poor saab

So he gave y’all an accurate demonstration of how it handles?

So what you’re saying is that the Camaro is a Mustang knockoff in more ways than one.

This has been the best explanation of caster for me.

Ah, got it. Makes a lot more sense now. Thanks! You aren’t from 949 Racing, are you?

FD cars have enough power and torque to induce oversteer whenever they stomp their right foot, so in order to keep speed up at high drift angles, they optimize suspension for “forward bite.”

Interesting — I didn’t know drifters used “soft” rear bars. Conditions and track depending, us Miata racers use stiff front/softer rear to keep the rears on pavement, where they maintain grip.

I saw the color and font choices he made and never bothered to start the video.

Problem is they were father and son. Really was a picture perfect example of why you don’t work with family, and even more importantly don’t have family in really important positions. The son was basically THE guy designing and making their bikes, when he was fired they had a huge hole to fill and the son even sued.

Has it seriously been long enough that we have to explain American Chopper arguments now? I’m 21, I’m not supposed to fell old yet!

ahh, one of the more notorious oops of ZF engineering ;>}. I wonder given the comparative weights of the 2 tanks, if even a similarly sized (~19mm) straight cut would’ve been able to do the trick. Given the Maybach was a fairly powerful engine (when running, hehe), I bet a 19mm gear for that purpose might not have…

That’s what I was thinking, that it wasn’t a piston but a plug.

You take your car in for restoration and you get this...

I couldn’t write anything that made any sense, so here’s a link...

Cylinder deactivation technology, old-world style.

Thank God no one so far gave the fault to Sergio Marchionne.

“helical vs straight cut gears” in an internet search will answer that one pretty quickly. I think the main thing to think about is time of engagement. We think of gears as continuously transmitting power, but, really, the teeth are constantly engaging and disengaging. The straight cut gear is the worst at continuous…

I had straight-cut cam gears in an air-cooled VW ages ago. They made a rather pleasant sound.

The noise is caused by the cut of the gear, straight cut being noisy and helical being quiet, not by the synchro. You won’t find a synchro on reverse gears because you don’t shift between gears in reverse.