Flathead engines also don’t have problems with piston-to-valve interference. They also have lousy flow characteristics, which is why they eventually disappeared in things that weren’t lawn mowers.

That’s not what valve reliefs are for. They’re to raise compression and to ensure that the piston doesn’t smash into the valves while the engine is timed properly.

What. The. Fuck.

“When the piston is as high as it can go in the cylinder (a point that’s known as top dead center, because it sounds sort of pirate-like and tough)...”

Of course, with a sleeve valve engine, none of these problems with pesky belt changing are an irrelevance.

A lot of tears and needing to find a new way home?

Modern chains are pretty much maintenance free, changing your oil is the maintenance. The chain itself pretty much never fails, failures are usually guides or tensioners. Usually failures are from not changing your oil.

Best term I ever heard for a broken timing belt in an interference motor was “Valve and Piston Orgy”

Timing chains can ‘stretch’.. more like wear between all the parts cause minor play and the chain can skip a link and through timing off. Or I may be wrong on my exact understanding.

Some cars have known issues with timing chains and should be addressed accordingly. By and large, though, timing chains shouldn’t ever need to be touched.

Haha, yeah I generally agree with the tire PR guys that rubber is one of if not the most important part of your car.

Fun fact: Nokian tires are so hard to kill because they’re made from ground up 3310's.

So let me get this straight, you would pay hard earned monies, for someone to make thousands of little cuts on your maybe expensive brand new tires, for reasons that have no scientific backing or noticeable gains?

Yes you are....

Dammit this needs more stars.

Yea I’ve got some BlackBerrian Tires that are really secure also.

Am I doing this right?

I believe you’re in the wrong neighborhood.

Wait a second, are you seriously going to believe a guy who is suing a woman who is not his wife and whom with he was having an affair for costing him his marriage?

You think you know someone, right?

Really, Justin? Hootie and the Blowfish?