10&2 is about having the ability to turn the wheel in either direction at any time without needing to move a hand. The actual way it should be done is 10&2 but your arms shouldn’t be hanging from the wheel, you should be actively holding your hands up and keeping a light touch on the wheel. But that’s hard as hell to…

The only time I’ve gone down a hill in 1st was when I was stuck in stop and go traffic on a long downhill. crawling along in 1st just happened to be the perfect speed to not have to touch the pedals as the traffic crept forward. Usually 3rd is sufficiently low to slow my car on a downhill. 1st would only be usable at…

On long, steep downhills, I’ll slow using the brakes then downshift and use revs and light braking to maintain the lower speed, but I rarely ever downshift to engine brake. I will let the car coast in gear to slow down if I see it coming far enough out, but I’m not downshifting, just coasting in 6th.

It is true, I once drove my e30 back home around 5 miles with a clutch stuck engaged. The lazy way to do it is over-rev slightly and lightly push the shifter into the gear while you let the RPM fall slowly, when you get the RPM right it should slide in with little or no resistance.

This is how poor welding would cause him to be ejected from the car: It looks like he has a 4 point harness in there. He does not have a harness bar, which should be a bar running horizontally just behind the front seats for the upper harness straps to attach to. Instead he has them attached to the rear seat lower…

I would sell off several organs* for BMW to build some of their Hommage cars(namely the 3.0CSL and 2002 Hommages, especially the 3.0CSL R and 2002 Turbomeister.)

By 2024 FL will just be one giant meth lab, so it’ll work out nicely.

well we can’t not be stylish.

I mean they’ll be owned by a Chinese consortium that ends up buying most of FCA, because of course that’s going to end up buying them. Every Dodge car will come free with monitoring equipment that reports direct back to your Chinese masters manufacturer in order to schedule repair work and steal secrets.

This was totally inadvertent, because I was pulling numbers out of my ass, but it turns out that’s about the size of a top fuel dragster’s rear tire.

I’m pretty sure you’re thinking of the 2030 Dodge Super Devil Twin Drag Pack™. That’s when they finally bite the bullet and switch to nitromethane, bump it up to a quad twincharger setup(per engine), and add in the second engine for a combined total of 17,458hp. Get the optional Hell’s Alley kit to upgrade all 4 tires…

phht, the 2024 Demon will be making like 1500 hp thanks to a twin twincharger setup with factory Nitrous and a meth kit. No way the maniacs over a Dodge don’t spit out a car to respond to this.

True, but there are big differences in the peak power of an engine vs the peak power of a horse. A properly designed engine can deliver peak power all day. A horse can deliver peak power for only a few minutes, then needs hours, or possibly even days to recover.

*29.8 peak hp. Steady-state HP falls back to around 2.

While the type R is littered with fake vents, the vents on the M4 are real. The vent behind the front fender is connected to the wheel well to reduce pressure, the small outermost vent in the front bumper feeds a vent the creates an air curtain around the front tires to reduce drag. The next vent in from that feeds…

How many poors can it safely run over before it sustains sufficient damage that you need to leave it on the side of the road and call your helicopter to come pick you up?

Take a look at the picture posted by a.barth., we’re going to concentrate on the 3 valves on the right side. If we replace those with just one valve, the maximum size it could be would be from the right-most part of the center valve to probably 4-5mm from the spark plug hole in the center of the combustion chamber.…

I think Mattis is probably the most sane and grounded person in the cabinet. Perry would be second. I kinda get the feeling that Perry, while very conservative actually does care about his job and wants to do what is right(at least within his framework) and part of that involves actually listening to and acting on the…

how about this: sponsorship is limited to $5 million. That way they can’t offset their R&D costs with sponsorships.

I think you need to add one more cavet to it. Max costs for the year for the chassis and engine not to exceed $5 million, including R&D. That keeps a big name from swooping in and dominating everything.