Definitely depends on where you were as to how messy it could be. My old man was drafted in 62, spent a year in Korea and spent the next four years in Vietnam but he could talk about his time in both countries. A buddy of mine, his dad was an evac pilot and wouldn’t even talk about his time in Vietnam.

Good advice! Except when every fucker behind the lead car does the same damn thing...

Negative! Even 500 horsepower engines were tearing those cars up without some sort of auxiliary stiffening. 

GM and Ford offer crate engines? Granted they don’t have production engines they could throw another 160 horsepower on top of but you can get a 755 horsepower supercharged V8 from GM (LT5)as well as a 720 horsepower big block and Ford sells a naturally aspirated 580 horsepower 5.2 cpc V8 as well as pushrod engines…

Probably could with little problem. My guess is that Mopar went with the aluminum block both for ease of manufacture and they most likely stuffed the engine with a pretty tough sleeve.

Traction is the real issue. You can have a 1000 horsepower through an IRS just don't expect it to dead hook and survive for long.

My parents drove my bitch’n Camaro up from the Bahamas!!!!

Modern engines are tested may times at peak power, peak torque and peak rpm for well over 24 hours. Hyundai for example runs all of its engines at peak power for over 300 hours on a dyno and the LS1 specifically was tested at over 520 hours and Ford for example ran the 5.0 Coyote at peak power 100 hours at a time for…

It wasn’t so much the displacement as it was the physical dimensions of the hemi engine which was just over 30 inches wide (30.5).

Not going to lie! Caught this story out of the corner of my eye and thought it was some sort of Cold War Iron Curtain conveyance rather than a Lego toy.

The headline struck me as odd - more of a “wow they actually did it!” kind of headline rather than say “Volvo did as expected” sort of headline.  

Bean counters have an awful lot of input in the final product and since they tend to sit higher on the pole they can and have overridden actual engineers on products.

So the question that begs to be asked what was the criteria for selecting the focus group?

Not give a shit what your boss wants...

Serious question, CF tubs and chassis have been around for awhile now with tons of road and track use on them and can be accurately modeled with software.

Lol, according to a friend of mine “no offense” but too old to hire because you guys suck with PC’s...

4th gear - Pro-tip Space Boy! That’s how you end up with things like Dieselgate and Space Shuttles falling out of the sky.

Naw, the LS will be around forever, you’ll just be buying it as a generic V8 from Edelbrock or World or somebody like that.

Well if you want new with a warranty and cant find an unsold example sitting on a dealer loy that ship said right into “ we can hook you up with an Edge ST “

Most automakers it appears are a generation or two behind in thier electronics for whatever reason.