Screwdriver through the filter makes me cringe. I’ve seen that fail so many times. It just tears through and leaves you with half a filter still attached and sharp edges. Don’t start an oil change if you don’t have the tools. Actually, that’s the tip, make sure you have the right tools before you go diving in.

Oh, and…

Oh god. I still have depressed dreams about mine. 1989 Dodge Daytona Shelby Lemons car. Second ever race. We put the “rebuilt” engine back in the car, fire it up, and oil is coming out of the bell-housing. Well, clearly it’s the trans input shaft seal because the engine has a brand new rear main seal. We have 2 days…

Projected release is 2023. at least if we’re sticking to the timeline used for the new NSX in general.

Stock tool roll that came with my 1975 KZ400. I swear I can disassemble the entire bike with just those tools. They even included feeler gauges for the valves.

Big deal. You can do that in almost any car. I’ve done it in a base 1.6L Civic for god’s sake. It doesn’t take a ton of torque to make a car move away from stopped.

Congrats, you missed the point. I meant that you too can go simulate a direct drive and see what I mean about no longer having the joys of ringing out an engine. Sure the Koenigsegg is very fast, but I still want a car that I can run the engine to redline.

All the time. Mostly I have waze open, but I’ll use Google Maps too. I’ll have it up for traffic warnings, or with Waze warnings about things on the road. Even when I know how to get somewhere I’ll set navigation with sound off so that I have an ETA and know how bad traffic is.

I don’t understand the fascination with this car. It’s compromised to make it different. And of us can go and drive a direct drive car. Put your car in 3rd or 4th (one of those is 1:1) and drive. Sure your car won’t have the same power, but the effect is the same.

Direct drive removes one of the joys of a nice car…

Top stories we can expect from Doug this year:

1. How I bought my new (insert car)
2. How I feel driving my new (insert car)
3. What carmax said (or rather didn’t say) when I tried to sell (insert car) to them.
4. Seriously guys, why aren’t you following me on twitter as I tell the same stories over and over again this…

Of course it’s good. I’ve been saying for years that this trend of making phones as thin as possible is dumb. Make a phone a few mm thicker and make the battery large enough to last 2+ days and we’d all love it. No one cares that your new phone is .08mm thinner than last year.

Seriously? That stupid GT-r LM made a list of best race cars of 2015? What a joke. A car that debuted without sufficient testing, embarrassed itself, and faded back into the background. Who cares that it’s “thinking outside the box”, it didn’t work and is a flawed approach to begin with.

I don’t get it, you described selling any car on craigslist. Nothing about that sounded any different than any other selling experience I’ve never had or heard about involving Craigslist.

This is all 100% correct. I worked there in high school and early college years. Metrics were dominated by your membership sales numbers. They plastered them all over the walls in the break rooms. Full view of who was doing well and who wasn’t. I got spoken to a few times about my numbers because they were low. I…

None of those things are direct drop in parts, so it falls under custom. And after all that you still have something that isn’t as good as a decent car’s stock setup.

Can we all collectively remove our lips from Hennessey’s ass? It’s well known the guy rips people off, doesn’t complete cars, and is a general tool. Doesn’t shock me in the slightest that his school is a joke too.

Please, enlighten me. Because I spent 4 years searching and there are zero options for the ‘89 G-body. I have the largest sway bar available (1.25” factory bar for the shelby cars) on poly bushings. Nobody makes shocks, so you can only buy cheap gas shocks. Nobody makes springs so it’s custom or stock. Outside of…

Being a good captain is overrated. Self preservation is more fun.

God, the brakes. I spent 4 year chasing our brakes, and they were always terrifying. New everything from the master through the rotors, and the pedal was always soft. We got good at racing without them.

Just because the ship sank doesn’t mean I did. Ships can’t swim. I occasionally can.

God what a pile of crap those cars were. Sure you could spoof the MAP sensor, crank the boost and run a semi-quick quarter mile. But they handled like a sinking ship, build quality was crap, and they torque steered into oblivion. I’ve spent 4 years racing one, and nearly everyone I meet says the same thing, either…