The official E9x OT thread!

Originally Posted by furby076

On a side note, with speed ratings, do you think they are just conservative? So speed rating Y may be for 186mph, but that's conservative where there is a nice buffing pad?

I am betting the strongest part of a tire is its centrifugal integrity (its ability to maintain shape and stay on the wheel). The weakest has to be the compound's ability to withstand heat.

That said, if you can keep a tire cool it will go quite fast without drama (I bet a properly inflated/cool "Y" tire will do 220 mph without issue for a short amount of time). The problem is that many tires quickly overheat at speed. The faster they spin, the more they flex and build heat. The compound is unable to shed the heat, and the compound breaks down... and the tire looses pressure... and failure.

This is just my theory, of course.

- Mike

Originally Posted by BMWFTW91

That is what happens when you have no life like I do not and you watch every single car review on youtube.

The two are from Motor Trend (senior editors). Jonny and I drove the hydrogen car from Germany to France earlier this year (and ran out of fuel!).

On that note, I was published in Motor Trend this month! April 2011 issue, check out page 112. I took the picture of Jonny on the Patent-Motorwagen (tiny caption on the left side). I even got to go for a ride on it in the museum parking lot.

- Mike

Originally Posted by pointandgo

LA finally warming up...70's....perfect HPFP repair weather. Fixed TODAY! No more Nissan Sentra rental (an incentive from my dealer after I told them that my lease is running out soon). I'll return the favor.

[It was mostly a DeHavilland Otter. Triple bladed. Or as the pilot explained, one spare. We got picked up once with a twin engined plane because there were eight of us and our gear coming back in. My son recalls it as a Twin Otter but I'm unsure. There are some things the brain does not like to remember. Like what happens to the loose gear belonging to eight guys during a steep bank. Like what happens to the balance of an aircraft when 800 lbs of gear rapidly moves from one side of the aircraft to the other. Stuff like that.]

Originally Posted by DSXMachina

Wow, she's making 800K now?

No way. Absolutely impossible. I mean, come on. BJ is making, 37,500 tops and I'm including benefits and long term incentive awards. If he made more he'd rent a cabriolet.

Originally Posted by Emission

I am betting the strongest part of a tire is its centrifugal integrity (its ability to maintain shape and stay on the wheel). The weakest has to be the compound's ability to withstand heat.

That said, if you can keep a tire cool it will go quite fast without drama (I bet a properly inflated/cool "Y" tire will do 220 mph without issue for a short amount of time). The problem is that many tires quickly overheat at speed. The faster they spin, the more they flex and build heat. The compound is unable to shed the heat, and the compound breaks down... and the tire looses pressure... and failure.

This is just my theory, of course.

- Mike

It's a good one. Heat buildup results in more catastrophic failure than anything else. Seen all those retreads ripped from trucks littering the highways? They ran low on air and the heat build up subsequently destroyed the tread bond (if a retread), or rapidly degraded the carcass.
A tire's speed rating is what a properly loaded and inflated tire can do all day long. Naturally it can exceed the rating for shorter periods of time, there's X% safety factor built in.
Are the tires on cars driven at speed checked for inflation just before the run? Are they inflated to the maximum pressure listed on the door jamb for running at speed?
When I was young and stupid and first had my license, my friends and I piled into by father's Buick Beach Wagon and drove from northern Mass. to southern NH at 120 mph. We thought nothing of it. It still gives me chills thinking of all the things I did and didn't deserve to survive. One of the other kids in the car must have led a charmed life.

Originally Posted by cwinter

No way. Absolutely impossible. I mean, come on. BJ is making, 37,500 tops and I'm including benefits and long term incentive awards. If he made more he'd rent a cabriolet.

After tolls, this is probably an accurate figure. That's big money in NH where everyone knew his name. It's a Christmas bonus in Manhattan.

yea he is just rolling in cash
800 combined lolz actually thats prolly a lot on the e90forums huh

so anybody carry guns in their car?
I got a 1911 in the E39 but a snub 38 in the E90. Im thinking of grabbing a Glock 19 for the E90

Originally Posted by DSXMachina

It's a good one. Heat buildup results in more catastrophic failure than anything else. Seen all those retreads ripped from trucks littering the highways? They ran low on air and the heat build up subsequently destroyed the tread bond (if a retread), or rapidly degraded the carcass.
A tire's speed rating is what a properly loaded and inflated tire can do all day long. Naturally it can exceed the rating for shorter periods of time, there's X% safety factor built in.
Are the tires on cars driven at speed checked for inflation just before the run? Are they inflated to the maximum pressure listed on the door jamb for running at speed?When I was young and stupid and first had my license, my friends and I piled into by father's Buick Beach Wagon and drove from northern Mass. to southern NH at 120 mph. We thought nothing of it. It still gives me chills thinking of all the things I did and didn't deserve to survive. One of the other kids in the car must have led a charmed life.

This explains the prevalence of Toyota Camry's and Honda Accord's fitted with compact spares, driven by clueless, cellphone yapping drivers that hit the open road between Houston and San Antonio at 80+ mph, sort of.....

Originally Posted by andyffer

yea he is just rolling in cash

800 combined lolz

so anybody carry guns in their car?
I got a 1911 in the E39 but a snub 38 in the E90. Im thinking of grabbing a Glock 19 for the E90

Nope, just a rifle on the rear window rack of the F250, in season. Had a lousy season last year. Got one opening day.

