This is the perfect song for today, thank you!

Interesting timing, Hamilton. I watched Blood on the Mountain this morning, it certainly made an impact. I haven’t read through the entire piece yet, but my takeaway from the film was that there are people there that want to work, and that work hard. Coal is losing ground as an energy source, and it will never bring…

The topic of higher prices for women’s clothes compared to men’s is of particular intrigue to me lately. I worked as an engineer for a few years before stopping to do business school full time, in large part to try to make whatever small impact I can to help businesses do the “right” thing. Obviously, I’ve been…

2014 Passat TDI. She got it at my suggestion. In some ways, it worked out great. She drives about 90 miles a day, so getting 45+mpg is nice. It got bought back earlier this year, which was nice, as they gave her roughly 85% of the MSRP after 2 years and 60k miles.

*nods along silently*

Taking a financial accounting class right now to start my MBA program (former automotive engineer). Not sure exactly which direction I want to head in, but ethics and customer safety are personally the most important thing to me. Anyway, accounting 101, literally in the textbook, first chapter, talks about ethics in…

Thank you for reminding me that my dream last night was the entirety of that movie!

Most of mine are how she sounds :/

Nextdoor is the worst. Or maybe my neighbors are the worst (and yours too) and Nextdoor is the best for giving them the opportunity to expose themselves?

“but but but electric motors make full torque at zero rpm!!!!111" /s

American Locomotive is actually completely correct here, and is correct in their reply to you as well. Not really sure why you’re bent on a physicist vs. engineer flamewar, but you failed to provide any tangible example of a dyno that works contrary to the way they described.

It will have 1000hp, but the KERS system can deliver 1000kW (1341hp?) Uh...

Egg?

Came here to say this. Assuming units are HP and ft-lb, the two will always cross at 5252 - not the case in this graph. It’s just a few squiggly lines.

Ha, used to pass that intersection every day! It’s right off of Dyckman (not kidding)

Pioneer engine cheat code!!! Also TRex and fruit cart

Yeah, as the guy said in the video, as long as your oil is rated for the temps you encounter (surely part of the issue for my LC, I’m using 20W and I have some mornings that are well below freezing), you don’t have to worry too much about warming the oil up. I’m mostly talking about countering the effects of gravity…

Jason, I’m with you on the very short warm-up boat. Cold oil is thick, and some engines/oil pumps need a few seconds to get that oil pumped through all of the passages. Your 30 seconds or so should be sufficient waiting before driving away, and taking it easy on the car until it’s warmed up is a good idea no matter…

There’s the inertial loads off spinning the crank, but there’s also reaction loads from torque when the crank propels the car forward. To me, the biggest issue is the cold oil that doesn’t flow very well, but I’m in the same camp as Jason, 30 seconds to a minute of idling, then go drive, and take it easy until…

No prob! Sorry for all the edits lol. That’s the final version now.