Long long road [old old idea]

[Jacko1]

Hi most of you probably would like a very very long strip of road to see how fast you can get a car to go. Is it possible to make one?

[Kandis]

http://wikimapia.org/1894515/Volkswagen-Test-Track This track for testing would be fun :)

[amp88]

Hi most of you probably would like a very very long strip of road to see how fast you can get a car to go.

I don't want a long, long road and I don't like people speaking for me ;)

Check out Bob Smith's Vehicle Handling and Performance Analyser (http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=16961) for predicted in-gear speeds.

[bbman]

Hi most of you probably would like a very very long strip of road to see how fast you can get a car to go. Is it possible to make one?

A car's top speed is reached when the available propulsion is canceled out by the resulting drag... Do I really need to have a mind-numbingly boring and otherwise completely useless strip of road to find that out? Can you think of any challenge such a venue would provide that you can't find in a shorter version on the already existing drag strip?

[Jacko1]

Yes I do because some of us like to experiment.

[ChiliFan]

I have a question: Once you reach that top speed, what then? What purpose has that served?

[PMD9409]

I have a question: Once you reach that top speed, what then? What purpose has that served?

"Hey, this car goes xxx mph" is about it. Of course you have a few cars to do it with, but you will be bored after about an hour when you have went through all the cars.

[STF]

Once you reach that top speed, what then?
This.

Have a train of 10+ cars bumpdrafting away, longer final gear and hope to hit the limiter? Yeah, what then. Might as well turn it upside down and check it like that.

[Jacko1]

This.

Have a train of 10+ cars bumpdrafting away, longer final gear and hope to hit the limiter? Yeah, what then. Might as well turn it upside down and check it like that.

Well if turnin a car upside down is your idea of fun then you do that even if you got sick of it, it would be fun for awhile.

[cargame.nl]

Try Oval (KY1)

[STF]

I was talking about going flat out and finding top speed about until gas runs out, you got that right not my idea of fun.

I have to admit I thought about it, as in "how would that actually work", when I first read about it, here (http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=32636&highlight=top+speed+track#post32636)(more precisely, here (http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=2893)).

It might be interesting for a short while though, but if you really wish to find out "top speed", there are other ways.

Sure you could tweak it, but then you`d just pop the tyres at speed due to excess heat buildup in the sidewall (flex). 97845613.02 km/h xfgs anyone? Yeah right.

Would be good just for a laugh, but kind of useless, IMO.

[brandons48]

Surely a long stretch of road going downhill would be more fun? Infinite distance, just going downn...down...downn..dowwnn.. :razz:

[delis]

Surely a long stretch of road going downhill would be more fun? Infinite distance, just going downn...down...downn..dowwnn.. :razz:


And then put many red-white barriers :razz: