Here is a good reason...the RS’s intake manifold integrated into the block. When carbon builds up on those intake valves (Common Side-Effect of DI Engines, and especially bad in Turbo DIT Engines), you will have no way of cleaning them. The current solution for cleaning valves on DIT engines is to remove the intake…

I don’t understand why this site has such a hardon for the S600. My Father-In-Law has a 2000 AMG S55, and I the few times I have driven it, I hated it. So his it has the 5.4 L 360 hp (270 kW) V8 NA motor, instead of the of the 5.5 L 493 hp (368 kW) V12 twin turbo engine that the s600, which is a huge difference, but…

Paul Bailey owns all 3, and probley let Chris Harris, and the “Gear Knobs” drive them.

Why to automakers keep putting black plastic covers where rearview mirrors Should be, then put the actual rearview mirrors somewhere else?

Thanks! Just Tires (Cooper AT3) and OPOR sliders, I haven’t seen the need, or have been able to justify the cost for anything else. I did go over the entire frame with Rust Bullet, because the problem with Toyota Frame Rot isn’t because they are fully boxed, it is because of the worthless frame coating Toyota uses,…

The reason Toyota uses a C-Channel frame on the Tacoma, isn’t because it is better, its because its cheaper. If the C-Channel is better, then why does the Hilux, which the rest of the world gets, use a Fully Boxed Frame? Why do they use Fully Boxed Frames in Land Cruisers? Both the Hilux and Land Cruiser are known…

Funny you should say, that, I did....a 2013 4Runner SR5...

It is sad they stuck with the C-Channel Frame, instead of moving back to a fully boxed frame, like real trucks use....

Moar ChestHair Please!

I belive it is Child Pussifycation that is all the rage these days.

I think you mean “Chalice”, not flask.

So it is the repairs that are more expensive then the petrol equivalent then? Makes sense with the complex emissions systems. Aren’t emissions covered by an 80k mile federal warranty then?

How is diesel maintenance that much more then the equivalent petrol engine? Compare a Golf TDI and GTI. OCIs are the same, and the cost is roughly the same as well. Sure with diesel you have to change a $40 fuel filter every 20k miles, but other then that, the maintenance schedules are the same. The GTI’s 2.0L turbo…

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There was a Hakosuka GTR there, and no writeup or details?

Nothing is gayer then a FWD Burnout...

IC was connected to a ‘98 Blacktop S13 SR20DET, from a Type-X

I think my 90 pignose looked pretty good.