Ex-fucking-actly. People bitch about lawyers being pedantic assholes, then pull shit like this and bitch that they weren’t pedantic enough.

I don’t see why it would make that any easier than regular linear valves. Seems like the only obvious benefit would be allowing more volume of air and exhaust flow, since you can have one big passage in the head for both instead of two (or more) smaller ones dedicated to exhaust/intake. Would also eliminate clearance…

Damn, now I miss my MG.

It’s been a few years since it snowed, and even with practice PDX has easily the worst snow drivers anywhere ever in the history of bad drivers.

From Clackamas to home is about 15 minutes with no traffic.

I get the feeling his main complaint was that there weren’t more prequels with more talking and mooning and riding giant space ticks.

Let’s just see if I have everything straight here:

Yeah, they’re just describing dieseling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieseling). Any old carbureted engine would do it if the mix was too lean or the idle was too high or it was just too old and clapped out. Freewheeling is totally unrelated, other than making it impossible to stop using the transmission.

OK, sure - it runs hot and will diesel a little after shutoff. My ‘83 Ford did the same thing. Nothing special about that, just the joys of old carbureted motors. 

This makes no sense. I looked it up. It still doesn’t make any sense.

I didn’t murder that drifter, I just borrowed his heart and some skin. Why are the cops so pissed at me?

When I see a car in the snow with the wipers up, I take it as the international sign for “I’m not comfortable with this situation and probably shouldn’t be driving today”

Easier solution to drive wheels problem; just put chains/snow tires in the drivers side of the car. You’re probably driving alone anyway, but as long as the driver is safe and secure, everything will be fine for passengers.

I’ve heard a lot of people argue that modern interconnectedness and globalization will save us all from this; the Chinese can’t possibly do more than huff, because we’re too intertwined. Even if the economic entanglements weren’t so huge, the old Cold War math of mutual destruction will stop any two major powers like…

I don’t always ski behind my Ferrari, but when I do, I make sure to only put my boots on halfway.

We test drove some cars a few weekends back just so we’d be ready when things did settle out, and the Ford dealer said he could see this coming. People were already coming in getting ready to buy like they expected cash to arrive November 1st, and acting like he was crazy for suggesting it might take a little longer…

I commuted with a stick for 15 years. Never once occurred to me that a slush box would somehow fix traffic.

Thing about these is with the aluminum body they can look like they have “minimal” rust when they’re actually only staying in one piece out of habit. Ask me how I know.

1) 1970 Ford F250 4x4 for doing actual work

The lack of a sequel or at least a remaster for World in Conflict is a goddamn crime. Or maybe not; why mess with perfection?