I did a similar thing this year, couldn’t be bothered to get my breaker bar when working on my brothers car, heaved on his cheap and nasty ratchet, snapped it, punched my arm with the steel handle and broke my own arm.

Dumbass

That’s not half as bad as giving them 2) An impact driver.

Well, unless they do joinery on the side.

1/2” impact wrench maybe, but not this bloody impact driver. This is for fitting screws and roofing bolts!

What you need to do, is forget all that creature comfort stuff and picking what colour leather you’re having, and buy this one:

Of course. Massive organisation like that, wouldn’t catch them publishing inaccurate figures...

It’s a press release. Pinch of salt. Like when they originally said the 34mm restrictors would limit power to around 300....;)

There are clubman cars making a chunk over 300 on 33mm restrictors this year, never mind the WRC boys.
They weren’t cars per se, as it was a proper engine dyno refreshing the Subaru motors.

Based on what, that random sheet someone typed up?

See, my source is....watching a couple ex-WRC cars destined for Ireland go through a month of engine dyno work about 2 years back...
The older cars dwarfed the modern ones for torque, power is pretty much the same mind - the restrictor change only made them tread water…

Typo of the month at least!

This is the most compelling arguement why it shouldn’t. Massive speed with little effort or fun. Looking out of the side windows in a Baja or similar is much slower but your grin is so wide your ears fall off.

The power was never the issue, the spectator control and questionable design decisions were. There are off-road classes all over europe running on Cat A rally tracks with 5-600+bhp and have been for a long time.

Depends on the stage, many race cars don’t run antiroll bars either. Some run them but use them as corner springs.

Most cars are around 340 today. Some might be more by now.

You can decide for yourself whether I used to avoid puddles or not.

....and your new employeer quickly realises you’ll do the same thing to them....

The same reason I don’t sit in the house with the doors locked wrapped in bubble wrap.

It’s no fun seeing a friend, aquaintance or just fellow racer die suddenly. But think about it this way, he went doing something he loved doing, around all his friends, without months of suffering old age or disease.
It hurts more…

All my cars have both a pressure dial AND a bright red idiot light - you’re not always paying attention to a dial, and in the case of oil pressure, the damping on a guage means the response is much too slow if you do have a sudden oil hose failure or similar.

In which case a bright red LED screaming “STOP RIGHT F***KIN…

Austins, Triumphs, some early Aston Martins, most running the Girling system.

There used to be quite a few production cars over here with twin leading shoes before discs got popular.

As brakes, mechanically they work better than discs, until heat becomes a problem.

And...if you buy one...you get to spend years piecing it back together! Double the fun!