I was gonna make a comment here about the complexity of FSAE and how much they are not like go-karts, but then I remembered how much fun go-kart racing is. Now I'm just a little sad that you are missing out on both of these awesome things. Read more

A '64 Impala with some three wheel motion. In part because I work in Inglewood and I feel like I could be the coolest white guy for 40 miles in any direction.

Thanks for the book link Matt! Read more

This is almost certainly a case of a cost-down exercise that happened between the press cars being sent out and the full production run beginning. Here is the conversation that happened in my head just now, and probably happened at VW earlier this year: Read more

I currently work for an OEM. Previously I was with a racing valvetrain supplier and before that i worked for Claude Rouelle at Furniture Row Racing. Read more

I seriously walked into the dealer with the exact specifications of the car that I was going to order, and a check for the deposit. I ended up going to a different dealer and bought the car from them, minus the $250 charge and minus the nitrogen. I guess they figure they can bullshit 90% of the people, and the… Read more

Nitrogen in the tires. Car salesman lost the easiest sale he'd ever had from me when he wouldn't take off the $250 Nitrogen in the tires charge that is standard for every vehicle they sell. The conversation went something like this Read more

I was out there this past weekend working patrols. Behind a wall of cars, I saw a plume of smoke shooting directly upwards, like someone brought a small coal powerplant with them to the desert. Read more

That's gay. Read more

That's zero stability and a shitload of camber thrust. Milliken said it refused to drive in a straight line; he built it to test out camber theories. Read more

You should edit the Wikipedia camber page to just those two sentences. Read more

Bill Milliken beat them by about half a decade.

Turbo engines in cars are usually regulated with a diaphragm, so less atmospheric pressure means less forced induction. A lot of superchargers just move a specific volume of air at specific RPMs, so again, less atmospheric pressure means less boost pressure. I'm sure there are engines that regulate boost to an… Read more

Like Zoltan said, if you're regulating boost pressure to an absolute, then you get the same power with thinner air (i'm guessing this is how turbo airplanes regulate pressure. A supercharger won't do that, it will just pull the same volume of thinner air, and thus have less pressure in the cylinders at the same ratio… Read more

It's force inducted at sea level too. It's still a ratio of air pressure, so it wouldn't change the difference in power. Read more

At an altitude of a mile, you'd be at roughly 80% of your SAE corrected power based on J1349 (which I should say is not even remotely applicable at the kinds of corrections you'd see in Denver), and the power required to cut through the air would scale down proportionally with the air density (density being the rho in… Read more

Cool, my parents live in Oklahoma, so i'll look into that. I live in California where it is probably not going to happen. Read more

Slightly on subject, I have a '64 Honda I need to get titled. It has no history in the US and no Japanese paperwork. Anyone have any idea how I can make this happen? Read more

I believe it was Horatio Alger who once said "Oh, who gives a shit about a baby." Read more