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There was a guy at the Mopar Nats a few years back with a 15litre Cummins in a late 70s ex-Air Force Plymouth 4-door 4x4 truck. That thing was just about the sickest vehicle I've ever seen, had a huge lift over 49" IROKs and EVERYTHING was black, not a spec of chrome or any other color anywhere on the vehicle. He had charts from a 1000hp dyno with the "TQ" line going off the top of the range by 1700rpm.

Does anyone here know anyone with that company? A friend of mine had some custom forged pistons made by them, and they would be perfect for my latest project vehicle with the same motor. The problem is that I cannot get ahold of them for anything, they don't reply to email, the phone either keeps ringing or I get put on hold forever, or all the tech guys have left for the day. I'd just say the hell with them, but after 3 YEARS of searching they are the only company that makes a good custom forged pistons for this application!

Has anyone noticed Steve Irwin hasn't been on TV lately? Hmmm......

Excellent use of the interior as a tie-down strap location!

Does anyone know where I can find some aluminum plate in 3/8in thickness? I'm needing a piece about 1ft by 3ft for a project.

It's some kind of bass-ish fish from South America. They are famous for jumping at boats and stuff like that.

Well, it wasn't really the planes fault, he was flying low and slow over the trenches at the time, and a machine-gunner on the ground got lucky. The Tri was a pretty good plane for what it was. The designers placed their emphasis on a fast rate of climb and high maneuverability. They could have used a larger motor, but then they'd have lost some climb and turn, plus range would have gone down.

Which motor in the Fiero?

Actually, the plane that Richtofen made most of his kills in was an earlier model Fokker biplane. He didn't fly the Dr.1 until a month or so before he died, and I believe he was only credited for 3 or 4 downings while in it.

Allstate was pretty cheap for me, but their customer service is just pitiful. And if you file a claim, your rates jump by 50% for 3 years, they drop a ton of pressure on you to have the car fixed by their selected shop (I.E. no OEM dealer parts, just generic), and your second claim in that 3 year period guarantees that you will be dropped. If your car is totalled, they will offer about 1/3 of blue book, and bombard you with an endless list of "equivalent" examples of your car sold at lowball prices from newspapers from cities far far away. Example: 94 Dodge Spirit, 3.0V6/4 speed auto, most options but no ABS, 94k on the odo and the car was PERFECT inside and out. Blue book was 3500 at the time, they offered $1100, and tried to tell me that a stripper 90 Acclaim with 160k and a 2.2/auto was equivalent.

Gale Banks is building a bunch of Duramax powered vehicles for Daytona and Sebring. One of the motors is apparently going to end up in a C6 of all things!

Go to the main library and read the latest Beckett collector mag, but be prepared for disappointment. Outside of a few choice cards, like Griffey/McGwire/Bonds and a few others, most of the late 80s Topps cards are next to worthless. Topps cranked out their basic sets in the range of 25-30+ MILLION copies of each card. Beckett used to have ads where dealers were trading certain cards in lots of 50/100/500 at a time. The "Traded" and other Special edition sets have some value, because they are somewhat more scarce, maybe 7-8% of the basic set volume, but there really isn't that much demand for them either. Overproduction and the 94 strike pretty well destroyed the market for the 80s cards.

Huh, Hummer has to thank Chrysler for their very existance! AM General was owned by Mopar at the time the HMMWV was designed and the prototypes built. That's part of the reason the engine bay in the Hummer is so spacious, it was originally designed to accomodate a Cummins-designed diesel V6. Mopar had to divest their interest in the company as part of the bankruptcy agreement, and could only keep one military program, so they kept the M1 Abrahms contract.

Power section for the internal amplifier failed. I've heard of this happening on Delco decks before, but not with the smoke show. Did it at least eject your disc after this?

Maybe adjust them so that they don't open all the way, and put the HIDs in at an angle? Like Monster does with their 1st gen Miata 5.0 conversions. I've never liked pop-ups, they kill your nighttime MPG and just look awkward when they are up. Personally, I'd have integrated the HIDs into the parking light lens, and then filled the hood holes.

Sheesh, did you see the first start? Notice the white car climbing the side of some other car?!?

I've done the thing with the muffler. Grab a 40 series and give it a try.

It's an Austin 7, with about 6 inches added to the front fenders. They were little tiny British cars from the 50s.

It'd make a ton more power with a pair of larger turbos. Look at the way that collector is designed, there's a ton of energy being lost from the exhaust before it enters the turbos. Plus the weight has to be hideous, and it's all in front of the front tires?

The AWD system adds some weight, but I'm taking bets that the interior is at Bently standards, MINIMUM. Leather everything, lotsa solid metal parts, and tons of sound deadener. Composites tend to resonate more than metal does, it takes more deadener to kill all those buzzes.

It doesn't do anything the the vertebrae, it shoves the collar and shoulder bones down. National Geographic ownz joo!

Do that 240 with a 76-77 style front end, and it might work better.

Probably Donkey Kong in this guys case.

Don't hurt the car, it's nice. I wouldn't shed a tear if you drained the OWNER'S oil though. Seemed to be one of those people who learned their "high-performance" driving skills from video games.

I know the Stealth. He lives in my apartment complex, and he's a total douche. I saw it when I first moved in, tried to start up a conversation with him, and got a whole bunch of "I'm a badass because I think penis pills work!" type of shit from him. Later that night, I watched him try to run at over 100 down Georgesville towards Norton, decide to pass a bunch of traffic by going left of center for the better part of a 1/4mile with a median between him and the correct lane, and end up sliding sideways through the intersection, almost into the Thorton's station, after he realized that there was traffic crossing while the light was red. How he didn't hit anybody is beyond me.