Thank you, doc.

“Society doesn’t shunt women anywhere.”

Only if the turbo is too small. In OEM road car applications, this is often the case, but with big honking aftermarket turbos? There’s definitely a chance they can handle the increased speed required. Let’s say the Hoonicorn boosts at 1 bar/14.7 psi (gauge pressure - that would be 2 bar/29.4 psi absolute) at sea…

The nice thing about turbos, if they’re big enough, and especially if they have electronic boost control (that has boost targets in absolute pressure) is that they can make up for lack of ambient pressure by spinning faster. They’ll spool slower at high altitude, but they can stuff the same amount of air in as long as…

They only have to last a few turns at a time. Especially with the cash cow that is the Pikes Peak Highway (currently $15/person - not per car, per person - to drive up), with an absolutely constant flow of cars all day long for several months, they closed down short sections of the road for about 15 minutes at a time…

Beating a dead mustang?

He’s been working on this video for about a year. Lots and lots of tries, breaking the run down into a few turns at a time. He would shoot one little section for about 10-15 minutes, take a break for an hour, then go again. Definitely fun seeing how close to (or even over) the edge of the road the tire marks got the…

I tried to let you guys know about this a year ago :P

Awesome write-up! I think you really nailed it, I will share this with any of the “racing isn’t a sport, they just sit down for a few hours and drive” people I come across.

I thought I was the only one!

Fun story, I am currently in an MBA program (more or less to prove a point that trying to do right by customers and other non-owner stakeholders will still make money for owners, and that conventional management shortsightedness is terrible for everything, including the bottom line). During a class break, I was…

For some people, the opportunity cost doesn’t justify negotiating - as ghostlol indicated above (estimated they paid an $800 premium to avoid the pain of dealerships).

If it’s got racing slicks, and the insane amount of downforce suggested by the big wings, I think 3+G of braking force at high speed is very likely (with this hypothetical car). Tire construction often leads to greater longitudinal grip potential than lateral (at least for the tires we used in Formula SAE, for which…

Ha no worries, I think it was dead before you got here!

I was going for the puns, but I guess I went head first into failure

“Man, I bet that thing can lay down some amazing lap times.”

Yeah, but I was getting at the current “value-added resaler” model. I think without direct sales, there is a lot of room for mutually-beneficial improvement.

Ha, fair enough!

“We treat our employees well and many of them stick around, if they can handle it.”

So... Especially considering the general public’s disdain for car dealers, it seems like there is quite a bit of opportunity for improvement. How will things go for the person(s) who spearhead that improvement? (And I don’t mean internally, I mean someone who goes and makes a better dealership).