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  1. Poor fool got duped into selling it outright. Some one is going to be making alot of money off it in the years to come.
  2. there are a few things like that "out there". The coates engine, dynamic natural thrust, 4 sided dorito rotary engines. Things that work, but dont make sence to use because better stuff is available. Coates is inefficient and expensive, quadrotors are weak and can oly plant so much torque, and dynamic natural thrust generates almost no lift. What good is an ultralight size aircraft with a 190mph stall speed? Pulsejets can be added to the list as well, but they were developed along side gasturbines, they just turned out to suck in comparison. But they're still developed and used.
  3. A slang term used by the DEA when they raid a Meth lab? http://turbowill.dyndns.org/images/misc%20cars/crankwalk.jpg http://img45.exs.cx/img45/9549/crankwalk2.jpg http://img45.exs.cx/img45/3524/crankwalk1.jpg
  4. Vaccume actuated things: door locks vents, ducts Two of the hardest things to get to in a car.
  5. Pull German car in garage place pan under drain plug, uncrew 13mm plug and drain oil. open hood, unscrew 13mm oil filer bolt, swap filter and washers. replace drain plug, refil with oil and drive car. Thats it. Thats....IT! If it weren't a lowered car, I wouldn't have had to jack it up (drain pan wouldn't fit otherwise). The drain plug is right up front, the filter is right on top of the engine. Total elapsed time, including complete drain, 11 mins. Tools needed; 13mm socket. Time spent, not including wait for oil to drain, 1-2 mins.
  6. he has no bullets in his gun. He's still "in charge", but he can be overriden. Kill Max, kill Max now!
  7. http://www.formula1.com/news/3831.html
  8. You guys realize thats was 100% staged, right? Illegal as fuck, but both people knew exactly who was who and where they'd be going, so did the camera men. Also note that 4 wheels > 2 wheels when cornering. If it weren't for the straights the bike would have been lost like virginity in the progects. Never drift when running from anyone. A professional driver would know it kills cornering speed and leave you open to being spun. I'd like to quote the show "dirty jobs" and say "What a stupid way to die".
  9. I remember his last season and the mystery ailment that kept him from a few rallies. He still kept that 206 competitive in the points. This is a big loss tothe rally world and he will be sorely missed. He had talent and a good personality, it was rare to find both ina contemporary FIA pro.
  10. Any olentangy students know these kids? Call it a hunch. Its very unfortunate. Imagine the lives that could be saved by requiring people to know more then just fucking law before they get a liscense.
  11. In your standard crossflow head you have, essentialy, a bent tube that brings air into the combustion chamber, and its controlled by a valve that drops down and the air slips by. The shap of the top of the valve is actualy good for filling the chamber with a good charge. You can go bigger with the valves (to a point), and you can open them farther (to a point), and you can control when with basic adjustments. With the above system you are limited to how big a spinning sphere you can fit over the combustion chamber, and how much of it you can clear out to let air by. The inlet/outlet shape itself isn't conducive to smooth flow. On top of that, it would be tougher to get a good seal on a higher compression engine, standard valves are actualy helped shut by compression/combustion, the forces in the above system would be constantly working to launch the sphere into the stratosphere. Plus you cant make simple adjustments. If you want to change something, you need a damn good machine shop. Also, bearing surfaces. Bearing surface = friction = parcitic loss. Standard valve, you have a bearing on the ends and one between each cylindar, plus the friction of the cam lobes. With the above system, you have a bearing surface of the entirety of the shaft. In the end, its actualy more complicated, more expensive, and less efficient....but it's neato.
  12. It's inefficient in the way it allows air by, you have a glass CFM ceiling.
  13. Newspapers/magazines. If i had only what I needed, and only $30 to blow, I'd spend it on news sources over a period of time.
  14. FUCK! where did you get that!!!??? What other teams are available? Thats badass, I thought I was limited to prancing ponies.
  15. not only does it not look like 270 by main, but it also doesn't look like an incon fox stang vs ....nevermind.
  16. words cannot describe how dumb that was. And I cant even blame The Fast and The Furious.
  17. oldy but goody. I dont think we'll see much commonality out of that design though.
  18. http://img.engadget.com/common/images/4585037615960237.JPG?0.88587878702487 SCAT SCAT SCAT!
  19. politcal satire is not pollution.
  20. http://thewoodomain.net/files/11/shirt.jpg
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