As someone who is at least partially “Environmentally Minded”, I’m happy to see a push to electric vehicles and a ban on New ICE engine vehicles. The caveat here being that I, like most people, don’t know the full environmental impact of producing batteries and I KNOW that our power stations in the US are still…

The video kinda lacks reference to see how steep this approach is but as he gent close and rounds out you can still see he’s coming down a lot faster than normal approach. Also note the prop is just freewheeling. Aerodynamics of a brick  

This makes my heart sink (no pun intended) to watch a war bird go down. But every pilot knows, every flight is another chance something will go wrong. You take the risk in flying it that it may not survive back to the hangar. The job this pilot did is excellent and he should be commended for saving the aircraft, the…

The 350/370 Z are showing to be excellent chassis for drift builds as well as Mustangs oddly enough. I do know of someone who did well in the amateur levels with a modified 2001 Bullett Mustang. 

The 1989-1994 Nissan 240SX (S13) is NOT an idea drift platform. There are other cars with lower cost, better engines, and more support than the S13 and trying to use them as drifters is just wasting the chassis of a desirable classic car that should be relegated to street use.

Hydrogen isn’t really a fuel though. It’s an energy storage medium. Whereas gasoline requires less energy to produce than it contains, Hydrogen, by virtues of the fact it is SO reactive, needs to be broken free of its bonds in order to be used as a “fuel”. The problem is, it takes more energy to break the bonds than…

Tomorrow they will ask us “If you had to buy a car now with your bank number, what would that number (routing included) be?

I’m from the Year of our Lord 1987. That gives me a shit ton of malaise era American crap. BUT it also allows me access to some appreciating classics and one THE coolest cars ever made by a US company.

You better go find a shell as fast as you can. The prices on a roller with minimal rust have about tripled in the past 2 years. 

In the 240SX community we’ve started calling those clean OEM style builds “OEM+”. The goal being making the car the best you can with either OEM parts from the other Nissan models or period correct modifications while keeping the car looking clean. 

Honestly I’m really starting to dig what the Restomod community is up to with the “Rad Era” cars. The 240SX community has started to shift away from the FastAndFurious and/or Drift Missile builds, you know, the bodykit, wild paint, painted wheels, underglow, either pristine or beat to crap, style. I’m seeing a slow…

Best part is Lamborghini covered up the Nissan logo on the headlights with a strip of carbon fiber to hide it. 

See my comment in this thread. They took to turbocharging like a duck to water. Turned it from a “Muscle Bike” into a Freight Train. I got to rid my old man’s turbo V-Rod once before he sold it to pay for my college. It was terrifying how hard it pulled from idle to redline.

The Porsche developed V-Rod motor also took to turbocharging very well. This is my dads 160rwhp V-Rod Street/Strip drag bike. Here it is in IHRA trim with the wheelie bar off. For Street Legal racing we swapped the rear shocks back on and the street tire.

I’ll let the rest of the comments rail against the US licensing system, so I’ll give you an example of someone who has a license and shouldn’t.

Cant the US spend its tax dollars on something more useful? Like maybe blowing up starving kids in middle eastern nations or trying to create puppet governments for oil access? You know, the stuff that REALLY matters?

As a pilot, FAA controllers are the guardian angels of the sky. They have the eyes open to help regulate the airways and are always on the top of their game. These guys and gals seriously don’t get enough praise or pay for the insane level of work they handle on a day-in day-out basis. 

The reaction from this tool is pretty standard for the Red T in PA. Sadly I live in an HOA with people like this. The president of the HOA used to rail up and down and scream when he got a fine as a regular homeowner. Now that he’s president, yeah, tried to issue me a fine for storing my trash can in the back of the…

It was a $100 per head meal. When on travel we grunts were limited to $40 per day, no more than $15 per meal, and no alcohol. But a $20 endmill required a page of documentation to be approved. 

If it requires investment in the US, Foxconn will lie and cheat and steal to get money and then walk away. When I worked for them, they cared so much about $$$ that I had to justify, with full written documentation, each tool purchase ($20ea) for the prototype machined parts they always demanded from our US located fa…