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Motors Chat - Round 7

Alanstrainor

Continuation from motors chat round 6

1.This thread is for motoring topics which you feel are not worthy of starting a new thread for, banter from a meet or general motoring related chit chat.

2.No lonely hearts (This is not a personal dig at anyone, it's how we feel is the best way to describe what we want to avoid. )

3.Keep it clean.

4.The Motors charter applies.

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toastedpickles

fuel pump for the 900 came at last, I've no idea what half the things are for

later on when i get home should be fun!

pred racer

toastedpickles wrote: »

fuel pump for the 900 came at last, I've no idea what half the things are for later on when i get home should be fun!

Sure how hard can it be:D

toastedpickles

pred racer wrote: »

Sure how hard can it be:D

13 pages of how to in the manual I got for it :pac:

Should be a fun! if it works even better

pred racer

toastedpickles wrote: »

13 pages of how to in the manual I got for it :pac:

Should be a fun! if it works even better

What's the worst that can happen:pac:

dgt

Seems the Merc is suffering the black death... Challenge accepted!

Apart from that small inconvenience, the Navan residents had to put up with me blaring festive music (exhibit a and b) at full tilt from my cobbled BMW radio

Now with slight modification to the exhaust... Holy crap it sounds so good heading up the hill at full chat! :cool:

ba_barabus

A bit of a long shot here but I suppose nobody around Nenagh has ramps I could borrow? I want to do a bit of work on the Citroen and would feel more secure with ramps rather than axle stands.

bear1

Just one more day until I find out what is actually causing the banging noise in the engine... I'm literally sh1tting it

ba_barabus

bear1 wrote: »

I'm literally sh1tting it

Hopefully your engine isn't doing the same

bear1

ba_barabus wrote: »

Hopefully your engine isn't doing the same

Thanks man :P

ba_barabus

bear1 wrote: »

Thanks man :P

I was worried you'd take that the RONG way:P

bear1

ba_barabus wrote: »

I was worried you'd take that the RONG way:P

Weve a comedian in da haus!

YbFocus

Ok so with the sim rig the one thing that was letting it down was the very arcadey steering wheel...

So I ordered a new deep dish wheel and picked up a converter on adverts so it'd fit. The results are amazing and it feels very real running through your fingers self centering

Ye may all get a go!

(Just realised how bad the second pic is :rolleyes:)

Foxhole Norman

Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd :pac:

YbFocus

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd :pac:

Oh far and away I know I am

I'm a bit of a gamer, mostly just sim racing!

Mycroft H

Assetto Corsa?

YbFocus

Mycroft H wrote: »

Assetto Corsa?

and R Factor, Richard Burns Rally and the latest Project Cars.

Project cars is mindblowing, completely destroys Assetto!

Simonigs1.0

Where could a chap like me go about acquiring one of those race contraptions?

YbFocus

Simonigs1.0 wrote: »

Where could a chap like me go about acquiring one of those race contraptions?

It's not really one thing, more a built thing with a number of bits

The one I have is made of the following now..

Custom frame with proper mounting points.

Full 900 degree Logitech G25 Steering, pedals, clutch etc.

Sparco Evo 2 seat.

340mm 90mm deep steering wheel.

About €400 all in!

Edit: SImon are you ever in Laois?

Foxhole Norman

YbFocus wrote: »

Oh far and away I know I am

I'm a bit of a gamer, mostly just sim racing!

You're telling me :pac: I have a gaming laptop and I'm going to be building a gaming desktop over Christmas

YbFocus

I have a good laptop that runs most sims well but the brother's laptop is a water cooled Alienware job.
It runs project cars no problem as high as you can currently set it!

Foxhole Norman

YbFocus wrote: »

I have a good laptop that runs most sims well but the brother's laptop is a water cooled Alienware job.
It runs project cars no problem as high as you can currently set it!

