That engine is basically, a YZR-M1 works MotoGP engine, scaled up to two banks, 10 cyls, 4.8L, VVT-i, etc.... if you consider how much one of the bike engines are, not gonna be happy with the cost of the 1LR, even if it is technically a series production engine.

Brodouche & Corvette mule, entering racetrack

That is amazing. Go back to the ‘Bullitt’ scene when both cars finally get onto the highway, and the Mustang is double-clutching... eerily similar, in an awesome way...

How about 625 - 650cc? You’d have Singles like the Honda XR650R and 650L... 

You’re right, the Blast was a turd. But an XR500 is a hoot.

Had that very one in green, T50, Weber progressive and busted air pump torn out. Perfect car for a teen in HS — built like a little tank, RWD, 2T-C made enough torque to burnout in first two gears but not enough bhp to get into any serious trouble, and it was Toyota-reliable. Wish it had a 2T-B now... not that I…

ER “6-piston”, not “-caliper”. Too much beer before bed, apparently. :P

I once took a ‘75 Corolla SR5 up to over 85 in about 1986... which was its top speed with a unjetted linkage-secondary Weber and poorly-engineered adapter plate. Not too bad, thought it’d be flopping all over the road. Tried the same with my ‘92 Paseo in 2008... and that little tank cruised pretty well at 110. Being…

In Olympia? I believe it...

CrossWRX?

It’s amazing how closely my old ‘92 FZR600R sounds in the high-rpm powerband compared to this highly-modded 4A-GE, both being Yamaha designs. Mikko’s engine even has the same 11K redline as a stock FZR...

Hako=box in Japanese, suka=abbr. for ”sukairain”, ‘Skyline’.
The Hakosuka is the boxy Skyline GT-R.

Then move into an old folk’s community, where someone will put you in their crosshairs over silly, asinine crap... maybe you’re staring through the reticle already. You are an eye surgeon, after all...

He’s in a friggin’ wheelchair, for fuck’s sake... and tried to reason with the will-not-be-reasoned with. Due…

Jeeesus H. Christ... *drill SFC Hartman voice*

The Kahena was probably the least ganky of the variants... but man just look at it. They obviously took the Tupperware-manic bodywork aesthetic from the original CBR1000 Hurricane, the upper fairing’s dual headlamps and frame from the 2nd-gen FZR1000 (complete with script…

Totally. I grew up with geckos climbing the walls, and was told they’re good luck to find in your house (which they are, they will eat every critter smaller than they are behind the walls).

Also grew up on the reef, spearfishing my Sunday dinner. THAT can get pear-shaped quick. People are waaay too squeamish about…

The hell in Hawai’i do you live? I grew up in Lahaina, where they grew big enough to completely cover my face, on an unfortunate run through the cane as a 10-yr old. Bit bigger than 5", dude...

First thing I want to know?

When is the Type-R version debuting... you know, the one that takes over from the 20-yr-old ‘97 NSX-S?

*yawn* Welcome to Hawai’i...

Been finding foot-long red-purple centipedes (as well as the really scary, shorter blue ones) in mine and others’ houses since small-kid time. He should be grateful the 8"-across cane spiders didn’t suddenly take a liking to the water dripping off his A/C system, or a mound of red ants.

Proll…

It was wet. They are pro drifters, some of whom can even do this in the dry.

That is all.

Possibly just extended mid-life crisis —> reality setting in.

I’m sure there are quite a few elderly owners who still have memories of old C3 427s with astronauts driving them, in an age of non-catalyzed exhaust and leaded gas, weekends at the drags full of crew-cut guys with unfiltered cigarettes... then go out and…