Sean_IRL Posted March 1, 2007 Posted March 1, 2007 By the way I`m going to Dublin at the weekend - any advice on venues for music would be appreciated - Sent you a pm. Also check out http://www.dublinks.com/index.cfm/loc/11/pt/11.htm Sean
Highfield Posted March 1, 2007 Posted March 1, 2007 Great car JG and congratulations on getting it here to the UK. look forward to seeing it in the flesh so to speak. Ian
johndglynn Posted March 2, 2007 Author Posted March 2, 2007 Sorted a camera mount off the cage now so did some video this morning. First bit is here, nothing fancy just posted so you can hear what it''s like. It's lovely if you hadn't guessed! More to follow later.
Paul911 Posted March 2, 2007 Posted March 2, 2007 Sorted a camera mount off the cage now so did some video this morning. First bit is here, nothing fancy just posted so you can hear what it''s like. It's lovely if you hadn't guessed! More to follow later. Nice quiet country roads you have JG, well maybe not any more
Von Twinzig Posted March 2, 2007 Posted March 2, 2007 City folk eat your hearts out. Barely another vehicle in sight! Nice one JG.
AirCooledExcellence Posted March 2, 2007 Posted March 2, 2007 Cool vid JG, Orange sounds good mate Handy the way Youtube makes the speedo go all fuzzy
targa Posted March 2, 2007 Posted March 2, 2007 Re Video: I have sat here listening (with headphones) to that engine sound with a constant smile on my face. I reckon my co-workers must wonder what im up to this afternoon. Nice day, nice roads, enjoy.
johndglynn Posted March 2, 2007 Author Posted March 2, 2007 Pic for Jevvy: Am loving having two cars, however short lived that might be
AirCooledExcellence Posted March 2, 2007 Posted March 2, 2007 Hmmm, Duck ala Orange! Get it on the car mate
GaryH Posted March 2, 2007 Posted March 2, 2007 There was a van coming out of the big gates on the right, only stopped at the last minute. These are the public roads you know (you feckin south coast hooligan ) Yeah and you will keep buying these left-hookers which make it hard to overtake
johndglynn Posted March 3, 2007 Author Posted March 3, 2007 Was a busy boy this afternoon, have had to buy a big shelf unit for my Fuchs - excellent My tiny ramshackle garage now officially at bursting point:
johndglynn Posted March 3, 2007 Author Posted March 3, 2007 Yeah and you will keep buying these left-hookers which make it hard to overtake Doesn't look very hard in this clip As my bike instructor used to say, safe overtaking is 95% observation and 5% acceleration, whatever you're on or in. Hang back, read the road fully and floor it when a suitable gap opens, same as on a bike. Lefties rule for sure.
GaryH Posted March 3, 2007 Posted March 3, 2007 (edited) Doesn't look very hard in this clip Ok leftie - try that following a van with no rear windows or a big arctic where the left-hand seat gives you no vis until you've just pulled into the path of oncoming traffic - sorry mate, wouldn't touch a left-hooker for driving in the UK with a barge pole myself If it's 95% observation you don't get that in a left-hooker. Just my of course. Edited March 3, 2007 by Gary.H
johndglynn Posted March 3, 2007 Author Posted March 3, 2007 Ok leftie - try that following a van with no rear windows or a big arctic where the left-hand seat gives you no vis until you've just pulled into the path of oncoming traffic If you've not had one how would you know what they were like? Unless you have had a few in the UK? I've run left hookers for 15 years or so now, they are no problem. You can see just as much, from a safer distance, and overtaking is never a worry. If it's a matter of second or two longer to see what you need to see from a left-hand driving seat then you are not good to overtake in any case, left or right. Bike test teaches you that broken white lines are there to be broken even when not overtaking, so you use your road position to read the road - take the right-hand lane when safe to do so to get a better view - and pass when the road is clear. You are only talking about shifting position on the road by 2 or 3 feet (and from a safer distance) to get the same view as someone sitting on the right. Plus you have a good view up the inside of the car/van/truck in front, which the guy in the right hooker doesn't have or wasn't taught to use. No offence to you Gary but I find the folks who usually bring up the overtaking issues have never lived with a left hooker. They are no trouble to own in the UK, and then you go to Europe and you are sitting pretty. If we are ever out on a drive together, my left hookers won't be holding you up, I guarantee it
dugsud Posted March 3, 2007 Posted March 3, 2007 Ok leftie - try that following a van with no rear windows or a big arctic where the left-hand seat gives you no vis until you've just pulled into the path of oncoming traffic - sorry mate, wouldn't touch a left-hooker for driving in the UK with a barge pole myself If it's 95% observation you don't get that in a left-hooker. Just my of course. That's a classic post from someone who's never driven a left hooker on UK roads in anger! You need a bit of time to adapt but after a few good blasts a confident, experienced driver can drive left or right hookers equally quickly and safely (or RHD on the Continent) This is an accepted fact, not really opinion........just ask any of the classic rally brigade who compete both sides of the channel. IMHO the type of driver who buys the car he wants regardless of which side the steering wheel is on is gonna be fairly focused and would probably be the last to hold you up
limey2.7 Posted March 3, 2007 Posted March 3, 2007 That is a great looking car, the strong solid colour realy suites the shape. I would like to know the weight, with all the light weight stuff it will fly. Chin spoiler ? I know there is a need but I realy like the look without. I can't wait to see it in the flesh. I should be coming down to Bob's on Mon so I might give a ring, see if you are in. Limey
johndglynn Posted March 5, 2007 Author Posted March 5, 2007 Just put the last three vids up of Switz if anyone interested/bored enough to have a look. Some of it is good Driving to Switz Loading the Trailer Carrera Coming Home
tea boy Posted March 5, 2007 Posted March 5, 2007 In my own way I wanted to pay homage to our glorious leader so tonight I will share my high performance orange action. Goes 0-60 degrees in 5 minutes. Not so light weight due to cast iron chassis. note WEVO short shift egg flipper and WEVO semi solid saucepan mounts being Tea Boy this is always on
Andy Young Posted March 5, 2007 Posted March 5, 2007 Just put the last three vids up of Switz if anyone interested/bored enough to have a look. Some of it is good Carrera Coming Home JG loved the bit when you go back in the morning to hook up the car - as you get to it you touch it on the arch as if saying hello. I sometimes do it myself still in disbelief I actualy have one. Enjoy.
