Well, given they made 2 million Vegas alone not counting the other marques, seven bucks per unit is 14 million dollars saved.

Goes a little way to offset the 50 million dollars GM wasted in getting licenses to produce wankel rotary engines...

I usually drive around with 2 quarts of oil because my GM product, an ‘03 Sonoma 2.2 with 296,000 miles on it, uses 3 quarts.

A year. 3 quarts a year*, I didn’t say that wrong. I keep oil because some day, it’s going to start leaking and I want to get somewhere to do something about it before running dry.

*when roaming…

Congratulations! You’ve just discovered what the NASCAR world has known about for decades... except they fill the trailing low-pressure areas with other cars.
Tweak the Cd/frontal enough to sustain 190mph with a restricted ~550hp and cutting that wake drag is enough to add 5-10mph. That’s why restrictor plate races are…

This is not witchcraft.
This is DITCHCRAFT!

I watched enough of the build videos to think he may have inadvertently removed some/all of the VIN stampings from the 2015 chassis.

This vehicle was also going to be very questionable with regards to it’s chassis integrity, I don’t know if he was going to cage or otherwise reinforce...

Where you have to have the ballast available for inspection, which means not entirely enclosed in something, would you rather try and secure a small, hard tungsten block, or one made of lead at twice the size... which may as well have the consistency of play-dough at the levels of force these cars can see in an…

Stick a hose (air, water, oil, doesn’t really matter) on the oil pump outlet and pressurize the oil system, see that oil’s actually getting to the rear main bearing. Same with the crankshaft where it’s not directly distributed main-to-rod.
Freezing can crack things, warp things... and knock things loose that later plug…

Hooman... almost human.

Got a set of rubber caster wheels once and the project changed so they got stuck in a covered plastic bin for a while.

Opened the bin a year or so later and the overwhelming odor of barbecue sauce slapped me in the face... no idea what mix of chemicals leached out, but the casters smell *exactly* like commercial…

Defense states car’s not capable of 191mph.
Court asks Defense what car is capable of.
Defense answers ‘174mph’
Court immediately lowers ticket to 174mph in a 60 zone and proceeds as if nothing just happened...

I don’t think the top speed argument works in this case. It should work if I was somehow clocked at 120mph in…

Most longitudinally mounted engines are designed to slip under the body on a frontal impact, have been since the mid-1970's if not before. If the crash starts to exceed the available crush space, the next thing that happens is the back of the transmission tears free and hits the ground, tilting the engine and…

I was missing The Rescuers, The Hobbit, Tron, Superman, and maybe Empire.... but I had Star Trek, The Motion Picture (you know, film #1).

Otherwise, same. Though, I was commenting initially because the parent comment... did they really change the plotline in the later readthrough versions? Because I definitely remember…

“Of course, they still can’t have meant rear/FWD, yeah?”
If the only consideration is packaging efficiency with a bend towards mechanical simplicity, they very well could have.

rear/mid/fwd gives you one thing that no other system does; you’re parking an engine between wheel arches where there’s no requirement to…

Delicious irony, using a man from Indiana and a driver from California to make a point about southerners.

Seems to be lit with several reflector panels between the car and the camera...

Maybe. But like anything else involving hot air balloons, coordination is just a hope...

‘69 Ford F100. 4 wheel drums and no assist, I was on the highway doing 55 once and decided to turn left about a quarter mile ahead.

I was still bending the seat frame with my back, when I cruised past the turnoff still going 20mph... brake shoes may have been a touch petrified though. It was a $400 truck that was…

The worst would only be the early ‘74 model. Not intended for V8 installations at all, things were quickly moved around and beefed up.

The look of the Mustang II is really only awkward because of badly integrated bumpers and those tiny wheel openings for the tiny wheels. Cut and roll the fenders and get some meat under…

“Those same people are also still using take-offs and custom builds of the ford 9", which I don’t understand.”
1 - setup is much easier on the bench than in the housing
2 - floating axles is easier with the 9, the 8.8 uses inboard clip retention
3 - custom housings are easier with the 9 because you only need to really…

1 - enter grocery store, grab cart and one of the wipes that they’re all providing, at least here. Bleach-based.
2 - wipe cart handle and leave wipe on cart
3 - Shop. Don’t touch or brush by anyone. Don’t peruse, don’t grab anything you aren’t keeping. Finger-hook case doors.
4 - self-checkout using knuckles to tap…