GabAlmighty | 01-20-2011 11:37 PM | Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco911
(Post 7273790)
So rather than accepting a good old fashioned defeat and saying I was right all along, this is the best you can come up with?
Pick up any of their magazines...it's in the fine print.
PSM is my friend. | Well, I ran out of things. You have essentially dug your own grave with this thread. You're coming across as a typical "greater than thou" figure, I feel sorry for you and whoever you bring into this world.
So... Does it actually tell you what they do? Because from the sounds of it what they're doing is they would be adjusting the car for the density altitude at which the testing is done, incase you're retarded this is pressure altitude corrected for the temperature on that day. The only time this changes a lot are on days when the pressure is excessively "off". That, and you have to be at altitude... Not a couple hundred feet above sea level.
Now, what this density altitude does for us is correct the "performance" for however high that the car feels like it's at. Hence, if you're high up or on a hot day when the air is less dense the car will perform poorly.
That being said, I've never heard of using this method to correct say an acceleration graph. Which is what they would have to "fix". I use it to determine speeds while cruising.
Unless of course they are re-tuning the machine everyday they test it in order to perform at it's peak on the day.
And to expand on that last point... Are they then driving the car then putting the numbers into a formula which would put the acceleration as if the car was driving in -10 weather?
And, you fail for needing a computer to drive your car. Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco911
(Post 7273795)
Nothing wrong with bench racing on a forum, now is there? | It's fucking annoying cuz nothing gets accomplished. Quote:
Originally Posted by spyker
(Post 7273802)
It would not happen,the PSM system in the Porsche C4S was designed to prevent stuff like that happening.It would make even bench racers like Marco look skilled behind the wheel of a Porsche.
Now put him behind the wheel of a Porsche 930 turbo,that would be a totally different story.It actually takes alot of skill to drive one of those beasts hard,without crashing or sliding wildly out of control. | No school like the old school. |