johndglynn Posted March 5, 2007 Author Posted March 5, 2007 Mark LOL, I want those pots mate Andy, I was actually sort of patting it to say 'OK, let's go' but yes, I pat my cars all the time. Life's too short not to pat your car mate
johndglynn Posted March 8, 2007 Author Posted March 8, 2007 Nice videos, and beautiful scenery round your way, John You are so right! Bit more scenery and a certain amount of 3.0 mayhem here.
Bertroex Posted March 9, 2007 Posted March 9, 2007 (edited) You do hold the car at high revs a lot more than us rookies - I would have changed up long before - but is that my bad habit from driving a VW Tractor TDI most days? The carrera 3.o comes on cam between 4000 and 6000 rpm. I take about 12 miles before I go over 3500 to 4000 rpm but then, as I was adviced by my engine builder, I get her regularly spun up to 6000 and ideally like to use that 4000-6000 rev range. I mostly use the car for long distance driving as I need to travel a lot to Europe (motorway speed limit is 3200 rpm so a mere cruise) but the strangest thing is that the car simply changes character once you have done 30 miles. I cannot explain it but it is as if everything is at the right temperature and then she simply flies. I have no scientific proof for that but with my eyes closed I can feel when I touch the 30 mile barrier- it is as if she says- RIIIIIGHT i'm awake now, all the condensation is gone, the exhaust note becomes more "raspier" and we are a team Also, I run my car without carpets and have removed all the sound insulation I could find. When looking at the video's, i could hear the gravel ticking at the orange's floor plan (ahem) and the exhaust is really more present inside than outside. For all the carrera 3.0's I have driven, it seems a typical feature. Imagine my surprise when I was first taken out in that Ruf SCR- that car is sooooooo quiet inside in comparison to the C3, that it must be a combination of the extra weight and strategic sound insulation that was introduced with the SC? bert Edited March 9, 2007 by Bertroex
johndglynn Posted March 9, 2007 Author Posted March 9, 2007 Yes, I tend to run up the revs for longer and I think it comes back to bikes. The way you ride a bike quickly is great fun (not that I am an expert biker) and I bought my Cab as a bike substitute so it gets driven like I used to ride and it loves it, lots of revs and lots of engine braking. Andy P said when we arrived at Tuthills the other day 'you can tell you've ridden bikes before, you don't use your brakes so much', which I took as a real compliment. I love the way the C3 feels in the revs, not totally alien to the SC but definitely different. I have been using the Cab all this week and it is a different environment totally. The Cab has no engine sound pad and no deadening in the floors yet is many times quieter. The SC noise is definitely 'out back' whereas in the C3 the trans is talking as much as the engine. Once you get over the initial increase in volume, it is perfectly acceptable and a great place to be to have fun. That was the only drive I have had in the C3 so far, so imagine what kind of grief it will be getting in 6 months time after 6 or 7K miles have been clocked up. They feel great up the rev range, everything starts to work together as the compression builds, definitely the way to go. I would drive something like the truck jeep totally differently and change up before the fuelling really goes to the ceiling - only way to get sensible mpg out of the thing, but 911s love revs IMO. I have one more clip to upload and it's a beaut, bucketloads of revs on a really bumpy road.
johndglynn Posted March 9, 2007 Author Posted March 9, 2007 OK last bit of vid for this thread is up on youtube here. I love this road, is bumpy but brilliant, steepish downhill section followed by some twisty uphill stuff, nice in the day as the views are nice but at night it's just you, the rabbits and the rev limiter, all the way home. Doesn't look too fast on video, same as the rest (probably best that way) but near the end:
Richard Bernau Posted March 10, 2007 Posted March 10, 2007 Sitting pretty to exploit their far greater supply of (quality) roads on the same side as everyone else is what I meant Mr Lawyer, right side for peages etc. I just did 1650 miles in two days in a rhd truck through Europe, and there was no diff to doing it in a leftie, just as safe IMO. I agree suboptimal is a word to consider in some instances. Gears I dunno, *** on the speedo is about **** (these numbers will self destruct in 5 4 3 2 1). When I am road legal I will do a midnight mission & report back. OK - I was being slightly provocative. On with the show, its got short gears then as it must top out at under 140mph. Or maybe the short R&P?
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