Well they are designed to withstand a rocket plume exciting a nozzle at a few thousand miles an hour so that shouldn’t be too surprising.

At a minimum, ULA likely had proprietary tooling and product in the building and they probably didn’t want a competitor snooping around. That isn’t the least bit suspicious.

Not surprising. This is way more common than it should be and it’s especially bad at places that have a predominantly young workforce, like Tesla. It’s also incredibly difficult to prove so good luck.

The only real reason to get a manual is if you enjoy driving a manual. Any objective advantages are moot if you don’t enjoy it.

There are things that should be crowd sourced and there are things that shouldn’t. Whether or not a car that I may someday own chooses to kill me falls firmly in the latter.

This isn’t about his supporters. It’s about the undecided. (Yes, somehow they still exist)

To be fair, the majority of weed sold in the US is grown in California. So Cleveland weed is most likely just week old California weed. Doesn’t make it any more plausible though.

The first person I heard use it was an aero-thermal engineer at a solid rocket motor manufacturer so I’m thinking the nomenclature is good enough. If anything, it’s a way of saying it that people outside of the heat transfer world will more likely understand making it even more appropriate given David’s audience.

You get fined by the city?

If only the people a few parts up complaining about how everyone fawns over complicated engineering when Germans make it would scroll down a few more posts...

It’s a sealed system so i guess the answer is, it would get wet.

To answer your question directly, two years ago when a rock punctured my A/C condenser, but that can happen on any car.

That’s the part people are missing here. This is a LOT test being performed not something they do on every fasteners.

That’s what i don’t understand here. I work in the space launch industry and we don’t even need custom bolts. Granted that probably has just as much to do with the need to comply with industry standards just as much as the fact that it’s expensive just for the sake of being expensive.

My dad’s an architect and the only thing he ever taught me was not to be an architect.

Even penetrating dye inspection is a pretty standard lot acceptance criteria for high strength fasteners because if their susceptibility to crack propagation. And it’s quite common on any sort if fracture critical machined part. I’d be more surprised if they we’re doing an eddy current inspection or something.

Off the shelf tunes don’t account for specific supporting mods. If he used an off the shelf tune, then having more airflow than stock means he’s running lean. OR it was a custom tune and they did a bad job tuning it.

I mean, a “stage 2" tune ups the boost, which pits more load and heat into the turbo. So his mods probably did cause the premature turbo failure and the dealer was 100% in their right to refuse to warranty it.

Problems arise when i can’t fit my leg between the brake pedal and the steering wheel a la miata or between the clutch and the steering wheel a la s2000.

I once got a parking ticket in Dallas where the city came out and changed a parking zone to a no parking zone in the middle of the day. I’d been parking here for work for more than a year and one day, they just changed it. They even left the parking sign they pulled out of the ground laying on the sidewalk. I ended up…