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DonAtWork
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2012-02-27 : 09:57:07
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| oooo i just got some awesome rotors and brakes for my goat from a shop on Ebay. They were HIGHLY recommended by all the gang on the GTO boards. They have been excellent for the past 2 months. I can check when i get home and post you a link. I will bet they have rotors that will fit your Z.http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jeffs/archive/2008/05/13/question-needed-not-answer.aspxHow to ask: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/brettk/archive/2005/05/25/5276.aspxFor ultra basic questions, follow these links.http://www.sql-tutorial.net/ http://www.firstsql.com/tutor.htm http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp |
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X002548
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DonAtWork
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2012-02-27 : 11:23:01
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2005 goat. I do not recall the brand. I could look it up if i were at home.  HA! http://www.gtoforum.com/f39/just-installed-ebay-brakes-my-experienec-28620/go go gadget public kiosk machine!http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jeffs/archive/2008/05/13/question-needed-not-answer.aspxHow to ask: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/brettk/archive/2005/05/25/5276.aspxFor ultra basic questions, follow these links.http://www.sql-tutorial.net/ http://www.firstsql.com/tutor.htm http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp |
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X002548
Not Just a Number
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DonAtWork
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2012-02-27 : 14:11:53
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| They have been rock solid on my car since December, and the guys on the Goat forum rave about them.(EDIT) I got them for the $240 shipped about 6 months ago off their ebay store (yep, front and back). Deal of the year for me!http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jeffs/archive/2008/05/13/question-needed-not-answer.aspxHow to ask: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/brettk/archive/2005/05/25/5276.aspxFor ultra basic questions, follow these links.http://www.sql-tutorial.net/ http://www.firstsql.com/tutor.htm http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp |
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X002548
Not Just a Number
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DonAtWork
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2012-02-27 : 14:26:50
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Oh i'm sorry, did i say mine was stock?  I have already run a local Ferrari (gorgeous yellow convertible).Yea, he destroyed me, but it was still fun  http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jeffs/archive/2008/05/13/question-needed-not-answer.aspxHow to ask: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/brettk/archive/2005/05/25/5276.aspxFor ultra basic questions, follow these links.http://www.sql-tutorial.net/ http://www.firstsql.com/tutor.htm http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp |
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X002548
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Kristen
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Posted - 2012-02-27 : 16:54:37
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Originally posted by X002548
One year difference1998 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 0-60 mph 5.1 Quarter mile 13.5
What do you guys (your side of the pond I mean) think of as fast?Dunno if its just me, over here, but I think of <5s 0-60 is fast, between 5 & 8 or 5 & 9 is quick, and beyond that is boring and then finally slow.Speedy things I have owned have been sub-5s 0-60Although nowadays I'm more of a hyper-miler than a boy-racer. |
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DonAtWork
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Posted - 2012-02-28 : 14:26:41
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Originally posted by Kristen
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Originally posted by X002548
One year difference1998 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 0-60 mph 5.1 Quarter mile 13.5
What do you guys (your side of the pond I mean) think of as fast?Dunno if its just me, over here, but I think of <5s 0-60 is fast, between 5 & 8 or 5 & 9 is quick, and beyond that is boring and then finally slow.Speedy things I have owned have been sub-5s 0-60Although nowadays I'm more of a hyper-miler than a boy-racer.
anything sub 5 second 0-60 is fast.I was too poor when younger to afford a fast car. Now i have a decent one, and it is comfortable to boot! http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jeffs/archive/2008/05/13/question-needed-not-answer.aspxHow to ask: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/brettk/archive/2005/05/25/5276.aspxFor ultra basic questions, follow these links.http://www.sql-tutorial.net/ http://www.firstsql.com/tutor.htm http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp |
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X002548
Not Just a Number
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X002548
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Posted - 2012-02-28 : 16:28:10
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Originally posted by Kristen
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Originally posted by X002548
One year difference1998 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 0-60 mph 5.1 Quarter mile 13.5
What do you guys (your side of the pond I mean) think of as fast?Dunno if its just me, over here, but I think of <5s 0-60 is fast, between 5 & 8 or 5 & 9 is quick, and beyond that is boring and then finally slow.Speedy things I have owned have been sub-5s 0-60Although nowadays I'm more of a hyper-miler than a boy-racer.
