Hey Tav, a guy I know repairs and restores 3000GTs and Steaths. If you’re ever back in the market for another 3S once your finances become stable again, he might be able to help.

Understood.

Yep, apparently I spoke too soon.

Oh, look at that. Guess that blows a giant hole in your ‘theory’.

I’ve used both, and while I have no seat of the pants observations, I did attempt to do my due diligence with my most recent addition to my garage (turbo I-6). Cursory searches at the BITOG forums and posted UOA’s leads me to believe that the Pennzoil Platinum is at least as good as Mobile 1, and is cheaper. Basically…

I’ve used both, and while I have no seat of the pants observations, I did attempt to do my due diligence with my…

 Mobile oil, which is better than Pennzoil in my opinion, anyway.

 Mobile oil, which is better than Pennzoil in my opinion, anyway.

You write like a drunk 12-year-old, and your opinion doesn’t matter.

Didn’t Subaru lift a 4wd Loyale wagon back in the 70's? I remember an ad that featured the US Ski Team.....

I haven’t come across it much, but then again most of our customers don’t need parts with that kind of strength. The closest we come is ensuring a maximum surface finish, which incidentally does improve tensile strength.

I mean, if you’re going that far and strength was really an issue, they could grind the threads and/or use a UNJ thread for optimal strength. But it’s probably not necessary.

Not necessarily, it depends on the industry. For instance, the company I work for makes medical and optical parts that the machine in the video couldn’t possibly hold the tolerance on, nor could it produce as quickly.

Nothing shown in the video, with the exception of the UV penetrating dye inspection, is out of the ordinary in normal precision machining industry. You have design, machining, inspection, heat treat, marking and storage. It’s just usually done in quantities greater than 1.

Nothing you have said lends any credibility to your claims.

How about no. I’m don’t give a crap what hippie/liberal place you live in, nor do I care what they sell in other countries. That has absolutely no bearing on me, I live here, and for the vast majority of the population here, biking is not an option.

You keep saying that, but repeating the same thing over and over again does not make it true. I’ve given you several reasons why it will. If you want to close your eyes, put your hands over your ears, and go “lalalalala” to drown out reality, that’s your prerogative. But I’ll be first in line to say “I told you so”.

This. Every time.

Sorry, I phrased it wrong. You are correct about the symmetrical bit.

Maybe I’m in the minority, but I love this thing as-is. I generally don’t even like Ferraris, but this one is funky as hell while simultaneously somewhat practical, relatively.

I believe Subaru began dropping the rear LSD on the manual models back in 2008, starting with the WRX. The only one that still has a rear LSD is the STI.

The symmetrical AWD is 50:50 left to right, not front to back. The new CVT-based Subaru’s are heavily FWD-biased to aid in fuel economy, similar to Haldex systems. The only ones that aren’t are the manuals.