Several years ago I was heading home from working on a car at a friend’s place, it was around 2:30 AM and I was beat, barely keeping my eyes open. My daily at the time was a 2007 MINI Cooper with a few suspension mods.

The road to my (old) house went through Amish country, so there are buggies on the road regularly. …

Sawzall + welder. ;)

I had a 800 wheel HP RX7 (so lots of power and very little weight) and it was very drivable, just keep your foot off the floor most of the time. Turbo cars are very docile for the most part.

Eh, I didn’t find it any more suspect than the Action Express 31 car blocking the 10 from 20+ laps down on the 2nd to last restart. Both were questionable, both were not penalized.

I’m just glad it was such great racing all the way to the end. Lots of good suspense in nearly all of the classes.

I have a 2 post lift in my garage at home. When I built my current house, I designed a 3rd bay with a 22' cathedral ceiling (16' x 35') to fit it in the future, and made sure the concrete was rated. It was about 5k more than the normal 3rd bay, which, in the scheme of a house well over a quarter million dollars really…

What kind of welding? I do TIG work on the side (and I’m not a pro by any means) and I have more side work lined up than I can possibly get done.

This is a Zoolander reference. “The Derek Zoolander School for Kids Who Can’t Read Good”.

Now, I would never hit anyone (well, not on purpose) but I will run as aggressively as reasonably possible. That said, I also don’t block people and I try to let anyone faster by as soon as there is a reasonable time to do so. Unless I’m actually RACING (which generally you aren’t in most karting sessions) I’m just…

I’m building a twin turbo Coyote powered ‘65 Mustang right now. The only reason I didn’t do the EcoBoost V6 was the lack of good ECUs for it and the cost was 2x the V8 right now. I’d strongly consider a hybrid setup if I could get 400 or so wheel HP/TQ from it.

Pretty sure electric dragsters are quicker 0-60 than that; my uncle set a world record on an electric drag bike that was much quicker (quarter mile in <7 seconds), so maybe they mean production vehicle. But if it doesn’t have a production interior, or body, or... anything, well it’s not exactly production now is it.

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Well they’re actually membrane potentiometers, but I was being simple for brevity.

DBW pedals run two separate circuits with opposing variable resistors, one sweeping high/low, one going low/high. They are monitored separately. They are logged and the ECU command is logged. Logically, if the ECU says that both channels moved simultaneously to WOT, odds are good that they did. The ECU having a…

There is an intersection near me with a light, then a bridge, then a light in about 200'. The lights change together, and people often hit the first one in yellow and gun it to make it, not knowing there will then be a solid red just ahead and run it.

Static compression isn’t a big deal, dynamic is. Dynamic compression is heavily affected by the camshaft, so you can build a 14:1 motor for diesel and alter dynamic compression with the cam timing to run either fuel, particularly with direct injection.

I’ve driven some 900-1200 HP cars on the street and the singular word that comes to mind with them is RESPECT. Alternately, you can forget that and instead go with “ouch” or “felony”. It’s an incredible feeling to know that at basically any speed putting you foot to the floor will result in a level of pressure on…

This reminded me of the Coates Sphericial Rotary Valve (SRV) setup:

Wait, so you think Tesla #3-6 drivers sat quietly in their powered off cars for 2-3 hours waiting for a Supercharger, instead of getting out and shopping, and checking back on the line sporadically? Because, yeah, I wouldn’t sit in my car for 3 hours just waiting like that.

I’ve built 1100 wheel HP racecars basically from scratch with that list of tools, plus a small 120V welder and a cheap bandsaw from Harbor Freight. Only thing we didn’t do was spray the paint and TIG weld aluminum.

This makes me think of a fight I watched a few years ago at a local car hangout (stay with me here).

I owned an E36 328i Cabrio. It was constantly broken, some of which I attribute to not being driven (it was 10 years old with 80k miles). I rebuilt the entire suspension, driveshaft, wheel bearings, brakes, hoses, cooling system, VANOS, etc. It still only cost me a few thousand in parts.