Putting decibels aside, I think you’d be hard pressed to find another 8-cylinder engine not powered by nitro-methane that can top the Porsche 908/3. The noise of this engine is simply staggering...

My thoughts exactly. If we went back to every president in the past 50 years half their promises, probably more, never came true and, more depressing, they were simply to make them look good to get elected, not that they themselves believe in it.

I’d make a Trump joke that “The backup cameras would be useless because I’d be driving this country forward”, but I legitimately think he’s not clever enough to come up with that joke.

Yeah, weld up a bigass rear wing out of diamond plate and that’ll get the balance back out on the rear right quick. :)

The Centaur would make a good model name.

The perps were apprehended, queso closed.

So basically they’ve made the next Bugatti as exciting as the next GTI. Better yes but not that much better.

Last time they tried using Apple Maps, they ended up between Iraq and a hard place. I Shiite you not

Where he keeps his Navy money...

I had the pleasure of serving with Senior Chief Byers back in 2002. A great man and great operator. Bravo Zulu!!!

basically the attitude of most soviet style conscripts

obnoxious lethal calculus

Ballaban/Orlove v. DeMuro: The Dawn of Traction.

Till the crafty scallywags figured out how to distill the croton oil out. the true MacGyver comes out when your stuck on a ship for months on end with no booze

You hear all about bath salts and racing fuel and I’m having a real hard time figuring out a good substance policy for my son in the coming years. Is it “You can only smoke actual pot. If I catch you with that bath salt shit you’re grounded!” or “no crocodil! If you can’t afford real heroin let me know I’ll give you…

ya why isnt this the first comment... respect to the airmen working to keep our country safe

and also, that fucking sucks.

At small diameters the theoretical benefits of a ducted fan are usually offset by 1) the added mass of the duct and 2) the need for very tight tolerances between the fan and the duct wall. Tight tolerances mean more stiffness which means more weight and usually the thing ultimately fails to pay for itself at power…

Are there significant drawbacks to only being able to adjust cam timing based on RPM and not engine load? How advantageous is it to be able to change the relationship between RPM and phase angle on the fly, rather than being bound by physical relationships like Hooke’s law and centripetal force?