Project Cars is definitely something I plan on running on the new machine, 4GB GTX 970 going into it, should be able to handle 4K too

Simonigs1.0

YbFocus wrote: »

It's not really one thing, more a built thing with a number of bits

The one I have is made of the following now..

Custom frame with proper mounting points.

Full 900 degree Logitech G25 Steering, pedals, clutch etc.

Sparco Evo 2 seat.

340mm 90mm deep steering wheel.

About €400 all in!

Edit: SImon are you ever in Laois?

I see, I wouldn't have the slightest clue of where to start there, but it looks very interesting. Sadly I don't often find myself in Laois, for the remainder of the year I'm working in Clare and I usually can't wait to get back up to Dublin after the week.

CianRyan

YbFocus wrote: »

I have a good laptop that runs most sims well but the brother's laptop is a water cooled Alienware job.
It runs project cars no problem as high as you can currently set it!

Hey you, found a home for that SR20!

[Deleted User]

FN - turn off your fooken fog lights!!!

Foxhole Norman

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

FN - turn off your fooken fog lights!!!

They were actually needed that night :pac:

wotzgoingon

YbFocus wrote: »

I have a good laptop that runs most sims well but the brother's laptop is a water cooled Alienware job.
It runs project cars no problem as high as you can currently set it!

Are you connecting your laptop up to larger monitor?
I have a Xbox 360 force feedback steering wheel. So decided to connect it up to desktop, steering works but the force feedback does not. Microsoft never bothered to release the drivers for it, and it has been discontinued for years. I was hoping somebody with computer knowlege would have some how used the xbox driver and change some code around and get it to work on pc but no such luck. So I am thinking about getting another xbox 360 to use the steering wheel with. I know there is not really sim games for xbox but Forza is pretty good.

It has been such a long time since I used the steering wheel I was playing Need for Speed most wanted on pc and kept crashing. I would see I am going to crash turn wheel and realize I am going too far turn opposite way and same thing. It's been so long since I used a steering wheel on a gaming device and I am wondering are they hard to use or is it just it is not meant for the PC. Once I get mu xbox I will test it out.

Sobanek

Commuters this morning take care, some heavy fog out there

Special Circumstances

Sobanek wrote: »

Commuters this morning take care, some heavy fog out there

Even the fog doesn't come to limerick...

YbFocus

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Are you connecting your laptop up to larger monitor?
I have a Xbox 360 force feedback steering wheel. So decided to connect it up to desktop, steering works but the force feedback does not. Microsoft never bothered to release the drivers for it, and it has been discontinued for years. I was hoping somebody with computer knowlege would have some how used the xbox driver and change some code around and get it to work on pc but no such luck. So I am thinking about getting another xbox 360 to use the steering wheel with. I know there is not really sim games for xbox but Forza is pretty good.

It has been such a long time since I used the steering wheel I was playing Need for Speed most wanted on pc and kept crashing. I would see I am going to crash turn wheel and realize I am going too far turn opposite way and same thing. It's been so long since I used a steering wheel on a gaming device and I am wondering are they hard to use or is it just it is not meant for the PC. Once I get mu xbox I will test it out.

Yeah wotz i run a hdmi lead to a 42" screen.
My logitech controller works on pc and ps systems. I know i can buy a decoder to work with the xbox, it's possible you can do the same?

I used to think Forza was good but until you try project cars or similar with a 900 degree wheel you've felt nothing

The way the more expensive force feedback works is that there's dampers in the wheel too, so if it didn't have power steering you get that weight, if you run high on an apex and get thrown off it the steering gets pulled from your hands. It's amazing

bear1

Just as I had suspected, at least one of the injectors isn't working properly.
Mechanic couldn't tell for sure but he was pretty sure after driving it that that was the problem.
Said he would have to remove all four and test them to know for sure and then he could renovate them.
Did a diagnostics as well and it came back that the inlet manifold valve is stuck open. Fecking great.