Woah, that’s pretty crazy.  I know carbon rotors have some similar concerns about being super careful when removing rims to not chip the edges.  That’s the other thing with carbon fiber, it is only strong if you are loading it the way it wants to be loaded.  If you have to stack up laminate layers in such a way as to…

I’ve got two main questions. The first is on the education stuff. What exactly does the cost reflect? Is the $2.2 trillion what it would cost over 10 years? If you are using a tax to pay for it that will take 10 years to pay it off, but are still incurring cost because the government will have to pay for education…

Watching the saga of Faraday Future reminds me, always, just how much money you need to get a car into production, and a billion dollars goes real fast in the car world.

I think it depends on just how far the direct sales go. Would the automaker be opening a full dealership (with service and other features), or just allowing a customer to buy straight from the factory? If they are only allowing direct sales, I see less of a problem there. Customers would still have to go to other…

Okay, that’s fair enough.  “Graceful failure” is something that is often overlooked.  I have the same “complaint” when people think carbon fiber is the answer to everything.  Yes, it’s light and very strong, but it sucks at absorbing energy without a honeycomb structure or something that actually bends to back it up. …

I meant just the generic rule of “no manipulable suspension pieces during a race”.  That sounds like it should rule out adjustable roll bars, but I thought those were still a thing.

the closest you got was a clause claiming that teams aren’t allowed to include suspension that can be manipulated during the race

I had mixed feelings going in.  I played back in the Vanilla days with my friends and the same friends wanted to start Classic characters again, so I spun one up.  Having also leveled some new characters in retail it is definitely slower, but with a lower level cap it weirdly still feels more manageable.  I honestly…

The first one to put JLYBEAN on their Bugatti personalized license plate wins!

Sounds pretty similar to my 96 Honda Magna as well.  Admittedly different style bikes, but similar power and weight.  A fair deal more torque though in the Zero.

the slick-looking SR/S, with up to 201 miles of range

They also have to be single.

10.2.3 No adjustment may be made to any suspension system while the car is in motion.

I’m not sure I get the purpose of the “flying buttresses” everyone seems to care so much about.  In this car they only appear to be supporting some bodywork above the rear tires.  Why not just remove the buttresses, having a more sloping rear deck and overall teardrop shape (like an F1 car for instance), and tie the…

I think increased ICE taxes would likely just push more people into the used market. I guess it could help EV sales, but unless the price goes down, I think it’s still a tough pill to swallow.  People already think “basic” vehicles are too expensive.  If a basic EV is even more expensive than a current basic ICE, I…

Have you worked on Viper engines though? Those things are so lightly stressed in stock form that a supercharger wouldn’t really affect them that much. I just rebuilt mine with 127,000 on the clock due to a spun bearing at a track day (low oil, my own dumb fault). Previous dyno runs I did on it still had it at 450+ hp…

Probably not.  The same engine in my 04 Viper was surprisingly easy to work on, even with the smaller body.  I did a full rebuild due to a spun bearing on a track day and it’s not bad at all.  The engine would be about the last thing I’d be worried about based on how long they last.

I think they tend to have longer cycle life, but that’s just sort of what I have learned tangentially.  I work on some EV product right now, but we’re not designing batteries, just trying to source them.  Energy capacity is our biggest issue though in the particular field I’m in.  Places have to be able to cover full…

Serious question, do you watch TV at all? I’ve seen these in commercials for quite a while now, but I also take for granted that other people watch TV. I don’t have cable and really don’t even use streaming services much if at all, most of my watching is plain old antenna, but I’ve seen commercials for these several…

Serious question, do you watch TV at all? I’ve seen these in commercials for quite a while now, but I also take for…

What would be more fun would be to have sonic or radar emitters or whatever they use in your rear bumper that fires back random bursts to confuse anyone following.  That would be the real way to mess with them.