I have no idea what this article is mad about. It’s a lot of ink to spill just to say “I think Singer’s tuned Porsche’s look bad” so I assume there’s more to it than that, but....I don’t think there is?
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When DeLorean is the model for how something SHOULD be done, you know you done fucked up.
Counterpoint: I’ve seen three Singers. One was driven hundreds of miles to go to the Sportscars Togetherfest at Indy in Sept 2022. The second was likely driven thousands of miles across multiple states to be parked in the infield (Porsche Corral) at the 2023 Daytona 24 Hours. The third was driven about a hundred…
One of the cool things about old 911's is that many have seen quite a bit of use. Cars that have been well use tend to need restoration (or at least some sort of refurbishment). Once that happens, originality goes out the window.
Do you ever wonder why everyone finds Porsche people, and especially purists, insufferable?
After welding stainless steel, and before bolting any other parts to it, you are supposed to degrease it and then passivate it with citric acid or nitric acid. This removes free iron from the surface and forces the chromium to form a protective oxide layer, thereby preventing the exact problem we are seeing with the…
Fuck that. That’s way too much effort for something that is going to happen all the time. You’re basically washing and polishing your truck every time someone touches it. Yet another reason this truck is beyond stupid.
I was pretty sure it was a dream, but I thought she’d wake up in a ditch, having nodded off again and run off the road.
While I’m not a fan of government overreach, I think the happy middle ground would indeed to be to require pickups to be registered as commercial vehicles. Either by business registration, maybe somebody sign up for an LLC, or just some higher registration tax rate
Just a precision that Impulse is not momentum, but the change in momentum, meaning Impulse = p_fnal - p_initial or Δp. An indeed Δp= F_avg *time_collision.
Engines/transmissions have been designed to drop down and under vehicles for decades to the point where its not a feature spoken about but rather an expected standard safety device. Most castings are made with specific failure points for this reason. Breaking these mounts further energy dissipation.
We need to see the number, but your picture is a bit misleading as that is just after impact, you can tell because the airbags are deployed, but have no paint on them, so there is still crumpling to go, where as, apparently the total front end deformation on the Cybertruck is about even what’s shown on your photo.…
Surprise! We haven’t just been making cars deformable to absorb energy for the fun of it. The energy generated when coming to a sudden stop has to go somewhere and if it isn’t the car, the people inside are the sponges for that energy. Hit a solid object with a solid hammer as hard as you can and see how your hand…
A decently powerful crossbow can penetrate almost any bulletproof vest. So can a knife for that matter. Saying that it won’t stop a crossbow is not proof of it not being bulletproof.
Subsonic doesn’t mean shit either. It’s all about inertial energy...
So uh... Depending on the arrowhead used, compound bows can have better penetration than 9mm bullets or even .22 bullets...
I’d be running for office and throwing them out.
I typically don’t watch the podium stuff anymore (is it an FIA rule to spray champagne? So played...also the Austrian & Dutch national anthems plain suck) but do the fans at the US venues get to rush the track and hang at the podium like seemingly most Euro races? I think that provides a nice connection. At Canada…
I honestly am not surprised by your feelings of isolation while in the paddock. The teams are keeping their cars and strategies as close to their chests as possible. And I whole-heartedly agree with that fan who said that they don’t want F1 to act more American, because the reality is that it’s not an American sport,…