I’m simply saying that adding a metric buttload of inertia to the rolling stock (the absolute worst place to add it from a vehicular acceleration standpoint) and simultaneously going backwards by 22% on the final drive ratio will indeed make it not behave like stock “in the engine department”. Especially at low speeds…

I 100% agree, but engineering forces me to assume it’s rocking the stock gearing until proven otherwise :)

Jackie never lies.

Jackie Stewart agrees.

“Drive like stock”...

I’m going to assume you’ve never driven an underpowered “truck” thing with big tires...

There it is! Thanks!

waiting the THE Florida gif...

Hell yeah! I love seeing young Jalops proudly flying the flag. The fact that they're into VIP is pretty sweet too, since that's a fairly rare breed of car guy/girl outside SoCal.

I know, right! I mean, Chevy pushrod engines are huge, dumb boat anchors that don’t belong in anything smaller than a truck...

Well, aren't we judgmental today...

This is an 812. The naturally aspirated Cord was the 810.

Totally understandable. The funny thing is that despite having twice the displacement, the LS is probably externally smaller than the little 3.5 liter Lotus engine!

Seems to me, Lotus already had a twin-turbo V8... Is this guy just super stoked about reinventing the wheel?

I'm going to assume you're not from Spain then?

That's all training. The USAF loss rate was quite a bit lower, and the Spanish air force didn't even lose one F-104. The Canadians, on the other hand, lost almost half of theirs... which is about how well those hosers did with their F-86 fleet.

The wing box and fuselage structure is significantly different. Lots more aluminum in there. Pretty much the only thing to survive was the aerodynamic shape.

Despite the name, it's much more like the Vortec engine than the LT that was in Corvettes and Camaros. Chevy marketing people just couldn't admit that a truck engine was being put in cars, even though that's pretty much what happened.

The problem with ducted props is propulsive drag. They are less efficient than unducted props, but they contain noise better (which is why unducted turbofans haven't happened yet). Bell, NASA, and the US Navy toyed around with the X-22 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_X-22) back in the 1960s, but nothing really…

From what I recall, the US military started (in the beginning) with seized-wing pilots and trained them to fly tilt-rotors. That may have contributed to their early problems where pilots flew them into vortex ring state... which any rotor-wing pilot will avoid like the plague!