This! Not to mention the blatant speed traps which seems to be a specialty in Virginia (Emporia you know who you are!).

Where is the speed trap side bar?

Yeah... no...

Fine for the aftermarket where longevity and emissions aren’t an issue but in the OE world pushrod engines are hitting a brick wall.

You can google it but there have been mostly unsuccessful attempts to develop variable lift systems for push rod engines. The most simple method involves altering the bleed down rate for a hydraulic tappet and then using that to alter the lift/duration and since it sits before the rocker arm a small amount of movement…

Sorta related but this reminds me of the 5 or move valve cylinder heads that were explored in the 90's and IIRC culminating with the 8 valve head Honda had developed for its motorcycle program (which required an oval shaped combustion chamber).

Somehow I was expecting more road rage...

Most likely it coincided or at least exploded into an epidemic with the growth of the porn industry which has created unrealistic expectations not only for women but men as well.

I strive every day to straighten out the jumble. Occasionally I’m somewhat successful.

Sigh... consulted a psychic huh? I’d just like to point out Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan used to consult “psychics” and look how fucked up the country has turned out as a result.

Well that is an inevitability. I doubt very seriously the US is going to survive in its current state for much longer. Many democracies devolve into oligarchies and fail. The worst part about the US is that it isn’t old enough to have had say a feudal society and a monarchy where the gentry eventually came to the…

Man I miss the days before Fox owned the rights to Adamantium and Cap’s shield was made from an alloy which included Vibranium. IIRC his shield was termed proto-adamantium and was unique as well as being unreproducible by conventional means.

You only looking at it in terms of performance #’s (in any event it is a city car and works as intended) - the brilliance of the i3 is in its individual components and production method. BMW has it so nailed down even with the small production numbers they don’t bleed money.

I remember going to South Carolina where my mom and stepdad live with my fiancee. We literally were counting the number of black and Hispanic people we saw that weren’t related to me. I think I saw 5 black people who weren’t my kinfolk. We didn’t see anyone Hispanic.

All of which is true and Tesla has a lot of ground to cover when better engineered and built mainstream EVs hit the market and bite into its market share.

Don Garlits IIRC

Include all the accessories on a low compression engine with a fairly low rev range. These engines were barely more advanced than thier 60's counterparts.

The biggest problem isn’t twice the number of injectors or pumps. It’s the consumer. Your not going to get the majority of people to regularly clean the intake tract on a DI engine without some draconian method like mandatory service intervals (that say render a vehicle inoperative using a heavily encrypted reset…

Granted I was only a wee lad when my old man purchased one new in 1970 while stationed in Germany but the stories he told had a lasting effect. Every single car I’ve ever financed has been a Mustang.

Holy fuckballs!!!!!!!!!