Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

Duke said:

Thanks Duke, I always wondered what those holes were for!

NickD said:

My lottery car list includes an Imp built like that.

Hey, Appleseed, you OK?

Duke said:

NickD said:

My lottery car list includes an Imp built like that.

I just nerd out over anything built by Blackbird. Moti knows his E36 M3

NickD said:

Duke said:

NickD said:

My lottery car list includes an Imp built like that.

I just nerd out over anything built by Blackbird. Moti knows his E36 M3

Same!

Everything looks to be such high quality work!

In reply to NickD :

I just love that the black Miata you posted before has all that work done and still has the stock e-brake handle, complete with vinyl boot in place.

In reply to Appleseed :

Dude, we're here, and you're family.

Ain't a GS like I was after, there were none around. '16 Regal AWD Premium II w/ Bose, NAV, keyless entry/ ignition, pwr sunroof, park assist, 2.0L turbo. No blind spot tho :(

Actually like this better than the '09 335xi. Can I say that?

Geezer car. 

In reply to fasted58 :

I’ve been very happy so far.  156,000 miles and it’s only needed an intake can solenoid and front brakes.  

914Driver said:Thanks Duke, I always wondered what those holes were for!

 

My SIL makes wooden signs with goofy sayings on them. She wanted to make some as Christmas gifts and got upset when the wife and I made our request:

Wally said:

I could hear the cars from there growing up in Bay Shore the next town over. Parents wouldn't take me and they closed it down and put up a mall or residential neighborhood. 

NickD said:

Bent tubes in the roof?  How is that a good idea?

Brett_Murphy said:

When you bin something hard enough your shifter ducks for cover. One fewer 1991 BMW M5 on the road now.

 

 

Audi had a system that used the drivetrain being displaced to add tension to the seatbelts and yank the steering column away from the driver.

(They also had a partially carbon fiber driveshaft so that the front half of the shaft could collapse, on quattro models with procon-ten.  So much engineering that they had no room left in the budget for noun capitalization)

Mazda of couse gave the differential uterus in the NA/NB a weakpoint so the drivetrain could displace in a collision instead of transferring the forces to the other end of the car.

The FC RX-7, which used the same basic rearend, had a traditional transmission crossmember and diff mount instead of a powerplant frame  so there was no need for the weakpoint on that chassis.

The point of this post is that the engineers will design calculated weaknesses so that things can deform or break in a collision so that energy can be absorbed instead of transferred to the occupants.  These sometimes will fail in service, and I've seen a couple BMW transmission crossmembers break at rallycrosses...

fasted58 said:

Ain't a GS like I was after, there were none around. '16 Regal AWD Premium II w/ Bose, NAV, keyless entry/ ignition, pwr sunroof, park assist, 2.0L turbo. No blind spot tho :(

Actually like this better than the '09 335xi. Can I say that?

Geezer car. 

Actually you are better off not having the side object detection system. Particularly with push button start. The stupid modules in the rear bumper die frequently from getting water and sand and salt thrown at them, and sometimes the harnesses corrode too. So then you are looking at those modules at $500 a piece, plus they have to be programed by a dealer. And if you try to ignore them, eventually they knockout the bus that they are on, which includes the push button start, so then you can't start the car.

Duke said:

In reply to Appleseed :

Dude, we're here, and you're family.

When I stop posting the occasional unintentional dick pic, then you guys need to worry.

See? Everything is fine.

Knurled. said:

The point of this post is that the engineers will design calculated weaknesses so that things can deform or break in a collision so that energy can be absorbed instead of transferred to the occupants.  These sometimes will fail in service, and I've seen a couple BMW transmission crossmembers break at rallycrosses...

I knew some of that (FC RX-7 didn't have a PPF, drive trains do displace in a crash) but I learned some stuff. I love learning stuff.

I'm also wondering how much useful or interesting knowledge is buried in this thread.

Might as well.