Not on a 4 foot lever-arm.

Nah, the wheel bearings and axles are most certainly not. Hence the huge gap between the top and bottom of the rotor. Some quick napkin math assuming the rear of the truck has 2500 pounds of weight on it and it’s about 4 feet to the inner most wheel center shows that the rear wheel bearings are having a static moment…

Except Valve never bought “exclusives”. Developers could chose to use steam, or not. You could even buy games outside of steam, and register/activate them on your steam account. The only “Steam Exclusives” were Valve games.

Steam is a “soft” monopoly. They don’t have “exclusive” agreements with developers. Developers are free to sell their game any other way they wish. You can even activate a game bought outside of steam, on steam, without any issue.

I’m love/hate with this thing.

That’s an XL. They come with crank windows and manual locks. A $35,000 vehicle with crank windows....

But AWD has huge weight penalties. A Miata engine sits too far back to use a transaxle like Subaru and Audi do. That means you’re going to need a transfercase, a driveshaft, a front diff housing, and everything else to go along with it. Adding AWD would be a ~200 lb weight penalty for a Miata.

Also note in typical mall crawler fashion, the soft off road tires are burned down almost into slicks.

Just google search images of “engine jug”. 90% of the pictures are of the cylinders, and cylinders only. You can physically see the difference between the head and the cylinder in the first picture in the article. The head has the polished fins, while the “jug” fins are all black. The majority of what you see on these…

Yes, but if I was sticking my head out of the corner of a doorway into a room, I wouldn’t say my neck is what’s sticking out. The jug has always described just the cylinder - not the cylinder and cylinder head combo. On these Moto Guzzi bikes, the vast majority of what you see poking out is the cylinder head - not the…

What’s bolted to the top of the cylinder jugs?

That’s not what the argument was.

Saying “factory systems can go into the 1-2 kw range” is like saying “production cars horsepower ratings can into the 1000-2000 HP range, so 2000 HP isn’t a lot. “

The vast majority of cars with “premium audio” are under 500 watts. Most normal car audio systems are under 100 watts RMS - closer to 60-75.

A high-end 2KW…

The car audio guys are a silly bunch and basically drown all of the sound out with excessive, unbalanced bass. They want their subs to hit down to the 15 Hz range so they can “feel” the sound. It takes a ton of power to do that. My well balanced setup in my truck has about 200W for the 10" sub, and 100W for the…

Watts are watts. If your 1200 watt amp is rated for an 8 ohm load, it will pump 1200 watts into an 8 ohm speaker.

1st and 2nd gen LS400s have glass headlight lenses.

The LS’s always had whizbang electronics. The very first LS400 in 1990 had power memory seats, headrests and seatbelt height adjusters. They had 4-channel ABS and traction control capable of modulating wheel slip side-to-side. They had multi-disc changers, trick CFL and EL illuminated dashboard and tons of other…

Pretty sweet. Although it sounds like the transmission tuning could use some help.

That’s because you bought the wrong smaller truck. If you buy an S10 with the same junky 4.3L V6 and lame 4-speed auto that a C/K 1500 has, do you really expect to get drastically better fuel economy?

Pumping losses through a closed throttle plate are much higher than open throttle - even accounting for compression. This is because the compression stroke acts like an air-spring - meaning much of the power put into the compressing the air is immediately returned on the power stroke.

Basically the bigger the…