Well, more and more it seems like the people most enthusiastic about the holidays are the ones with whom I wish no connection whatsoever. And I tend to wish that those with whom I do agree would join me in abandoning the holidays entirely, making that split complete.

I don’t understand why so many people call these things beautiful. I mean, interesting, sure, but aesthetically? I think they’re hideous. 

Actually, I find the leather boots far easier to clean than accordion boots. The accordion boots tend to trap stuff. 

I’m torn.

Dude, I can tell just from looking at the picture why that car won’t start:

I’m really not a fan of any kind of Xmas decorations, anywhere. Right-wing jagoffs have been claiming there is a “war” on the holidays for decades now, and I finally decided that anything those fuckos feel so strongly about is basically something I don’t want anything to do with anymore. So to hell with the holidays.…

They’re why some people who like cars refuse to identify as “car enthusiasts,” too. 

Shit like this scratches the surface of why I keep my distance from “car culture” in general. Cars tend to attract the kind of dipshitty, aggressively bro-ish, fragile-masculinity scumbags who love shouty dick-measuring contests and are threatened by the presence of women.

LOL, a giant, W12 Allroad. What could go wrong?

I imagine a 2JZ-GE with that head would behave something like a 3.0L, inline-six version of an F20C. Might need a lighter crank, but still...

There may have been some experimental stuff, but as far as I know the wildest you could get from the production line was the 2JZ-GTE in the later JDM MkIV Supras, which had the intake-cam VVTi phasing. To the best of my knowledge, Toyota’s variable lift system, VVTLi, was only ever used on the 2ZZ-GE four-cylinder. 

https://engineswapdepot.com/?p=11917

Sort of. First of all, the 2JZ-GTE used in the US-market Supras never got VVTi. The only US-market VVTi 2JZ engines were the NA ones, like what you got in an IS300.

For that kind of money one could get a brand-new Accord or Camry that is a better car and will outlast this weak European status-stretcher by decades. Pipe all day long.

Well, to be fair, losing 79hp probably would be tear-inducing. 

Love it. I’ve wanted to build an ITB’d NA 2JZ ever since I found out about the aftermarket company making basically VTEC heads for 2JZ. 

Blas mir eine während ich scheiße, Volkswagen. 

Can’t help wondering whether one of those 4.0 V12s would fit under the hood of an NA Miata. 

I’m the kind of person who laughs at “balls” in any kind of context, and I still assumed these scenes were intended to show platonic affection rather than sexual tension. 

I haven’t seen it, so maybe I’m talking out my ass here, but from those descriptions I don’t automatically jump to “sexual tension.” I imagined it more like the kind of affection one might see between a person and their pet. But I’d have to see it, which I probably won’t do, to say.