I was literally just in the market for a car in that price range, as my daily driver impreza’s engine died, and the car didn’t warrant buying a pulled engine. The RX8 was a serious competitor.

This. I’ve had 2 cars where oil leaked onto the starter motor, and clogs up the solenoid. easiest temporary fix: smack it with a hammer. Mine wouldn’t start because the solenoid kept the gear against the flywheel after the car started. So I would smack the starter motor with a hammer and it would reset the solenoid,…

I think of it as the same reason people lease cars. If you have to live within a budget (which most of us do), the one thing a leased car and a rented home have is budget stability. You can have your rent for $700/month, renters insurance for $25 a month, and you know that even if your furnace dies, or your air…

Word to the Wise: Don’t ever fuck with Blizzard.

Tesla should just donate used batteries to the Power Racing Series. http://www.powerracingseries.org/

One of my friends did a similar thing. Only he took his Integra and dropped in an AWD drivetrain from a CR-V, as well as a turbo’ed and worked over k24 engine.

Most local governments that use red light camera systems do some horrible stuff. The contracts they sign give the red light camera company full authority to monitor and send tickets(that’s right, being ticketed by civilians), and they get paid a portion of the fine. In these contracts there’s often quotas that need to…

As somebody who rolled their own Android Auto system in my car, I absolutely love it. I hated touch screen systems, but since I can control basically everything with an OK Google command, I’m happy.

Also, here’s why I think most nav systems are complete shit:

I do this too. When I street park in the city, it’s often a couple of blocks away, so I get a count of auto to manual. It’s about 10% manuals most of the time

I’m firmly against touching another being’s automobile and/or automobile cover. Unless that car is unlocked with a for sale sign on it. That gives me the right to open the door to check the odo and for nasty smells.

I do this all the time. 3rd gear@1600rpm or so is 25mph, 4th gear@1600rpm or so is 35mph. That’s enough RPM to where I don’t cog, but I still don’t have the power to really take off. Perfect since the town next to mine will pull you over for less than 5 over the limit, and have roads that quickly shift from 45 to 25

30 fps is only part of the picture. What’s important to note is camera resolution and processing time. 30 fps is easy on a camera with a 320x240 resolution, but then image processing at a distance becomes much more difficult, as a person 20 feet away may only be a few pixels; not enough to detect a complex shape.

Get a mid-2000's Subaru Impreza. Might be a little difficult to find a non-wrx Impreza that’s got 3 pedals, but they’re cheap, parts are cheap and almost completely interchangeable, and Subaru has been known for their safety. And with AWD and 160ish HP, you learn do drive well, quickly. There’s so much drivetrain that…

While I am all for the wagon love-fest going on, let’s not forget hatchback coupes, like an integra or a 944. I love that huge glass hatch, and you could see EVERYTHING out of it.

I think Magnox is referring to when you can get a regular 4 door, non-convertible with frameless doors, like my 02 Subaru. And I have to say that frameless doors are absolutely awesome. I can carry long pipes and stick them out the passenger window and hang them on the mirror. and I can still open the door if need be.…

why stop there when you can get a set of Hella’s and make sure the whole block knows you’re there?

Which is exactly why one of my favorite tips is my 1/64" conical tip. when doing something like a qfp or smaller pitched smd work, the conical tip means that it’s much easier for me to focus on 1 pin at a time without heating up the part or neighboring pins as much.

Make an example out of one, and the rest fall in order. Now that this VW has the attention of the media, if the owner gets his money, it tells every other Jalop how far they can go with stripping their dieselgate cars. Wouldn’t be surprised if the easiest way to deal with it is for VW to whip up a contract that says…

Opening port 22 inbound could be an issue. For instance, whenever I have port 22 open, about once every 4 or 5 days I see a bunch of attempted connections from china or russia based IPs, trying things like admin:admin, admin:password, pi:raspberry, etc... So you would really have to make sure that you have your Pi…

lifting from the outside, and you can easily lift with your legs, and use leverage to your advantage. Once inside, you can basically only use your left forearm. If you’ve ever parked sideways on a hill and opened the door on the upper side of the hill, you’ve probably experienced this.