Satan’s shrieking butthole is quieter than the V8s were, I’m not sure why that’s a point of comparison.

I would think that in order to bring down power unit costs, the best plan would be to evolve the current power unit, not change it entirely. A brand new power unit means brand new R&D. Back to the drawing board, so to speak. That amount of R&D costs a lot of money too. I would think that possibly, the longer we have…

Sometimes I think it would be fun to have some variability. For instance, limit boost, airflow (restrictors), fuel (x gallons to finish the race), boost, total KW of energy storage and/or displacement at various cylinder configurations - or some combination of the above. Then let the manufacturers pick what they’re…

Perhaps they need to find a sweet spot, perhaps at a lower speed or with a different cylinder configuration. The old 19,000 rpm F1 engines sounded like gear whine and speaker feedback to me. Really loud gear whine and speaker feedback, and to my ears, it was kind of unpleasant. Indy car engines, sound pretty good at …

“It’s just an accepted fact that there is not much you can do to stop it from happening.”

Pretty cool that you get off to your homoerotic fantasies of “black queens”.

You think people in prison get raped based on the severity of their crimes? Holy shit. The people who get raped in prison are the ones who are the least likely to fight back and just take it.

haha because people being forcibly sodomized is hilarious. Goes to show this meaningless punishment does nothing to rehabilitate some people. However this guy deserves every minute of 15 years, feels like justice served

You know who really like prison rape? Rapists. Rapists love that we turn a blind eye to prison rape.

Really Skay? A rape joke?

Vigilante justice not ok on the road but why in the world to we find prison rape to be at all acceptable?

Displeased to see the glee in the comments regarding prison rape. Don’t get me wrong, I won’t shed tears over this douchebag, but the fact that prisoners are raped in our system should be a matter of outrage, not acceptance or celebration.

When I get loaded, people call me “sir” all the time. Usually in the context of “please calm down, sir” or “sir, you will need to get down from the table”

Mebbe it doesn’t have enough compression to worry about the head gasket? /optimist

In the defense I’m sure that valve filler guy gets a text when hes off that says “GET HERE WITH YOUR FILLER TANK” and hes off to work anyways.

If our checks and balances actually worked then Trump wouldn’t have made it through the electoral college. We are so fucked.

IIRC the trans is based on a Powerglide or Turbo 400, and the pinion brakes glow from them riding the brakes during driving. Pay attention as they jump, sometimes you’ll see the tires stop in mid-air. The tires spinning has a gyroscopic effect on the attitude of the truck as it flies through the air. Yes, by braking…

Most everyone runs a Powerglide derivative, Lencos pop up every once in a while, and no one runs a pure manual.

Well, you have 10k lbs of vehicle and a s**t load of rotating mass in those massive tires. A ton of energy for an itty bitty pinion brake to work against. Brakes turn energy into heat. Simple, really.

You saw the pinion brakes glowing, not the diff housing. Pinion brakes are the only ones these things have.