My 1950 Hudson has a cable. Seems like as soon as the fenders became part of the hood the switch started.

I’m a fan of this one as well:

Don’t be so sure...

Windows so tinted nobody can see you?! Better not ever bring it to NY, they’ll gun you down for not being able to see if “he had a gun”. Then give you a fix it ticket.

Which are frigging awesome. I lust after a 131 Abarth. Just not it’s reliability...

You may want to look into say, VW Jetta diesels. They’re moderately famous for having intakes clogged to less than an inch of diameter from EGR + PCV. It’s worse on diesel because of particulates, but gas DI engines have similar problems. Walnut blasting the valves is about the only way to clean them up.

Fair enough, if you’re going to go to the trouble of adjusting everything for the track, then it probably isn’t as much of a concern. I still don’t really understand coilovers on a DD in the rust belt, but it is after all, your car.

I did, but I still fail to see how the rear wheels especially are going to clear the fender under track loading, unless the thing is so stiff it’s no longer a streetable car.

Did you not use your eyes? “And they were slathered in antisieze.”

I guess if the car never sees anything like snow... I had coilovers for one winter, and one of them seized solid. One winter. And they were slathered in antiseize.

“Trackable dream car”

You know, I previously would have agreed with you. However, a few weeks ago a friend had visited with his 2016 WRX. We were walking back to it at night and I walked right past because I legitimately thought it was a Corrola (wait, or the Camry...?). He was unamused.

Right, the question is whether or not the engineers could convince the decision makers of that.

Probably because they added the flare and then the accountants said “but we can save $0.02 a car if we don’t do that!” And forced them to remove it even after they did testing that discovered that very flaw.

That’s why I own a 93 S4. Just mature enough to daily... but immature enough to make it fun. That rear locking diff makes for some good times.

100k is pretty good for any modern German car, really...

I can’t help compare it to the RX-7 Mad Mike had... and it just can’t compare. The sound and the fire...

The bolt doesn’t pass through the transmission’s shaft, it’s just a sort of setscrew, so the cotter pin would have nothing to react against.

I don’t know what I’d safety wire it to, the bolt is on the shifter arm and moves around a lot.

That’s the brass tubing fix. The problem is the pin in the shifter goes hourglass-shaped while also wearing the long linkage into an inverse hourglass. You (ideally) ream out the linkage to the OD of a piece of brass tubing that fits snugly over the pin on the shifter, then epoxy that tubing on, put the linkage over…