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If that were the case, they'd also be talking about the time the derelict pizza was flying about, striking the pedestrian while noodles fell from the sky and Roy Orbison sung a ditty in the passenger seat of the woman who traded her car for the USS Enterprise.
Oil will be gone in 30-40 years? Not another one of those guys.
Any car that isn't carbureted will have some way to determine engine braking conditions (and a carbuerator will do the same by design) - the reason for fuel cutoff isn't just to save fuel. It's also important because when you slap the throttle blades closed at higher RPM intake vaccuum increases very quickly. Fuel…
Dammit, Bruno Mars! First you're on the radio, now you're in my Jalopnik feed!
Stop pissing on my Ford stock, Jalopnik!
I'm sure the alloy of those rims is heat treated, and if it's welded it sure wasn't a 7XXX alloy, so I'm inclined to think it's a 6061 T6 or something similar. By welding on the wheel you get the surrounding metal hot enough to anneal it and remove the heat treating. While they're forged at elevated temperatures (most…
0-broken in 56.2 meters? Surely that's some sort of record.
@Ray Wert: Wow. Internet fail. Because racecar.
Those look like pop rivets to me. But the resolution isn't great.
@wkiernan: You're incorrectly assuming that you need to duplicate the energy content of gasoline to achieve the same mileage - that's not the case. A good IC engine is maybe 25% energy efficient, so cut your 120% figure by a quarter, then divide that by the efficiency of a comparable electric motor.
@Xander Crews: Got a buddy from my OU FSAE days who works there. He comments on Jalopnik and has probably read this post. :)
1) Finish Operation EFI. That is, get my '67 Mustang running on the new Performance Electronics ECU, instead of the planet-hating carburetor is has now (got a project blog too!)
@MacGyver1138: Yeah, the headlight switches in those cars are finicky. Once they get old and the resistance goes up, it's got an internal circuit breaker that will cut out till they cool down and come back on.
Even the brightest sealed bulbs like that still suck. I'd be better off mounting some Coleman propane lanterns in the enclosures of my '67 Mustang than putting any of the headlights that currently exist in it. That thing is dangerous to drive at night on unlit streets with opposing traffic.
Volvo 850 owners 4 lyfe.
@RtFusion: Chug! On your knees bro. At least it's not Mango.