IIRC you cannot swap the engine of the car ina Le Mans series event. I believe the engine and chassis are the only things you cannot swap.

For me it was 3 fairly quiet pops then silence. I had just blown 2 holes in my block and a 3rd in the oil pan when cylinder #3 ate its bearing.

The ones I have heard of are using a full automatic transmission, but the ECU has been lobotomized such that it cannot make any decisions on it’s own. It only up or down shifts on command, and does so regardless of if it is safe to do so. If you tell it to downshift at redline in 2nd it will downshift to 1st and blow…

what if its an automatic transmission that only shifts when you tell it to?  I’ve heard of a few “dumb” automatics that are physically automatic gearboxes with torque converters and everything but only shift when they are told to by a human, including making shifts that will grenade the engine.

That V8 has been around in one way or another since 1996. Jag doesn’t want to spend the money to build a new V8 that has somewhat limited sales at this point, so they are turning to BMW.

Jag is already using Ford-based V8's.  They are switching sides from the USA to Germany.

I own a 6-speed and still reach for a 7th every now and then.  Same as when I had a 5-speed and kept reaching for 6th.  I imagine if I ever own a 7-speed I’ll reach for 8th every once in a while.

To be fair, it’s only higher thermal density if you make it more dense.  In theory you could space out the highest heat producing parts like it was a 14nm process then pack in all the low-heat parts with max density.  You’d get lower thermal density than a 14nm part on a chip thats still physically smaller and using…

Virtually every BMW has the space for a V8 up front(save the X1/2), since V8s are shorter than their I6's and not much wider because all the I6's are slanted. They just don’t put them in the smaller cars because it would steal sales from the bigger cars and throw off the weight balance.

If you actually want real world 70-mph steady state cruising...You’ll need to turn the Car and Driver. That is actually one of their tests. Some cars get unexpectedly high results, like the 330i which returned 41mpg even though it is only rated to 34 by the EPA.

It’s on a 7ish year cycle, but they don’t replace/release the coupes and convertibles at the same time as the sedans. Additionally not all regions used to get the new 3 at the same time, hence it looks like it has been on sale for 10+ years, but when you look a the breakdown no one body style was on sale for more than…

The LED taillights did not come with the LCI on e46's across the board. They were added in a few years after the LCI. IIRC only the coupes got them initially. I’m not sure the sedans ever did, but I know at least some LCI sedans don’t have LEDs as evidenced by my ZHP with halogens.

There are multiple S50’s out there with 1k hp or more.  I wouldn’t exactly call them fragile.

What makes you think that it’s cheaper to run through a new design for the refurbished ship? If anything it’s probably worse since you can’t change the dimensions of the ship very much so you have a much more constrictive box to work in. They aren’t going to rip out the guts of a ship to replace it’s structure then…

Based on that ratio, there would be 2.75 Tico’s left afloat. I’d hate to be assigned to the 3/4ths Tico...

ships at sea take a massive pounding, doubly so for a naval vessel which is going to spend more time at high speed than any other large vessels. Over time this starts causing fatigue damage to the structure of the ship itself. Fixing this fatigue damage would require gutting the entire ship down to the hull, replacing…

Most will probably sit in the mothball fleet for a decade or two before being scrapped. Some will likely be sunk as part of an exercise to give active duty ships and crews experience with surface combat. It’s unlikely that they will be sold as they have exceeded their projected lifetime of 30 years and are out of date…

Any particular reason they would stick with the Mk 41 over the Mk 57 PVLS the Zumwalt uses?  It seems like that wildly increases the ship’s survivability and frees up centerline space for other things, like guns, lasers, and aircraft pads.

There is no reason an artillery round can’t be shot down, it’s just more difficult than shooting down a missile. Especially if you can hit the round a couple dozen miles out. at that range you don’t need to actually destroy the round, just hitting it and either killing its guidance or compromising its aerodynamic…

I guess I’m the exception that proves the rule? I’ve not had any issues with ECS, aside from self-inflicted ones like not checking the in stock status of a part. And every time I messed that up I’ve called them, gotten a real person on the phone in very short order who removed that part and got the order shipped out…