Noble - whats one sound like then???

[joust]

Seeing as a few threads have asked what a noble sounds like - here's me going up through 3 gears in mine on a NSL road outside Warlingham

230Kbps (Broadband)
www.lotus-elise.org.uk/m12/Noble%20-%203%20gears%20high.WMV

100Kbps (Dual ISDN or similar)
www.lotus-elise.org.uk/m12/Noble%20-%203%20gears%20medium.WMV

I'll capture some more off the DV cam and put it up later.

Joust

>>> Edited by joust on Wednesday 2nd October 17:30

[ErnestM]

Great Video!

Looks fun! Is that a dump/blowoff "chuff" that I hear? If so is that standard or aftermarket.

To coin a phrase I have learned on PH:
It sounds the business!

ErnestM

Gonna have to lurk a bit more on this Noble area methinks)

[joust]

Yep - it's the dump valves on the twin turbos

Here a longer drive along the same road from the other direction with a fine overtaking move in 3rd gear at around 45mph!

mungo - go find an Internet cafe that has sound!

Broadband
www.lotus-elise.org.uk/m12/Country%20Lane%20Drive%20-%20High.WMV

ISDN
www.lotus-elise.org.uk/m12/Country%20Lane%20Drive%20-%20Medium.WMV

[AJLintern]

I have enough trouble keeping my car below the speed limit - 2 gears and your already at 60 can't imagine what its like owning a car that sounds that exotic! You must want to just keep flooring it everywhere just to listen to it

[ErnestM]

Sounds Glorious!

In case you have ever wondered about driving on the right, here is one for you. Not quite as aggressive but I think the Esprit and Noble's cabin sounds are about the same (minus the "chuff")
(broadband only - sorry)
http://online.ayrnet.com/Lotus/movies/RideCamS.wmv

Well, when it comes time to swap the Esprit, if Lotus haven't gotten thier collective finger out and the Noble is available - guess where I am going

ErnestM

[craigalsop]

Nice looking car Ernest! I almost went for one of them 2 years ago, but ended up getting my Chimaera instead...
Have you taken it on track at all? - I've never been in any of the faster Lotuses on track before, just Elises & 7s.

>> Edited by craigalsop on Wednesday 2nd October 22:58

[tube audio]

Please share some more Videos!!!!

>> Edited by tube audio on Wednesday 2nd October 22:58

[ErnestM]

Thanks Craig. Like your TVR as well. The only tivs we see over here are the older ones and a smattering of wedges...

...however, I can't get over how well Joust's M12 looks. I mean I've seen pics of others, but his takes my breath away. Almost as much as my Esprit did when I first saw it...

No track time yet. Unfortunately a blown rear tire and punctured wheel (a steel cable right through - car, didn't flinch and it happened at 55mph - I just pulled politely over and called for service) ruined a planned trip to Road Atlanta road course. Next Year

Cheers

ErnestM

Yes, more videos (exterior while in motion if you have them...)

[actech]

If you want to see and hear a Noble at full pelt have a look at the track day video I made back in July when we went to Bedford Autodrome. This was a Noble and Autocar event with a total of eight M12 there.

They are quite big files with the main one being 70Mb and the lap video about 26Mb so you'll need a decent connection.

They are on the owners club site at:
www.nobleownersclub.org/multimedia/video/NobleTrackDay.mpg for the Overview of the day (dur 7mins)
And www.nobleownersclub.org/multimedia/video/NobleLapBedford.mpg for a complete lap of the Bedford South West circuit. (dur 1.5 mins)

This should give you an insight into what the M12 sounds like, how it handles the track (beautifully in my opinion) and the prescence it as.


>> Edited by actech on Thursday 3rd October 08:42

[joust]

quote:
They are on the owners club site at:
[snip]

Has your ISP got rate limiting on that account - I'm sitting on 1Gbps connection here and getting 4kbps!!!

