Check engine? Yup. There's an engine in there. Eventually I just pulled the cluster and removed the bulb in my GTI. Seems to run fine without it.

While a lot of vw folks would tell ya to go with a 2.0 turbo or vr6 from a mkIII, if I had mkII shell waiting, I'd take a step back and throw a 1.8l mkI engine in there. Sex it up with individual carbs for each cylinder for more retro awesome. Gets rid of all the obd stuff if you do a full swap and makes it much…

Deadliest animal in the US? Deer. Hitting a 150lb animal can result in injury and death. Protip: the average American is a 150lb animal. Is it common? Not likely, but it is possible, and your few pounds of alloy clad in meat doesn't render you harmless. But hey, lets not let simple physics ruin your smugfest, cyclist.…

SRB's are solid fuel boosters, no way to kill that reaction once it's going. A liquid fuel rocket is dependent on fuel to keep burning— kill the fuel flow, kill the reaction. As long as the rocket doesn't actually lift off, there's no issue aside from likely having a bunch of things to reset and some "one-time-only"…

Letting my '94 Ranger go... 4.0L V6, 5-speed... absolutely destroyed V6 stangs and camaros, and would hold it's own with a 4.6 GT. Light, fast, and sexy as hell on the right set of wheels. Due to my father falling apart after my mom passed, we wound up living with grandma in a one-horse town. By the time I found work…

Eh, it's a Volkswagen thing... my old man could swap a type I engine in an afternoon and barely break a sweat. There are guys on the vortex that can drop a VR6 in three hours or so. It's a labor of love, though... VW's just have that kind of following, I guess. I know I've been hooked for years.

Actually, I support the idea of having people who are experienced with maneuvering asteroids. Seems like a good capability to have as a planet.

Gah! I haven't seen one of these in years!

There's a guy around here with an Impala SS, which has "IMPALA SS" across the front of the hood in awful white vinyl block letters. With an additional vinyl bowtie mere inches above the one on the grill.

And it's also the reason the phrase "COOTYS RAT SEMEN" passed through my mind on occasion.

"...was built by Volvo..."

Travelling to Minneapolis today, gps route took us through Riverside, Iowa. Had to stop and find the Kirk monument.