Draco-REX

Sigh....

Reserve not met at $3000.. I have a feeling the seller will want too much.

I would like something kind of like this.. What about an Augmented Reality setup, where you can see "Ghosts" of your past laps, or recorded laps of other drivers? THAT would rock.

The stock fuel system is remarkably robust. 300rwhp on E85 isn't a problem for it. But another 10%? Dunno. We'll find out.

Stock.

Thanks guys. I hope everything goes well. My only concern is that the increased flow (Exhaust 170 -> 220 @.500 lift, Intake 280 -> 305 @.500 lift) doesn't max out my fuel system. I know I'm getting close.

The work should start next week. Hopefully it won't take long after that.

The heads are FINALLY here. Full Blown Motorsports Stage 2 heads. Ferrea hardware including dual springs, titanium retainers, Comp Plus valves, seals, etc. Shiny new valves. Exhaust valves at 1mm over-sized. Also FBM performed their "Competition Valve Job". And a full P&P: Exhaust. Intake. Can't wait to get these on. With these and a new tune by Delicious, I should be easily above 300rwhp. The estimate is 315-320, but I'm not holding my breath. Definitely going to get it on a dyno and see what the final numbers are.

Mercury Marine is supposedly offering that motor as a crate engine. 9L V8 would be pretty sick. But then I did a conversion and that's 550ci. Dunno if this would be better than GM's 572 crate... The article doesn't say. If I were to guess.. Having one built, as a customer and not a shop so labor/machining time has to be paid for.. $250k?

Mercy! http://www.speedhunters.com/2015/12/muscle-car-meets-hypercar-tantrum-charger/

No coupe or wagon.

It isn't just non-payments. It's how the insurance companies handle claims that has contributed to the shithole our system currently is. So, you go in to have X done. What does X cost? You can add up the labor, overhead, supplies, etc. and come up with a number. I'm sure hospitals do this. And I'm also sure it's actually a sane number. The problem is that someone, at some point, realized that the cost of X DOESN'T MATTER. They realized that what does matter is what the insurance company will PAY for X. This person figured out that if the insurance company will pay $1000 for X but the hospital only asks for $100, the hospital loses out on $900. Since the insurance company isn't going to hand out a menu of their pay outs, this guy figured out that he could charge teh insurance company $10,000 for X and let the insurance company negotiate it down to the maximum they are going to pay. That way the hospital gets every penny they can from the insurance company. So your $100 visit is now a $10,000 visit. What I don't understand is why the insurance companies decided to squeeze their customers rather than cracking down on the hospitals. There must be some financial sleight-of-hand that makes paying these inflated bills more profitable than controlling the costs.

I had always heard 8,000hp. What I didn't know was that number was estimated and not measured. Someone found a way to measure it..

It's entertaining going back to the beginning of this thread..

The fact that a healthy male non-smoker, non-drinker, with no health issues is expected to pay $400/mo out of pocket with a nearly $4000 deductible and ALSO pay for preventative checkups is proof enough that the system is broken beyond all reason. There is no argument that can justify that.

I can't wait to see if my insurance will hit 800/mo next year......

My health insurance through work went from $100/mo in 2013, to $200/mo in 2014, to $400/mo in 2015. This is with a $3750 deductable. So if I were to need anything serious, I'd be $8550 out of pocket. I don't see how this is affordable. In fact this is ONLY "affordable" if it is compared to the ludicrously inflated costs the healthcare system is allowed to charge. Insurance should INSURE our quality of life. It should NOT be for correcting an out of control system. In this, Obamacare has failed utterly.

It take a certain kind of engineering brilliance to make a car that Alonso can't drive.

Gotta figure out a way to get it home for one.. I also need to find out if it's a '13-'14 engine, or a '15+ engine.

Thanks! Good catch. Hmm.. I think I might jump on this. At the very least I could use the cover, rockers, and lifters from this engine, as well as the RH head for the core instead of my damaged head. ...as long as it isn't too new. Going to have to make some phone calls tomorrow.

But if I had a better description, I'd know what the car was. :dumb: It does fit my description, but the tails are different. This is the way the LEDs are constructed, but they were clear arcs, no vertical aspect. Hopefully I'll see the car again tomorrow.

Definitely LED bars or strips on the tails. Good to see Farkas writing a paragraph to say he has no clue...

Tails are completely wrong.

Wish I had pics. On the way to work this morning in the dark I passed a car I couldn't identify by the lights. Headlights were LEDs in a straight line like Acura uses, about the same height as a sedan. The tails were LED bars in a double parentheses ( ( _____ ) ). Ignore underscores. The tails looked SUV sized. None of Acura's offerings seem to have the tails. The new NSX'S tails are too short vertically and too wide horizontally. And the closest I can find to the tails is the P1, but those are only a single parentheses and the wrong shape, not to mention the wrong head lights. This is bugging the hell out of me.

Hmm... I wonder if this means that a bunch of original NSXs will hit the used car market when these start being delivered.