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I can. Wastegate exhaust. See: Ferrari F-40.

Each one comes with an accordian playing robot under the hood! Wow!

A spool is functionally as bad as a welded diff. If you need your car to turn you want the wheels to be able to spin ad different speeds. Get a junkyard LSD.

Most guys welding their diffs aren’t spending that kind of money on the whole car, let alone the $1200 a proper diff will cost.

No lag waiting for the diff to lock.

1 big problem: Money.

It was the king in the 1950's, but the Detroit Locker has spawned many children. I can attest that one of it’s great, great grandsons, the Cusco RS, is definitely a superior traction aid and instigator of mad drifts:

I like muscle cars as much as the next guy ... but let’s be honest: your Camaro has almost nothing in common with the Focus RS ...

They serve totally different markets and serve totally different purposes.

That doesn’t make the RS bad and your car good ... or vice versa.

Wavetrac?

And for God’s sake, weld the differential properly or get someone who knows what they’re doing.

Step one: buy a commuter car

With respect to the differing dyno numbers between mountune and snail, this is common and has to do with how different dynos are calibrated and what parameters you enter into it. Thus, it’s all but impossible to compare across dynos or to know which is the “true” output (probably somewhere in between). I wouldn’t read…

Camber, stretched tires, and (assumed) stock brakes does not a tow vehicle make. If it were a stock Baja, I’d say go for it. With the most important safety bits already pushed beyond any feasible safety margins, towing above the stock rated capacity is a definite no go. You might get away with one of those 500 lb…

He used 8020 extruded aluminum profiles for the frame which is very cool stuff but exceedingly expensive. I bet that frame alone cost $8K. Check out 8020.net

Ugh. Who cares. There are like eleventy million Mustangs out there. Let it go. It’s not *that* special. It’s not like it was some Hemi Cuda.

My high school was pretty much a big popularity contest. The yearbook had a “best car” category, and do you think it was the kid with the fully restored 67 Camaro that him and his dad spent the 4-5 years prior rebuilding? No, it was the popular kid with the bone stock Mk3 Jetta that his parents bought him when he…

There is one car guy who comes to mind. He was really a DIY mechanic by necessity; his family didn’t have a lot of money, so whenever something broke, he was the one who fixed it. Appliances, plumbing, electrical, cars, whatever. He inherited a ‘49 Buick Super Eight from a family friend, and that became his project,…

When I was in HS it was all about seeing how many gigantic speakers you could fit in the trunk of your shitbox.

Prototype #32 is worth $32 more than prototype 0 apparently.