Not quite, they only read out to 1psi, not the 0.1psi you really need to prevent a median crossing episode

Not quite, they only read out to 1psi, not the 0.1psi you really need to prevent a median crossing episode

If it’s a fixed ratio drive, which I believe is correct, then it would mean that RPM’s would be the same for any given speed. Specifically, it’s a fixed ratio between engine speed (rpm) and wheel speed (mph), so the two should always be linked.

The latter option you described is a CVT (continuously variable…

The 959 is water cooled though. Ok, it still has air cooled cylinders, but the heads are water cooled.

This is how I start my shifter kart when it’s on the stand. I’ve also started a snowmobile the same way (but wrapping the rope around the primary clutch).

I thought this car looked familiar - one of my friends just posted on Facebook that he picked it up.

The last time an F1 car made contact with a marshal, it was fatal for both of them. The marshal was turned into ground beef, but the fire extinguisher he was carrying killed the driver instantly as well.

Hasn’t Apple ever heard of rule 34 of the internet? Blocking words is not going to end well... given enough time, almost every collection of alphanumeric characters available will return porn in one way or another - unless you do some sort of smart filtering of the results (and even then there will be failures).

“Kinda”. Google tells me that LMP2 cars are 900kg, which is 2000lbs. Even if it has an aggressive 40/60 rear weight bias, that still means 800lbs on the front axle. Let’s be even more aggressive and say the driver’s body weight is 70% on the front axle, and we have a rather hefty (by professional standards) 200lb…

I was thinking about that as well... but maybe the thought process is that it’s better to sink one ship and find out, than to build 100 more, which all need even more expensive updates when you find out 5 years from now.

I’ve also learned the hard way that soldering is not a good solution in high-vibration automotive applications (read: race cars). The problem is not the solder joint itself - that holds just fine. It’s that it creates a stress point in the wire where the solder stopped wicking up the wire, which is where it breaks.…

If you’re not following Richard Tipper (Perfection Detailing) on twitter, you’re missing some serious automotive porn. I mean no disrespect to the Countach when I say this, but it’s not even in the game with some of the cars he gets to detail.

Duallies are generally counted as singles in “4wd” or “4x4" nomenclature. For instance a 1-ton dually pickup is still only considered “4wd” or “4x4". So in this case, this would be a “6x6" or “6wd” vehicle.

Another consideration is that in some respects durability comes at the detriment of performance. To get the last 1% of performance you often need to make parts that are so lightweight that they now need to be replaced at a much higher frequency.

It won’t let you expand it beyond 12 hours. My potential workday occasionally eclipses the 12 hour mark, so I couldn’t even set it to cover my full day.

As “whynot” said, they reduce drag (better mpg’s), but they also improve cooling by improving airflow through the grill.

If you go too thick you can end up with oil starvation issues

If you go too thick you can end up with oil starvation issues

Arthritis

Counterpoint - if a manufacturer is making limited edition cars that can be flipped right away by the buyer for a profit, then the manufacturer didn’t charge enough for them to begin with.

Going faster than F1 is “easy” when you don’t need to abide by F1 rules. 99% of the cost in F1 is the final 1% of the speed, while keeping within the ruleset. If you could just throw the rule book out the window, it would be pretty easy to go considerably faster.

This could be true, even without taking the ships scrapped here into consideration. Everything on the earths surface is being constantly bombarded with a low level of radiation - while things below the surface (iron ore) is generally exempted from this (provided it’s not from an area with high levels of natural…