My ultimate solution with that car was to just go with carbon pads on regular rotors and deal with the dust. Brakes were so easy to do that having half the life of a normal brake pad wasn’t a big deal, and the composition was fairly easy on the rotor surface itself.

If I were doing it over today I’d have gotten the…

Ford used to like running higher pressure on smaller rotors way back in the day, I guess old habits are hard to break. My ‘84 Tbird at ~3500lb had 10" vented discs, and not really any trouble locking the 225/60-15 fronts up. I guess it was cheaper and maybe modulated a little easier, but they would absolutely fool you…

LAWRENCE:

“Some contestants said that MTV gave them $2,000 for a car rental. But even that didn’t help as a lot of constants weren’t old enough to rent a car, or the money that was given wasn’t enough. One constant ended up pocketing what was left and figured the rest out.”

This is the dumbest... you have an ENTIRE SHOW based…

Don’t worry about unsprung weight, worry about nonlinear forces applied to the rear tires on cars that are already notoriously unsettled due to reliance on tire grip, sometimes *purely* on tire grip.

This is not a good thing, Elizabeth.
The LAST thing you want in a vehicle that is driven like these is a system that is nonlinear or does not perform as expected every time it’s used. You can get away with some of it on vehicles with driver aids or in series where there is separation between cars, but on an…

So you’re suggesting I be brave with my daily driver, 310000 mile truck that has 90% factory suspension parts and used to have a bad habit of not keeping the front wheels pointed in the same direction for very long.

I don’t get the luxury of trying that in my dead stock 2wd ‘03 GMC Sonoma. First, I consider the front suspension a little fragile (as I should, since it’s got 310,000 miles on all the bits except the steering parts, shocks, one spindle, and the driver side A-arm bushings), second, those rear leaf springs were…

No, I don’t see a trunk here. Parcel shelves are parcel shelves.

I have an easier/simpler way... cheap short range FM transmitters. “Fahrting Tourists” simply need to set their FM radio (car radio, or perhaps a small handheld or earpiece rented at the track for cars without such tech) to the assigned track station. The track could broadcast for the full facility as a licensed statio…

Except apparently he’d passed this woman illegally on the left at that intersection, dodged a cyclist in the crosswalk and sideswiped her car, then ran into the left turn and was stopped where she couldn’t see.... as she roared through to catch up to the hit-and-run lambo, she hit it.

And all of this is conveniently…

Single-wides are more mobile than home, where doubles are more home than mobile.

So... a man running a Christian bible camp lied to you about this car’s mileage.

Shocking.

If I were doing these kinds of trails regularly, I’d have a cage in my vehicle, and attached to that cage would be a roof rack system made of steel tubing, but ‘reconfigurable’ with corners that have holes for the tubing and pins to hold. Why? One of the ‘configurations’ would be removing one or more tubes, attaching…

My ‘01 Daewoo Leganza had amber indicators that would absolutely frickin’ blind you if you were caught looking and hit the remote unlock, so it’s not a regulatory *requirement* to have red signals...

I think you’d only need two, unless the front motor has a park mechanism as well.

I’d almost suggest a single bogey F1 style lever lift with an extendible handle, but then I remember these bastards weigh 5000lb...

Worst case scenario, you can just tip it over on it’s side and shove it off the road. That’s if you’re alone, find another person or two and you can just pick up the rear...

Wrong car.

“California is overrun with a combo platter of unregistered, unlicensed and/or uninsured/ underinsured drivers / vehicles.”

Just go ahead and shorten that to impoverished, undocumented, or both... which is why neither party will give a flying fuck about this situation or the next.

Your tone, something about it... AH! I remember!

You sound like the sort of haughty bastard that I would probably despise in real life, the kind of guy who’s out of touch with reality and convinced his farts don’t smell (and would actively attempt to convince people no such emanation ever occurs)... the sort of guy who…