It doesn’t. Erin doesn’t know what the heck she is writing about. The package ships around 20lbs. That’s the weight of all of the components, including the calibration tool that you plug in momentarily to execute the new tune. To install the new throttle body, throttle body adapter, and CAI, you first have to remove…

How on earth does an intake and throttle body add 20 pounds of weight?

So your telling me that if I had $40k to spend, its great to buy this Mustang that seats 2 humans and 2 mini humans and gets 15c/25h mpg but its TERRIBLE that I buy a F150 that is $40k, seats 5 to 6 adult humans, and gets 21c/28h mpg?

Hongqi, the brand name, translates to “Red Flag,” after the red flag of the Chinese communist party.

It’s expensive but these cars are in high demand for a certain crowd, and there’s not a lot non molested examples left, pretty much like a Corrado.

Sadly a concept drawing from 11 years go.

I’m not great at it, but nailing the perfect one just puts the biggest, dumbest grin on my face.

I can heel and toe fine, though at 10/10ths I’m far more clumsy at it then at 5/10ths.  That said, I cannot for the life of me left foot brake. It would takes months or years to get my left foot to the same place as my right one in terms of sensitivity and dexterity.  Maybe I should start practicing....  

A perfectly-executed, rev-matching heel and toe downshift is a thing of joy. 

The key to successful heel-toe shifting is to first understand that you don’t need to, and probably cannot fire off racecar fast downshifts in everyday driving.

They should just drop the biggest most fastest race engine they make into 10 BRZs and call them "Final Boss Edition". I'm sure those race motors can be finicky when in a daily driver but no one is gonna drive these. They'll make Subaru easy money and the BRZs will sit in a warehouse forever. 

So you’re saying the solution is to make the car, more expensive, less rigid, less practical, heavier and consequently slower still?

Turns out that the sales of a car thats more expensive than a miata convertible but slower than a miata convertible is dwindling...

Don’t forget to use gloves, fully secure any jack stands, buy a can or two of brake cleaner and shop rags. 

Pretty soon your only going to be able to get electronic gizmo filled shit boxes to work on. Better start learning now, I enjoy your insanity too much to see it end because you can’t find non electronic shit boxes anymore.

The body of the message described the tragic failure of his wife’s luxury Jeep SUV:

Because when my shitbox fails, I can fix it. When a nine year-old, electronic gizmo-filled luxury SUV fails, I can only run for the hills.

Username checks out.

Junkyard engine would just have the same problem, and you don’t know when it will come.

Mmmm... Inline-5...