You're correct. My bad.. same device though.. :)

Peltier plates can do this, they're just horribly inefficient. About 5%-8%.

There's one problem I have with this car.. If I want an amazing rwd sporty 4 door luxury car, and this is priced the same as a CTS v sport, the caddy winds every time.

Cheapest HP / Dollar I could find = $18.46 / HP. Or, 0.0542 HP/$.

Am I the only one that read this and thought, "Cool! Solstice prices will go down enough for me to buy one!"

There was dead reckoning and differential (radio) nav WAY before GPS. wheel magnet counters on each rear wheel, count tire spins.

Looks like an audi-ized Sonic to me.. I own a sonic and love it (full disclosure).

Time to start saving... That sounds just right to me.

My hope is that Chevy sees this success and makes a small turbo-diesel Colorado.

I liked both, but the remake was better. :) (Hope I don't make your head pop..)

Fracking cylons is perfectly ok though. Granted, it is a bit ambiguous, can either be a description or an action statement.

Oh yes, that is true. Things have come a remarkably long way in 30 years. Imagine how cool cars could be if you could order one without all the govt mandated safety crap in them? :)

This is where Theory meets Reality. While I agree with you that for the least friction you want a small rolling point, here we will have a nice wide base of oily metal with the load spread evenly across the chain pin and drive plates. This will lead to less chain stretch, lower noise, and if they can keep a solid…

As a fiero enthusiast (and masochist), I agree that the duke was a pile. It was, however, cheap, and easy to work on. Also, the L44 fiero got a hell of a lot better mileage than 30. Before my engine swap to a series II 3800, my duke that was attached to a 3 speed non-OD auto with no TC lockup would average 36MPG…

I see many benefits though, much greater surface area where the chain interacts with the gears, The chain is much thicker (more stacked steel), and the little gaps between the sandwhich plates on the chain will hold a hell of a lot more oil. I like.

I just bought it about a month ago.. I'm agonizing internally on whether to re-do the injection pump and deal with the old diesel, or pull a modern drivetrain out of a GM truck and triple the power and keep the mileage. A part of me wants to keep the old diesel running though, it's a rolling museum. Man is it slow…

Finally a vehicle slower than mine!

Nope, not wrong. No plows, no salt. 5 inches last night, no school delays, no panic.

I like these so much, I put one in my Fiero. Doubled the power, doubled the torque, tripled the reliability, and gets 30MPG now. All that, and parts are dirt cheap. L36 FTW.

Looking at that engine, I can't figure out how the crank is installed. I don't see any split in the case.