This guy was amazed when I helped him replace his wheel hub assembly. The FJ was given to him by his father in law, I don’t think he knows anything about it. And he isn’t the type of guy to crawl under a car with a set of wrenches on the side of the highway. Most likely he didn’t have any wrenches anyway.

Well step 1 is knowing that’s even possible, which he likely doesn’t, and step 2 is having the knowledge and tools available to pull the driveshaft, which, again, he doesn’t.

Coincidentally, a friend of mine was stuck 150 miles from home last night because the U-join on his FJ Cruiser exploded on the highway.  Probably not really the car’s fault, I know, just figured it was worth a mention.

Especially if you were aware of the chance for the car to suddenly burst into flames.

Pretty sure the mechanic did it for him.  After 4 months of no success fixing it, he probably decided he would save his friend some money and just torch the thing.

You pretty much summed it up.  You can get the best of both worlds if you are able to go to a larger filter with more surface area but the same amount of filtration, but just swapping the same size filter likely means you’re letting more crap through along with that reduced restriction.

When I’m driving somewhere, I prefer to get there as quickly as possible, not have to stop every 300 miles to wait 30 minutes for the car to charge up.  Not disastrous, sure, but also not preferable to 5 minutes of filling the tank.

Of course they’re happy to get out. They’re also happy to run around while you chase them trying to keep them contained for 30 minutes after they’ve already been contained for 4 hours straight.  Not to mention after 30 minutes of freedom there’s no way they’re going to be happy getting back in the car.

You say this like it’s a good thing being stuck somewhere that you don’t want to be for 30 minutes instead of 5.

This. When driving with kids you want to get where you’re going as quickly as possible, and the longer they’re out of the car the less happy they’ll be when they get back in. Dad pumps gas while mom takes the kids in for bathroom and snacks, and hopefully they make it back out by the time the gas tank is full (they…

They would, and that’s how they did it in the past, but GPS allows you to hit the speed at any point instead of just wherever the traps are located, and is just as accurate if not more so.  Pretty much all speed records now are done with GPS.

I don’t think you understand, the whole point of speed records is to go as fast as possible. A Veyron or Tuatra wouldn’t go near 300mph on the salt, too much of the motive force is lost to wheel spin. Not to mention the surface isn’t exactly super smooth, which could become an issue on a car tuned for the road at…

Oh sure, there are a bunch of other things that could cause a failure, but I was more just addressing the guy’s comment about running at a higher pressure.

The pressure should (using my non-tire-engineer logic) actually help with the tire’s survivability at speed. My understanding is that high-speed tire failure usually comes from a delamination or tread failure due to excessive heat. The heat is generated due to the rapid deformation of the tire, so if you can reduce…

This.

Ahh, I didn’t catch their change in wording between ad views and video views. Thanks.

Google pays out 68% of their AdSense revenue, so for every $100 an advertiser pays, Google pays $68 to the publisher.

Man, that sounds just like my friend. He’s a Ferrari fan.

That’s precisely the point of the article.  You could have saved Torch a lot of effort with that summary.

That actually is pretty funny.  At first I was thinking “yeah, but you can tweak the weight distribution”, then realized that’s where the weight is going anyway.  I suppose the only logical reasoning could be if you didn’t actually have any ballast then your brackets don’t add much weight?  A bit of a reach.