Couldn’t agree more. They’re good for enormous odball fasteners you only use once in a blue moon, but that’s about it (regulator on a welding gas tank springs to mind).

How about no...

It was my understanding that the Z28's of the time only got the LT Series engine, while the SS got the LS1.

The dirty little secret with trucks like this is a 3 part-er:

Really good to hear that they worked with you, and that you were able to be up front with them. Good stuff all around!

Hey, there was violence on both sides on D-Day. We were equally culpable.

It’s surprising what careful use of verbiage can do to an objective statement. For example, let’s take the statement:

If it isn’t adjacent to any spinny bits, nor is it in the intake tract, the only thing you need to worry about is the knowledge of that socket floating around in your engine bay gnawing away at the back of your mind.

I completely agree with your conclusion here. Mistubishi clearly isn’t interested in selling cars in the US market anymore, who why would they worry about something like goodwill.

The great irony being that if ANTIFA and the violent protesters hadn’t jumped in, the optics would have been just as bad for the white supremacists without all the violence. Could you imagine if UniteTheRight had come in, sang their songs, burned their torches, screamed to the heavens, and the rest of the world…

*Kowtowing to self-righteous idiots is going to be the downfall of civilization. The type of person who gets offended about something like this will never be placated, regardless of what is done to make amends. Trying to do so is a masochistic act of futility. The best you can hope for, in a situation like this, is…

I Can absolutely confirm about the Coast Guard getting goofy about open flames and engine rooms. On the one hand, there’s some merit to the concern, as engine rooms tend to be SIGNIFICANTLY less ventilated than the engine bay in a car (for obvious reasons, the bottom of a boat’s engine bay can’t be open to…

Depends if they pulled one of the exhaust blankets off from around the Turbo area. While the majority of the exhaust in a boat is jacketed, they tend to avoid doing so at connection points, as running wet exhaust flanges is just begging for leaks. By the way, Drakko wasn’t kidding about the 1200F exhaust. Pre-turbo…

Where are you obtaining / underwriting / selling loans that compound daily?! Every vehicle loan (and for that matter, home loan) that I’ve been involved with was calculated, notated as, and contracted with monthly compounding interest. For all of the aforementioned loans, the APR was quoted assuming 12…

Yes and no. I do agree that in the case of continually compounding interest, and for a constant APY, you will pay less in interest paying weekly, rather than monthly. The question becomes whether the weekly payment loan compounds monthly vs. weekly. Where the “gotcha” could be, is in APR and compounding rate. APY…

Jeez! That’s a heck of a way for it to go, though there are certainly worse ways for it to happen. Doubly glad to hear that things turned out alright for you in the end. DEFINITELY interested to hear how things turn out with the MR2! Sounds like it should be a proper handful (in a good way!) when it’s all together.

Holy shit, when did this happen?! I understand if it’s not story-able, especially here, but I still have to ask.

I got two paragraphs in, and realized I was WAAAY better off just referencing a video. One thing to note is that the Hemi’s sound like they have a fairly healthy (read top-end-y) amounts of valve overlap.

I think you’re missing the bigger picture, here... the artist’s rendering in the headline image looks like a robot bulldog that’s about 1000% done with life.

Hey, don’t go knocking my government subsidized race gas.