1 Topic by Autoxer (edited by Autoxer 2010-03-15 08:48 PM)

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Topic: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

Fixed the link!

Scrapes-n-Spins 5, availible in HD if you like, is now up at ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbeaXT-TVfo

Quality should improve when processing finishes.

The Cavalier crash footage from the The Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys and Autosport Labs is at the end. Some of you have supporting roles. Clearly, some of us need a little more seat time and possibly  anger management training. ;-)

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Re: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

Something is wrong with the link.  Is is a real youtube link??? What's the m.youtube part about?

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Re: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

My bad. New link will be up shortly. M is for mobile, I think.

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Re: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

Link is fixed.

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Re: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

Shows up as 'private'.


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Re: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

www.vimeo.com has been working WAY better for me then youtube. 500MB limit though, unless you're willing to pay for premium service.

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Re: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

It was my fault. It's fixed now.

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Re: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

now its saying its "private".....................

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worked fine for me!

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Re: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

Nice. It does look like fun. Except that last bit.

I wish I had shot HD at that race.  Instead, I have maybe 20 hours of SD (two cameras).

I should be able to start working on my videos in a day or so, after I finish the programming marathon/update I'm working on.

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Re: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

Looks like you need to invest in a proportioning valve smile

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Re: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

Contraband wrote:

Looks like you need to invest in a proportioning valve smile

I agree it appears that you have far to much rear brake bias.....I thought the 1st one was a bad downshift...but after the 2nd....brake bias.....

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13 Reply by Autoxer (edited by Autoxer 2010-03-16 02:35 PM)

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Re: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

Brake bias control is one of several things on our "To Do" list.

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A ghetto way to do brake bias is to cut/grind away pad material. Might want to use a respirator though........

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Re: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

Not to give away ALL of the Metro Gnome's secrets, but this uber-cheap proportioning valve should be easily found in almost any junkyard....

http://photos.motoiq.com/MotoIQ/Tech/Best-Engineered-L/Metrognome-RWD-7/707467145_svhRL-L.jpg

http://www.motoiq.com/magazine_articles … gnome.aspx

There has, of course, been some dramatic, but so far undocumented change in weight distribution. Along with that change, the Metro now uses Metro front brakes at both ends. This, naturally, does wonders for the brake bias. Before buying a high-dollar brake proportioning valve (brake parts are exempt from Lemons budgeting), alex hit a junkyard regulator with a rock and discovered this adjustment mechanism hidden under a cover. The stock porportioning valve is actually adjustable! problem solved.

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Re: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

brakes are FREE.....so in theory you could get a whiz bang cool bias bar.....I wonder what they run in the spec E30's.....try one of those?

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Re: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

Wow...so the homebrew prop valve is just the stock Metro part?

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18 Reply by Autoxer (edited by Autoxer 2010-03-17 05:56 AM)

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Re: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

I suppose we could replace the,  not working,  variable rear bias controller  that the 505 came with. Or should we go with a simple solution like the one mentioned above.

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Re: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

Hehe... Shit!

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Re: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

We have front brakes on both front and rear of the Fiat - we use different brake pad compounds front and rear to control the bias.  Mid engine, pretty low CG, so we didn't have much of a bias problem to start with.

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21 Reply by Solracer (edited by Solracer 2010-03-19 08:44 PM)

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Re: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

What happened was when we bought the car the rear brakes weren't getting much force so we removed the factory rear proportioning valve to increase the rear braking force. Everything worked great after that but the fronts were doing something like 80% of the braking and the pads were taking a beating. Swapping in another master cylinder fixed the rear brake problem and we thought a switch to better front pads would leave us balanced about where we were. However a bunch of last-minute problems (problems on a Peugeot, how unexpected) kept us from track testing it. The brakes worked great most of the time but the cost was the unexpected rear lockup you saw on the video. We'll get the thing balanced for Thunderhill and hopefully won't have any more lockup problems.

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Re: Video compilation, Sears Pointless

Solracer wrote:

We'll get the thing balanced for Thunderhill and hopefully won't have any more lockup problems.

Yep, well solve that issue and discover something else. ;-)

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