I’m not even talking about valve noise I’m talking about the way it sounds like someone is shaking a cofee can full of nuts and bolts for a second at start up. To me it seems like the oil drains off and it starts dry until the oil pump refills the journals and passages.

Yeah thinking of the way my wife’s Forester sounds when you start it up turned me away from a WRX and to a GTI. That, and the interior.

The self-braking stuff is on the pictured wagon in the article because you can see the opening in the grille for the forward-facing sensor

VW vortex, where wheel spacers are considered a performance mod

Consultants write like that so you just zzzzz off in the middle of it instead of actually trying to understand what they’re saying (mostly nothing).

I do not believe he ever drove it or at least not more than a couple of times because it would have drawn attention from him.

I don’t believe he ever drove it, and if he did, he didn’t enjoy it because the car would be the featured attraction in the pairing, not him.

How do you make it through the day without a sense of humor? Jeeze. Yeah I’m looking at all the people replying in concurrence with you too. No wonder things are falling apart.

If that’s the case his best option is to only do rebuilds via the Krylon method in the future.

The whole thing confuses me, how do you build an engine without turning the crank to bolt up the rods?

I don’t think they saw them in half, that’s kind of nuts. I doubted the post als because he’s talking main and rod coaps then throws in a story about a cylinder head where “he had mixed up the positions of all of the” All of what, the bearing caps that have nothing to do with the head?

Even if the main cap had been the same it wouldn’t have lasted because they machine the hole round with the cap clamped on the block. They’re all basically different.

I couldn’t make sense out of why they had Gruden doing the call for his brother’s game, given they had two other yakkers primed and ready and could’ve switched him out.

My wife was watching that video the other day. Man was she ever pissed at me when I finally shut up.

This

Little Debbie, Little Debbie

I grew up in the 60's and 70's but chose my 4-door GTI for usability.

That might be true if the car you want is already on the lot, but how is that different from today?

You should watch the 30 for 30 “Rand University”

Understood. So they confirmed the classic dealer stereotype.