A Goofy Competition
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A Goofy Competition
This little game involves a 20 oz coke bottle (sorry pepsi), a cup holder, a marker, and your car's power.
Not really a competition where the winner gets anything, but here is the idea. Get the coke bottle down to the same exact level as the bottom of the sticker on the middle of the bottle itself. Find an area where its safe to launch, and launch your car hard. Then, using your memory, take a marker and measure how high the coke in the bottle went. If either A) the coke hits the cap or B) the coke bottle falls out of the cup holder, then I think its safe to say your car can launch very well. If it doesn't even get past the sticker part, then you either can't launch well, or your car is a turd.
Then, post your results by either taking a picture of the coke bottle with a line drawn on it, or use this image and draw a line and post it.
This is kind of silly, but I know at one point we all have had some kind of liquid in a container in our cars (most of us, some exceptions with the nicer cars) where we run through the gears and watch the level of the liquid to see how much it moves with each gear change etc. [8D]
Not really a competition where the winner gets anything, but here is the idea. Get the coke bottle down to the same exact level as the bottom of the sticker on the middle of the bottle itself. Find an area where its safe to launch, and launch your car hard. Then, using your memory, take a marker and measure how high the coke in the bottle went. If either A) the coke hits the cap or B) the coke bottle falls out of the cup holder, then I think its safe to say your car can launch very well. If it doesn't even get past the sticker part, then you either can't launch well, or your car is a turd.
Then, post your results by either taking a picture of the coke bottle with a line drawn on it, or use this image and draw a line and post it.
This is kind of silly, but I know at one point we all have had some kind of liquid in a container in our cars (most of us, some exceptions with the nicer cars) where we run through the gears and watch the level of the liquid to see how much it moves with each gear change etc. [8D]
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RE: A Goofy Competition
aww crap...well use the dashboard and some tape or the seat, but that gives an advantage...
Either way find an area that will be flat enough for this to work, if ya like.
or the seat, but that gives an advantage...Either way find an area that will be flat enough for this to work, if ya like.
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RE: A Goofy Competition
Thats the reason i cant even use the ONE cupholder in my car!
Its only about half an inch deap and only holds change half the time.
But seriously, i dont think it would be a good idea to try this in a mustang, i've seen where those cupholders are, there is NO WAY you can see where you are going if you look at that.
Try hanging a fishing weight from your rear view mirror and measure that angle, i'm pretty sure you can even convert that into G forces.
Its only about half an inch deap and only holds change half the time.
But seriously, i dont think it would be a good idea to try this in a mustang, i've seen where those cupholders are, there is NO WAY you can see where you are going if you look at that.
Try hanging a fishing weight from your rear view mirror and measure that angle, i'm pretty sure you can even convert that into G forces.
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