Ace-Garageguy

Ow. Best wishes for a speedy recovery and minimal pain during rehab.

Fruit and begetables really ARE good for you, but humans need MEAT too...animal protein.

Time flies like bananas.

Pistons without full-floating pins require heat and a fixture to assemble them to connecting rods.

Eating just isn't as much fun as it used to be when I could chow down hearty and easily burn it all off instead of becoming Mr. Roly Poly.

World War 3 isn't something most humans want to see.

There are some videos available on YouTube of the remains on the bottom. Analysis of the wreckage photos and videos played a large part in determining how the failure occurred.

Thing I might thay thomething thtupid here...

Oh yes, that's going to be cool.

Neighbors seemed to be a lot friendlier back in olden times, like when I was a kid; now they all seem to be HOA Karen wannabees.

Better looking than Roth's Druid Princess...

Again, making a vehicle that's as complex as the space shuttle and weighs 2.5 tons to be used for grocery shopping, hauling kids to soccer and piano lessons, or dragging one backside to work and back daily is not really rational, is it?

Some years back, I also found several hand-laced wire rims made for scale WW I vintage aircraft, a few of which were sized right for 1/25 dragster front wire wheels. At the time, all the sizes I wanted were sold out, and I never followed up. There have been multiple posts on this very forum about hand-lacing wire wheels for various applications, and though it takes a slight learning curve, the results look good. AND...the guy who does the great looking 3D-printed wire sports car wheels might be receptive to the idea of doing dragster wires as well.

"Mindset" that is stuck in time and refuses to acknowledge additional true information as it becomes available is of no lasting benefit.

Yup. Exactly, exactly, exactly. My Lotus 7 decades ago, same story. I think I was 18 or 19 when I realized a lighter car with the same power-to-weight ratio as a heavier more powerful car would be the winner in any kind of competition...assuming comparable coefficients of friction of the tires, aero drag, and comparable gearing. There was a popular saying in the '40s and '50s that went something like "a heavy car holds the road better". Which is, in a word, baloney. There was good reason for Colin Chapman's car design philosophy of "simplify, then add lightness".

Time truly wasted is one resource that is gone forever.

I just looked for them over here and every site lists them as "discontinued". Figures.

Here's something to be happy about: if it was a real Ferrari, the job would have probably set you back $4500...just because.

Shedding of virus particles happens through nasal and oral secretions when someone is actively infected.

“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer.

Multi-hundred dollar parts order mis-delivered by UPS to a residential address that simply doesn't exist...though they have repeatedly delivered to the shop address in the past (I have expensive stuff delivered to the shops because of the rise of porch-pirates that has come with changing home-neighborhood "demographics"). Rather than try to fight it out with UPS, I went to the shipper's customer service department. Helpful, intelligent, and competent, she issued a credit memo immediately and initiated a replacement shipment. So far, so good. I NEED these parts yesterday. BUT...I just received a memo from the shipper informing me that IF the original order isn't returned within 30 days of the replacement request, I WILL BE CHARGED AGAIN FOR THE FULL PRICE OF THE REPLACEMENT. SO...it looks like if the recipient isn't honest about sending the stuff back or UPS drops the ball finding it, I'M SCREWED. We live in hope, but I won't hold my breath. Every day I understand more and more why most normies don't want to bother trying to run a business.

Away is where I'd like to go today, but duty has me nailed to the floor.

I'm sure it's a very nice car, but... His point was the weight. Speaking as an actual PO'd engineer, I can pretty confidently (and disgustedly) say that there is NO good reason a surface vehicle that is designed to primarily haul one human backside around NEEDs to weigh 4500 pounds. A really competent engineering department could shave 1000-2000 pounds off of that and deliver a vehicle that was just as "safe" in anything but a collision with a semi. The materials, manufacturing techniques, and engineering analysis tools exist to get there at a reasonable price too. Now let the shouting-down begin.