If you want I can put it on some "proper" webspace that you can mirror to - allow people with BB to play direct rather than having to save it.

As it's your copyright didn't want to put it up without asking.

J

[adeewuff]

Yes please mirror it somewhere else since i'm getting 1.72Kb/s!!!! Only 6 hours to go....

[actech]

Joust is going to mirror it on one of his servers.

I suspect he'll let everyone know when he has done it.

Anthony.

[joust]

Unfortunatly I'm not getting the whole lot down - the download is timing out. However, I've just got our techies to re-route the site via our other STM-1 to the US and going to have another go.....

The things I do for people - I don't know

Edited to remove a rude word.....

J

>> Edited by joust on Thursday 3rd October 23:32

[joust]

OK - now I can't even talk to it.

I'll try and sort out some FTP space for actech tomorrow so he can upload it to and then I'll mirror it from there - keep on hanging people!

J

[JonRB]

quote:In case you have ever wondered about driving on the right, here is one for you. Not quite as aggressive but I think the Esprit and Noble's cabin sounds are about the same

Thanks, ErnestM. One thing though - the accelerator is on the RIGHT. You need to press it down HARD.

(This is a public information service provided by Irresponsible Use Of Speed Video Productions Inc.)

[JonRB]

More serious question now.

Joust - how did you get the camera so steady? I notice that there is a degree of up-and-down movement, but virtually no shake, roll or lateral movement.

Either you have an extremely steady-handed cameraperson or you have some technology at work there. Which is it?

[joust]

quote:
More serious question now.
Joust - how did you get the camera so steady? I notice that there is a degree of up-and-down movement, but virtually no shake, roll or lateral movement.
Either you have an extremely steady-handed cameraperson or you have some technology at work there. Which is it?

Ugh - got found out.

It's called a B&S Spcalist Car Mount. I imported some of them some years ago from a small manufactuer from somewhere in Australia I think (or was it Canada - can't quite remember).

It comes in 3 parts.

The first part is just like a normal camera mount, in that it's black plastic and you screw it into the bottom of your camera. The really clever bit is that it has a springy other metal bit that is meant to provide "lateral stability and increased shock absorbing" (don't ask me - just reading from the manual....)

That plugs into a very very high technology mount - basically it's got a big bit of "special" plastic that the mount above clicks into. Then - get this - here's the really clever bit - it's got these sort of high tech (titanium or something - looks too shiny and expensive to be just plain old Alu....) things that you open up a lever and then pull on them and they extend outwards. This means that you can make these things (some people might call them legs) long enough so that the "legs" touch the floor of the car.

Then comes the final bit - mounting it to the car. The manual isn't much use - but they did provide a very special "squishy" thing that you can use in many many configurations.

So - I locked the camera in, attached it to the clever bit, put it behind the passenger seat (just to the left - about half past 11 if you are looking at a clock sitting in the passenger seat with 12 facing directly backwards), extended the special titanium thingys until the reached the bottom (come to think of it - they really do look like legs) and then used the "squishy thing" to wedge it into place.

Donno why but the other 'alf was right upset at me when I got back - something about nicking a "tripod" (I thought that was a TV series from the 80's) and the CD case.

Sush - some people!

[Oh - and the camera is a Sony PC-110 with an excellent "steady shot" mode]

J

[adeewuff]

quote:
In case you have ever wondered about driving on the right, here is one for you. Not quite as aggressive but I think the Esprit and Noble's cabin sounds are about the same (minus the "chuff").

I know you guys have low speed limits in the states but I used to drive my 998cc Mini Mayfair faster than that!!! Were you driving down to the shops or something?

[JonRB]

Joust - have you got a picture of this strange contraption?

[JonRB]

It's amazing what Google will turn up.

Have a look at some of these:
www.speedmount.com/how_it_works_page.htm
www.conecam.com/mounts.html
www.b-hague.co.uk/Mounting%20Brackets.htm