An unopened B58 is good for 700+ whp so no big deal to miss out on the S58.

There’s a decent trick for jacking up the car up quickly I’ve learned with my 997:
1. Start at the rear, with the subframe crossmember/brace. Jack the whole rear up high enough to set it down on 2 jack stands
2. Slide the jack from the side of the car, inboard (and slightly ahead of) the front jack point by the…

Mmmmm I would have pointed to a different fatal flaw with the 4C... like needing to retorque the bolts attaching the carbon tub every 12k miles :$$$

https://www.alfabb.com/threads/dont-delay-4c-12k-mile-service.490905/

Just watched the video and it explains that as long as the stationary car is allowed to recoil, it’s the same. On top of that, the kinetic energy of a moving semi is muuuuch higher than that of an LLV, I’d argue it’s actually worse to hit a semi coming towards you than to hit a stationary semi at double your speed.

Well ‘heater’ in the article is still ambiguous, but yeah your link does explain it - it’s an electric air heater to supplement the engine heater core while the coolant is still cold.

The answer is that electric motors and ICEs don’t all make peak power at the same RPM. This car could be making close to 200hp for a much wider span of the rev range, depending on where each motor peaks.

I think you have a slight misunderstanding of the effect of preload & ride height adjustment done via a single adjustment spring perch collar... (FWIW I used to think about it the same way that you do - thinking that preload must be kept constant for a compliant ride and that ride height should be adjusted by…

Porsche 917/30 Can-Am’s 5.4L V12, it was so good it killed the sport.

*Flat 12

Surely not the FB25 (NA Forester engine), which can’t take boost. FA24 is the new WRX engine.

So I’ve actually heard this advice in Russia, regarding rural routes where help is unlikely to arrive. The idea being that if you steer INTO an (unrecoverable) skid, your car is more likely to continue traveling in a STRAIGHT LINE, thus increasing your chances of coming to a stop on the road surface and not in the…

Amazing jab at CVT preference, bravo.
-2015 Forester 2.5i 6MT owner

That Porsche casts the holes in their rotors is one of my favorite automotive myths.

That Porsche casts the holes in their rotors is one of my favorite automotive myths.

A 165HP electric motor combined with a 654HP ICE make a combined 819HP?

Good visibility. My manual Subaru Forester doesn’t have Subaru EyeSight, but the ability to quickly check all blindspots / mirrors more than makes up for it.

I’ve got a ‘15 Forester, so certainly the same switchgear as most of those that you listed. The way it works is that if you turn on the car, turn on low beams, then turn off the car, the action of pulling the key out of the ignition will cause the low beams to automatically switch off.

When you put the key back into…

For 3.8L motors, up to M97/01 68509790 has the smaller IMS bearing and Engine number from M97/01 68509791 has the larger revised IMS.

Early S 997 models, too.

As a fellow high-mileage 997.1 owner, I think this is an excellent price.

Oh, and it’s automatic only. Of course it is.