"NKato" (NKato)
05/10/2019 at 00:29 • Filed to: None
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"NKato" (NKato)
05/10/2019 at 00:29 • Filed to: None | 1
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Watching Station 19 on my break at work, they had a segment where they showed an ambulance doing the tire squeal. I mean, no. That thing is heavy as fuck, ain’t going to spin the tires. Instead of doing that, do a sound bite of the engine accelerating.
Problem solved.
Svend
> NKato
05/10/2019 at 00:43 |
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We had a front wheel drive ambulance once, I believe it was a Renault Master , which would lose traction under heavy acceleration from a standing position as all the weight was at the back and some was high up as that’s where we kept portable D size oxygen and entonox bags (all the portable kit was kept high up so the lower area was easily reachable for in transit patient care) .
The rest were rear wheel drive Ford Transit dualies.
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NKato
> Svend
05/10/2019 at 01:12 |
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The ambulance in the show was one of those massive box ambulances. They're all RWD.
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Svend
> NKato
05/10/2019 at 01:42 |
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Oh ye’, those things are massive and heavy. Any tire screeching is purely ‘artistic licence’.
It’s well known t he average American viewer does favour sensationalism.
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> NKato
05/10/2019 at 02:29 |
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While I’d doubt getting much a squeal, I’d expect to a turbo diesel one to be able to break the tires loose in a low gear when the turbo spools up enough at low speeds.
If you’ve driven enough medium and heavy duty trucks, many of them can spin tires in low gears once the turbo spools up (after some massive lag). Granted, they don’t spin them for very long before you rapidly run out of RPM’s and it’s time to make 5-6 upshift at like 18mph. It’s actually a situation you try to avoid in something like an 18 wheeler, because the forces involved if an axle hops or suddenly gets traction will start breaking stuff like driveshafts in a hurry.
My old house had 3 truck stops near it, and an interstate exit situation that had a bunch of 18 wheelers starting from a dead stop and making a tight turn up a steep grade. They spun tires all the time.
I once lit up the tires accelerating from a light on a state DOT dump truck that we were returning to them from the hydraulic shop. That was a bit of a pucker moment accompanied by me pushing the clutch in as fast as I could before things started breaking and trying a taller gear.
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> NKato
05/10/2019 at 07:04 |
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Clearly if was an Ford ambulance with a tweaked 6.0 PS.......DUH!