So what you are saying is that people care more about displacement/weight, displacement/size and ease of modification than they do power/displacement?

What state? Even cali doesn’t sniff for NOX. I call BS that they wouldn’t re-certify her car.

I had an old 1.8 that lacked a rev limiter. We figured out that the valve float limited the engine somewhere around 11k.

40x the limit would have met the standard 30 years ago.

You clearly haven’t worked much on German cars. I seem to remember the S-Class not getting rack&pinion till 1998.

This is a problem with the airline’s carry-on rules. If the bag will not fit in the proper direction in the bin it should not be allowed.

My how history repeats itself: http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.n…

First generation CRV in a stick shift (if you can find one). Simple, reliable, hard to hate but equally hard to love.

People see MPG as some sort of fixed unit that holds equal significance everywhere on the scale. It doesn’t work like that.

More *realized* power. The distinction might be obvious to you and I but not to everyone. The peak HP that an engine is capable of developing does not necessarily reduce the economy on a given driving cycle.

I suppose this had to get approved in the interest of a balanced comment section. Really though, seriously poor taste here. Categorical statements and the attitudes that accompany them are the root not only of the discrimination problem but also a large component of the police problem.

Same transmission as every VR6 and TDI Passat, Corrado and Jetta. Parts to fix any shifter problem abound.

It is likely he had ABS. If so, he made the correct call.

The answer to the jeep hack is quite simple and is something that any cyber security analyst would have suggested. There must be an air gap between any system touching the cellular infrastructure and any system touching the CAN bus.

If you blow the EZ-Pass lane there is a grace period to pay online. Please use it and do not inconvenience the entire freeway.

World of Outlaws should have made the list. Nothing like 800+ HP Methanol burning madness on a 3/8-1/2 mile dirt track. It’s the original drift racing.

No way. Just saying that i doubt there are a surplus of old guard guys making almost $30/hour still driving bolts. I’m saying that they exist like welfare queens exist; way more of them than the bleeding hearts want but not nearly the norm.

Hold on there buddy. There is a huge breadth of tasks involved in final assembly that union workers carry out. Now i’m not saying that you are necessarily wrong, only that you have no idea what these people are actually doing and what such a skill set is worth.

Inherent to the idea of labor unions is the notion of separate classes. This, being divisive in its vary nature, creates a situation where each side feels the other is trying to take advantage.

Any properly designed belt will last to its change interval no problem. On modern cars that interval is usually between 60k and 100k miles. Changing them isn’t that bad at all. Even on ones with an engine mount in the way it is a 2-3 hour task, 5 if you have never done it before. The lower NVH and lower rotating mass…