Need for Speed : Underground!! Nov 20th!

[Thoran]

I've always loved the NFS series (even the Porsche Unleashed version), got every one. This one looks like a winner graphics wise, although I'm not really excited about the fast & furious angle (damn those movies were horrible!), the supercar stuff has been done to death so it might be a cool change of pace. I see an EVO in one of the screeshots, and a Supra was mentioned earlier. If they throw in the Skyline they'll have some few kick-butt cars to go with all the grocery getters .

[Lavindathar]

I might get around to getting this, considering im into the real life underground street racing scene, but I have a feeling it will be unrealistic........

And just a note, you cant "tap" Nitrous Oxide in real life, but heh.

[Thoran]

Originally posted by Lavindathar: I might get around to getting this, considering im into the real life underground street racing scene, but I have a feeling it will be unrealistic........ And just a note, you cant "tap" Nitrous Oxide in real life, but heh.

I suppose you could set up a trigger on the wheel somewhere that you could pull to momentarily hit the bottle... but it doesn't seem like a good idea. Lots of stress to internals during onset.

I used a Nitrous Mastermind back when I ran juice (150 shot on a mildly modified lt1, low 500's)... gave me much better control of timing and mix than wot switch only. Now with a blower the NX kit is sitting on a shelf in the garage, maybe use it for cooling the intake charge someday... but that's after a forged bottom end rebuild, or maybe I'll put it on my Subaru [img]smile.gif[/img] .

[Zuvio]

Originally posted by Thoran: I've always loved the NFS series (even the Porsche Unleashed version), got every one. This one looks like a winner graphics wise, although I'm not really excited about the fast & furious angle (damn those movies were horrible!), the supercar stuff has been done to death so it might be a cool change of pace. I see an EVO in one of the screeshots, and a Supra was mentioned earlier. If they throw in the Skyline they'll have some few kick-butt cars to go with all the grocery getters .

It's all there Thoran, everything you want and more!

[Lavindathar]

Sounds cool Thoran, what Scooby you got (subaru)?

I heard the Impreza over there doesnt come with a turbo due to your emission laws (LMAO - poor fools!)

Its always cool to Oxide management, but lets face it, the sheer WOOSH from that button is a great feeling!

[Thoran]

Originally posted by Lavindathar: Sounds cool Thoran, what Scooby you got (subaru)? I heard the Impreza over there doesnt come with a turbo due to your emission laws (LMAO - poor fools!) Its always cool to Oxide management, but lets face it, the sheer WOOSH from that button is a great feeling!

I've got a '00 Legacy GT Limited, primarily a winter car, wife drives an Outback. We live in snow country, and I doubt I'll ever drive a non-awd car in the winter again.

The WRX came over a couple years ago... it's got the 2.0 turbo engine that's Subaru's bread and butter. The WRX STI is out here now, and I believe that's a new 2.5 turbo engine. Both are nice cars but I much prefer the neutral handling of the Mitsu's, the soobs tend to push like crazy (pretty much every one I've driven has anyway).

Nitrous is a great, low cost way to make power... but you get sick of filling the bottle pretty quick (as well as the fact that it's illegal to run on the street... and I'm getting too old to get arrested for that kind of stuff). I'm in the mid-high 400 hp range with the blower, that'll keep me happy until rebuild time... then maybe I'll do the twin turbo setup I've always wanted.

[Lavindathar]

Sounds sweet Thoran, Legacy's rock!

But I didnt think the Turbo was introduced in the USA cos of emission laws, nevermind! lol.

What you mean by awd? I take it you mean 4wd?

Let us know.

[Zuvio]

4 wheel drive = all wheel drive

[Lavindathar]

We dnt say that over here lol, so from now on we will stick to 4wd. Hehe.

[Thoran]

4 wheel drive != AWD... at least not in the US.

When a car nut refers to 4wd they are talking about traditional transfer case 4wd, power is distributed to the R or optionally to F/R (using a shift lever or solenoid in the transfer case). These vehicles typically were trucks, but early Soobs had this sort of setup (and even had low range... which was very cool). The transfer case is a stout gear driven device, and when a vehicle was equipped with locking front and rear differentials would lead to some crazy traction and great reliability, but locked 4wd operation was not suitable for on-road operation due to the fact that locking the diff. defeats the purpose of having a diff in the first place. Under normal conditions these vehicles were really one (if not in 4wd) or two (in 4wd) wheel drive, because you'd only get one wheel spinning in the front or rear.

AWD is the term applied to modern systems which utilize a center differential with a viscous fluid coupling instead of a transfer case, power is always being sent to all four wheels. The center diff is a complex toy that in high end vehicles allow the operator to adjust power distribution (in most vehicles it's a fixed distribution 60/40 or something like that), sending more/less power to the front or rear depending on driver desire and/or computer control. Coupled with limited slip F/R differentials (my GT has mechanical limited slip in the back and clutch type up front... LOTS of traction), so I have 4 wheels churning under most low traction conditions.

[ 11-20-2003, 11:57 AM: Message edited by: Thoran ]