A classic supercar got driven in anger and picked up the scars to prove it? As opposed to staying a garage queen?

I must say I’m starting to get annoyed with this saga. It just seems like incompetence meeting some kind of pathology. He buys fleets of junk cars with the intention of restoring them, but appears to have no basic wrenching skills and is cack-handed to boot. The story of heating bolts to buggery—thereby annealing…

What you say about currents and voltages is untrue. A 12v wound starter would indeed draw half the current of a 6v wound starter of the same capacity (power). However, putting 12v on a 6v starter doubles the current (in your example to 140A). Refer to Ohm’s law: R=U/I, starter motor resistance is 6/70 which is 0,086…

Ohms law would like a word with you. Putting in twice the voltage doubles the current through a given resistance.

<Patiently waits for an article from David about his 48 Jeep that *doesn't* potentially doom the build.>

For that last paragraph... It’s odd how on an automotive blog where we’ve been foaming at the mouth for five years now for a new rotary vehicle that we defend environmental regulations. The Jalopnik group might actually be one of the most reasonable on the internet.

I love my GTI....I would have especially loved driving my GTI at 17, but that would probably not been the wisest decision.

honestly, I think in the future manual transmissions are going to be the more expensive option in general on cars.

I drove an autobox CX-5 and honestly, it was lovely.

David is a genius compared to the guy on the you tube channel B is for Build. or as i like to call it B is for Broken.

Oddly enough, even though it departs from my usual perspective on your greasy palette of rust-buckets, I don’t think all hope is lost, here.

Just because he is doing the autopsy in 2017 does not mean it died in 2017. It died a long time ago.

I used to think they were worth it. I restored a bunch of stuff back on the 80s and 90s, then took 20 years off from cars. I just finished a 3 year resto on a junkyard-find ‘66 Charger, only to realize that in the past 20 years, new cars have become so good that these old muscle-cars are prehistoric penalty boxes.…

That is not a vehicle anymore. It is simply used up. What you have is a template, a 3D instruction manual of roughly how it was built, and what will go wrong over the course of a century, but it is not meant to move under its own power.

You know, I once hated the PDK because I thought it was a cop-out for all the old guys who couldn’t drive manuals and needed an excuse to get an automatic (track times, better 0-60, etc.) 

As a raging manualist I have to admit this makes perfect sense to me. The GT3 RS is about getting a 911 to be as fast as possible, not as fun as possible. That’s why they built the 911R...that’s supposed to be the uber ‘experience’ 911. But as other posters have said, we might as well be debating the best material to…

In that case it doesn’t really sound like the RS is the model for you anyway. So the lack of manual is moot.

I would not put it past them. Gordon Murray once did something similar back in his F1 (not that F1) days:

When they ask you what car to buy, nobody EVER wants a real opinion from a knowledgeable enthusiast. The choice has already been made, maybe even long ago, and they ONLY want validation of that choice. But even when they don’t get validation of their choice, they still go ahead with what they were planning on doing. I…

I think this is where you lost me with the CJ project. Great content, but being able to see the line of no return is great as well.