We have a track around our house. The neighbor loses his shit because of this. I’m glad HOA doesn’t butt in. The sheriff has showed up but he said he can’t do anything about it since we are in our OWN property.

Tom, I have a question. Maybe you can help. What is all this stuff about certified pre-owned and non-certified? So far in my life I have purchased two used GM vehicles and a used Toyota. Warranty was always honored when taken in for any service and a far as I knew they were all non-certified purchases. This includes 1…

Judging from the height of the pick up box relative to the height of the tire and ground I am going to assume the truck had some sort of body spacer lift kit. Possibly poorly executed without the use of a proper steering extension thus the splines barely engaging causing the steering to fail and loose control.…

Leave it to Texans... sadly I’m a Texan too. Fack!

Now you got me thinking I may of gotten ripped off. I paid $32k for my 2011 TRD Off-Road 4x4 fully loaded with 12k miles back in 2012.

Texas too! City nor county PD care about it but state PD is always harassing about front plates.

Been there, we bought a Ford Raptor back in 2010 and the front differential blew and took out the catalytic converters, the front driveshaft, and the differential itself as a whole. We took it in and told them exactly what happened. A moron on a dirt bike pulled out in front of me when I was going up a sandy hill so I…

Andrew I don’t recall correctly since I don’t follow the big league races (I prefer the more budget friendly SNORE, MORE races), but BajaLites usually dominate class 7. They tend to break less thus making it to the finish line. Plus Pistol Pete is always super determined to have his trucks finish so the chase support…

Exactly as it reads. You manually have to shift the automatic transmission. Everything that makes it shift automatically in the valve body is replaced with a manual valve body. So if you shift into 1st you are in 1st until you decide to shift into 2nd gear. It will also no longer downshift so you must manual change to…

What’s wrong with it? Other than being a convertible it was a great car. I had a 2007 Redline and with proper tires, ugraded coilovers, and a GM tune it would walk on Porsche 996s and give GTRs and Ferraris a run for their money at the track. Granted in a straight away the GTRs and Ferraris would get away but around…

Pieces of damaged interstate have done a fair amount of damage on my cars these past few years. On my old Saturn Sky it damaged the front bumper and fog light once, another time put a hole in my fender (Saturn likes plastic fenders), and lastly dented my rocker panel. On my truck it broke my windshield and most…

My guess is that the tuner added some sort of rally style anti-lag whenever the accelerator is depressed. Possibly making the combustion extra rich during deceleration to create explosions inside the turbos to keep them spooled.

Get a manual automatic transmission or a manual with a torque converter. It’s what trophy trucks use and buggies use respectively. You get full control of the gears and don’t need to use a clutch pedal since you have a torque converter in both applications.

I do this all the time! I used not do it so often but I’ve had a ticket or two too many. My home street is 2 miles of open desert with a 45/30/45 MPH limit, so cruise one gear for 45 (I think 4th but it happens so naturally that I don’t pay attention) and 2nd gear for 30. Sometimes at highway speeds I’ll use 5th to…

... and once again I come to comment. Old news, GM did it first! The ZR1 Corvette and ZL1 Camaro have a launch control the modulates engine torque and they additionally feauture “No Lift Shift” to allow you to go through the gears faster without having to lift on the throttle and lay down a better trap time on the…

Very hard to find information on, but look for SCAT V4 racing engines. Literally V8 engines with 4 cylinder chopped off and they screamed like banshees with ridiculous power.

Pfffft Chevy already did this with the Camaro ZL1... built in launch control and the rear axle is designed to counter wheel hop. If you look at the 0:30 mark, you will see each axle is a different diameter. My ‘14 ZL1 has this as well, and it’s purpose is to highly reduce and almost eliminate wheel hop.

My neighbor has a helicopter in his garage. He loves to fly that thing nice and low around 6 in the fucking morning. Pisses me off Saturdays and Sundays, my days off. Weekdays I’m up by 5:30 so it’s fine. Honestly though, who cares!? I think that’s bad ass that the guy has a helicopter and flies that thing around…

This is odd that they call it “Drift Mode”. I used to own a 2007 Saturn Sky Redline and with traction/stability control on “Competitive Mode” it allowed for sliding and would pulsate traction to keep you from going around and loosing the drift. Now I have a 2014 Camaro ZL1 that has so many traction/stability settings…

As everyone else is saying, it’s an external wastegate for excess exhaust gases which can overboost the turbos. If you are used to today’s modern turbo cars you don’t really see it because most OEM turbo’ed cars use a wastegate that is integrated to the turbocharger. In the aftermarket and tuning world most use an…