My first job was as an engineer for an electronics manufacturer in the Prototyping area. My job was to take the pretty CAD files and turn them into a physical part. By the time I was established I was focused almost solely on Design For Manufacturability. The sheer number of projects that came through from senior…

Ford Focus. The car started out as a cheap but well contented (6-CD IN DASH Changer!!) runabout with strong handling and looking like nothing else on the road. Now? It’s another bloated family hauler, not really entertaining in anything but the top-level performance trims (ST/RS) and so heavy, padded, and isolated…

There were two designs of the nuclear powered jet. A direct cycle and an indirect cycle.

“Why is there a 550 year old vehicle here? Who in their right mind gave cargo space for this thing???”

Note to self: Future Business Plan

The Mach 1 is a fun car. It’s just a MASSIVE parts bin special. I’ve had to rebuild the transmission more times than the clutch or Differential.

I love mine, but its still a cash grab/sticker package on a detuned, de-contented Cobra. The synchro on 3rd gear died TWICE in 3 years of drag racing. I shouldn’t have to replace a transmission more often the clutch itself.

Is this really treated as a Muscle Car by anyone but people who complain “its not a Mustang”? Even people who normally buy white or silver Corollas know that the Mustang name is a sales trick and its an electric SUV like Tesla.

2003-2004 Mach 1. Its a 99-01 Cobra engine, tied to a solid rear axle. It uses convertible frame braces. Stock tires are Goodyear 245/45/17s and they have ZERO grip. Shaker Scoop, unique hood, and a graphics/styling package that was INSTANLY copied by every V6 owner in existence.

There is a perverse joy in rolling an odometer in your kitchen with a power drill. It’s one of those taboo things that are so wild to do. I’m so glad I got to experience it before all this digital odometer crap. It’s stupid but still a highlight of my automotive experience

Flight of the ear with the large end forward seems correct though. Aircraft wings travel with the blunt end forward and a teardrop shape with the point facing backwards is a fairly smooth shape aerodynamically speaking. You don’t get to the “pointy end first” until you’re well into the supersonic range of speeds, like…

I’m thinking the potential energy of a crash is far higher in an aircraft than a car. You have the mass and velocity of the car, you have mass, velocity, and potential energy (from Altitude) added to the equation for an aircraft.

“Flying Cars are coming, in 20 years everyone will have one in the garage.”

Worst car to be a passenger inside? Someone else’s project car.

I answered Mercedes below.

I WISH the porcupine was airborne...

The paperwork the pilot had to fill out after this crash is probably equivalent to the thickness of the wing itself. There is a LOT of work that comes after an inflight emergency.

I’m sorry, but a convertible is the ULTIMATE in practical cars. It’s right in the name!

Because I will grasp at LITERALLY ANY STRAW I CAN to talk about my car, the MaxOut has some of the feelings promised by the 240SX convertible. Fun, sporty, wind in your hair feeling. A small convertible to be a total idiot in without being a Miata.

Decided I could refresh/replace a motor by working 4 hours every month or so at a garage 1.5hrs from my house, during the initial COVID outbreak. Had my father help me out as well. Communication faltered and we ended up missing some bolt tightening steps and didn’t realize the KA24DE cannot be hand rotated backwards…