Originally Posted by andyffer

yea he is just rolling in cash
800 combined lolz

so anybody carry guns in their car?
I got a 1911 in the E39 but a snub 38 in the E90. Im thinking of grabbing a Glock 19 for the E90

Does a super soaker water cannon filled with Optimum Detailer count as a gun?

Originally Posted by Nordic_Kat

This explains the prevalence of Toyota Camry's and Honda Accord's fitted with compact spares, driven by clueless, cellphone yapping drivers that hit the open road between Houston and San Antonio at 80+ mph, sort of.....

Last Summer I had a new customer roll up looking for an inspection sticker. So as not to aggravate noobs we do a walk around in the parking lot before bringing it in. The car had FOUR space saver tires on it! The owner was royally pissed that we would not put a sticker on it.
I should have brought it in, done a full inspection, and charged the jerk $40.* Then he would have had something to be pissed about.

* going rate, pass or fail

Originally Posted by DSXMachina

It's a good one. Heat buildup results in more catastrophic failure than anything else. Seen all those retreads ripped from trucks littering the highways? They ran low on air and the heat build up subsequently destroyed the tread bond (if a retread), or rapidly degraded the carcass.
A tire's speed rating is what a properly loaded and inflated tire can do all day long. Naturally it can exceed the rating for shorter periods of time, there's X% safety factor built in.
Are the tires on cars driven at speed checked for inflation just before the run? Are they inflated to the maximum pressure listed on the door jamb for running at speed?
When I was young and stupid and first had my license, my friends and I piled into by father's Buick Beach Wagon and drove from northern Mass. to southern NH at 120 mph. We thought nothing of it. It still gives me chills thinking of all the things I did and didn't deserve to survive. One of the other kids in the car must have led a charmed life.

You are lucky to be alive.

Today's cars all have tire pressure monitoring systems. I am sure they checked the tire pressures before we made the runs... right?

- Mike

Originally Posted by DSXMachina

Here's your makeup class.

Emission starts perfect thread for his Autoblog Annex. No one wants to talk about cars.
BJ 1.0 returns. Sounds just like old BJ. Needs new material.
Andyffer returns. Sounds just like his parents. Needs new material.
Cwinter returns. Sounds like he's still not getting enough sleep. Parents' needs immaterial.
DSX still needs a life.

Whew, thanks for the Cliff's notes ... I see a lot of purple haze here now ....

Originally Posted by thekurgan

Whew, thanks for the Cliff's notes ... I see a lot of purple haze here now ....

Woo Hoo!

Originally Posted by Emission

You are lucky to be alive.
Today's cars all have tire pressure monitoring systems. I am sure they checked the tire pressures before we made the runs... right?

- Mike

Oh, that's probably not even on my 'Top 10 childhood stupid things I did' list.
Hopping freight trains to Boston and back to Lynn, riding ice flows down the Saugus River, swimming almost all the way across Flax Pond on a dare, setting shotgun shells off with a candle, thumbing everywhere, driving (sorta) construction equipment which had the keys left in the ignition, messing around with a welder at Breakheart Reservation to see how big a spark I could make, scuba diving off the Dog Bar and running out of air in a rip current, learning to fly by 'borrowing' my girlfriend's dad's Cessna and skimming up and down a grass strip in Piscataway, having BB gun fights in the Natick Town Forest. Things like that are on my list.
What a great childhood I had!

Originally Posted by thekurgan

Whew, thanks for the Cliff's notes ... I see a lot of purple haze here now ....

17 degrees and snowing today a little work tonight, a 4 hour ride home and it looks like i missed a weeks worth of fun. thanks for the cliff notes!

Where you working Angler?

Originally Posted by DSXMachina

Where you working Angler?

yep, btw mrs. angler is lobbying for us to stay at the mount washington hotel on the first night of cc3.

Originally Posted by DSXMachina

Oh, that's probably not even on my 'Top 10 childhood stupid things I did' list.
Hopping freight trains to Boston and back to Lynn, riding ice flows down the Saugus River, swimming almost all the way across Flax Pond on a dare, setting shotgun shells off with a candle, thumbing everywhere, driving (sorta) construction equipment which had the keys left in the ignition, messing around with a welder at Breakheart Reservation to see how big a spark I could make, scuba diving off the Dog Bar and running out of air in a rip current, learning to fly by 'borrowing' my girlfriend's dad's Cessna and skimming up and down a grass strip in Piscataway, having BB gun fights in the Natick Town Forest. Things like that are on my list.
What a great childhood I had!

The baddest thing I ever did was to surreptiously hike up the Mt. Manitou incline while it was still in operation. That was my "bad" summer when I was 11 years old.

http://www.inclineclub.com/incline_old.htm

Originally Posted by Nordic_Kat

The baddest thing I ever did was to surreptiously hike up the Mt. Manitou incline while it was still in operation. That was my "bad" summer when I was 11 years old.

http://www.inclineclub.com/incline_old.htm

really, thats it? what about the naughtiest thing you ever did

Originally Posted by angler

really, thats it? what about the naughtiest thing you ever did

I could tell you, but then..... well, I think you know how that ends....

Originally Posted by Nordic_Kat

The baddest thing I ever did was to surreptiously hike up the Mt. Manitou incline while it was still in operation. That was my "bad" summer when I was 11 years old.

http://www.inclineclub.com/incline_old.htm

Originally Posted by angler

really, thats it? what about the naughtiest thing you ever did

Time for me to hit the rack. You two be good, remember Emission said to no NSFW.

Originally Posted by Nordic_Kat

I could tell you, but then..... well, I think you know how that ends....

Lets pretend I don't.... go ahead, kiss and tell.......

I've been up way too long. G'night, all.