“It’s 1953. Your Cadillac Eldorado weighs 5000lbs. What <8 cyl engine are you going to put in there so that it moves...at all? A car not needing a V8 and a person not needing a car that needs a V8 are two separate things.”
Say hello to GMC’s 478ci V6.
You have to remember the only V8 engines Ford has right now, across the line, are the size equivalent of an FE block or larger. They’re light as heck, yes, but even the 7.3 takes up a large amount of room under a hood where that room may best be utilized for long travel suspension components.
If Ford took the 7.3…
You’re absolutely right.
That opinion is unpopular.
Overtighten it once and it’ll never seal again.
That doesn’t sound like much of an issue but you’re likely to be pulling that cover off every 15 to 30K miles to adjust the valve lash, because smaller engines with valve covers like that are more often than not a solid lifter design.
PVC foam won’t. It’s not wood.
PVC Foam will eventually fall apart though...
It’s not wood, it’s PVC foam.
“Kind of cool. Why not, if it works it works and they use some recycled material. As long as I go more than 12,000 miles without a catastrophic breakdown, I’ll be happy.”
12K? Seriously?
I had a Daewoo Leganza that waited 90,000 miles to break anything remotely critical (oil filter extension housing o-ring to…
As an experienced abuser of EEK platform vehicles, I concur. The only thing that ever goes wrong on that specific linkage is the cotter pin wears out the selector shaft and needs everything reamed up to the next size pin.
Don’t know about you, but I just swore.
So essentially the Maryland study shows something that could be explained a few different ways.
I think I’m partial to this one:
The drivers who die with less traffic are the same drivers who die with more traffic... half the traffic with the same deaths doubles the death rate, but it’s the same count.
Take your f*cking star and you enjoy the HELL out of it, you glorious bastard.
You’re assuming that right pass is in a through travel lane.
I had exactly that vehicle with a 360 and 3 speed column shift manual.
Stopping distance from 55mph exceeded 500 feet, closer to 750 but I can’t say for certain because I actually MISSED THE TURNOFF I was slowing for, getting back on the highway after greasily sliding past at 10-15.
But for that, it could have gone 75,…
“I can hear it, coming in the hair tonight.....”
My addled brain is now storming with ways to make electric even faster, and the first thing I’ve come up with is to have two sets of motors, one direct drive and one slightly lower geared, connected by a one-way clutch if the geared motor will overspeed when the direct motors are at max RPM, but both connected to the…
“ ’I mean, I don’t know if I got assaulted,’ the detaining officer said at first.
‘You got assaulted,’ an officer responded. “
Yes, but only because we can measure infinitesimal changes.
“Then, the next day, I got the van up to operating temperature, and let it cool down, noticing that the oil level had risen (and that the oil looked quite dark).”
....Townsends Garage?
Hell, I’d try it... because I’m 99.9% certain that it’ll just either rip the tire off the rim or tip over at walking speed where, y’know, just put a foot on the ground and stand up as it goes over....
