You can’t be down by contact until you have possession of the ball. If it was moving around pre- and post-contact, he can’t be down as you can only be down if you possess the ball.

Still better than Italian Reliability, German Design, and Japanese Engineering.

I never liked those seats. I always felt like I was sitting on them, not in them, if that makes sense.

Now that I think about it, there may have been more than just two. I seem to recall getting two different wrong pads, but I can’t say for sure.

The engine is about the only redeeming part of that car.

If they didn’t use the “uprated” 4t65e their torque rating would be even weaker than the HD version and iirc there isn’t that much of a torque difference between the s/c v6 and the v8.

It’s an amazingly good car, and it will be a sad day when I finally move on from it. I imagine it’s going to be a lot like how I occasionally pine for my old e30, but worse. And it was just a 10hp increase(and a whole 8 extra torques!), but those are 10 of the stoutest horses I know of. On track I can walk away…

Nope, it’s tucked under the frame in front of the front passenger wheel. To get it out you had to unbolt the fuse box, removing a retaining bolt that you can’t see, is at the bottom of the battery and there is only 1-1.5” of clearance from the battery to the engine. There is also a reinforcement bar you have to…

The V8 in the W-body is not all it’s cracked up to be. GM’s penny-pinchers took what could have been genuinely interesting and slapped parts-bin pieces from lesser cars all over it. The best example: the transmission. In theory the 4t65e HD was beefed up to better handle the higher torque output of the V8 vs the V6.…

I know this is an old post and nobody will probably read this, but I can’t overstate how important that actually is. My Grandmother went too far when her Dr told her to cut back on salt and ended up in the hospital due to lack of sodium, where she had a stroke that was effectively the beginning of the end for her.…

Realistically, it’s every OoO CPU they’ve ever built that’s affected, not just back to the start of the Core lineup. But I guess they are assuming(probably rightly so) that not too many people are still rocking their P4's.

It is possible to do just that, it’s just not as cost-effective as a rocket with current technology. Once you get past ~100k ft(18 miles) it becomes very difficult to continue to generate lift, it’s much easier to just power through most of the lower atmosphere in a vertical ascent, then lay the rocket over and pick…

That’s not why solid fuel is used in boosters. Solid fuel is used in boosters because boosters are generally expendable and solid fuel rockets are much cheaper to make, since they lack the extensive engine plumbing needed for liquid fuel. In the case of the Shuttle’s boosters, it was far cheaper to make a solid fuel…

I can schedule my sick leave as regular time off or get paid off for not using it. I’ll call out if I can’t function. Until then I’ll med up and warn people away.

You wouldn’t be changing the load on the engine. The engine is not there to be the prime mover, it is there to be a range extender.
 The engine’s load would be constant(well mostly, maybe some slight variation to account for changing the charge rate to avoid damaging the battery). Your powerflow goes engine…

Because if you read the remainder of the article you will discover they are referring to hybrid in the way that a diesel-electric train or the i3 REX is a hybrid. There will be no connection between the ICE and the wheels. It will drive a generator only. A variable compression engine would be wasted in that…

My company just finally last year managed to get it’s billing system off one based on terminals. When I first started they had a DOS window that was emulating the terminals(it would remind you to clean your spoolers when you logged in). They had recently built a GUI on top of it that they were starting to move people…

I had an second-gen X1 as a loaner for 4 weeks. I expected to hate it, but it was actually pretty good. My only complaints about it were the stock tires gave up a little too early and I felt too far off the ground. But overall it handled surprisingly well. As long as I had a weekend car I would consider it as a DD.

That was the 1st gen X1, the current X1 is based on the same UKL platform as the X2 and the Mini.

It’s not just an Amish/Jewish thing. It’s a German thing. My family lives nowhere near Amish or Jewish areas and says Gesundheit due my Grandmother always saying it. Her parents immigrated from Germany. I use the 2 interchangeably, although I find myself saying Gesundheit more than God Bless You over the last 5-6…