Draco-REX

You guys are slacking.. This was post #11.

I'm probably going to fail the exhaust thing soon. Rally car is going catless and likely won't have a muffler. If it's painfully loud, I may put my old STI muffler on it in the winter when I'm driving it more.

I'll only be WOWed when one of these power suits tosses a car.

Ha-HA! Made it though unscathed!

I still think that's a big mistake. Have him check the sides of the intake tube and the compressor housing. I'm pretty sure the water will spin out of suspension and collect on the housing. Shouldn't be too difficult, just pop off the elbow from the compressor and run your finger around the inside. If it's wet, the water isn't evaporating as it should.

Does he still have the meth injection before the compressor?

Minibusa? I'd rather a Megabusa! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5VDCKIl7ew

Gotta make sure there's room for all of our cars.. And Gas.... And some heavy landmoving equipment and paving equipment, so we can rebuild the roads.

Those have no diff in the rear, right? How did he turn it?

Someone buy that man a beer. We need more parents like that. Not ones that let their kids do everything, and not ones that just blindly deny them things.

The blast area is suprisingly small. I've always thought one nuke was capable of taking out an arear the size of the 270 loop or more. Little Boy and Fat Man almost look like precision ordinance. Very interesting.

I need to eat better because this is what I thought at first too. "Grilled cheese, a piece of fruit and milk? Sounds good. :)" But then I read more... Hmm, not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, something needs to be done about parents who want a free ride for their kids. It's not fair to the parents that do pay. But on the other hand, the punishment shouldn't be given to the kids. It's not their fault. However, the argument about singling out kids is invalid. When I was in public school, kids of families that needed financial assistance for lunch were given tickets to help pay. The tickets were even given out weekly to the kids IN CLASS. I don't see how this would be any more embarrassing for the kids. Also, if the family is too poor to afford lunch at a public school, I'm sure there would be other outward signs that the kid is poor (i.e. clothes, lack of "cool" gadgets, etc.) I think the lunch is the last thing they need to worry about. (OR, if the lunch is the only thing that sets your kid apart, stop buying him those $200 shoes and use the money to FEED him!)

Ugly car is ugly. Of the cars pictured: 1. Reventon 2. Veyron 3. LP560-4 4. Superleggera 5. Sell the Rolls or Koenigsegg and buy one of the above four.

It's actually not going to look any different. Any drop the STI may have below the WRX will be eliminated by the WRX's lighter (-250lbs) weight.

Good luck getting one. There will be only 20 Reventons.

The D-specs are great. I run them on the WRX. I'm not sure what their other offerings are like, but these struts are not overly damped.

I've gotten better at skipping the yakyak on the first click. I still like the drag racing.

Get 'em anyways if they still have your size. You won't find tires this good for so cheap any time soon. Then you can get rims later, or sell them for a profit.

Very cool. "Prototypers" have been around for a while actually. I remember seeing one in '93. But they have changed a lot. (3D scanners have been around even longer, just not as compact) The first one was actually a tank of liquid plastic. Two perpendicular lasers were set up to fire through the bath. Where they intersected, the plastic would solidify. By using the two lasers, a computer could build a plastic part. It wasn't a strong plastic, but it let engineers make a rough "sketch" of the part in 3 dimensions. This thing is really impressive. The way it can make multiple parts with those disolveable supports is really cool. Want to know a really cool use for one? Have a favorite computer character or object? Export the 3D frame and have the printer make an action figure or model in real life. There are even services that will do this. If you know of Second Life, there was a guy who was using one of these printers to make 3D models of people's avatars. Cool stuff indeed.

That's the only age it does make sense.. Calvinball with cars.

The Trax (Mudflap) looks like the offspring of a Smart Car and a Pontiac Aztek. I'd rock the Stingray though.

1/8mi?

So the trick is, don't follow. Let the other guy jump and jump and jump so he's overheated and his tires are chewed by the unprepared surface. Good t know.

They left at the same time due to mutual mistrust. Why didn't the first car to jump win? Why didn't the other when he jumped and the first one stayed put? If it's because the other didn't chase, then why did they leave early at the end? If it's not a race without a chase, then just wait for the arm drop. If the other goes, just stay put and he'll have to go again. Seems to be a lot of holes in "A Chase is a Race." That's a LOT to hammer out before each and every race. You have to cover what's an acceptable start, what isn't, and under what conditions these rules can be tossed out. I mean, if they can leave early, but it's not a race if the other guy doesn't, then what's to stop someone just waiting for armdrop and staying put if the other guy leaves? Just sit there, let the other guy keep jumping, chewing his tires up and overheating? Is a situation like this covered before a race? Seems like a LOT of trouble when there's a ruleset already in place. Hell, if the start's ambiguous, is the finish? Just stop halfway and say you finished early. I guess my issue is, how do you guys determine a winner and if the race was clean? You can't hammer out a custom ruleset taking in every eventuality before every race. I understand discussing things like power adders, but the basic rules of a drag race? Car A leaves before Car B is staged. Who wins? Car A waits for the armdrop, but Car B leaves when the starter's arms are in the air. Who wins then? Car B leaves when the arms are up, but Car A stays put when the arms come down. Car B again? It's no mystery to me now why grudge matches are NEVER settled. With mutable rules, the losing side will ALWAYS have a reason to call the race invalid.

I'm into racing. I like drag racing. What's wrong with a clean race? If the race is clean, then there's no arguing over who won and who should pay up. Drawwwma is for Highschool and MySpace.