“Better” is subjective, unless you’re talking about specific technical aspects. Carburetors are “better” in that they’re much cheaper, and easier to set up than fuel injection. Need to get an engine running quick? Slap a carb on it. Want it to run well and be efficient? Better go fuel injection.

If the main reason for wanting a manual transmission is for anything other than wanting to quickly be in the right gear at the right time for spirited driving then you don’t understand why manuals were better.

Yep.  Already in a boring appliance?  Come let me show you this just as boring appliance but a little quieter, less maintenance, and a giant screen!

I don’t have much of a problem with SUVs, sedans, and minivans not offering manuals, even though they used to.  Where I take issue is when sports cars drop the manual, as fun is the entire point of the car’s existence (well, besides looking like you have money), and manuals are more fun.  See Porsche the last few…

But we’re not talking about the overall title, we’re talking about each game/race. Motorsport is unique because there are multiple teams competing in each “game” (race), whereas most sports are only 2. The issue is that when there are 2 teams competing, there’s only a winner and a loser (which is the entire point of…

It’s always fascinating to me how much F1 fans care about what happens outside of the top 3. I’m guessing it’s driven by the fact that there is almost always a dominant team and they typically take 1-2 since every team has 2 cars, but it’s really strange to me how people get so excited for “best of the rest”.

Right? They’re more than happy to remove features that were paid for on a car being re-sold, but refuse to remove features that were bought by accident? I’m stunned so many people are willing to let this kind of crap slide.

At this point I mostly just watch to see if one of the Mercedes will get taken out early. If not, I nap through the middle of the race and wake up for the last 10 laps or so.

That makes a lot more sense, thanks for bringing some light to the situation.

I’m a little confused as to how a dimly-lit hood ornament will cause a noticeable amount of light pollution when it’s bracketed by blindingly bright LED DRLs and headlights.  Or is the issue with the light being on when the car is off?  It honestly doesn’t make any sense to me.

Oh man, I hope so.  I can’t believe someone at Mercedes OK’d that cheap-looking POS.

I was responding to the guy who wanted to stuff 400hp into a Datsun 510 and throw it out on track. GT300 could be cool, but I’d want them to keep the cars more production based like the current GT3/GTE requirements. I really don’t want to see a mid-engine V8 Prius on track.  This isn’t NASCAR.

I agree we don’t need any more prototypes in the field, and we certainly don’t need any more amateur drivers, but I understand why IMSA is doing this.  Their fields have shrunk dramatically the last year or two, and they’re trying to pad them out to keep the on track racing exciting.  I really wish they would find a…

Right. The only interesting thing about prototypes is their outright speed. Take that away and they have no reason for existing other than padding out a weak grid. This is supposed to be sportscar racing, not quasi-F1.

Uhh, yeah no.  Granted I would love to watch that as a separate series, but having anything close to the cars you listed on track with any car currently in IMSA would be a disaster.  The speed differential would be enormous, and it’s already dangerously large between the top prototype and bottom GTD classes.  We don’t…

Only if you’re pushing it past the design limits.  Since this was an LSA block it already has a forged rotating assembly as another commenter pointed out.  The bottom end is probably good to 1000hp without any changes.

Good point, I completely forgot about that.

Eh, looking at his mod list he’s replaced everything but the rotating assembly with stronger components.  It should hold together for a while, although 800hp is kind of on the limit for stock internals on an LS.  That said, I’m sure that 800hp is only on E85, it probably makes 650-700 on 93, which it should hold up…

The fronts have to be 18s to clear the brakes, yes, but the entire reason for changing wheels and putting smaller ones on the rear is to run drag radials.  He could have left the fronts stock, but then they wouldn’t match the rears, and we just can’t have that.

I was about to call you out as a moron, but I checked again and holy crap, you’re right!  I think it’s the cleanliness that’s throwing everyone off, that pic must have been snapped during install as those vanes will be black after the first startup.