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    2* of extra (or less) timing isn't going to cause something to "run bad." Might ping a little under load, or idle a little rough, but it's certainly not "OMG THIS GUY IS A TOTAL RETARD!!!" territory. Setting the timing by ear is commonplace. If the garage was warm, or the engine was hot, or any number of other factors…

    Is "sparks" Australian slang? I've never heard spark plugs called anything other than plugs (as in "plugs and wires, cap and rotor" for a tuneup, and "plug wires")...

    Useless if you're just dumping it in the gas tank, great if you pull a vacuum line and suck it into the throttle body. Of course, if you don't know how to do that, you run the very real risk of sucking it in too quickly and hydrolocking the engine (which is a bad thing) and costing yourself A LOT more than $7.

    Driving a diesel truck (Cummins ISB, oil capacity 13qts) means I can't go to quickie lube joints. Even if I could, I wouldn't. I lube my front end and universal joints every time I change the oil (10k interval) and inspect all the suspension and brake components. And since I know what it all looks like, I can tell at…

    Yeah, I remember well the time Clarkson and Co. strapped a piano to the roof of a '72 Buick, or the time they raced an Aston against a rally car against a 1500hp jet boat through a gorge, or the time the US guys strapped a Reliant Robin (which are, as we all know, super popular and ridiculously common here!) to a…

    Let's look at some empiracal data, from my trip to last weekend's 24 Hours of Lemons race.

    Ed Zachary, marketing departments LOVE them some motion blur.

    Assuming you don't flood the air filter... that's the biggest drawback to an open-element air filter on a truck that's used off-road.

    Technically speaking, though, this didn't launch from KSC or CCAFS - it went up from Wallops Island, VA.

    So now that probably 1 in 2 DMC-12s has been converted into a movie car replica of widely varying quality, can we start encouraging people NOT to convert them? Save some for the rest of us, ffs.

    Looks legit, I see no potential failure there whatsoever.

    And yet everybody who sees one racing in Lemons cries "$500 CAR MY ASS!!! THERE IS NO WAY TO GET A BMW FOR ANYWHERE NEAR $500!!!!11!"

    It's not an acronym. Please don't capitalize it.

    Scratched, melted... same difference. ;)

    As renowned metallurgist Rosie O'Donnell pointed out, "for the first time in history, fire has melted steel!"

    Key sentence: "within a few miles of a nuclear plant."

    So just FYI, real Tannerite(TM) is around $10-15/lb.

    Probably a disproportionately high number of SBCs (that's "SmallBlock Chevy," typically a 350cid, V8 engine made from about 1958 through the late 1990s, and replaced by the LS1 and its many derivatives, since this is the "new" Jalopnik where the commentariat doesn't actually know anything about cars outside of GT5)