Getting rid of the brake booster
Posted by SeanP
Michel Hoche-Mong Ultra Moderator Location: Campbell, CA Join Date: 02/28/2006 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 1,156 Rally Car: Golf, Golf, RX-3 |
Sean Lane Elite Moderator Location: Sacramento, CA Join Date: 07/29/2011 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 334 Rally Car: 2000 Dodge Neon G2, bruised |
Brian Klausen Professional Moderator Location: Denmark Join Date: 03/21/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 388 Rally Car: VW Golf GTi 16V |
Erhm... please explain to me how you need "modulation" in an underpowered rig? Normally resorting to modulating through left foot braking is for high power beasts - possibly very peaky N/A-engines or turbo'd engines with tonnes of lag. Being low on power does not - in my oppinion anyway - call for modulation in any way - at all... What it does call for is carrying the absolute highest amount of speed through a corner, and the recipe for that is getting lines and general cornering techniques right - including braking BEFORE the corner... not THROUGH (and on the way out) of the corner. I know you've taken a lot of flack for this LFB stuff and your limited experience - and this may be conceived as even more flack. But right now you're not making a lot of sense to even me. Brgrds Brian 
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John Vanlandingham Professional Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
I think the amount of flack he received was very well modulated flack...I would go so far to say it was Left Finger Flack. I am absolutely convince of the indispensability of Left Finger Flacking. 
And thank you again for your level headed, well modulated flack hear on the exact points I looked at, shook my head and seeing the previous attempts to help this guy with his were totally missed and resulting is such absurd reactions... Just why the hell is it that you, a Dansk bonde driving a Golf seem to catch suggestions, nuance and even humor? 
Is my engleski that bad?  John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
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Jon Burke Ultra Moderator Location: San Francisco, CA Join Date: 01/03/2008 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 1,402 Rally Car: Subaru w/<1000 crashes |
meh. that other Burke is a co-driver....as a co-driver, I have an excellent finishing record
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Sean Lane Elite Moderator Location: Sacramento, CA Join Date: 07/29/2011 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 334 Rally Car: 2000 Dodge Neon G2, bruised |
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Brian Klausen Professional Moderator Location: Denmark Join Date: 03/21/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 388 Rally Car: VW Golf GTi 16V |
Weeell.... I have a pretty extensive theory on that... First of all, Danes tend to be pretty good at English compared to other Europeans (with the obvious exception of those guys that the language came from). We don't audio dub movies, and since there's only about 5.5 million of us, national television production is fairly limited, thus we watch a lot of foreign television shows and programmes. Most of that (95% or more) is in the English language. Thus, we hear a LOT of spoken English every single day. Add to that, the low number of Danes, and we NEED to know other languages... Nobody except Danes know the throat disease called Danish... Finally as a nation we don't have rules or a culture of making up our own "Danified" versions of foreign words. Typically this happens with technical terms and the likes in Norway and particularly Iceland, as well as a lot of other European countries. In Danish a drive thru, is a drive thru... plain and simple... And finally... As far as even Danes go, I'm actually pretty good at English. So language-wise we have a prettyy good starting point... Then add that Danish humor and communication in general is all about tounge in cheek, nuances, suggestions etc... And THEN add that I think that you are not like most Americans. Not like the ones I've met and worked with over the years anyway. You are much more in tune with that whole tongue in cheek thing, and in my experience that is REALLY hard for most foreigners to "get". I guess that you picked it up while living over here, and maybe you have a nack for it to begin with... Anyway... I think you're kinda like a foreigner in your own country 
That, and the fact that I'm just plain awesome Brgrds Brian
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Matt Follett Ultra Moderator Location: La Belle Province, Montreal Join Date: 03/13/2006 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 646 Rally Car: Don't Laugh, the Justy is Fun! |
Brian Klausen Professional Moderator Location: Denmark Join Date: 03/21/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 388 Rally Car: VW Golf GTi 16V |
But you're sorta missing the point... I know what you meant by modulating. My point is that modulation is not needed in a low powered rig... It just makes a low HP car even slower... And you're much better off learning cornering "right"... Modulating withe your right foot on the gas pedal is much easier AND faster in a low power car. Right now you're most likely just covering up flaws in the basic techniques, and not being very fast about it ... AND picking up bad habits... But it's a free country I hear... All up to you... Brgrds Brian
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Brian Klausen Professional Moderator Location: Denmark Join Date: 03/21/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 388 Rally Car: VW Golf GTi 16V |
It does... It doesn't change Sean's point of reason though. The point being inconsistent brake feel depending on throttle level. Brgrds Brian
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Matt Follett Ultra Moderator Location: La Belle Province, Montreal Join Date: 03/13/2006 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 646 Rally Car: Don't Laugh, the Justy is Fun! |
John Vanlandingham Professional Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Matt I thought i had scolded you before about using logic and reasoning and here you go again. And this time to make matters worse you're throwing around and confusing the issue with facts and reality.... Are you trying to help or do you need another thrashing? Don't make me put on the 'hard gloves'.  John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
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