The correct idiom is "palm it off".

Hennessey is a crook and scam artist and you guys should stop giving him press. There are so many legitimate tuners and skilled craftsmen in this country who will build amazing vehicles and not steal from gearheads and screw us over to do it.

Apparently the guy is working on a Reality TV show, and that was a big motivation for the goofy commercial. After watching a lot of his youtube videos I can definitely see how he could irritate hte crap out of some people, but I can dig his message (Not the get out of my way message, although its spiritually the same).

It makes sense given the style of cars in that era. Today they are very much out of place but it suits that era.

They took the engine out of the KX500 because those 500cc two strokes really are widow makers. Dear lord I love power but even a 250cc 2-stroke will kill you in a heartbeat. A 500cc two stroke is like driving a rocket ship.

And from what I understand these cars are heavily related to the old AC-based regular Shelby Cobras... so all the internal mechanical bits are a whole lot more common than the external parts. Fact is these cars are valuable because they are the original cars that raced and they only made 5 or 7 or so of them.…

Thanks for the article! I wasnt aware of how to find all of this stuff, but I am now!

Nitrous backfires are common and avoidable. It's all about setting it up correctly and not allowing nitrous to puddle in the intake. If the engine is turning slower and moving less air than is necessary for all the nitrous being pumped in, it will just sit in the intake and can sometimes ignite in there from residual…

Thats a pretty simple failure. Tire was too big for hte wheel well, pushed forward and walked up the wheel well and pulled the frame/control arm mounts apart.

1. Pontiac Aztek

The vast majority of cars would have no power assisted brakes or steering rendering any attempt at driving nearly impossible and dangerous. Supplying vacuum to the brake booster woudlnt be that difficult, but power steering would be. The other concern would have to be damage to the car from the unit pushing on it. I…