Blah. For that kind of coin I’d expect the paint to match. The front half of the car is a shade off of from the rest. Also, the rims have a bunch of curb rash. This thing got rode hard and put away wet. No thanks.

The correct amount of horsepower is 20% more than whatever your car has now.

The cap was 276hp and it was largely bullshit. The HP was advertised as 276, but the actual output was frequently higher.

It would be a rare and extreme event to require two hands on the yoke. You need your right hand free to manipulate the other controls and instruments.

real trees get transported, too, but you’d have to use your fake tree for about twenty Christmases before it became a better environmental bet than a real tree.

We purchased an artificial tree a few years ago. The price for a tall, real tree started to get out of control (~$150). I picked up a high end, 9ft tree and never looked back. Real trees are a pain.

The current values for the two houses listed on the correspondence are approximately $2mm and $3.6mm (according to Zillow)

A mid engine car is one with the engine between the front and rear axle center lines. Techincally speaking the driver could be behing the engine or in front of it. The OP was being highly pedantic.

Mazda may not have a manual that is rated for the torque. They could get/modify another trans, but for the few thousand* they might sell the ROI simply isn’t there.

Lincoln isn’t attempting to compete with the German’s, Cadillac, or Lexus. The competitive set for this thing is mid-lux stuff from Acura, Infiniti, Buick, and maybe Volvo. They also sell 30,000+ units a year in the US alone. Those are not earth shattering numbers, but so far in 2017 (YTD) it has outsold cars like the…

The power rating if 227 is on 87 octane, the higher HP rating is with 93. It can run either, but you only get all the go with premium juice.

I know that the F150 is IFS. It also still has a front ring and pinion, halfshafts, uprights, and control arms to account for. Also the 9.75" rear axle is larger than the Dana44 in the JT.

Trucks have solid axles as well.

I’m not bashing the SR22, it’s a great plane. It’s also very rare that pilot error isn’t at least a contributing factor in a GA crash. The reason for the higher than normal crash rate, in my opinion, is the type of pilots who were flying them. The extra safety features (parachute, glass cockpit, etc.) brought on the…

I have serious doubts about Icon’s future as business with this kind of publicity.

Exactly. It’s the same reason some planes have worse safety records than others (SR22, at least early on). It was marketed as a new age plane with lots of safety. That made people complacent and a bunch of them crashed and people died. If you market a plane as as a toy that will keep you safe from yourself bad things…

Don’t run, we are your friends!

If you’re going to daily drive the thing and be in traffic a bunch, then I’d consider the auto (and then just maybe). If this is a weekend/fun/track car then manual trans without question.

I am wondering why an engine swap makes him a madman? Is this swap fundamentally harder or different than putting a Coyote in a Fox Body? Don’t get me wrong; the project is cool, but not crazy or insane.

Your comment completely hit the mark. Writers first, hipsters second, car guys third.