If you can do BETTER, why wouldn’t you (want to)?

If they can make more power with what they’ve got why WOULDN’T you?

That’s like saying “we’re going to start working on the next engine, but when we hit 2700 hp - whoops - that’s it. That’s as FAR as we will go. We stop there.”

So in other words, you’re telling me that…

“No, it’s not your point.”

“...and burn it as efficiently as possible.”

BWAHAHAHAHA.....

“How much liquid is injected into the cylinder at max revs? According to Bill Miller, owner of Bill Miller Engineering (BME) in Carson City, Nevada, his Top Fuel engines inhale as much as 80 gallons of fuel per minute at peak torque, which is equivalent to 1.3 gallons of fuel per second! “You can’t pour it out of a…

“Cheaper” is relative.

By that logic, a 5000 HP top fuel dragster is “cheaper” than to try and get his car to do the same.

“Why spend more for efficiency?” 

You assume that you have to spend more for efficiency. If you are engineering it properly, from scratch, why would that be an after thought? Why not engineer it INTO…

You realise that you have the definition of volumetric efficiency COMPLETELY wrong, right?

“Volumetric efficiency in internal combustion engine engineering is defined as the ratio of the mass density of the air-fuel mixture drawn into the cylinder at atmospheric pressure (during the intake stroke) to the mass density…

It’s always a concern.

Isn’t the free market great? You can’t force people into certain type of vehicle, and people would be damned if you take away their liberty to text-and-drive.

Isn’t democracy GREAT, where/when you can VOTE someone in like this into a position of power?

See....making lots of power has NEVER been the problem. Making power EFFICIENTLY...that’s true engineering. (Whether it’d be through volumetric efficiency and/or combustion efficiency.)

Some of the loudest cars I’ve seen are Indy cars and F1. (Granted the new F1s are A LOT quieter than they used to be, but they’re still decently loud.)

At that point, why even bother with mufflers?

It’s certainly an interesting format.

Pity that the US can’t put a former astronaut as the Secretary of the Department of Transportation.

“Stock trucks really aren’t made to jump off dunes.”

I am counting the days until automonous vehicles and quantum computers can tell which lane they’re supposed to be in when the lane markers are buried under 6 inches of snow and everybody else around it are STILL driving like idiots.

Winter in SE Michigan — suddenly, the 4-lane SB I-75 becomes 3.5 lanes +/- 0.5 lanes. ;)

1st: Bill Ford - “fun” - telling it like it is. #realist

Yeah...my driver’s ed teacher said that I was picking up this whole driving thing very well and very quickly.

MOAR GUNZ!!! Solves the problem EVERY time. :)