OK Rock Star..what's your hyperthreading ride?My Father-in-law let my wife of 17 at the time, take out his Aston Martin..twin Carbs...DB7??? That was a Fast car...0-80 in don't blink...up hill..very pretty car..too bad it was a lease...maroon exterior...blue leather...what a car..EDIT: Might have been a vantageBrett8-)Hint: Want your questions answered fast? Follow the direction in this linkhttp://weblogs.sqlteam.com/brettk/archive/2005/05/25/5276.aspxWant to help yourself?http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms130214.aspxhttp://weblogs.sqlteam.com/brettk/http://brettkaiser.blogspot.com/ |
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Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)
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Kristen
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Posted - 2012-03-02 : 08:43:16
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Originally posted by X002548
well what ever there times say..I know my Camaro is sub 5 seconds
OK, that's a relief, I thought you guys were talking about "quick" on a bunch of figures that were between 5-and-10. "Two great nations separated by a common language" and all that, but I didn't think you would be using "quick" where we would say "slow" "My Father-in-law let my wife of 17 at the time, take out his Aston Martin..."Nice motor. Now we have moved to hypermiling there is talk over meals of getting something more interesting for "high days and holidays". Aston Martin is the name that comes up most often."OK Rock Star..what's your hyperthreading ride?"Over last half dozen years the day-to-day car has gone from Audi RS4 (25 mpg) to a standard A4 (40-50 mpg) then VW Scirocco (60 mpg) and now replacing that with a VW Golf GT "Blue Motion" which we expect will give us 80 mpg.(These are UK gallons, and I think the conversion is about 10% more than US gallons)We also have a People Carrier, and on a good run I can get 40 mpg - I think that the "official" figures for that vehicle are around 30 mpg. My view on that is that hypermiling gives me about 30% more, and that's a good 10 years free motoring in a lifetime :) Much harder to beat the official figures, by using hypermiling, on the new vehicles, there is very little difference between driving them normally and coasting-in-neutral when running downhill etc. so technology is helping I guess I have a kit-car in the garage, based on a Lotus-7. That's a 3.9L V8 giving about 300 bhp (and weighing a little over half a tonne) so that's definitely sub 5 second! but it doesn't understand the concept of hypermiling (nor does the driver when I'm in THAT vehicle!) as the carburettors use the "bucket method" when putting fuel into the cylinders!Its a summer-car though, so another month and I'll get that out of the garage and get the roof down |
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X002548
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Kristen
Test
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Posted - 2012-03-05 : 19:06:59
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| It would help if I knew what "rotors" translated to over this side of the pond ? |
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DonAtWork
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2012-03-06 : 06:42:19
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| rotors = the big disk that the brakes grab onto to stop the car. Dunno what you call them over there. If you are a member of the royal family, i guess "Peasants" would do it. http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jeffs/archive/2008/05/13/question-needed-not-answer.aspxHow to ask: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/brettk/archive/2005/05/25/5276.aspxFor ultra basic questions, follow these links.http://www.sql-tutorial.net/ http://www.firstsql.com/tutor.htm http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp |
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Kristen
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Posted - 2012-03-06 : 07:40:17
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Originally posted by DonAtWork
rotors = the big disk that the brakes grab onto to stop the car. Dunno what you call them over there.
Ah, OK. Thanks. We call them "discs" - as in "Disc brakes", and yeah they can be drilled to cool them / reduce weight etc. In our lingo Brakes are made up of "Discs" and "Pads" (or sometimes "Shoes")."Rotor" to me implies something that goes round, and thus makes the car "go" rather than "stop". I couldn't think of anything in the "go" part of the engine that would be drilled though In the days before "disc brakes" we had "drum brakes", they were useless, particularly in the wet, and we still have signs after a ford that say "Try your brakes" that harken back to that era. (perhaps cheapie cars still have drum-brakes ... on the rear wheels perhaps?) |
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