Well it’s been posted a few times in this very thread, I’ll just copy/paste the most eloquent response.

So you’re saying Tony didn’t know how the car would respond because this was his rookie race or something?

You mean applying an amount of throttle consistent with a driver wanting to make his car turn?

A turn-biased sprint car on dirt doesn’t handle like your mom’s Corolla.

She’s just sad that no one but herself actually thinks it looks like her.

Because FJ Cruiser. Sort of.

Nothing like having the drop on someone with a fast cunning trap only to have a staircase instantly materialize in your face.

Probably for less than a used Mitsubishi 3000GT

Delightful

Thought exactly the same thing.

They are and I love mine, but it’s not the vehicle I expected to teach me some dorifto manners. Surprises come in weird packages sometimes.

I found that out this winter.

Social media is way too creepy for me.

No, I don’t expect then to be living breathing motoring encyclopedias, but at the same time it’s not normal to have to google your engine yourself to find out that all you have to do is throw a new belt on it and have to embarrass yourself and an opinionated automotive expert by telling him stuff that he should be…

Usually only when the blow off valve fails.

Just make a neutral sex joke about circumcision during a date and bring it on the subject that way and let the guy take it over from there, if he wants.

Sure, but the 5s-fe is a free running engine, which that mechanic had never heard of, and he’s apparently not alone and that’s kind of annoying.

I learned that from toyota nation when the timing belt snapped on my old ‘98 Camry and had to call the garage and argue with the guy who wanted to essentially swap the engine.

Putting the engine and tranny back in my ‘65 impala nearly drove me insane and I had a hoist and a garage.

That’s some COLD shit.