Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

Post 15000 for me

And yes, I'm still around.

In reply to W.Cougar Mellonballer The Third :

:golfclap:

In particular, I like this little non sequitur from the rant above - "The systems were shut down and converted to bus routes, which caused the public to become more reliant on owning an automobile..."  Why on earth do those follow causally?  If the systems were shut down completely and NOT converted to bus routes, the author might have a point.  But they weren't.  They were converted to a system that is cheaper to install and more flexible to run. 

And let's not forget to mention that the postwar economic boom and the war-surplus industrial capacity made owning a personal car a new reality for many families who would never have had the resources to do so before the war, thus dramatically reducing the general populations reliance on and demand for public transportation like streetcars... regardless of the Big Evil Corporation's Evil Plan To Sell Buses.

But, we should never let thoughts like that stand in the way of a good, self-righteous conspiracy narrative.

Plus, anybody who's ever driven anything other than a trolley on these understands just how outmoded and inconvenient streetcars were becoming:

The Perlan 2 holds the altitude record for soaring, 52,172 feet

Mountain wave's a helluva thing!

In reply to AWSX1686 :

Ya the price is crazy but it opens up the door for other people to make it cheaper and better. Couldn't find info on a patent so anyone can buy and build there own.

Skervey said:

In reply to AWSX1686 :

Ya the price is crazy but it opens up the door for other people to make it cheaper and better. Couldn't find info on a patent so anyone can buy and build there own.

 

 

It's probably not patented because there are cases of prior art.  Converting H-pattern to sequential has been available from several different companies.  IIRC, OS Giken or HKS had setups like that for Supras and RX-7s and probably GT-Rs, and there was a company in Australia (don't think it was PPG) that had a setup as well.  And I could swear that I read about a blurb in an issue of Hot Rod in the 1990s about an American company with that setup.

The real problem is, if you want a sequential, you also really want it to be a dogbox with closer gears than what you'd find in a production transmission.  I've seen videos of the Supra box in action and it looked clunky as all heck.

If you've got a 4X4 rusting away, this is the way to go!

914Driver said:

Mountain wave's a helluva thing!

Yes it is. I first experienced it 200 miles east of the Rocky Mountains. I was an inexperienced copilot trying to hold .81 mach at 41,000 ft. In the downdraft I would get slow and add power, in the updraft I would get get fast and cut power. This was in a Lear 24

Knurled. said:

Skervey said:

In reply to AWSX1686 :

Ya the price is crazy but it opens up the door for other people to make it cheaper and better. Couldn't find info on a patent so anyone can buy and build there own.

 

 

It's probably not patented because there are cases of prior art.  Converting H-pattern to sequential has been available from several different companies.  IIRC, OS Giken or HKS had setups like that for Supras and RX-7s and probably GT-Rs, and there was a company in Australia (don't think it was PPG) that had a setup as well.  And I could swear that I read about a blurb in an issue of Hot Rod in the 1990s about an American company with that setup.

The real problem is, if you want a sequential, you also really want it to be a dogbox with closer gears than what you'd find in a production transmission.  I've seen videos of the Supra box in action and it looked clunky as all heck.

 

I just want an affordable option for a T5 or similar variant sequential gearbox. Is that too much to ask? (Yeah, probably...)

DOH !!

In reply to 914Driver :

I don't think you can post pics like that!  We have standards here.  

Of course... 8 months later:

Aermacchi engine in a Stingray?    Beautiful.

914Driver said:

Uhhhh, don't the majority of those weights balance each other out...?

Pic semi-related: the results of an unbalanced centrifuge.