I specifically want it to stay N/A and RWD. Maybe bore it out a little and raise the compression to get a bit more power, but forced induction would completely go against the purpose of the car.

Subaru has never stopped making 2WD cars. They're not offered in America, but the Subaru = AWD argument is incredibly short sighted.

Gyroscopic effect is not the reason bikes don't fall when turning. A simple free body diagram will show that there is a centripetal force at the center of gravity and a friction force at the contact patch. The centripetal force creates a torque at the contact patch, which would cause the bike/rider to topple if they…

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

To answer your question, I would absolutely call it a V12. Because it is a V12. And I'd happily correct anyone who called it a boxer. Because it isn't a boxer.

It's a 180° V12. He is perfectly right in saying it's a V12. If he said boxer, he'd be wrong—I'm aware that Ferrari called it a boxer, but boxer engines have only one piston per crank pin, whereas opposing pistons in the 512 share a crank pin. Flat construction, V12 crankshaft.

They say the flag will not be used in the future, but it will be better secured when the flag is used in the future.

Good lord....RR V12 would be a nightmare. Or nightmarishly awesome. One or the other.

$3k for headgaskets? That's WAY too much. I'm hoping you've left off some finer details there....otherwise you got badly ripped off. I could see that much if the heads and block halves needed to be sent to a machine shop to get decked, but just a run of the mill headgasket swap shouldn't be half that much.

I've been using SwiftKey Flow for a while now, and I ultimately do like the functionality better than that of Swype. However, not being able to maintain a personal dictionary is a huge flaw that I'd really wish they'd fix. Swype had that right from the start.

Bring back the funny commercials. When people are expecting funny, a long, drawn out attempt at an emotional commercial is generally not going to be received well.

Must not make racist comment......must not make racist comment......

Coolant has a sweet-ish smell to it. Pop open your radiator cap (NOT WHEN IT'S HOT) and give it a whiff. And you can buy magnetic drain plugs if the flashlight method doesn't tickle your fancy.

Its much easier to just give the software an engine speed input and let it do its thing. Again, no reason to complicate things.

With an inertia dyno, measuring the horsepower directly really is easier because it does not require any external inputs. With only an accelerometer and a roller of known mass, measuring the horsepower requires no inputs from the operator, whereas measuring the torque directly would require the operator to input the…

Hydraulic dynos and eddy current dynos work fundamentally different than intertia dynos in that the former two measure torque and calculate power, whereas the latter measures power and calculates torque. Those are of course simplifications, but you get the idea.

First off, I'll clarify I'm speaking only of inertia dynos (i.e. most Dynojets, such as the one in the video). An inertia dyno can be simplified to two components: roller of known mass, and accelerometer. The accelerometer measures one thing and one thing only: acceleration. Acceleration is directly dependent on…

Not just wheel torque, wheel torque vs. roller speed. This returns a power curve, not a torque curve. The torque curve is calculated when supplied with an engine speed input, which is why this dyno chart only has a power curve.

Most dynos read wheel torque vs. roller speed, resulting in a power curve. The torque curve is calculated using an engine speed input. The dyno operators in this video couldn't figure out where to get the engine speed signal from, so the dyno software was not able to calculate a torque curve.

You have the concepts of torque and power right, but you're missing a key variable. The dyno doesn't just measure wheel torque, it measures wheel torque vs. roller speed, resulting in a power curve. The dyno software is supplied with an engine speed input, with which it then calculates the torque curve. If you don't…