Yeah, letting the Corvair rot because an idiot named Ralph Nader destroyed the car in the eyes of the public, even though he was completely wrong about it being unsafe as long as the tire pressures are as recommended by GM.
It's not like they just dropped the thing.
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Regardless of how heavy and shitty the ZL1 is (and believe me, I hate that weight number) you're dead wrong about that trans being able to handle a truck.
If they put a TR6060 in a truck, it would have an absolutely despicable towing rating. Take the nearly 12,000 lbs a RCSB can tow with the 6l80 and cut that down to…
Regardless of how heavy and shitty the ZL1 is (and believe me, I hate that weight number) you're dead wrong about that trans being able to handle a truck.
If they put a TR6060 in a truck, it would have an absolutely despicable towing rating. Take the nearly 12,000 lbs a RCSB can tow with the 6l80 and cut that down to…
70 mph is not 80 mph. I have a new Sierra, and it does 2100 at 80, factory tires and 3.42s, which is the lowest (numerically highest) gear available on a 2013 RCSB. The Escalades and Denalis I work on all day do almost 2400 at 80 with their 3.73s.
lmfao, ok.
I could be wrong, but airplanes aren't like cars. It's not like they come with an X year XXX mile warranty where the manufacturer does all the maintenance on them, do they?
That's an honest question, I don't know.
But assuming they don't, it would be the airline who is responsible for the maintenance, so unless this is…
Can you really trust the airline to rule out mechanical error after an incident like this?
I mean, they obviously have a sizable stake in the outcome, so of course they'd say that it wasn't mechanical error, because that might place the blame on the airline itself.
Chevettes. I'm not sure they ever stopped making the things in Brazil, and they love them down there. Plus, theirs look much cooler than ours did.
I've been tuning for 7 years, from FAST on the Grand National w/ the Stage II V6 to BigStuff3 on the new 427lsx 106mm turbo setup, to Hondata and Neptune and Megasquirt, and even a few rotaries on Haltech and Microtech. Just two days ago I finished an E85 tune for a street ported 13B RX7 on 17 lbs with a GT35R and…
Lol forum grab, you're an idiot.
http://s199.photobucket.com/user/IFRYRCE/l…
I guess you think it's just a coincidence the photobucket with 13 pages of pics of that car is also IFRYRCE, huh?
Cobalts can make well over 400 ft lbs at the crank on a stock turbo setup, just as evos can. It's not a garbage neon, the LNF is a…
Fuck you, I don't care what you say, it's all true.
I never said the SS didn't torque steer, I said if you can't handle it, you're a huge bleeding pussy, which you obviously are. As a matter of fact, my exact words were "my cobalt SS torque steered way more than some Saab" so you didn't even read shit.
And I don't care…
Honestly, most of this list (ie. all of the newer and non-race only cars) reads like this
"I'm bad at driving and I couldn't handle it, so neither can you."
My cobalt SS torque steered way more than some Saab (400-odd ft lbs of torque, vs almost none. No, my SS wasn't stock.)" And yes, I know how it feels, I worked at a…
You're an idiot, and I know over five people personally with 250,000 plus miles on Chevy 1500s from 3 different generations, none of which have ever had any problems. Not to mention based on government registration compared to number of trucks sold, the Silverado is the longest lasting truck in america.
Better is not really an open term. It means one is worse than the other, which would be drums. Even if they're equal at stopping (they're not) they have numerous disadvantages, some of which you hit on including not releasing and fade resistance. They also weigh more than disks, aren't as upgrade-able (4-6-8-10 piston…
Good god man, don't defend that pile of crap.
I love this car.
That's wrong.
Drums benefit from the fact that as the drum rotates the circular motion presses down on the front shoe and the force is transferred into the rear shoe via the link between them at the bottom. Other than that benefit, they have zero advantages over disk brakes in terms of stopping.
Race cars use disks for…
uh, you realize 4 wheel disks would be more likely to lock up than say, two disks and two drums. Right?
Disks are better than drums, so the brakes are more prone to locking up.
I've seen a few priuses(Prii? Who gives a fuck what the plural is,) in service to cities, from Georgia to New York and a few other places as well.
The price a Prius commands over a comparable-mpg car such as the Cruze or the Focus makes it a waste of money. Cities will never keep the car long enough or drive enough…