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	| Re: Question - Drift engines? |  Tue, 18 October 2005 14:28    |  |  |  
	|   i am far from being a guru and accept that i am sometimes misinformed
  , however, i never accept unsubstatiated information and take exception to half truths and rumours being perpetuated (not just here.. i seem to debunk scientific journal articles also  ) (oh, and many people aleady do PM! me
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 ahh, on takeoff.. thus drag conditions with lots of rear grip
  heh heh.. 
 hmm, no that looks much more like poor dorifto skills damage..
    chassis twist is a little more subtle, resulting in a twisted chassis due to the torque of the engine. 
 but what were they doing with a nice big cage and such low-backed seats??
  also interesting the strut brace doesn't seem to have bent 
 
 | Quote: |  | No beef intended oldcorolla but Im suprise d you picked out that it wasn't a gze.
 
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 i'm not quite as stoopid as i look in real life perhaps
  
 
 as for torque and twist, you have to put it into perspective. say a GZE has (optimistically) 300Nm of torque, thats 30kg at the end of a 1metre bar.
 
 so... if you put the car in gear, pull the handbrake tight, put a 1m bar onto the crank pulley bolt and hang off it, the chassis will twist? of course a clutch dump will also have flywheel weight attached, and torque is multiplied by gearbox etc (sayy, 90-100kg at 1m?)
 
 fwiw, i know for a fact that a KE10 chassis will not bend when a 2m bar onto crank pulley bolt has 70kg hanging off it (2mx70kg = 1400Nm)
   (unless my chassis is now rooted
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|  |    Question - Drift engines? | v-tec | Mon, 17 October 2005 00:16 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | STR8 2.8 | Mon, 17 October 2005 00:18 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | Norbie | Mon, 17 October 2005 00:35 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | 4ageeza | Mon, 17 October 2005 00:42 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | Slippy | Mon, 17 October 2005 01:02 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | v-tec | Mon, 17 October 2005 01:11 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | Hachi2Muchi | Mon, 17 October 2005 02:42 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | oldcorollas | Mon, 17 October 2005 02:48 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | Hachi2Muchi | Mon, 17 October 2005 15:36 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | oldcorollas | Mon, 17 October 2005 15:41 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | v-tec | Mon, 17 October 2005 22:53 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | oldcorollas | Tue, 18 October 2005 05:11 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | EldarO | Tue, 18 October 2005 14:33 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | 4agte | Wed, 19 October 2005 01:00 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | Sam_Q | Mon, 17 October 2005 02:54 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | Corona RT142 | Mon, 17 October 2005 03:00 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | v-tec | Mon, 17 October 2005 03:11 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | Corona RT142 | Mon, 17 October 2005 03:18 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | Norbie | Mon, 17 October 2005 03:25 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | takai | Mon, 17 October 2005 23:06 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | timottaway | Mon, 17 October 2005 14:55 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | oldcorollas | Mon, 17 October 2005 15:05 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | kingmick | Mon, 17 October 2005 23:19 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | timottaway | Mon, 17 October 2005 15:00 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | oldcorollas | Mon, 17 October 2005 15:15 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | Dr_Love | Mon, 17 October 2005 23:39 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | kingmick | Mon, 17 October 2005 23:48 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | Blown86 | Mon, 17 October 2005 23:50 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | Yian | Tue, 18 October 2005 01:45 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | Norbie | Tue, 18 October 2005 01:59 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | kingmick | Tue, 18 October 2005 02:22 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | takai | Tue, 18 October 2005 00:21 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | kingmick | Tue, 18 October 2005 02:33 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | Blown86 | Tue, 18 October 2005 11:11 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | TRD_07 | Tue, 18 October 2005 02:41 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | kingmick | Tue, 18 October 2005 02:58 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | MR 1JZ | Tue, 18 October 2005 03:03 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | kingmick | Tue, 18 October 2005 03:31 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | Corona RT142 | Tue, 18 October 2005 03:38 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | MR 1JZ | Tue, 18 October 2005 03:39 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | oldcorollas | Tue, 18 October 2005 04:49 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | MR 1JZ | Tue, 18 October 2005 04:52 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | Henn | Tue, 18 October 2005 04:43 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | MR 1JZ | Tue, 18 October 2005 04:46 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | oldcorollas | Tue, 18 October 2005 05:04 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | kingmick | Tue, 18 October 2005 06:41 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | gianttomato | Tue, 18 October 2005 06:55 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | TRD_07 | Tue, 18 October 2005 07:25 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | gianttomato | Tue, 18 October 2005 08:51 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | kingmick | Tue, 18 October 2005 09:09 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | gianttomato | Tue, 18 October 2005 10:48 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | Hachi2Muchi | Tue, 18 October 2005 10:45 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | oldcorollas | Tue, 18 October 2005 12:39 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | Hachi2Muchi | Tue, 18 October 2005 14:03 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | 4agte | Tue, 18 October 2005 14:17 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | mynameisrodney | Tue, 18 October 2005 23:08 | 
|  |    Re: Question - Drift engines? | oldcorollas | Tue, 18 October 2005 14:28 | 
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