Nope, I’m just a professional, sick of “internet experts” like you. Go back to polishing your Corvette, old man.

You’re cute. Are you seven or something?

Why are you such a pious tool?

I worked at a GM dealer, now I work for Ford. Do you always spend your time finding specific examples to try and undermine relatively accurate generalizations? Do you have that little to do? And yes. As a professional technician, I feel that the PITA of driving up onto boards, then jacking your car 2' into the air in…

Because you’ve never “responsibly broken the law” before. Never have you exceeded the speed limit, or done something silly when no one else was around. You must be a blast at parties.

Your entire post tells me you don’t know what you’re talking about. This is why people shouldn’t be allowed to work on their own cars... Have you ever done an oil change on a Corvette? I wouldn’t want to do one without a hoist either. Have you ever met a Corvette owner? Most of them wouldn’t want to risk getting their…

If I remove the wheels, I’m required to take it for a road test after. If I am bringing it in for a service over 15,000km, I go for a road test before to check the brakes. If it’s a major service interval, I push the car harder to find any worn components. I have a customer with an F350 who regularly hauls large…

Only thing worse than a Vette owner is a Cadillac owner.

Then the shop insurance takes care of it. It’s one of the things that comes into effect when you sign your work order, authorizing work.

You know what would make it perfect? If they could somehow let us know exactly how much power it makes too. Like, something subtle and classy...

This is just the modern version of “the guy that put his cruise control on then went to the back of his RV to make a sandwich and crashed into the ditch”

You mean like Ford with the full sized Transit passenger vans right now? They made the buckle assembly rigid and found when plus sized passengers, or heavy boxes were placed on them, it cracks the housing and keeps it from buckling properly. Huge PITA for us Techs, because there’s like 5 different seating…

Screw that. Here’s the link to the beta.

IMO making the Vette mid-engined is a bad idea. Keep it a FR highway cruiser and introduce a new variant that is a mid-engine exotic killer. The FR classic sports car has been the Vette “thing” since the Corvette became a “thing”. Don’t fuck with the system. I could see this actually losing sales from the “typical”…

Just another day in Vancouver. Seriously, drivers here are the worst. And we’re overrun with over-entitled rich kids. Not a good combination.

Or in general, really.

As they say, the devil is in the details; and Singer has that in spades. Sure they “all look the same” but they really, truly don’t. Simplicity from afar is washed away by minute and intense detail as you get closer. Everywhere you look there are little gems for your eye to fall on, and everything is perfect. It’s…

Thank you. Now could you draw that in crayon so I can put it on my tool box? I’m glad you could explain the concept of an engine to me. Swept volume is a little harder to calculate when the combustion chamber constantly changes size and position. Throughput of gas volume as someone else stated would be the easiest way…

That would make the most sense, and yeah, I was more thinking in terms of the working volume of the combustion area. On a conventional engine that’s a pretty easy one to calculate, and define... Not so much on a spinning peanut.

A 5hp Briggs is 200cc, and about 40-50lbs. I was comparing output apples to apples. Although I’ll completly agree that the B&S will surivive the apocalypse, while happily idling away in a sandstorm.