You’re right, thank you for pointing out how impressive it is that California manages to outproduce every other state in the union by at least double while having such a tremendous welfare rate. I wonder if that productivity rate is because California is so generous with it’s welfare (leaving people and their kids on…

California has 12% of the US population (i.e. fellow Americans).
California contributes more than any other state to US GDP - by double.
California houses more US Military personnel than any other state.
California is #2 in total defense spending among US states (second only to Virginia)
California produces more food than…

“I have no doubt engineers can find a way to prevent the collapse of a hyperloop and do their best to prevent a drivers death.”

Only if the people making the financial decisions make it a priority and/or there is sufficient regulatory oversight. 

“The day-trip business people would use the high speed trains, and maybe that’s enough to make it feasible, but the travelers won’t.”

Actually, the KC-Columbia-StL path has a massive advantage over other locations in that regard. Columbia has the flagship campus of the state university and it has a pathetically small…

Pretty similar for me - I had seen quite a few documentaries/write-ups on the development of the GT-40/the Ford vs Ferrari story, and it was distracting some of the changes made. I usually have no problem with Hollywood’s liberties taken to create a good story, but some of these appeared to be made for no apparent…

“restrictions on data-sharing will provide for greater protection of civil rights while DHS officials have suggested that the restrictions make it harder for law enforcement to do their jobs.”

That’s pretty much the entire point of the Bill of Rights...

You’re defined by your tactics. If your tactics are evil, you are…

“down for 6+months awaiting contract”

This is another major thorn in the side of everyone. It takes an absurd amount of time to get contracts in place between contractors and DoD.

I have the same opinion of “aerospace grade” metals. It’s plain-jane 6061-T6 most of the time. Milspec just conforms to a military standard. It isn’t good, it isn’t bad, it’s just consistent.

Stop riding in cheap vans. Every minivan I’ve been in could lay the seats back at whatever angle you want...hell they can lay damned near horizontal.

And yes, you’re making things up based on what appears to be EXTREMELY limited experience.  But whatever, you want to drive a worse vehicle for the job...you do you...

You’ve clearly never looked into Tesla’s residential solar offerings. When I started looking for a system for my house they couldn’t even be bothered to quote it unless we paid for that honor...

We went elsewhere...to companies with better products and better service.

Black is passe, but you post up those wheels...

Its very embarrasssing for you to offer up evidence that supports my point that the US is center right (not left as you claimed). Note I never said the Democratic party was center right - I said the entire US is center right. I said Democrats legislate to the right as well (which is required to be center left -…

BAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Thanks for proving my point:

“I never said the U.S. is center-anything.”

No idea where you got this idea, but it is flat out wrong. The US has been center-right for a very long time. Republicans since the ‘80's have been pushing hard to the right.

You might want to actually look into the meaning of left and right wing ideologies as you clearly don’t understand what those terms mean if you…

“There are a lot of LS engines made that were used in a lot of applications. So there’s a lot of support, and people just kind of go to them by default.”

Lots of engines were used in lots of applications. They don’t enjoy the same popularity. Funny how people don’t default to any of those...

You can keep deflecting all…

...you might want to do some actual research on Olds engines. Absolutely nothing you just wrote is in any way good advice or factually correct.

1) Joe Mondello is dead. His business lives on with new owners and has a horrible reputation in the Olds community.

2) A set of roller rockers? You forgot to mention reworking…

If there were no additional cost, no additional effort, and no additional driveability issues, it wouldn’t be so common. The fact it is as common as it is, across an absurd plethora of platforms pretty much entirely refutes your argument.

That’s really sad that people can’t tell the difference between a small block Mopar and a small block Chevy.  This is one of many reasons why it makes no sense to build a car to impress other people. Build it for yourself.  You’re the one who has to be happy with it.  

The 403 has windowed mains in an already compromised bottom end design shared by both big and small block Olds engines. Things aren’t pretty when you start adding power to those without significant beefing up of the bottom end (aftermarket crank,rods, and pistons, full girdle, good machining, etc):