Oh, how I have waited for this moment. Interesting story time. In 1993, I worked at a small satellite Ford advanced design group. Our (desperately overworked) system administrator was a really interesting and creative guy that created his own system that he used to make his drive to work MUCH better. Pretty much a…

I feel your pain with my crew cab 4WD Sierra. Sounds like you and I have exactly the same parking philosophy.

Ironically enough, my last employer has huge signs all over requiring everyone to pull into the spaces. Unbelievably difficult in the underground lot with my crew cab Sierra. I think they are much less worried about safety than whether they can read license plates.

Yes, weight savings, but more importantly, weight savings from the nose. Considering they were pretty much all limited to running 4.5" wide bias ply tires, traction was a real issue. They did everything they could to get weight transfer to the rear tires.

Thanks for taking the time for this Q&A session!

If you have to ask if it has too much power, it probably does. If the first question you have is "what is the smallest pulley I can put on it?", it probably doesn't.

It goes both ways. Quite a few years ago, I was helping my girlfriend move and we rented one of the small enclosed trailers. My truck at the time was an extended cab Chevy 3500 duallie that was outfitted for hauling three cars at a time. She sees that warning on the trailer and tells me I have to drive that speed…

Driving the car would of course be a great thrill, but this guy's job is a very close second.

You forgot 4:

Latest report says they were going 45 in a 45

Indeed I did. I was thinking back to the show car I saw many years ago that had the giant gyroscopic flywheel to fight body roll...that ultimately didn't work.

Nice theory, but, not likely. The wheels and driveline have a fair amount of gyroscopic mass, but obviously nowhere near enough to keep the car on it's feet. You would be talking about a massive horizontally spinning flywheel that could do that to a car...one that no sane person would be willing to cohabitate with…

Well, if you are trying to offend a large group, I suppose it's hard to top the list of people that have had kids. Congratulations. I used to have an attitude similar to yours...but then I became old enough to vote.

Holy green boogers on a platter! I know this is the wild open interwebz, but reading through the responses makes me glad I have gained some tolerance with age. There are quite a few really good stories here that would make the most tolerant person saw WTF?, but there are a lot more that are just a product of a…

"Bare with me" ? I am sure he usually has someone for that, too.

T'is a deep topic that probably can't be adequately discussed here. Luckily, there have been many discussions elsewhere that you can easily find with a quick search. It's all about curtain area. You can get more flow out of three smaller valves than two larger valves given the same amount of combustion chamber area.

My dad has a used car dealership with a shop in a very rural part of Michigan (in a county with one of the highest welfare rates in the country), which means the local pool of employable mechanics isn't overflowing with MIT grads. Just to set the stage, this is a town of ~1500 people and doesn't even have a fast food…

Oh. Lovely, another new car culture that I can loathe for a few years. Guess they finally got bored with the Donk thing.

I felt it.

Because Miata?