Meh, the best car Pontiac ever made in the modern era was actually a Toyota. Hard to feel bad for them.

EFI can make a good intake honk as well, but you’d never know with all the short ram intakes everyone likes to use. Long tube CAI can be downright sonorous.

Resonators are good. Hell, cats are good. The recipe for a great sporty exhaust is simple. Run the biggest, quietest resonator(s) you can fit with a high-flow muffler and for fuck’s sake don’t cut the cats out. Job Done.

Great car, but ewwww, Pirelli P4's. That’s fucking tragic.

Bingo. This shit will take over a substantial portion of your life. Better to befriend fools like me who give gifts and pay for favors with fruit preserves.

Add to that our maternal and infant mortality rate. The USA is anomalous among all advanced nations in the world for the staggering number of infants and mothers that lose their lives through childbirth. We much more resemble a “third world” country in that and many other regards.

The DSSV damper tech on the ZR2 arguably makes it the best OEM pickup truck on pavement that money can buy. The Gladiator’s progressive springs on an otherwise stone-age suspension system aren’t even going to come close.  

+1, would buy him a beer. 

Plus one, suppressing this video so that only right-wing dickhats see it (and use it as spank material) is the wrong call, respect for the deceased be damned. The way to respect them is to ensure that this madness stops happening and that those who enable it are exposed for what they are. Everyone needs to see the…

The Suzuki Super Carry!

Three words, my friend:

Water. Cooled. Alternator. 

Bingo! Choosing to spend time with a book over electronic media is a very adult decision that no young child is going to make. Children are much less likely to find value in simpler forms of media when they are given too many other options.

Counterpoint: screens are bad for young children, especially those under age two, no matter how learning-oriented the software may be. This thing is no better than the smartphones and tablets that get handed to very young kids to make them shut up. It’s the whiskey-in-a-baby-bottle of the modern age. 

Truly some of the most innovative racing machines on the planet right now are found in Global Time Attack. I’d argue they are the kings of production-based racecars at the moment, certainly if you give points for creativity.

Andy Forrest’s “GC8" Subaru WRX comes to mind. Subaru flat-six power, inboard turbo, air-spring…

My brother-in-law is a surgeon and does this religiously, insists it is by far the most reliable method.

The 2080 was only a very modest performance increase over the 1080 (about 20%). I don’t think the 2080 will be remembered as a great card. As long as you’re sticking at 1080p gaming, I would hang on to that 980Ti. Wait for the successor to the 2080 to come out. By then, Ray Tracing will actually be widely adopted and…

A good shop will check alignment for free and only charge you if it needs adjusted. All Monro Inc shops do this. They also do free tire rotations and balancing for the life of any tires you buy from them (even special order). Go in for a free rotate/balance once a year or so and get alignment checked at the same time.

He opted to fab an aluminum bracket to hold the caliper onto the OEM rear upright:

Inboard brakes are great on paper, reduced unsprung mass and all that. In reality though it’s impossible to keep them cool under heavy use. They are a maintenance nightmare as well. There’s a reason they are used on literally zero modern performance cars.

Lighter wheels and modern suspension tech largely negate the…

My favorite was this Audi ABZ V8 swap. More modern and plastic-covered, but it just looked so much like an OEM product. The biggest upside, to me, is that it included a 6-speed Audi transmission swap as well. Combined with the elimination of the weird-ass inboard rear brakes, this swap fixed every one of the Esprit’s m…