Welcome to what pedantic folks like me have been doing to look like assholes by correcting people in forums and comments for the past 20 years!

I actually learned something today. I always looked at “turbo lag” as basically the sum of the two. Thanks Kristen for passing this along.

I should have used the term “counter-steering” in order to be technically correct, but the term “opposite lock” is used these days as a generic term to describe any amount of steering input opposite to the direction the vehicle is rotated. Hence people saying things like, “feed in some opposite lock,” since opposite…

There’s a few types of exhaust fire, there’s big yellow firey smokey exhaust fire that is done intentionally or is due to poor tuning, there’s momentary backfire/pops, and then there’s this which is basically just superhot exhaust that hasn’t cooled yet and is still incadescent.

Nothing is as ‘Merican as a ‘Vette with afterburners.

So you like flames and wings eh?!?!

I am not either, but to speculate as laymen:
Fire exhaust happens when you’re running so rich that you have unburnt fuel running out of the exhaust ports. I think most of us are used to seeing high-strung cars burp flame on the downshift as the fuel ratio is momentarily super rich. To do this, during what seems to be…

After the new ZR1 drives by

I’m not an engine designer, but it seems like if you have leftover fire from the cylinders coming out the exhaust, you might be wasting some power. Not to say that it isn’t awesome. And maybe it provides some amount of thrust?

I drive a Ford (US) with the Sync 2 (Sony MyFord Touch). I can, obviously change inputs, climate controls, phone controls, but the majority of my system settings are unavailable while the car is in drive.

It’s not just car culture. Have you been to a concert lately?

And people eat it up as evidenced by whoever is clapping. “Fuck yea I’m seeing a wreck!”

Leaving flooring it or doing burnouts for videos is quickly becoming the most douchey way to leave C&C. And people eat it up as evidenced by whoever is clapping. “Fuck yea I’m seeing a wreck!”. Really? I’m tired of seeing some of my favorite cars ruined by owners that obviously cant handle them. I’m to the point where…