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oil viscocity makes a huge difference to oil pressure. a 10W30 will be higher pressure when cold than a 0W40, but the 0W40 will maintain a bit more pressure when hot. pressure is simply a measure of restriction, it is a combination of the "gaps" in your engine that oil is forced through (larger gaps = less restriction = lower oil pressure) and oil viscocity (lower oil "weight" = less restriction = less pressure). the stock gauge is very slow to react so unless you can hold at a certain RPM for a while I wouldn't trust it.

1. congrats 2. letting a car idle for ages is bad for it, it's a lot longer runtime for the engine when it's not in an optimum state (cold) 3. start car, let it idle for ~20 seconds to let the oil circulate and then drive off gently. I stay under 3.5k if possible and no boost until it's warm. whoever told you to start your car and idle it for 5 minutes deserves a stiff backhander. you're not doing the car ANY favours.

3rd party property will often cover you for some small amount (eg $2500 or $5000) if you are not at fault and the at fault driver is uninsured. worth remembering, it doesn't fully compensate you for a total loss but it's better than nothing. check your policy to see what it offers, though.

Yeah carpark was chockas with everyone doing the shopping, not easy to find somewhere to meet during the day so night time cruises are better. A few of us managed to find each other and we left at 3:30, nice sedate cruise in the shit weather up to lucky's and gorged on pizza. no sign of marss though?? what happened there good to see everyone today

Hey Eric good to see ya at the pizza cruise, I have plans for the 20th (a christening ) otherwise I would be there! next time, gadget.

manifold glow reflecting off the burnout pad near the end... jesus. for when you don't just want smoke, but fire too.

Schu's not human tho!

big ups to the new team Is there a membership renewal form available for download? I got mine in the post a while back and damned if I can find it again. I'd say it's long gone. Could only find links for the new membership form floating around.

Further to this, learners and P platers can only do 90 and 100km/h on a freeway. The speed differential from 140/150 clicks to 90/100 is substantial, throw in a driver who is very inexperienced (and one numbskull who is speeding) and you have a recipe for a hospital trip, or morgue trip for that matter. Seen plenty of ugly things happen at much slower speeds than that, it's not worth it on the road. Want to go fast? Do a track day. Radar detectors.. another brain dead idea. Cop uses a LIDAR gun (laser) you are screwed anyway, and you deserve it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Marko screenshot for posterity as it will no doubt change soon (last line):

how's louise's form - earring in both ears. he's been growing a vagina for the last 12-18 months i guess he finally decided to make it official.

vettel had a broken anti-roll bar linkage, which stuck his left front in the air and explains the brake locking. poor bastard has been so unlucky with reliability this season, and he still qualified 3rd. hope he sticks it up everyone in the race

vettel looks like he's carrying a brake problem, 2 times his left front locked up well past the apex he shouldn't even be on the brakes then.

school holidays again??

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nati...r-1225870334712 I strongly suggest you get used to what your car has, and allow yourself some experience before you make a temporary lapse of judgement in a car with a lot of power.

your skyline has chlamydia. she's been a bad girl.

I'd like to present Exhibit A, a Ferrari Enzo that's been in a slight bingle. Notice how it's a road car and the driver's section has separated from the engine (carbon monocoque) thus dissipating energy. Driver not only survived but his only injury was a bloody lip. It's doubtful that a regular car with spot welded metal chassis (like our favourite Hyundai Excels that seem to have collapsible suspension mounts) would have been survivable in this kind of accident. Therefore the trickle down technology of F1 cars can be applied to road cars in the sense that sports cars can be made faster while still being (relatively) safe to have an accident in. You wouldn't expect a middle range car to have this kind of technology, the top end will always get it first.

+1 to nismoman and Roy's points. There is plenty that trickles down and makes a difference but the application for road and race is very different. You just need to have your eyes open to spot it, it's not like next year's lancer will rev to 18,000rpm and last about 600km before needing a rebuild but it might have traction control (lol), ABS, paddle shift, etc which had their roots in a racing formula. What about all the semi-automatic gearboxes now available in road cars that have two input shafts and 2 clutches, meaning the next gear is preselected for a quicker shift? Tell me that had no roots in F1!

Hamilton has been a good steerer but he is increasingly turning into a whiney bitch eg "why do i have to look after the car we're only at half distance". it's well known that at monaco the speeds are low enough that most cars struggle with brake temps because there is not enough forward motion to cool them. red bull fit a secondary air duct to their cars for monaco. Louise just doesn't understand the importance of car management.

Mercedes not appealing Schu penalty http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2010/5/10807.html There have obviously been some discussions behind closed doors about this, they are discussing 40.13 at the next working group meeting. On face value there were green flags shown. Green means race, and that's the end of it. The flags are the cardinal rule in motorsport and if the race was still under the safety car they should have shown yellow flags to the start/finish line indicating overtaking was not allowed.

+1 bellmouth. too many stories about split dumps fouling or having boost issues. bellmouth works great.

Taiwan is generally a higher quality product. We deal with electronics suppliers from both countries and my general impression is that the Taiwanese are more skilled.

Beaten by paulr33, but Chinese manufacturing is all about quality control. If you have the parent company standing over the manufacturing plant watching every move and making sure the job is done right, it's fine. If there is no control then you get a shit product, but you get it cheap. Considering you get a motherboard that works for 3 days and then dies, you warranty it and continue on. When it comes to a turbo spinning at crazy speeds and possibly sending a compressor wheel through your engine the variability you get with Chinese products makes me steer well clear. You are putting a lot of trust in someone doing good QA, because the Chinese culture is to do it cheap. Japanese culture (by comparison) is to do it well, and that's expensive. Look at the premium brands for car parts - HKS. Trust. Apexi. On the other hand, Chinese radiator and bellmouth dump pipe? no problem. Got both on my car and they work OK.

Ross Brawn's rebuttal here: I agree with Brawn. The notification was "safety car in this lap". Safety car pulled in, green flags were shown. There's nothing in 40.13 that says if it's the last lap. The safety car was not deployed, it was pulled in on the last lap ergo it's normal racing conditions and Alonso (although full points for a great recovery) can suck it.

how convenient it really depends on how they drive them - remember bahrain everyone was taking it easy not sure how the tyres would last and they all worked great. but if you push them they last less, alonso used up a fair bit getting past some of the backmarkers so i hope they hold together for him and he gets some points this afternoon. been a clever drive by ferrari there to put him back in contention.