...which has some nice curlicues of its own...

I dunno. Never been. Plenty of fresh donuts on street view as of 2013, but the start line looks a bit old.

More Detroit:

This whole section of road in Detroit is nothing but 11s and donut marks.

The friends and relatives of those civilians killed in Lybia became the prime recruitment pool for ISIS’s Lybian affiliates. Don’t want to repeat that mistake.

ISIS isn’t your generic terrorist group. They WANT the US to go full attack - it feeds their narrative and helps their recruiting. Only way they’ll fall (other than fizzling out on their own) is if their pool of potential recruits no longer sees themselves as the victims and ISIS as the only option - specifically, it…

Can I give you more stars please?

Unless you’ve got a big stinkin’ subie scoop, it really is just a big pocket of hot, stagnant air. What is forced into the engine bay had to come through the radiator first - which is hot, and quickly becomes stagnant because the pressure drop across a radiator is so large.

What!!? Best name for a monster truck. Like “Tiny” but cuter.

Except the fuel line. No worm clamp for the fuel line.

Also, I like the combination of half-finished AN lines with cheap AutoZone hose clamps and split loom. And a custom header for fun. This thing is a wild combination of very cheap, very expensive, and very confusing. Obviously still early prototype (look at all those EGT and O2 bungs!) but still, somebody was really…

Somebody forgot to put a hose clamp on the fuel line.

Wax-stats (or whatever the proper name is) are on just about everything from the 80s/90s. FC RX7, AW11 MR2, E30... and that’s just ones I’ve owned.

Ya know, I’m all for visiting most areas of Detroit, if only just to see what it is like. I go a lot of places that would be considered a bit shady for good food, car parts/shop services, and all sorts of other BS. I’ve only ever been truly nervous driving through Detroit once, and it was less than 2 miles from the…

G26o shifting is really easy to fix - just cut the lever in half!

Add a cheap beam-type torque wrench. Dead reliable, will never wear out like the clickers do, and doesn’t care if you forget to reset it to zero before putting it back in the box. From a mechanical engineering standpoint, its about the most robust design possible, with the advantage of being really really cheap.

Repeatibility on 4WD rolls is ~3%, compared to better than 1% for 2WD. Not worth gambling on a whole MPG on your AWD vehicles when the penalty for missing CAFE is as strict as it is. When large fines are involved, making sure you get the same result as the regulator is much more important than whether or not that…

Any haldex style AWD is run by removing the driveshaft and putting the computer in test mode. Same with any clutch style transfer case, as is BMW, Lexus, Mercedes, and I think most Subarus are that way too now. All of these are run with fully functioning AWD for the coast down test (used to set the resistance on the…

4WD dynos are much more difficult to set up than 2WD, and less accurate. Nobody, including the EPA in their audits, uses the 4WD version. When its your money and a “may” in the regulation says you can use a cheaper, more flattering method, you do it. The “may” is expected to go away in a few years because of the…

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