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Caterham Vrs 996
hicost - 25/4/11 at 07:32 PM

Great video of R500 vs 996 second video down

Caterham

Steve Hignett - 25/4/11 at 07:42 PM

Whoever set that Caterham up was a complete idiot and whoever was driving that Porsche was completely gay...


Disclaimer:- No offense intended to homosexuals, or anyone who thinks that bthroom scales are effective at corner-weighting a car...

scootz - 25/4/11 at 07:45 PM

... and whoever put so much 'stuff' on that webpage crashed my crappy internet connection!

MakeEverything - 25/4/11 at 07:49 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Steve Hignett
Whoever set that Caterham up was a complete idiot and whoever was driving that Porsche was completely gay...


Disclaimer:- No offense intended to homosexuals, or anyone who thinks that bthroom scales are effective at corner-weighting a car...


Why's that then?

Tim Watson - 25/4/11 at 08:09 PM

That's some save at 2min11secs though!

plentywahalla - 25/4/11 at 08:46 PM

Is Sabrina Schmidt gay ?? That would be a perfect fantasy for Clarkson, he fancies her enough already!

dlatch - 25/4/11 at 09:01 PM

i am gay for sabine

Antnicuk - 25/4/11 at 11:12 PM

nice to see somebody driving it properly! you gotta have big balls to drift the ring..........

daniel mason - 25/4/11 at 11:22 PM

there is always someone on here willing to slam somoeone else! always. dont know why.

MakeEverything - 26/4/11 at 09:56 AM

quote:
Originally posted by daniel mason
there is always someone on here willing to slam somoeone else! always. dont know why.


I know, and it always seems to be the usual suspects.

jeffw - 26/4/11 at 10:30 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Steve Hignett
Whoever set that Caterham up was a complete idiot and whoever was driving that Porsche was completely gay...


Disclaimer:- No offense intended to homosexuals, or anyone who thinks that bthroom scales are effective at corner-weighting a car...


The guy driving the Caterham works for the Italian Caterham importer, Dario Margutti. He also did this video of a GD T70

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MZ3Rbhui7c

I think the setup maybe down to hot CR500s and him trying very. very hard. As to the driver of the 996....he looks pretty on it as well as any sub 8min BTG is very very quick and a 7min 36sec is awesome.

What is your fastest time BTG Steve ? I've only done a 8min 10secs.

franky - 26/4/11 at 12:46 PM

whats wrong with using bathroom scales?

If you set them up right they'll all read to the same relative point.

They might not display 10000% accurate true values in weight but they will show when the car is set up equal if you take your time.

Obviously IMO but i'd like to see/hear why they wouldn't work? I've a lot to learn on the subject

MikeRJ - 26/4/11 at 01:36 PM

quote:
Originally posted by franky
whats wrong with using bathroom scales?

If you set them up right they'll all read to the same relative point.


And how do you set them up to remove scaling AND offset errors?

franky - 26/4/11 at 02:42 PM

quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
quote:
Originally posted by franky
whats wrong with using bathroom scales?

If you set them up right they'll all read to the same relative point.


And how do you set them up to remove scaling AND offset errors?


use 2 at each corner, plank of wood, zero them, put a known weight in the middle, see what the scales say, work from a known point.

Simples
























Or not?

matt_gsxr - 26/4/11 at 03:27 PM

quote:
Originally posted by franky

use 2 at each corner


that will be a non-bec then

zilspeed - 26/4/11 at 04:31 PM

Having only tried the bathroom scales thing with the ones you have to trigger by treading on, I'll say it isn't that accurate.

As part of my involvement with the real racing cars, we took some readings this way, then used the real thing. Just to see how far out it was.
For our purpose where you're working to a minimum weight and where corner weights are kinda crucial, it's useless.

In addition to that, the car in question will brake at slightly to the good side of 1.8G, and cornering G is pretty awesome too, so messed up corner weights won't help in such a situation.

Let's say that using bathroom scales is at best indicative as to whether the car is light or heavier than it was. It's no use for anything more than that. At least, that's my thoughts.

franky - 26/4/11 at 06:21 PM

I wouldn't use digital ones, just analogue ones. The readings are just used as reference points, so I can't see how it wouldn't work, even though you wouldn't get 100% accurate weights they'd be relative to each other as you set them to zero before.