Most undocumented workers don’t make enough money to pay any income tax anyway. What actually happens is that they end up paying sale taxes, including gas tax, and not being eligible for Medicaid or any other programs that would be state expenses for documented workers.

They shouldn’t be under bending, just axial load and toraion. How would you get a moment with U joints on each end?

I’m so sick of hearing this misconception. Power is the rate at which torque is applied. You apply torque at the wheels, not the crankshaft. If your motor makes 100lb-ft at 3500 rpm (lets call it 30mph in second gear) and 100lb-ft at 7000 rpm (60mph in second gear) you’re still applying the same torque to the ground,…

How, when a scale would cost about $20, are we not living in an era where recipes are by mass? Incomprehensible to me.

Moore’s law seems to work against auto manufacturers - in the 8 years (at least) that I’d like to get out of a new car, my phone/laptop will become 16 times faster, and roughly 16 times more capable. In other words, whatever tech gets baked into a car quickly falls behind the times.

That's like saying, "With every car on the planet weighing more than 3500 pounds, the Miata will be plenty lightweight if it weighs 3200."

So you are saying a 10 hp miata could not handle 15hp cause they would have only designed it for 10hp?

So if you had a 290hp miata, you'd have to make it handle 450 hp for the same factor of safety.

Why do you think the engineers at Mazda designed/specified - for the Miata, their purposefully lightweight car - a transmission, driveshaft, differential and halfshafts that would endure DOUBLE the torque the car was going to make?

Not that simple. Doubling the power means making a beefier driveshaft, beefier transmission, beefier diff, beefier chassis to handle the power, beefier suspension and beefier wheels/tires to handle the weight you just added everywhere else. I agree with your sentiment, but I appreciate that they cut power in the new…

That's not a proper use of the word 'utilization.'

I'm glad you narrowed the scope of the needlessness of those words. 'Basically' is an essential term to describe that two systems have applicable basic similarities, even if their don't share details.

I have no data to back this up, but here's my personal experience for you to make a poor anecdotal argument from:

t mobile has a prepaid $30 per month unlimited data/text w/ 100 voice minutes. It's kinda a hassle to find it, but google around and you should still be able to get in.

"ITBs are for pussies, just gimme one half meter diameter throttle plate."

As a straight dude living in Central California, I'm going to go on the record as shocked and appalled that some neanderthal going by "doeboy" managed to struggle out a couple of fully backwoods sentence fragments.

I'm amazed that someone apparently stuck in the last millenium has managed to pick up an abbreviation for "laugh out loud."

Shouldn't that just lead to getting a decent raise? If not, his skills were definitely not that valuable.

Instead of a timing chain, the engine uses a relatively new belt-in-oil system that takes up less space and manages to save about 1% of MPG. It's because of this I learned that there's a sort of engineering rivalry between the Belt Guys and the Chain Guys, and this is a victory for the Belties. Your move, Chainheads.

Seriously though, don't go to Salinas. The scary thing is that the gang problems there are so bad that this vehicle,to me as a semi-local, seems almost inadequate.