I wasn’t really disagreeing with you on suburbs, but on just the general commuting thing.

That is still too crowded for many, including me. I’m talking about living in an area where it is possible to buy 5-10+ acres of land for cheap and not have neighbors within at least a mile of your house.

Some people don’t want any of those things. Some people just want to live somewhere that is quiet, not filled with tons of people, have the ability to have more land, a real garage, and a real house that they own and can maintain themselves and not have to live in a shithole apartment with a hundred people right next…

The K5 Blazer actually did have a folding back seat. Hinges in between the back and seat allowed you to fold it.

It gets even more interesting when you eschew the normal piston and rod arrangement in favor of double ended pistons with scotch yokes in the center.

A lot of old truck transmissions also have straight cut gears, or at the very least very narrow angle helical gears, and long ago in earlier eras of hot rodding it was somewhat popular to modify synchronized manuals into dog boxes somewhat similar in principle to the race transmission above. Of course, back then,…

On the other hand it’s not that hard to find a big block or an LS in the junkyard nowadays, and at least around here they’re cheap. A big block goes for about $500 to $1000 and an LS about $200-500.

I wouldn’t even have noticed it without you guys pointing it out.

Not only that, but a screen after the turbo is also a good idea. I’ve had a turbo impeller explode on a Mercedes diesel and the engine was saved due to a gasket assembly I had made that had two gaskets with a thick metal screen in between, sealed by RTV silicone.

It is absolutely not impossible. In my job (as a computer technician) I’ve had to watch long data transfers from failing ATA drives and make sure that every single file is transferred and the drive isn’t making weird noises. I can do that perfectly fine for 6-8 hours at a time. As long as at least something minimal is…

Lower RPM diesels (Detroits, GMC Toroflows, 6.2s, 5.7 Olds, etc.), when swapped into pickups, are sorely in need of multiple overdrive gears, due to their extremely limited RPM range. A Detroit 53 series, for example, redlines at 2800 RPM, with optimum cruising speed being around 1900-2000 RPM. Combine that with a…

I literally thought the headline was referring to the Chevy Equinox before I read the article.

Business cards work as well.

My driving school has one of these. I never had any idea it was rare at all.

Oldsmobile made a prototype of a diesel V5 in 1983, and this was a true V5 with 2 cylinder heads, rather than a narrow angle V5.

In addition, there are also radial aircraft engines with 7, 9, and 11 cylinders.

There was one unique and interesting aspect of the Liberty: the diesel engine. While it was a VM Motori and far from the greatest diesel ever made, it was probably the only small-ish American car with a diesel at the time.

Only if the fuel lines and gaskets can’t handle ethanol. For new tools, I guess they would be manufactured with ethanol resistant gaskets. For existing ones, hopefully they would be made available in rebuild kits, otherwise you would have to cut your own gaskets, which is what I do with much of my old equipment.

May I suggest one of the old railroad/Telco generators powered by the 2-71 Detroit Diesel? 20 KW, no electronics to speak of, three phase, and runs on whatever you put in the tank including filtered waste oil and vegetable oil.

I don’t rely on safety features because my cars don’t have any beyond seat belts and collapsible steering columns.