Interestingly, my last several cars had plastic covers with no sound deadening at all. The covers mostly seemed to be there to hide plug wires and coil packs.

I had a Linear. Fixing the cause of the sludge issue is easy. What’s not easy is reversing 100,000 miles of damage that was already present. A *lot* of early cars have severe sludge issues, and even cars with a full maintenance history and that were otherwise babied have pans full of goo. It’s easy enough to prevent…

Dat wheel gap tho

“I would definitely check the oil pan for sludge before purchasing”

Put back together with the “new” head?

Yes. Just like other fast cars are still good ideas, even if some fucktard can make a mistake with them.

I need to know more about this Ardun conversion. That is just flat out awesome!

If you do the math you’ll see that $700/month disappears pretty fast. The average car is over $30K these days (well over). Let’s just say $30 grand exactly, and figure payments with no interest. Spread out over 5 years (a pretty damn long time to finance) and you’ve got $500/month just for the car payment. Even if you…

You misspelled Aquapel.

Bertha started tunneling in July 2013. The run up to that (digging the pit, transporting and assembling Bertha, etc) started much earlier. No progress at all was made from December 2013-December 2015, because the machine was damaged.

The wall has to be strong enough to hold back against the pressure of the cutter head pushing through. Otherwise, all of the dirt would just crumble away and the tunnel would collapse.

FOUR years late...so far. Current projected completion date is 2019. Original date when tunneling started was 2015. Unless everything else goes exactly as planned, the project will be a *minimum* of four years late (and already hundreds of millions over budget). Judging by how well things have gone so far, I’m…

Only takes 43 hours in China.

“also different diameter tires front and rear won’t work well with 4x4"

The 10 bolt is a lot stronger than most people give it credit for. The ring gear is 8.5" and quite strong (12 bolt is 8 7/8"). There are lots and lots of guys running 11-12s with a 10-bolt and 4:1 or better gears. A guy running street gears (~3-3.5:1) is going to have even more strength (fewer teeth, each of which is…

The gears should be properly fixed BEFORE leaving on a cross country trip. As much of a pain in the ass as it will be to fix, it will be a hell of a lot better than doing it on the side of the road, at night, in the rain (which is when all things automotive fail).

That’s not going to happen, but the trunk opening should be a bit larger than the announcement cars, and it should be really easy to fold down the rear seat and pass through that area for larger objects like skis and such.

With 40 horsepower on tap (on a good day), the last thing I’d be doing is putting on wide, power sapping tires. Not to mention that the tie rods and steering box will have their work cut out for them with the narrow stockers, much less tires over twice as wide.

On stock street tires. With 21" wheels. And a curb weight of over 4,000 lbs.

Tesla tried that and it just didn’t work out well. It was very expensive and complex, with lots of moving parts and variables. There were all sorts of unanswered questions about how much to charge (you’re not just getting electricity, you’re getting a battery), how much to credit for the swapped out battery, etc.