I absolutely understand, and I wasn’t disputing the choice of transmission in the corvette, but the fact that it is possible to build a performance car with a manual transmission. The reason it isn’t done, I believe, is probably the fact that it would take a skilled driver to drive such a car, and drivers at that…

I drove (and still do) a 550HP Chevy C10 pickup. i never street raced it and made sure to tell everyone who did how much of an idiot they were. When I wanted to race, I took it to the dragstrip or abandoned airstrip with a really long runway.

Since when does a Mustang weigh 3 tons? That’s far more than my pickup weighs.

Lingenfelter actually built a flat plane 358 cubic inch turbo LSX, and they were building for peak power at 8500 RPM. With the likely shorter stroke of this engine, 9000 should be possible easily.

It is possible to make a high performance car with a manual transmission. A dog gear transmission, and an engine with a very, very broad torque band is all you need. Something like a large supercharged V8 would work perfectly, or a supercharged and turbocharged high compression V8 running on propane for the high…

People have built flat plane small block chevys, so a flat plane LT engine wouldn’t be that far off.

Liberty Sequential transmission with pedal air shift. Rock pedal up to shift up, rock down to shift down, just like a motorcycle.

Im going to say probably a chain drive to the rear wheels, a la 1920s Mack truck.

Exactly. It’s the power wheels version of a Nascar.

I was considering that, but the packaging issues make it very difficult (no bellhousing mount as it’s an aero engine, it’s a flat 4 so you would have to convert to rear wheel drive unless you want it to stick out through the front). The Seadoo engine would be much simpler and would fit nicely in the stock location.

I realize that, but that metal is significantly softer than a gun barrel, the plastic slowed down the impact, and there is often Styrofoam or similar cushioning material behind the bumper as well.

Definitely. A supercharged Rotax 3 cylinder from a Seadoo is definitely the best idea.

Probably given that the plastic bumper softened the impact, so I doubt that it was damaged significantly.

Only we who have tamed the mighty Thermoquad have hands immune to fire lol

I still need a watch because I don’t always carry my phone with me, and when I do, I don’t want to take it out just because I need to check the time. i have a Casio Databank non-gold version that cost me $20 at Walmart. It’s lasted me for years and I use the calculator all the time.

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-05-photocatalyst-hydrogen-production-efficient.html

Well it’s kind of an airport. One runway about a half mile long and we spray painted lines a quarter mile apart.

That’s the way it is on most phones too, just that some are harder to get open

It’s hilarious too because whenever I parked next to a fancy car, everyone moved over to look at mine. Here it is in its current state.

The “non replaceable” batteries are actually really easy to replace with a cheap toolkit.