BAC5.2

On a wall, in a stairwell at the Nurburgring.

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Well behaved women don't make history.

 

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I don't know who said THAT quote, but Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said:

"Well-behaved women seldom make history" in a 1976 article, and she wrote a book with that title in 2007.

I think you could credit the "don't" version to KRB, if you wanted.

IIRC, Lamborghini got mad when he found tractor parts in his Porsche and then started his own company.

No, it was his complaint that the clutch in his Ferrari 250GT was shit, and that his tractor clutches were better. Enzo Ferrari brushed him off, and Ferrucino decided to make his own V12 supercar.

Correct. The case does not flex sufficiently to cause failure. The ONLY research showing this might happen, was done many years ago with extremely unrealistic boundary conditions (both shafts locked together, no engine bolted to the bell housing, and in steady-state loading). Even then, the case deflection was marginal and not nearly sufficient to cause the shafts to separate. If you look at the basic design of the gearbox, and have any understanding of engineering, you would see the lack of logic in the case flex claims.

But, people are eager for a snake-oil charm and are willing to believe whatever they will to justify the money spent, just like every other brace people think they absolutely need. You spend the money, know "this thing is gonna blow and is only held together by these plates", and drive more carefully as result.

PayPal me half the money, and I'll send you a PM once a month for the next year reminding you your trans isn't bulletproof and that you should drive accordingly.

I really like the guys at Moore, and they build some of the best parts I've seen in the industry. These plates are no exception. They are likely built exceptionally well. But if you think they are going to bulletproof your trans, you are fooling yourself.

Case flex

Some people will believe anything.

Admittedly, the springs I saw we're used, and might not have been as advertised, but the front spec B springs were much longer than LGT (at least as long as OB XT) and thinner gauge. I never mounted them, but had the impression they would result in higher ride height than LGT mounted on the same strut. But maybe they would sag more given the thinner gauge. This was always baffling to me given spec B allegedly being higher perf. Maybe softer spring mates better with Bilstein, IDK.

Stiffer doesn't always mean better performance.

I see, so how come some have it and some don't ?

It was model year dependent. The 06 WRX had one, but not the 06 STI. Just rolling changes between models.

"sometimes its easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission" - christopher paolini

Grace Hopper, not the author of Eragon.

How else do you think they get monster trucks on trailers?

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I thought that VW's buttons were for an entirely different purpose....

 

I almost bought a GTI with a DSG and it did have a button as well. I noticed that if I had it in sport (manual shifting) mode, that the car would stay in the selected gear even if I floored it. But, when I clicked the button beyond it would automatically shift down to the lowest gear possible and leave it to me to shift to the next gear.

 

A friend of mine has two 2004 VW's with the tiptronic automatics. They do the same thing.

 

*shrug*

 

I cannot say anything about the VW manual cars because I have actually never driven one.. So, I don't know if they have a button or not to go along with my theory.

That's what BMW uses it for. They call it the "kickdown button".

Edit: just saw you are talking about a 6MT 335. No idea why that would have a button...

From my own research, it seems that the integrity of a wheel is much more likely to be reduced as a result of poorly executed stripping (overstripping, really) rather than the low-temp baking process used by most powdercoaters.

That is probably accurate.

There are two distinct sides over whether you should bake forged wheels... It's been discussed in this thread I believe.

There is absolutely no problem with powder coating forged wheels.

Trans mount is the same. It's the crossmember that has spacers.

I have an LGT GRP-N trans mount in my car.

look at what i found !

corvette swaped to turbo buick engine and gets better mpg's than a v6 van.

 

http://roguevette.com/

Yea, but how does it do in the snow?

i'll get my boy. his civic runs 9's

-Everybody with a Honda

Yeah, I looked into them and moving off my unlimited plans would cost me 50 a month.

I just wish I'd had the foresight to set up an extra unlimited plan when I could have.

I'm still very interested in the Nexus build, though. It seems like it would work pretty well.