Mapping real time

[Chesh740R]

Yawn

I've just bought a Kenwood Mixer, its brilliant.

[Stylus]

Quote"Although speed in itself is not dangerous, it is the way unskilled drivers handle it. Many drivers are not safe at low speeds let alone higher speeds"

I personal think i concentrate less at low speeds as the mind and eyes wonder.
I tend to wake up as the foot goes down.

[imac]

Originally Posted by Chesh740R

Yawn

I've just bought a Kenwood Mixer, its brilliant.

I just bought a Tesco's Finest Pizza... mmm... Hungry

[Ross9]

It would be at the officers discretion as regards the dual carriageway scenario mentioned. It's fairly obvious if two cars are racing rather than just making progress back up to speed.

also, prepared to take a speeding fine makes it ok? actually, if you were doing it alongside another car, that's a lot more than just speeding, trust me, you don't want to go to court, I've been there and it wasn't good. Also, I was just speeding, albeit a fair bit, overtook a couple cars safely, apart from the speed being excessive, not "testing acceleration alongside another vehicle" and I still got 8 points and £450 fine, without them having any verification of the speed either, at the time I had 3 live points and I need my licence for work, I firmly believe had this not been the case, I would have been banned, the 8 gave me a total of 11 live points, thankfully 3 of them are now over 3 years old so don't count towards my total.

So believe me, if you get caught racing another car, you'll get into a lot more trouble than just a speeding fine, so make your choice based on that, after all it is a choice, just dont cry when you do get caught, and sooner or later, you will, be it next month or next decade, as above I speak from experience, and I'm certainly not a "lentilist" by any stretch of the imagination, just I learned from many years of mispent motoring, and I'm still no angel from a legal viewpoint.

Ross

[Jod T5]

Originally Posted by Chesh740R

Yawn

I've just bought a Kenwood Mixer, its brilliant.

LOL....
lance, what was the reaction on the vpcuk site to your question?.......i mean, i assume you did post this on there?....
cheers
jod

[foggyjames]

We're planning to live map the "700R" on-road. There's nothing in the process which necessarily involves anything illegal - all you have to do is hold the car at certain engine speed/load conditions, then do a few pulls to make sure the acceleration enrichments / transitional corrections (whatever you want to call them) are filling in the gaps AOK.

One prominant professional Volvo tuning house exclusively mapped on-road for over a year (IIRC) while their dyno was broken...and I'm not aware that they got into any trouble over it.

cheers

James

[v6en]

[QUOTE=Lance BLACK V70 T5;207818]Just wondered if Voc would condone real time mapping on a public road, because I heard some tuners use this method as a cheaper easier alternative to a rolling road!

I guess this was meant to be a rhetorical question lol? Of course the voc will condone on the road mapping so long as no laws are broken. Good mapping is about making the car as 'driveable' as possible as far as I'm concerned, which obviously means the mapper examining how the car performs in everyday driving, not necessarily at breakneck speeds!

jacq.

[pyaap]

Originally Posted by foggyjames

One prominant professional Volvo tuning house exclusively mapped on-road for over a year (IIRC) while their dyno was broken...and I'm not aware that they got into any trouble over it.

Funny you say that James because I thought that we had been reliably informed "that the way forward (and it's the way it's always been anyway) is to map a car on the dyno *AND* on the road". I always find it amusing how easy it is for some individuals to conveniently do a complete U-turn on their mantra when it suits them!!

[PNuT]

Originally Posted by Bob

I can speak for the other VOC directors when I say the VOC does not condone any activity that breaks and road traffic law or regulation.

Although speed in itself is not dangerous, it is the way unskilled drivers handle it. Many drivers are not safe at low speeds let alone higher speeds.


That is not what you said at first.

Section 144 of the Highway Code covers this. No matter how you try to dress it up it is still dangerous driving.

You need to clean up body parts after a fatal incident to realise the full impact of such recklessness.

Bob

ive seen quite a few posts on here from someone who suggests he drives on motorways at 85mph.... & then talks on his mobile fone coz its important....

has anything been done in this case?