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insta
Type up a list of rants, add them to our ever growing list. :) These should only be technical in nature. Misplaced technology. Technology used very improperly (please exclude futuristic technologies as in Star Wars/Trek).

Here's my contribution to get you guys started:

Fast and the Furious (thanks to Godzilla for a few of these):

* A naturally aspirated 2.0L Eclipse topping out at 140mph in a parking lot.
* Hell, a naturally aspirated 2.0L Eclipse topping out at 140mph period.
* Said Eclipse having seven distinct gears, even though there is no commercially available gearkit for it with more than five gears.
* Owner of said Eclipse installing a large, two-stage shot of nitrous to overcome a gearing limitation (wtf? -- Nitrous gets you to top speed faster, it doesn't raise top speed)
* Every car doing a RWD burnout off the line in the drag scene. The Eclipse is FWD.
* Again said Eclipse running perfectly, even outrunning a police cruiser, after frying the piston rings. A car will hardly run with a fried ring (especially on a 4-cylinder), much less run that well.
* Do I even need to mention the floorboard? :roll:
inis
I believe a n/a eclipse could do 140, shoot my zx2 stock did 145...so a eclipse with some mods, and the proper rated tires should be good for it..but dunno about the parking lot thing.

One of my fav mess up's in the movie is every car jump, when they show under the cars..they have no engines lol
CJW
you mean when my laptop starts beeping saying danger to manifold my floorboard wont fall out? Oh man I reinforced that yesterday because I was scurd :lol:
jdrzx2
the parking lot at dodgers stadium is pretty big, with enough power i think he could have done it. i don't know about the rest of it after he blew the motor though.
venom620
well I got alot of these but my one real fun big one from last night is

- every time an airplane turns completly sideways in a movie to go through a narrow object (independence day, sky captain, to name a couple) it never looses any altitude.

try that one in microsoft flight simulator or something and see if you can stay at the same altitude bs_quesexclaim
jdrzx2
what type of plane are you flying in the simulator. fighter jets like the one in independence day are made to maneuver like that.
insta
The whole point of a jet is that it pulls towards the top curvature of the wing. There is no way around that. It's an inaccuracy.
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