'm going to actually buy CF panels for my entire car and store them behind some trees half way to work. Then I can leave the house without panels and when I'm about to get on the highway (speed limit is 65 but I've found that 47 is optimal for mileage) I will first stop and install the panels. Then I can drive to work and back and take them off before finishing the drive home. Although the panels may cost several thousand I figure I can save almost $39/year, so the return on investment clearly makes mathematical sense.

 

[MotF Bane]

What speeds do you commute at? If you stay under 30MPH then remember this:
What's lighter than a carbon fiber hood?
No hood!

Take off the doors, fenders, windshield, roof. As much as you can to reduce weight. You'll notice a marked improvement in performance as well as Sportcompact's test showed when they managed to cut two seconds from a Sentra's 1/4 mile time by removing unnecessary equipment like the trunk.

You also have no need of any glass or mirror surfaces, a radio, airbags, heater, or a seat. Use a milk crate to sit on, it will save you several pounds over that wasteful and inefficient driver's side seat. If you must carry passengers, there is no reason they cannot sit on the floor of the car.

 

[PricklyPete]

I drive half the drive under 30 and the rest over. I think I have a plan. Thanks, guys. I'm going to actually buy CF panels for my entire car and store them behind some trees half way to work. Then I can leave the house without panels and when I'm about to get on the highway (speed limit is 65 but I've found that 47 is optimal for mileage) I will first stop and install the panels. Then I can drive to work and back and take them off before finishing the drive home. Although the panels may cost several thousand I figure I can save almost $39/year, so the return on investment clearly makes mathematical sense.

Don't discount the experience you will receive installing the panels each day...incalculable!

 

[Demon-Xanth]

You also have no need of any glass or mirror surfaces, a radio, airbags, heater, or a seat. Use a milk crate to sit on, it will save you several pounds over that wasteful and inefficient driver's side seat. If you must carry passengers, there is no reason they cannot sit on the floor of the car.

Damned straight! But passengers reduce MPG, make them get their own cars!

 

[MotF Bane]

Damned straight!

LMAO :awe:

Edit: it's a fucking go-cart!

 

[DivideBYZero]

Fleabag, are you taking a dump before you leave?

If you don't you are seriously hampering your cars performance.

e.g.,

- Without a driver your car would accelerate at 0.4366 feet per second.

- With a driver of 58Kg it accelerates at 0.4175 ft/second.

- After a big 2lb dump it accelerates at 0.4179 ft/second.

Unless you ensure you have voided your bowels before each trip you are going to see significant losses from your stored crap.

 

[Capt Caveman]

I drive half the drive under 30 and the rest over. I think I have a plan. Thanks, guys. I'm going to actually buy CF panels for my entire car and store them behind some trees half way to work. Then I can leave the house without panels and when I'm about to get on the highway (speed limit is 65 but I've found that 47 is optimal for mileage) I will first stop and install the panels. Then I can drive to work and back and take them off before finishing the drive home. Although the panels may cost several thousand I figure I can save almost $39/year, so the return on investment clearly makes mathematical sense.

I hope your tires have been inflated to sidewall max.

 

[satyajitmenon]

Goddammit you guys, I just spouted coffee all over my keyboard laughing my ass off...

 

[ussfletcher]

Best thread in the garage.

 

[LTC8K6]

Actually this is a good segue to a question I wanted to post. I have a small chip on the hood of my car and I've been unable to successfully touch it up. I know that the chip is upsetting airflow and hampering gas mileage. I have therefore decided to completely sand blast the entire car and then repaint it from scratch. My question is: should I use three coats or four. The reason I ask is that the fourth coat will increase the weight of the car by several ounces and I've calculated that it will inhibit gas mileage almost as much as the chip's airflow upsetting has done so far.

Please help me out. I need to know because I'm completely unable to drive to work until I can get this fixed and get my MPG up. And I don't make money unless I'm at work, so this is really costing me quite a bit of money, this chip in the hood.

Cover your car in a 1/2" thick layer of modeling clay, and then dimple the surface like a golf ball.

 

[PhoKingGuy]

Cover your car in a 1/2" thick layer of modeling clay, and then dimple the surface like a golf ball.

Shut up he might try that

 

[StageLeft]

Should I spray it with a gloss coat after the clay?

 

[MotF Bane]

Should I spray it with a gloss coat after the clay?

No, you should locate an extremely large kiln and have the clay fired to seal it. The gloss coat would add too much weight.

 

[ayabe]

Hey guys, I was having a big mac attack today and when I was in the drive through, I started in 1st gear then immediately shifted to 4th and my car stalled.

I was thinking that maybe my gearing is too tall, I was thinking about going with a tranny from a turbo 911, I read in C&D that you can start in first and then immediately go to 6th, sounds like just what I need.

Anyone ever put a Porsche transmission in a WRX and has a writeup? Pics would be great, kkthnx.

 

[mb]

Hey guys, I was having a big mac attack today and when I was in the drive through, I started in 1st gear then immediately shifted to 4th and my car stalled.

I was thinking that maybe my gearing is too tall, I was thinking about going with a tranny from a turbo 911, I read in C&D that you can start in first and then immediately go to 6th, sounds like just what I need.

Anyone ever put a Porsche transmission in a WRX and has a writeup? Pics would be great, kkthnx.

What you really need to do is think outside the bun and eat more taco bell.