When I said “basic”, I meant in the current slang sense of the word, ie, “unoriginal”.   The engine is quite a sophisticated design and sometimes fitment is anything but easy. 

Does the LS family of engines do these fascinating things better than/worse than/equal to other swappable motors? Things like the JZs, RBs, Honda Bs/Ks/etc.

For classic good looks and functionality, this right here. Go anywhere, do anything, will run until the bombs fall during armageddon and maybe even after that.

My girlfriend says that Houston doesn’t know how to have a normal car accident, that there’s always one car on a roof and another on fire.  The traffic also always moves at light speed or full stop.  There is no in between. 

GM is tired of playing the “Corvettes always have...” game. They ditched the popups in the C6 and they ditched the round taillights (and most everything else other than V8/Front engine rear wheel drive) in the C7. No one talks about the weird styling of the C7 anymore, but it was necessary to the evolution of the…

Here is my thought, and you can see if I’m right in a few years.

I disagree, though I have heard this argument since I was running A032Rs on my daily driver.

That guy fux. 

I detailed in another post. In my experience problems like these are caused by a wire that got pinched or rubbed for a long period of time in a place where there are lots of moving parts. Typically, wires are pretty isolated in areas that don’t move or can’t move. But there are a few places where this isn’t possible.…

Every single time I’ve ever blown a fuse, it’s been for good reason. You have a short somewhere. If I had to guess, somewhere the wire that runs up the steering column to the controls has become pinched or worn. Now you have a small compromised spot on the wire, and when you turn the wheel a certain way or use the…

4) Why are horror movie cars so unreliable?

The last rental I ever abused was the worst.

It’s 1999. I’m in Houston, approximately 120 miles from home in my surprisingly unreliable 1989 Honda Accord. It is August. In Texas. The radiator springs a leak. It is approximately 6:30pm. On a Friday. At this point in my life, I routinely do not have enough money to even pull the minimum amount out of the…

Learned my lesson years ago — never, ever go to a track without your helmet in the trunk. Missed out on a great experience due to that single mistake.  

DAMMIT. They had the perfect excuse to use the Scorpions’ German version of Fox on the Run and they did. not. do. it.

A W12 Volkswagen Phaeton. Even the most expensive example on the market comes in under $20k. No one knows what it is and in the US market, it just looks like an oversized Passat. It won’t stand out in a bad neighborhood and it won’t stand out in a posh neighborhood either. So completely and totally understated, I…

Am I the only one who as a kid noticed that there was a lot more drag on the Lucas oil side and thought “maybe that’s not a good thing”?

Oh man. I have a few. I’m in my 40's, by the way.

I mean, I drive a Mustang, and it’s a lot harder to get it up on two wheels than it used to be before they put in the independent rear suspension in 2015, but I’m still pretty sure I could do it if I wanted to.

Sure, but it’s not like they are making new Nixie tubes. You can just buy the ones that were made decades ago.