I mean, the SR-71 would hurt itself if flown at high speed for extended periods, I wouldn’t exactly say that’s a fault depending on exactly what speeds and envelope the plane was built for.  The SR-71 engines could push the plane faster than the airframe was supposed to go, but they didn’t seem to take away the…

“Ford claims in its press release that the new GT500 is the most powerful street-legal car that it’s ever made.”

This actually sounds like a pretty cool idea.  I’m kinda surprised something like it hasn’t happened before, but since so many fighting games are viewed in a competitive light I can also understand why it hasn’t really been that common.

I had a moment like this the other day.  I’m beginning the process of pulling the engine in my car.  I started off just dropping the pan to see the damage and figure out what to do next, so I had my pile of tools there next to me.  Once I decided the engine was going to come out I put all my tools away and swept up so…

It’s always a funny world when the race cars have less power than the road cars.  I went to a (formerly) ALMS race years ago and took part in the SRT hospitality with other Viper owners and we had a meet and greet and eat with the drivers and some of the mechanics and they commented how a lot of us had more power in…

I’m definitely taking the “your own pace part” at the moment.  The speedometer in my 67 Dart has been mostly non-functional for the better part of 5 years or so now.  I swapped in a T56 and only had the electronic speed sensor but wanted to keep the cable drive gauge.  I have electronic know-how and figured I could…

It has crossed my mind, but I don’t really have the patience for bodywork.  I have waxed it a few times and hand wash it most of the time now, but was thinking about leaving it to someone that really knows what they are doing.  I probably have the tools for the most part, but I don’t really have the space I’d like to…

I was just in the city where it was made, Hastings, Nebraska.  I go to a track weekend there every year and this year they handed out information packets of the town for anyone who was interested in wandering around in their downtime.  Had no idea it was started there, but was neat to learn.  They have a city museum…

Fair, I know a full respray at a high quality shop would likely run quite a bit. I had some repair work done in the past and it ran roughly $300-400 a panel to repaint, so a full repaint to the same color may not be quite as bad, but that would be because I wouldn’t care about door jams and stuff that doesn’t show…

I have a similar opinion.  I’ve yet to play a healing class for more than 5 levels or so, and that was the very first WoW character I made that I haven’t played since.  I got into tanking kinda by accident (I main a warrior in WoW) because warrior gear just kept dropping so I ended up with it after everyone else got…

So what kind of cost does a full detail tend to run? I’m tempted to get my Viper “refreshed” back closer to what it used to look like 125,000 miles ago, but don’t want to pay what it would cost to just repaint the thing. The thought would be I would get the paint looking good again then apply a nice finishing product…

Think of phone batteries of a finite resource for the day and it might make you better off.  If the battery dies it just means it’s time to put the phone away.  No different than setting a screen time limit in the settings.  And if it’s plugged in, don’t use it.  Just let it sit there.  I’m not nearly as tied in to my…

I wonder if it will be A weighted sound.  There’s a difference in annoying-ness to me with a shrill sport bike wailing down a road and a big diesel thumping along.  If they don’t take into account weighting the lower frequency stuff could really get hammered unfairly.

I just bought a set of QuickJacks as I’m staring down some major engine work on my 04 Viper.  They don’t lift super high (21" I think), but when the car is so low to the ground to begin with it really helps.  I can barely change the oil on the thing without it being annoying.  The car has jack points, but if you want…

Honestly, these things seems like a good idea because it makes the edge of the splitter easier to see against a dark road.  Could help keep from hitting your ankles and shins on them.  If I were being funny I’d take them off but paint the edge yellow to keep the look, lol.

Just speaking of old racing games, one of my old coworkers told me of a board style game he used to play with his friends back in the day.  They would draw a random track on graph paper and take turns moving their “cars”.  I forget the exact rules, but it was something like you started off moving one square at a time,…

But what will happen to all those novelty valve stem cap companies!  How will I be able to show my uniqueness and edginess without being able to put dice on my valve stems?

I can see the every other generation like this:

Evidently a subset of the Falcon I guess:

Eh, I’d give you a pass.  They are safety glass, so while it’s not ideal, I wouldn’t say you are risking the lives of everyone around you by driving with a few chips.