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Project Updates 17 June 2012
We have a new project at Rumblestrip.NET, we’ve been fortunate enough to score a 1978 Yamaha XS400 for FREE!! It has under 1000 original miles, the original tires, it’s really in fantastic shape! OK there are a couple things that need to be fixed. When it was put in storage it still had gas in the tank! So, the tank is pretty nasty and the petcock is all gummed up. The calipers are also going to have to come off and get cleaned up, along with replacing most of the old rubber parts.
We are also gathering parts to update the 95 Mustang GT too. We have a new Cobra nose that’s been painted to match the factory color, our Pro Topline heads have been gone through and are ready to go, we have rockers on order, and a few other parts we need to order.
Anyway have a look at the video to check out the bike and get all of the updates.
Reviewed: 2012 Audi A6
You often find that cars the automotive media hype endlessly, never live up to that billing. Few cars in the last two or three years have been hyped as much as the Audi A6, and, while the car has been out for almost a year now, and few bad things have been said about it to date. We had the new A6 come in for testing recently and had the opportunity recently to findout for ourselves just how good this car could be. Have a watch, and enjoy!
Here is the full range of pictures that we shot fo the car.
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First Drive: 2013 Scion FR-S – Friggin Really SWEET!!
It’s one of the most highly anticipated cars of the last 24 months, a car that goes back to the roots of what a sports car should be, light, agile and fun to drive!
Scion brought us out to Spring Valley Motorsport Ranch to have a go with the 2013 Scion FR-S, know as the FT-86 elsewhere in the world, to see if it lives up to the hype. The question is, does it deliver? Have a look at the video to find out.
Audi Tests The R18 e-tron quattro After Sebring 12 Hours Victory
If you follow racing much, then you know that sometimes the testing the day or two after the race is sometimes more interesting than the race itself. The track is usually in fantastic shape, the team and divers are in a good rhythm for working all weekend, and if they have had a particularly good weekend they carry that momentum forward, and if they’ve have a very bad weekend, they are looking to erase all of that with a solid test.
Audi had an excellent weekend at Sebring, taking the victory in the 60th running of the 12 Hour race, and as they have done in the past, used the Monday after the race to test machinery that they intend to race later in the year at Spa and LeMans. For the test Audi not only continued to work on developing the R18 Ultra, but also the new R18 e-tron quattro.
The R18 e-tron quattro takes the Turbo Diesel V6 from the R18 Ultra and pairs with it a flywheel hybrid system that sister company Porsche have been developing for two years now in the GT3 R Hybrid race car, and that technology has come from the Williams F1 team from the first time KERS was tried in the sport. In it’s first iteration in the Porsche the unit weighed 103 pounds, and by the end of last year it was down below 70, now with Audi also helping in developing the technology, they have cut that weight by another 20 pounds! It’s development like this why you often hear the phrase, “racing improves the breed”.
The flywheel hybrid system works by taking the braking energy, and rather than store it in a battery, or series of batteries, stores it in a flywheel that spins, in this case at over 40,000 RPMS. Then when called upon the energy stored in the flywheel is dumped back into an electric motor which powers, in the case of the R18 e-tron quattro, the front wheels with an additional 110 horsepower.
There is a “network” on YouTube called Drive, it features a series of shows throughout the week which covers cars and motorsport, it’s has some money behind it and so the production is quite good. If you are a car enthusiast, you will know many of the people who host the different show. In this case Leo Parente takes his show “Shakedown” to Sebring and talks with the people running the race program, along with the drivers. It’s a very good 15 minute video, and we encourage you to watch all the way to the end to hear what Ulrich Baretsky (Head of Engine Development) has to say about what they have learned in racing diesels and what that could mean to the future development of gasoline engines.