Did this particular truck get into a crash on the way to the photo shoot? Looks like a chunk of guard rail got lodged in the grille...
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A good racing ECU can actually handle all of that. It isn’t cheap, but it’s possible. Most of the time you either enter the sensor inputs into the ECU (or at worst set the calibrations so the ECU knows what to look for) and you go on your way. It’s a lot cleaner, lighter, and more reliable than poking around with…
If you’re trying to remove all of the factory mess it is the easier way to go. It’s also much, much lighter and reduces the chance of harness failure and issues down the road. On top of that it makes trouble shooting much easier since, as this article quite clearly shows, screwing around with the OEM diagnostics can…
With all the wiring issues, wouldn’t it have been easier to just build a new race-spec harness from scratch? Or is that against the rules for your class?
I’m sure it would get old fast, but for a little while it would be fun in a “My Cousin Vinny” sort of way. Kind of Italian but mostly bad New Jersey.
But at least when you’re broken down on the side of the road you’ll look cool in your Maserati.
Much like F1, the WEC made a bold move with their powertrain rules to try and create the highest tech racing in the world. Unfortunately, super high tech means super high costs and investors don’t want to blow that kind of cash on this type of advertising that isn’t as effective as say, handing a car to *insert…
Yeah, I’m in the same boat, if I had started with a bone stock car I’d have spent way less money and had a running car. Or if I’d bought one that was modified well instead of one modified by an ape, I’d have spent less time wrenching and more time driving. I’m determined to get it back on the road because for the…
Has to be my 1990 240SX. It’s a hatchback with an SR20 swap and a Silvia front end: the three things that were on my S13 checklist at the time (notice how “running” is not one of those things). It was in the far north end of NJ and the first time I saw it, I drove through a literal monsoon, so bad the Turnpike was…
A lot of them were utterly terrified Hillary would start the next World War. Or at the bare minimum, send them into the Syrian quagmire, or back to Iraq and Afghanistan. It doesn’t matter that Trump will likely do the same and is probably more prone to do so, but Hillary has a reputation as a war hawk. There is…
He actually didn’t come up with it. SST was originally thought up by Mickey Thompson in the late 1980s. It unfortunately died not long after he did in 1988. But Robby has certainly taken the series to its next stage and has done a great job of continuing the idea. Mickey would be proud.
SST was by far the best racing of the weekend at the Detroit double. The fact that they run on DOT tires means they slide them all the time and they were intentionally clipping the curbing, getting the trucks on two wheels AND PASSING EACH OTHER ON TWO WHEELS. Plus they fully embrace the “rubbing is racing”…
I work at a competing electronics supplier. First of all, anything shared between Bosch and VW is going to share a copyright or at the minimum a notice that the document is confidential to both OEM and supplier: that is standard and not an implication Bosch did something wrong. It just shows Bosch and VW were doing…
I didn’t see the budget range. Stick wasn’t mandatory and if you’re looking for a V12 but don’t care what model it is, you’re after a shrieking engine, which the LF-A does. But the budget throws it all out the window.
Son of a bitch I didn’t even see the $150K price tag. I guess cut it in half then?
McLaren has been in trouble since 2013. 2012 was a good year, then it all went to hell in 2013. McLaren lucked out like crazy getting both cars onto the podium in Australia 2014, but it’s been mediocrity ever since. It’s not all Honda’s fault, but Honda is by far the single worst part of the package. Removing them…
I know a Lexus LF-A is only a V10, but you will NOT care once you hear it. Plus, it will always work, unless most of the British/Italian cars people will suggest. Also, unlike those other cars, you will be the only one pulling up with one at your local golf club. Unique, reliable, fast, screams more than most…
McLaren has scored a single podium since the end of the 2012 season. That lone podium was with Mercedes power at the Australian GP, where they fell ass backwards into it because one RBR blew up, the other was DQ’ed, Hamilton blew up, and Ferrari hadn’t figured out how to make the turbo V6s work. It’s fun to bash on…