If you’re really serious about riding I’d start out on a bigger bike, go with a metric cruiser if you want to save some money for a first bike. At 6'0", and 200 lbs my Sportster feels a bit small. It was great in college and when I was riding mostly in town and back roads, but the more highways and interstates I ride…

I think I’m more excited for Kristen’s review than I am for the actual movie.

3 wheels is best wheels.

Make of this what you will.

I own a 99 F-150 Extended cab 4x4, and have driven the new Colorado/Canyon, and I can promise you that the interior of the Colorado is much smaller than the F-150. It’s still comfortable, and usable (except for the extended cab rear seats), but it is by no means as big as the F-150. Not trying to talk you out of it,…

I basically grew up in one as well, took many road trips as a kid, basically learned to drive in it, and learned how to hoon in it. We had that car for a very long time and lovingly referred to it as the turd. I have a lot of fun memories with that car, and while I do look back on it with fondness, I don’t miss it in…

People buy Chevy’s despite the square wheel wells, not because of them.

Just so we’re on the same page, I’m %100 in agreement with you, there is no good reason to ever do this, it would be extremely expensive and open up a whole bunch of liabilities. Going back to the original question though they could design parts to fail, but they never will because there are so many cheaper and better…

Hello, engineer here as well (although not an automotive engineer either). I didn’t say it was easy, or cheap, I said it was possible (within reason). Obviously they don’t do it this way, for the very good reasons you pointed out, like someone could die, and they likely never will do it this way for those very same…

I understand all of that, and just used simple numbers for an example. You act like engineers don’t do this every single day, when in fact they do. It’s not as cut and dry as my example, but parts can certainly be designed to fail at a specific point (give or take a calculable range) if that’s what you want them to…

Depends on the part really, and how you want it to fail. Lets take a driveshaft for example, you can very easily figure out how much torque that shaft will take before it fails. So say I design a driveshaft that can handle up to 500 lb-ft before it fails, you want some safety factor in there so you limit the output of…

Brand loyalty is a hell of a drug.

Even though agriculture is about as old as the human race itself, there aren’t a lot of farmers to create a large market to buy tractors and machines. As machines, implements, and general practices become more and more efficient, and as commercial farms continue to grow, the number of farmers to buy this equipment…

My mom had a 2005 Impala with the 3800 and I really like that car, same with the Pontiac Grand Prix. They weren’t amazing cars by any means, but certainly more enjoyable than the Le Sabre.

1995 Buick LeSabre, it served her well and was a reliable car, but I hated everything about it. The steering was terribly numb, so were the brakes. Sure it rode smooth, but it had some clunking noise that annoyed me, and because of that soft suspension handling was exactly what you expect, very floaty and…

Cars/Trucks:

Doing my part!

I’ve been there many a time. Sometimes I don’t care if it’s “worth it” I want to do it anyway.

I’ve come to realize with the internet that you are very rarely the first person to do really anything. Somebody has already had the same problem you’re having, and found a way to fix it, and somebody very likely has had the same crazy idea that you have and documented how to do it.

He actually covers that pretty early in the video. Essentially run a vacuum line from every runner, into a common vacuum box, and hook the MAP sensor to that.