1989/1990 Fiero Prototype. 190 horse base 4-banger in a light mid-engine, rear drive 2-seater with a 250+ horse 3.4 DOHC as the GT? Updated interior, supposedly a 6-speed manual, and decent styling to boot. Yespls.

Temperature tolerances, G-load testing and other environmental factors go into building in-car systems beyond what goes into your laptop/desktop. Those processors can withstand many times the temperature and an order of magnitude more g-forces before breaking than a standard Core i5. Because in-car entertainment…

Counter-counterpoint: How long until commute-working becomes mandatory as part of your work day? And if you don’t do it, there are 30 other people looking to fill in who will and for $5/hr cheaper.

Given how Clarkson got sacked, your phrasing has made me chuckle. Take this star. You’ve earned it. XD

Protected 18650 batteries are a godsend when you’re trying to do anything with active power requirements, be it an active cooling vest or otherwise.

It’s for this exact reason I have a smaller camelback pouch attached to the inside of the back plate on my TK. Water. Waterwaterwaterwater. The fact that I’m a rather overweight individual doesn’t help in the heat department, either. And this DragonCon, all three of my costumes will be hotter’n hell. (Stormtrooper,…

This will probably get me eviscerated here, but my 2002 Miata LS.

Depends on the quality of the wrench. If it was a cheap/crap cast and has air bubbles in the cast, the air bubbles contain moisture, will expand and will cause a ker-pow when you bridge the terminals with them. Source: Had a professor in college demonstrate with a bad steel casting he made for just such an occasion.

Careful. For a certain subset of humanity, that’d be an opportunity they’d pay hundreds for. *gags*

You don’t need to get rid of the TSA for that. The number of times dangerous/deadly things have accidentally made it through (Adam Savage’s very large foam razor comes to mind) without malicious intent is staggering. Independent studies have shown that compact and sub-compact loaded handguns have made it through on…

The cake is a lie.

There is a major difference between street racing (fucking stupid, can kill people, irresponsible and the reason those of us with half a brain have to struggle to get parts for our dedicated track cars) and the ‘illegal racing’ these guys do, off the streets, otherwise responsibly. Watch the gorram documentary you…

It saddens me I have but one star to give. Take it, you glorious bastard.

Engine reliability is great. Works wonders for quite some time.

Depends on your transmission/diff.

Given that I purchased my ‘02 Camaro Z28 from the showroom floor with the full intention of putting a set of headers and a cam in place after its break-in period? Bullshit on your first paragraph.

Those Chinese ebay kits will also run a wastegate that fails closed instead of open causing an overboost situation and other catastrophic failures. (I was a cheap, stupid teenager once, installed it, kaboom. Head separated from the block before I could get out of throttle.) The point is, I was not judging it based on…

No, no it’s not. The $1500 kit is not complete as is. To get it complete, you’re talking another 500-900. I was /just/ at the site. This isn’t even a matter of opinion. You. Are. Wrong.

The 1.4 MultiAir turbo is the same used in the Fiat 500 Abarth, so for that power curve, just look up the 500 Abarth. As for the Miata’s, it’s identical to the 2.0 in the 2012+ Mazda 3.

That’s not a full kit. That’s the “custom” kit you get if you don’t need certain things like piping or oiling lines and the like. Way to cherry-pick. Fact checking.