Andrew

After exclusively using snow mode for 323.6 miles, I am no longer going to use it. Snow mode reduces throttle response and is supposed to give the car slightly less power, which means less fuel used. Turns out, it doesn't, so back to normal mode.

2 hours ago, damric said:

Nice image

4 minutes ago, Alex said:

Has that fender been repainted? That's a lot of orange peel...

Nah, that's just the reflection of his shirt.

45 minutes ago, Avacado said:

I think to qualify for a Yeet on that corner, you'd need to be doing 50-60. 35 seems more like a yawn than a yeet.

Doing 50-60 is illegal and is possible in theory, but then I'd have to cut the corner and end up in the loose gravel which would give me far less grip. It's pretty clean in that screenshot, but that screenshot is is from 2017 Street View.

I stick in this blue bit because that's where the most grip is

I always yeet around here at 35-40mph.

I sometimes get a very small amount of oversteer when doing that. Usually, people who are following me take this corner at the same speed because they can't think for themselves. They think because I do it, it's safe for them to do it as well. One day, I imagine someone is going to take that corner at the same speed as me with worse tyres and/or they freak out and slam on the brakes which will cause them to crash.

I also do that to save fuel. It's a 40mph road that goes into a 50mph road. My average mpg went up by 5 since I started doing that. I used to slow down to 20-25mph for this corner. Hypermiling doesn't have to be boring.

Oh no, someone has Taycan my favourite parking spot.

22 minutes ago, ENTERPRISE said:

 

Can I be a cool kid ?

No, illegal.

Alfa buddy

Cheating is against the rules. I might have to do something about that.

On 20/03/2024 at 22:38, Andrew said:

5x sweat pants. Pretty big savings at the moment and I need some.

 

I'm annoyed at this now.

I selected store pickup for £4.99 thinking I could go get it next day instead of having to pay £12 for next day home delivery. Turns out, £4.99 store pick up takes 7 days. You know what else takes 7 days? The £4.99 home delivery. It didn't tell me this until after I bought them, and I can't cancel the order. To cancel the order, I have to wait until I have the package, then take it into a store for a refund.

I paid £4.99 to inconvenience myself.

5x sweat pants. Pretty big savings at the moment and I need some.

33 minutes ago, speed_demon said:

Glad you got your lug nut issue sorted out. Speaking of which you haven't got any.

European cars usually these

The front brakes on this are B E E G for such a small car (AA battery for scale)

Also, when it did an MOT in October, the handbrake barely passed. I tested it out by trying to do a handbrake turn and now it doesn't work at all now for some reason.

I'm guessing and hoping something is seized rather than being completely broken. Seized is "easy" to fix. Replacing parts is also "easy" but that costs money.

I made an torque wrenches.

I need a set of 1/4. 3/8 and 1/2 torque wrench. Buying them is going to cost me £140 for a cheapish set, so I just made my own using my 1/4 ratchet, 3/8 ratchet and 1/2 breaker bar combined with a digital luggage scale.

The white line is where the strap goes, followed by the Nm to kg conversion. For example with that photo, if I have to tighten something to 87Nm, it's 87x0.102 which is 8.984, then x2 because the white line is at 50cm to make it 17.74kg that I have to reach on the scale. With a 18.5kg weight, it reads 18.7kg so the scale is accurate to +/-1%

They factory reset a mouse.

15 hours ago, Alex said:

Installed the Legalis R today, was actually a lot easier than I thought. Still need to do some of the braces underneath, but that's for another day.

 

It shaves off around 4-5kg, and should sound oem+

 

Old exhaust out

 

Side by side

 

In it goes...

 

 

Installed

 

 

 

4.9kg weight saving from a non-titanium exhaust is pretty good.

Internet contract expired. Was on 500Mbps, now on this for £10/month cheaper.

3 hours ago, UltraMega said:

I have a customer right now doing some upgrades to his PC who is actual a pilot and uses the PC pretty much just for flight Sim. 

 

How much of a difference would 16GB vs 32GB of system ram make? 

 

How about Vram? 

32GB does make a surprising difference over 16GB. I'd recommend 16GB as minimum.

VRAM depends on resolution. I've got 8GB at 4K and it seems fine, but more would be better.

20 minutes ago, bonami2 said:

At the same time. Monitor update are 99% of the time worthless.

That is true, but horse armour.

Alternative headline: MSI just invented a new form of piracy.

This is such a stupid decision. Especially for monitors that are that expensive.

What the dog doin?

9 hours ago, Alex said:

Got a passenger seat to match.

 

Still got lots more to install....

If you keep doing this kind of work on your car, soon you'll be exhausted.

I don't have FS2020 installed anymore because of how much storage it takes up, but that new aircraft does look really fun to fly.