In pretty much any fastest driver format, my money is on Stef all the way.

To make it fun, you need margin of victory, as in “how much faster is Stef compared to David?” If I spot David 10 seconds, can Stef catch him? On a drag strip?

And if David’s involved, we can add the fun prop bets, such as how long until he…

It’s not the terrorists that deserve sympathy. It’s the civilians in the lands they control. Using ordinance like this is a clear sign we don’t care about the civilians and have sole tunnel vision on just the terrorists. There’s a reason they weren’t used in 2003.

MEGATON.

Seriously?

A megaton is 1 million tons. The MOAB is 11 tons of TNT equivalent.

I’m sorry, I already own a 944. NEXT!

Dear jalopnik staff,

Whomever doesn’t crop this and replace their avatar is a monster.

This is how I am going to picture all the Jalop staff from now on. Those aren’t your cars, those are you guys.

There was a YouTube video linked in an article a few weeks ago where a guy made a cylinder head out of acrylic for a Briggs & Stratton engine, then ran various fuels through it. If you’ve ever had an old Briggs engine apart, it uses a valvetrain layout very similar to that of the Go-Devil.

I have a 1974 world of automobiles encyclopedia that has a breakdown of all the combustion chamber shapes and their efficiencies. A hemi is pretty damn close to 1.00, but a typical flathead is somewhere down around .72. Discoidal chambers, pent roofs, etc. etc. (OHV varieties) mostly get north of .92. Lots of wasted…

Please tell me the new gear is all metal....

Most flatheads are that way (“L-head”), since one of the older ways (a “T” head”) requires two cams:

Wuss. I told you it was a timing issue. Friends and co-workers be damned. Wait for the gear, get it running, drive it to Moab and back. Finish the mission.

FTFW

I simply LIVE to see the daily updates on this project/adventure. Living vicariously through you, my friend. Keep it going!

It’s about... time!

A Jeep so janky, scientists are still discovering new means of failure.

After a few minutes of deep thought, an idea hit me upside the head like a can of ginger ale. Well, I was thinking about your situation and not paying attention to the Canada Dry closing on my skull at subsonic speeds. But alas after the concussion wore off, cracked block.

This has got to be a performance art project deconstruction of the slow and inexorable decline of white males in middle America. It would be impossibly sad to read this as straightforward automotive journalism. If Lars von Trier was an associate editor at Road and Track.

Paragraph 2 was telling him he has an opportunity to work on his prior mistakes that are causing a leak. Unrelated to the failure.