If you’re young and want a driving license in our country, drifting lessons are mandatory
Swedish are crazy. Did you follow that ghostrider? Not riding much any more, but it took him a long time.
I had to lock that ghostrider up. Watched for a minute or so. Too scary for my taste - I shut the video down
I think I have seen them all. Still driving motorbike back then
The other day when i drove my favourite backroad from work, i “pushed” the limits some with the volvo, and got the idea to try drift it on wood, for a video.
I feel i need to test that some, but… nowadays i just keep thinking about all the trouble if ending up in the ditch, call someone with a tractor, waiting, coming home later, maybe break something and need to fix the car…
Could this be age related, can’t remember i contemplated the risks when younger
Well, if the nearby lake freezes, thick enough ice for driving, im gonna try woodgas-drifting, even if older and wiser(?), if it’s pretty safe, the boy will still play…
getting old for sure
Goran,
If you try woodgas-drifting, do get someone to make a video.
Göran, let’s just leave age out and say it’s pure wisdom
I’ve tried push it a little myself, but it seems the gasifier makes the rear end heavy enough I would need to switch back to summer tires to do any serious drifting on woodgas
For sure.
If it’s happen on a frozen lake it would be filmed both from outside, and inside the car
Well, wisdom was probably the word i was looking for.
Drifting is more a matter of speed, than tires
Only thing making me nervous is the heavy rear, probably hard to control, when rear starts to slide, it will keep going.
I once had a Volvo 360 (gearbox on rear axle, short car) once it started drift, suddenly you go bacwards…
One of the first cars I drove was an old VW Beetle. In the rain (no snow where I grew up) I enjoyed sliding around right turns. Then I got a Corvair (air cooled, rear engine Chevrolet). I tried the same thing on a left turn, and wound up facing backwards in the wrong lane. Never tried that again. I did put 280 pounds, call it 130 kilos, of sand in the front trunk, and lowered the tire pressure. Chevy recommended 12 psi in the front tires, which seemed crazy to me, so I went with 15 psi and sand.
A little above. In a polder so we need extra height to let the river flow. In 1953 we had a disaster, bad dykes and nord west storm and spring-tide was enough to flood the south west. Water came just before the church in our village. Well next time it will come further.
In the west in the cities, they are low, way under sea level. I wouldnt sleep. Cant wait to make some videos, but it has to be done on woodgas. Scary polders overthere. With the rising of the sea and pumping the polders it will give problems in the future, no doubt about that. Ground is sinking, year after year and sea is rising.
I like Grady but I am not able to listen now. Our jungest is whatching Trump’s inauguration. Just arived home and some administration to do.
Thanks Mike. Learned some. Why there is water around the Flevopolder.
The maeslandkering that shuts off Rotterdam is partially made in , again, CZ . No one in Europe was able to pour the two big wrists/ turning points. Only a factory in CZ, heavy metal:grinning:. Still, if it closes it is big news. It doesnt happen that often.
Money? Because of the Deltaworks we were asked to build the palms in Dubai. All well payed.
Hey fellows here is a very interesting newly released video.
For me it shows just why the upper cylinder wear I’ve observed over the years.
I’d always thought it was just combustion erosion effects.
Lots of details in this one:
Amazing the 5-10% overall reduction in internal engine parasitic friction.
Sure a mechanical complexity that would cost to add. Then itself may lead to shortened usable engine longevity. Like Nissans put into production varying compression by crankshaft system. Ha! Honda did make up true multilink crankshaft Atkinson’s research engine but was never satisfied they could wears survive in real world use. One of the real reasons actually in production sleeve valve engines got set aside. Nice graphic in the video on these. As said their sleeves did not completely rotate. Actuated back and forth to align; the close ported openings.
Still in a single cylinder or V-twin engine it would not be an impossible system to build in.
Piston internal combustion engine with incremental improvements have for a strong 125 years always been leaving other brainiac (Mr Wankle and 100 others) systems in the dust bin of history.
Regards
Steve Unruh