A few points here -

You’re right. It wasn’t a good purchase... it was the BEST purchase.

I love that Australia has made burnouts into a sport. I don’t know what that appeals to me, I don’t even do burnouts. But I appreciate that an entire continent of people enjoy it enough to make it a sanctioned competition.

How about the 1950 MAP Diesel?

Id never heard that before but it cracks me up.

I think with the Ferrari people just assume you’re famous, or at least wealthy, and somehow a person of interest, so they assume that by virtue of talking to you they are being recorded by the press/paparazzi/FTC/NSA anyways.

Steedo?

That’s awesome. I wasn’t married at the time and couldn’t get any family out for a tiger crusie. I did take my parents and sister on a tour of the boat when we were in port once and I think that freaked them out enough.

Oh, I’m very much aware of this. My nukey time was from 04-08, and I took those same exams, just like the surface nukes and conventionals. I got med disqualified from sub duty, so rather than do something that made sense like send me to be a surface conventional, I got cross rated to be an SK, which became LS…

A few others pointed that out, and I didn’t realize it. Thanks for the link, though, very informative.

They use nikasil on their motorcycle engines. Some of the car engines, such as the H22 in the Prelude and F20/22C in the S2000 use fiber reinforced liners.

I didn’t realize that. I thought the PTWA was just a method for applying alusil or nikasil into a bore. Sounds a bit more interesting than that.

Every once in a while my dad goes off about this: “I don’t know why we can’t just get the molds and tooling back from Cuba for the ‘57 Chevy (or some other 50 year old car). People love those things. Just throw modern brakes on them and an LS motor. People don’t want retro crap, just make a damn brand new 1957 Chevy!”

It is a badass car. I just don’t understand why companies make a big deal out of something as minute as cylinder liners. As an engineer I find it fascinating, sure, but it’s not really a feature that sells cars. It’s something all aluminum blocks have had since the invention of the aluminum block. Also, in terms of…

I think you’re absolutely right, and I should have mentioned that all this has to be taken in the context of talking about Ferrari. Trust me, my shorts still get a little tighter even seeing a 360, and it’s probably my least favorite modern model. A guy up the road from me has one and I still look for it every time I…

Chief Noe, thanks for compiling this so I can send every air breather I know a link so I don’t have to keep explaining myself. I was an EM2(SS) on the USS San Juan (SSN 751). I’m not sure I miss it, but there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about it. But you definitely brought back some good memories.

Actually every single aluminum block needs cylinder liners, either press in iron sleeves or nikasil/alusil or this PTWA method. Vast majority of aluminum blocks use press in liners because they are cheap and easy to install compared to electroplated or spray in liners.

Thank you for joining it.

Ahh, I see that now. I had no idea. I thought all those cylinder linings were applied in a similar manner. Thanks.

Do you mean most powerful or highest specific output?