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Old 07-03-07, 08:31 PM
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Originally Posted by caymandive
I wonder if he really does have Nitrous. On the front bumper the car has NX sticker on it.

ps..I hadn't seen this posted before in the 2IS forum and according to youtube this video was posted about 2 hrs ago.
Yea it was posted, trust me, i have no life

As for the stickers... heres a pic of my garbage can, according to the stickers it should be fast too 5hp per sticker = 30+hp over stock

Old 07-03-07, 08:38 PM
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They are not spinners, when your eyes look at the spinning wheels your brain is not fast enough to register every single spin so when the brain tries to catching the wheels already went a couple of revolutiond so your eyes always register the spin at a different points. So it makes the optical illusion as if they are standing still or going backwards. Trust me this is what I went to school for. By the way does amyone know what lip that is in the video?
Old 07-03-07, 08:55 PM
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I think the "floating" effect is a by product of the framerate of the video matching/nearly matching the rotation of the wheels. Much like 9520G described but the effect is in the way the video was recorded/encoded, not in the brain.
Old 07-03-07, 09:25 PM
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the cherokee has spinners too i noticed
Old 07-04-07, 01:25 AM
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that's a sneak peak at sevas new line of wheels that are all 3 piece forged. here is the showcar in the video, it is a vehicle sponsored by toyo running sevas forged and fabulous kithttp://www.cardomain.com/ride/2678502

here are a few other rims:



Old 07-04-07, 04:06 AM
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those arent spinners. any fans of physics know that when you spin a wheel with pictures of a galloping horse fast enough, it looks like the horse is actually moving. spin it faster and the horse will begin to move backwards. same deal with helicopter blades and wheels. of course the sampling rate of the human eye is different than that of a video camera taking a film of a wheel spinning. anyone know the speed that the IS was moving? i always wanted to know what speed is needed to see this with the naked eye.
Old 07-04-07, 07:46 AM
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Ron, that top picture of the Mercedes is beautiful!
Old 07-04-07, 07:59 AM
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Wow. That looks very nice. What kind of front lip is that. Dont think I've seen that around here before.
Old 07-04-07, 10:43 AM
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Well being that those are REAL spinners and not the cheap crap you see EVERYWHERE now, and they are racing looking rims that looks very cool. But I bet those are like $15k rims, so they better look good.
Old 07-04-07, 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by GFerg
Wow. That looks very nice. What kind of front lip is that. Dont think I've seen that around here before.

Thats what I want to know myself, it looks real nice.
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it is the fabulous lip.^ http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2678502
Old 07-04-07, 04:10 PM
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wow that top pic of the benz looks awesome all blacked out...very nice looking car!
Old 07-04-07, 06:36 PM
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anyone know which grill that is?
Old 07-04-07, 08:54 PM
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Is it me or does that look like MrMarks car?
Old 07-04-07, 08:56 PM
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sevas finally making a forged 3 piece wheel??


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