I’ve never driven a car with no suspension and a penchant for snap oversteer, but this bad boy right here corners like it’s on rails!

Well sorta... Sales is simple on paper, it’s harder in real life. I am very sure that if those guys stayed at the alternate job for a month, they would have been fine. It’s still difficult to jump from one extreme to the other like that.

I’m sure some of it is jingoism. It has to piss off RUF at least a little than an LSx swap can chew up and spit out most of their tuner specials. If you can't beat em, throw some shade ;) Ask one of the engineers, I’m sure they would cite the high rpm tuning benefits.

That’s a V8, not a flat 8. V8s favor cross plane cranks because it helps with the up and down vibrations from the pistons. Flat 8s have those vibrations cancelled out by the opposing bank, so there would be no reason to put a cross plane crank in it.

Why would a flat 8 have a cross plane crank in the first place?

Even I don't know what country post 240 Volvos are from :(

They have to build em somewhere. I think the idea is that a whole pile of tax incentives will make it cheaper to build a new one in Alabama than to upgrade the existing factory. I bet the state is willing to do whatever it takes to make that math work.

What scares me is not so much your comment specifically, but that there are kids on here who are that dense. I live in Texas near Eagle Ford, and just down at the coast there is the whole offshore thing. You may remember that from the BP spill. The key to what Audi is doing is that it can exist as an add-on to an…

I did one on my old 90’s era Civic in a quick afternoon. It depends on how kind the OEM was when it laid everything out. In good cases you just disconnect all the wires and pull the head/manifolds as a unit. Works best when there isn’t 20lbs of crap in the way.

You only do that kind of mileage on the highway. I went 1600 miles last week and my brakes barely felt it.

When my Volvo 240 was on the road it would do 100+mph. It was only 108hp new, 40 years ago. At the time, on a good day, maybe 90hp (this was only a few months before it gave up the ghost)

While Illinois does have an “eavesdropping law” that prohibits people from recording others without their consent, Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Nerheim says the law would not apply in this case because, “...you don’t have an expectation of privacy with somebody else’s car.”

You say ‘just extracting’ like the shit just jumps out of the ground and into your gas tank.

Do some reading on biofuels. It’s not nearly that simple. Once Audi’s process is refined, it may be a good option in some circumstances. Especially if it's built into an existing industrial facility with lots of waste CO2 and heat.

On what planet is oil production “free”?

Amtrak’s situation is really frustrating. Our ‘special’ blend of politics makes the problem almost insurmountable. To make it work, Amtrak needs giant piles of public money, likely on the order of trillions of dollars.

Which is why the SS is such a sales superstar.

Mr Bernoulli disagrees with you. Carbs “keep up” because the air grabs its own fuel on the way to the port. You even have things like accelerator pumps that add fuel as a mechanical function of the throttle opening. There is no threshold limit for response time unless you count the speed of sound.

Flat slide carbs are an evolution of SUs, which were standard fare in Europe for over half a century. They gave awesome response too, and they’re essentially WW2 tech. Also, what about Webers? DCOE, IDA, lots of models to choose from, all awesome. Tons of these (or similar designs) were fitted as original equipment.