IMO that’s way too much for a ‘92.  ‘94 is the perfect year for an NA - 1.8L, torsen diff (vs clutch which will be shot to hell by now), no OBDII so mods are a breeze.  I’ve bought 2 of them for a total of $2300 combined.  6k should get you into a pre-vvt NB.

This is absolutely the car for someone that wants specifically this car, I don’t see the average used car buying public getting it. Most people don’t like wagons and don’t drive manuals....only an enthusiast is looking at this and for the one that wants a strange manual wagon THIS ONE will out-nerd the next, and…

No idea what the values on these are, but I do like them. I don’t want to own one but I like that it exists.

Of all the things we can knock GM for their engines are typically the strong point.  from the ‘60s small and big blocks, 3800 V6, LS, LT, LNF, Atlas....they do engines well in general.  I know the Northstar is maligned but I don’t know the details of that, could just be the complexity of a DOHC V8 in comparison to the…

The harmonics in an I6/V12 are better than that of a V8, sure, but Ferarri runs flat plane V8s in their mid-engine supercars so your point doesn’t work as well as you hoped.  They put V12s in their front engined GTs but a 488 will have a flat plane V8 mounted midship....no reason the Corvette can’t pull this off.  If…

I replaced my engine earlier this year due to slipped timing (freak occurrence) so I’m at 115k on the chassis, 92k on the enigne, new clutch, all new fluids.  Debating on selling it since I just bought a Gladiator but I still enjoy driving it.  Getting new tires in the next couple weeks and taking it to the dragon in…

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I imagine a lot of it has to do with engine dimensions as well, not just displacement..  To rev that high it will likely have a much higher bore:stroke ratio than most V8s with peak torque coming much higher in the range.  They may also alter bore angle for a more favorable application of that torque.

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Love it.

Can I write a full sub-brand houselopnik page? I love cars and do car stuff but most of my work is around the house anymore. My demo articles are tagged in oppo. I also do car stuff, can document my attempts to make a ‘56 F100 work for the first time in many years

It’s clearly a typo

I’m glad I don’t have to spend 20k+ like you to be happy.  I would hate being miserable every time something made a sound

It could.  Drag is quantifiable but has many factors - drag coefficient, frontal are, and velocity are the main ones.  Bikes have smaller frontal areas but unless the rider is tucked fully behind the fairing they have pretty awful coefficients.  Cars are designed to have smoother flow around the panels and can…

also revs.  At highway speeds 600s are at what, 7k?

I believe the Army uses 5m kites to land solidiers from the sky, and drag racers use much smaller ones to bring 300mph cars to a dead stop

I’ve never been a big movie theater person (or movie person in general I guess) but this is exactly right. Last year I bought a 65" 4k tv and have a Klipsch sound bar and sub, not a 5.1 or better system but a nice compact sound system that is worlds above TV audio. I can turn it up enough to shake the walls, set…

The basic math on their offers just didn’t work and I didn’t trust it to move further.  I can run a basic mortgage calculator on Google, but even before that I knew that cutting my rate in half should not mean the same payment over the same term.  Maybe I could have talked to someone and gotten it to make sense but no…

We just finished a refi last week - took at least 60 days to go through the process which is twice as long as expected, but it will be worth it in the end.

It is also illegal to display Nazi symbolism publicly (museums aside).  Germany has fully owned up to its past, and while I’m sure there are sympathizers in country the country as a whole is no longer that way.  I’m sure there are people trying to get back to it, but there are plenty in the US that are trying to take…