Clutch on a Fiero. Note: once you realize the car gets lifted off the engine, not the engine out of the car... things get much easier.

I had something similar happen once. I had passengers in the car. One was an off-duty highway patrol motor officer. :D

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second gen SV I think, has the flat tubed frame not the round tubed frame

ugh so tired of the monster rear tired monstrosities.

If you ever want to see lots of neat fancy cars, this is definitely the place to do it, btw. There's a fisker salesroom near here. The Crystal Cove shopping center has a bunch of Fiskers parked on the sidewalks. Lots of teslas. Maybe one McLaren F1 a week, and several various exotics every day.

People try to pass slower traffic on the wrong side of the road... right here. Often.

I am sitting, literally a quarter mile from where this happened. We were redirected onto the 73 ramp in order to get into laguna beach this morning. The place the accident occurred has people frequently trying to pass each other as they're heading out of laguna canyon. It goes from two lanes to one (then back to two)…

ha you're probably just biased like I am. Grew up at the base of palomar mountain, and a few hours from big bear. When I saw 4k feet I thought "walking up a hill... eh?"

for sure. I had to go on a 3000 mile roadtrip in the vw and wound up wearing some lightweight earplugs that I normally wear on my motorcycle. Still able to hear music, but road noise gone and all the creaks and stuff gone. Actually, was the least fatiguing drive in recent memory, to the point where I plan to do it on…

older too, but depending on how much youve used them you might have already put enough hours on them. head to head-fi.org for an eye opener (for the world of headphones).

What about some sort of dampening material on the back of the plastics, i.e. dynamat or something? Just curious... Sometimes adding mass to the plastics will shut them up. I added cheap dynamat (dryer ducting stuff from home depot) to some of the plastics in my 2010 golf to cure some incessant squeaks/rattles. It just…

Yep serious! From hanging out at head-fi.org one thing I've learned is that burn-in is important! My current favorite budget headphone is the Koss KSC75 - honestly, jaw dropping sound for maybe 13-14 bucks. Sound great out of the box, sound better after breakin!

they required about 50 hours of break-in before they calmed down for me. I added some comply tips and they're awesome. Straight out of the package... not so much. They're also fairly beefy drivers, so they draw a lot of juice; they sound much better with an audio amplifier. Just FYI - maybe set the headphones up…

wait - are you thinking iron man?

I generally lure them into confrontations, then turn it around and ask why they're being confrontational. It's worked quite well and rapidly gains you the upper hand.

I've used voodoopad pro - it's like a personal desktop wiki and you can export to web to create an online wiki type document. its not perfect, but it's from a company called Flying Meat, so that's a plus. I eventually tire of nesting labels, etc. but every few months I fire it up and use it heavily for a few weeks.

You can just "breadknife" the blade against concrete, a brick, or a garbage sharpening stone. I describe this process later in this post. I personally use a DMT coarse plate to kill a faulty edge on knives/straight razors before setting a new bevel and honing. If disposing of the knife, I wrap the blade tightly (after…

oh, go check out fiero.nl - mine wasn't a northstar, it was about 200 something HP and substantially more torque. the northstar ones start at around 300hp and go up from there. I seem to remember a few projects mating a manual gearbox and carbs to a northstar to get around the finicky electronics.

nope - the Archie kit (rules!!) is for a smallblock. The v8 I used was from a front drive cadillac. Low revving torque monster! You can also swap in a twin cam northstar but its nowhere near as quick and easy (and cheap!) to do.