Damn! That’s an impressive power figure for an EJ205.

Just for clarity, are you dealing with trim rattle you weren’t expecting, or are you not getting the expected level of rattle?

More than a little surprised to hear of issues with head gaskets on a EJ257, that was more of a thing on the N/A 2.5L engines. With yours being a MY ‘08, I’d have figured you’d have had a ringland failure, courtesy of the fuel pressure regulator reference line attached to the #4 intake runner (not one of Subaru’s…

Legitimately curious, here - what have you done to your car modification wise, and what let go on your engines?

I have to imagine that those aluminum coins were on the soft side for long term circulation (not that gold coins weren’t... - as the old trope of biting a coin would suggest)

If an engine exists, I can nigh on guarantee that a bellhousing adapter exists for a powerglide, TH350, TH400, 700r4, 4L60(e), 4L80e, etc. etc.

Originally, it was a carryover from the days of standard backed currency when the coinage was actually supposed to have some inherent value. Currently, it’s because the ‘useful’ metals are also the more noble metals (ones that don’t readily corrode in the atmosphere). imagine how crap a coinage made entirely out of…

Forget the brights. The Trucker way to do this is to flip the lights off, then flip them on. No brights, and you’ll blip the running lights as well. The 3 hazard thank you is also common parlance (or at least common enough that folks will get what you’re on about).

Dude, you need Rain-X or Aquapel something fierce.

A line so good it causes septum perforation.

Let’s just start this by saying that this “scandal” is a nothingburger right up there with Mitsubishi’s tire over-inflation scandal. I’m honestly more interested in who broke the scandal, and why (yay power politics in industry!).

As someone who’s fun car purchase was at least partially aided by the fact that it has the visibility of a fishbowl (GR STi), I can honestly say that the visibility in a gen 6 Camaro (or even the gen5) is not that bad (backing up excluded). Honestly, it’s easier to see out of than the Gen 3 Camaro, making it one of…

True that. Then again, if you’re looking for a vehicle you aren’t afraid to abuse while learning, beat to hell isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s also good if you’re “still gonna send it!”

Right idea, wrong vehicle (XJ would have been close). A Ford F-150 with the 4.9L straight 6 and the 4+OD transmission is cheap, bulletproof, and easy to drive in equal measure. It may be a loud, thirsty, poor handling, rattle trap, but it’s one of the easiest platforms to learn to drive stick on and leaves you with…

Let’s also not pass over the fact that the vast majority of the immensely hazardous fuel called out by First Time Talker could be used and burned almost to nothing, via the use of heavy water reactors. What’s more, the “persistent nuclear waste hazard which would last for thousands of years” would be reduced to an…

Haha, go for it, but be well aware of everything that comes with it. You WILL hate your exhaust on longer drives, you WILL always wonder if today’s the day that it goes kablooey, and you ABSOLUTELY WILL find that more power is still needed to get that same rush.

...and some would argue that this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Shit, kids will think their parents are uncool regardless. More often than not, it’s the “cool” parents that tend to produce adults with problems later in life.

The outback actually had a manual option all the way up until about 2014 in the US, and can still be had elsewhere with a 6-speed. It’s not exactly the most abuseable transmission in the world, but I still prefer my manual (2008) to the automatic options.

You seem to be equating skilled labor unions with laborer’s unions. The former often provide such benefits such as formal training, certifications, and in many cases will even cover the cost of an employee’s degree (associate’s, generally). These are the sort of unions which are often stipulated as required for…