Cosworth designed and produced DOHC cylinder head on top of a 3.0 liter 4 cylinder? I'll take one in black, please.

Why cast the firing order on the intake? Because it's got 12 numbers in it. It's like the first numbers of an automotive sort of Fibonacci sequence, an ever-expanding spiral of exhaust fumes, demonic-sounding engine wails, burnt rubber, and awesomeness. THAT'S why.

The immediate, pressing threat of your life (or the way you live it) being ended is a powerful motivator for achieving things thought to previously be not worth the cost, too difficult, or impossible. What you're looking at in a modern warplane is the direct descendant of a struggle for survival.

Dr. Jones does not approve.

That way if the original melts, they have a replacement.

Well played sir, well played.

Overland Park/Johnson County is where the rich go to count their money. It's just a large collection of multi-million dollar housing and country clubs.

I'm sorry, all I got out of that was this (re. tribal newsletter)...

Nope. If a Lightweight Porcelain Veyron passed you already doing 316 MPH (certainly not a stretch using zmax!), it would do 1000ft in a paltry 2.15 seconds and it would be another 1.85 seconds before you crossed the line.

I'd like to see the tire mounting machine he's going to use...