In forced induction motors that have to actually run on pump gas, it’s common to run richer than ideal air/fuel ratios to keep combustion temps down at WOT under boost. This is done mostly to prevent detonation when using lower octane fuels, like the 91 octane garbage we get in CA.

Almost daily. I commute on a Suzuki V-Strom and this is a universal truth. Riders of nearly any other bike will wave, Harley riders will not. Ever.

If I found a dog chewing up my car, I’d shoot it myself.

@5500 RPM, it would be 2864 ft/lbs of torque.

You and me both! I remember back when I had a ‘72 240Z in the late ‘80s, myself, I had a tuning guide for the L-series that had a description and technical drawing of the OS GIken TC24 head that I lusted after. It was like the holy grail back then.

While the Mid-4 II never made it to production, the technology previewed by it ended up in the Z32 (the VG30DETT) and R32 (the ATTESA AWD system) as well as HICAS on both. Also, the interior in the show car is nearly a dead ringer for the eventual production interior on the Z32.

The only thing I’ve ever hit while lane splitting is someone’s mirror with mine, which just knocks my mirror around.

The other notable difference between the L-series and the more modern FJ20 is that the L-series heads aren’t crossflow, meaning that the intake and exhaust ports are on the same side of the head. The intake manifold literally sits right on top of the exhaust manifold, not something you want when you’re trying to keep…

Looks like the problem is that some dope at Apple wrote a routine to fade the operand buttons to white on the first operation, then fade the button back to orange once you enter another digit. However, the button won’t accept further input til the fade animation completes. User input should always take priority over…

I want to know why a car that costs $176K has visible screw holes with covers across the rear bumper cover?

You must be too young to remember the “Quality is Job 1” ad campaign in the 80's. Just as untrue now as it was then.

Since I once had a ‘78 242 GT, it was a 4spd with an overdrive actuated by a switch on top of the knob. Which was pretty cool when you needed to pass someone on the freeway.

I wish I’d snapped a pic of the Alfa Romeo Brera I saw at a gas station the other day near UCSD. I’d never seen one outside of Forza 3 or 4, before, so it was a unicorn to me.

Nope, the engine block isn’t stock, either. Both this car and the AMS Alpha G are running billet blocks as well.

In older, non-electronically controlled automatics, the detent used to be the point where the kickdown cable came into play to kick the trans down into a lower gear when you mashed the pedal to the floor. Nowadays, that’s all controlled by computer based on throttle position and engine load.

Except they left out the ‘hot’ and installed lukewarm, instead.

I feel like these videos would be so much better with a little “Yakety Sax”.

I don’t like the sound of V8s.

Yeah, I can’t really afford to crash my WRX anytime soon. We aren’t all as rich as you, Kristen! ;)

1 KPH is well within the margin of error in the typical speedometer reading. And something most judges would toss out for that very reason. That’s just a power tripping cop right there, not a blatant safety violation.