A straight-piped LS engine, when given the full beans, sounds worse than a straight-piped VQ35DE. The VQ has some semblance of tone, the LS just sounds like a wall of nondescript noise.
A straight-piped LS engine, when given the full beans, sounds worse than a straight-piped VQ35DE. The VQ has some semblance of tone, the LS just sounds like a wall of nondescript noise.
Nothing sounds good straight piped until it has so much cam it won't idle below 2000 rpm.
And I totally include Harley's.
Appleseed said.Disagree. Thanksgiving is often now seen as pregaming for Black Friday, a shopping even that has killed people.
Good point, but the obscene capitalist porn that is Black Friday ( and now the night before) is clearly more the result of the maximization of the Christmas absurdity then an extension of Thanksgiving.
In reply to aircooled :
I will concede that. Christmas has tainted Thanksgiving.
The only engines that sound good unmuffled are at the airport and at the drag strip. Never on the street. Ever.
Appleseed said:Christmas has tainted Thanksgiving.
And each year it appears to be making inroads on Halloween.
There's only one legitimate way for Halloween and Christmas to overlap:
Snow sux.
Snow is not only the basis for fluffy cold fun, but its natures way of metering out drinking water during the warm months.
(you may be shocked to find out I have never lived where it snows)
Driving in snow is fun.
Driving in snow with other cars is terrifying.
Father Guido Sarducci is the greatest television preacher ever.
In reply to RevRico :
Not being an expert in tv preachers, I'd have to submit that this guy is better:
In reply to kazoospec :
Snow is the best:
- it turns regular driving of low powered pickup trucks into drift machines on par with ls powered s13s (or into the rally driver of your choice)
- it greatly increases the use of snowmobiles (yes they can be drag raced on asphalt or grass, or driven on “liquid snow” but on snow is best)
-it removes the need to mow lawn and replaces it with , suddenly I have time to work on my project vehicle.
In reply to barefootskater :
It's a close contest but I have to go Father Sarducci.
Every cast of Saturday night live had it's good and bad, and everyone thinks the one they grew up is the best, but in reality the mid 90's cast was the best one.
I'm with Wally as far as Father Guido Sarducci, but I think there have been several high points of SNL. The originals were mostly excellent- Gilda Radner was explosive. The Eddie Murphy era, also very good. Mike Myers era, Yeah, that was probably best, although Tina Fey/Amy Poehler era was really good...
You know what? Its always had something in it worth watching.
Thread takeover:
Johnny Hickman is the David Gilmour of country guitarists.
Change my mind.
Duke said:Thread takeover:
Johnny Hickman is the David Gilmour of country guitarists.
Change my mind.
Who is the what now?
Streetwiseguy said:Duke said:Thread takeover:
Johnny Hickman is the David Gilmour of country guitarists.
Change my mind.
Who is the what now?
Twang bangers.................
Streetwiseguy said:Duke said:Thread takeover:
Johnny Hickman is the David Gilmour of country guitarists.
Change my mind.
Who is the what now?
Johnny Hickman plays guitar in Cracker and has a few solo albums. David Gilmour plays guitar in Pink Floyd (you may have heard of them) and has a few solo albums.
Both have a fantastic sense of musical space, a great feel for appropriate tone, and can emote a huge amount of feeling with a perfect economy of notes. Neither are virtuoso guitar wizards, but both are brilliant guitar players.
kazoospec said:The Battle of Stalingrad was the pivotal event of the 20th Century.
95% agree. Russia is always given way too little credit for their role in WWII from the American perspective. We like to think the American-led D-day is what did them in, but they were already losing a resource war at that point.
Japan never had the resources for a full "defeat" of the US but enough to keep the stalemate going. Japan's strategy was more of a "let us keep our empire plz" than a total domination of its opponent. Midway and the bombs changed that outcome no doubt, but halting the Nazis in their prime was a way, way more important event to the world.
G_Body_Man said:A straight-piped LS engine, when given the full beans, sounds worse than a straight-piped VQ35DE. The VQ has some semblance of tone, the LS just sounds like a wall of nondescript noise.
As someone who owns a nearly straight-piped VQ, I'm not sure I agree. It is the raspiest, riciest cacophony I have ever subjected the public to.
Holiday edition: The George C. Scott version is the quintessential version of "A Christmas Carol".
Ah, come on! George C. Scott! How do you expect someone to argue against that!!!
OK. Let's just say George C. Scott's version inspired Robert Duvall to do a movie with him.... there would be no need for anyone to every make a movie ever again...
Alastair Sim. Bill Murray. Both better.
Solo: A Star Wars Story is just a remake of BJ and the Bear.
It needs to win, or it will be irrelevant, but the Mazda RT24-P is one fine looking piece of machinery. 
If Archduke Ferdinand had just a tiny bit of situational awareness, Hitler never would have risen to power.
Change my mind.
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