Maybe a Continental petrol application for military vehicle use. Like a Chrysler A57 or a even a Whirlwind? Stretch, though....

Yeah, initially I thought it might have been for a Lycoming or Franklin but those have way different setups. Maybe some kind of V-12 setup and it’s missing the other side? I think you’re close though.

Right, but are ports in line (horizontally) or slightly offset like the manifolds show? As in :

Maybe? It’d explain to why the bolt layout is so odd. If it were exhaust the weight of the manifold would compress the gasket in the right direction....still a crappy design. IIRC, some odd setups had a external threaded rod nut with a sort-of jam spacer that was forced against the edge of the manifold. Made the…

Could be an aviation bit; but those offset ports are kind of weird. Rootwyrm is probably right, there’s something in between probably. Also, that’s funky bolt setup for the gasket faces; I can see why but it’s an odd design for sure.

Meh, what would be the point? It’d be like in the ‘50s and talking about transonic area rule. There’d be a few people like Otto Frenzl or Wally Hayes or Busemann who would kinda understand. Everyone else would be like wtf?

Mega-GT? So lame. More like Mecha-Gedzill0....

I remember that; a company I used to be with did the road service for Saturn. People we talked to always loved their cars. I got to drive the EV1 when they started leasing them. Fun car, just needed better roll control. Otherwise, everyone who had one loved them. We’d occasionally get a service call but IIRC, most of…

I’d classify Saturn and their stuff (at least, their early stuff) as being distinctly different than the rest of GMs offerings. In particular, a lot of the early engineering choices were to make easier car maintenance which made the SL1s ,SL2s, SCxs, quite owner-friendly. While not perfect, generally speaking they…

Pretty sure they still suffer from NIH. Then again most shops suffer from that; it’s somewhat built into the DNA of manufacturing....

Sorry to see you go Blackstock. I like your women in racing pieces. They were a lot of fun to learn about since no one gives them pages nowadays. Best of luck at school and your future endeavors. And remember, self first, everything else take a ticket.

You may be right, but sorry, but the majority of 17 year olds don’t really think that way. They’re going to look at it and think, ‘ gee, I don’t want to dig ditches and deal with toilets, sitting in front of a computer screen sounds much better.’ Simple reality.

Yes, but the educational propaganda says that we go to 4 years and gain X much over someone who doesn’t. Now, if someone 17 years old hears that, what’re they going to want to do? Plumbing or engineer....

‘bout right. Yup.

Well, we can go to Zimbabwe....

Ahh, yes. But where the foot meets the road is where what is written falls. It’s not what you say, it’s what you do. Which is why I would never include China on that aforementioned list. And none of those other countries on that list are really socialist either. It’s just that their policies in action give the…

Not quite right. You need to expand your knowledge of how Communism works. Socialism is not the same thing as you refer to which is really Communism. 

Very difficult proposition to begin with; must also consider that with the US are 50 states who all tend to have disagreements on how to do things as well. Not to mention the corporates which wield as much power as states in and of themselves.

To be fair, including China on that list isn’t really right. Everyone else is fine but China is a particularly unique example of not doing anything like what the rest of the list is about. 

Focus; not a single statement is relevant to the argument.