Ace-Garageguy

Had a full set of 1/12 Tamiya Porsche 934 tires go flat, split the sidewalls, and roll off the rims a few years back...still looking for replacements...and a few Pegasus 1/24 tires have shrunk and split too. High humidity seems to aggravate the problem. Once I find a new set for the Porsche, I think filling them with foam or silicone will keep the weight off the sidewalls, so even if they DO rot, they won't collapse.

I personally find that diagram to be confusing, and I'm extremely familiar with a wide variety of dry-sump systems for various applications. The drawing would be a lot easier to interpret correctly if the stages of the dry-sump pump were accurately represented. I feel this is a better generic diagram (below) and represents the scavenge and pressure stages of the pump so they're easy to understand. Note that the pressure pump draws de-aerated oil from the tank and pushes it through a filter, cooler, and into the oil galleries in the engine block. Used oil is sucked out of the sump by the multiple scavenge pumps and returned to the tank. The tank itself is often provided internally with a means of removing air-bubbles and froth from the oil before it's returned to the pressure pump.

Gee...it must have been a truly egregious, blatant and heinous bit of discrimination if the JD "dropped the lawsuit" after the Trump organization did some "remedial things". (WARNING:SARCASM) The folks at Justice can be a tough crowd. Mr. Trump's posture on "discrimination" throughout the election focused on ILLEGAL immigrants, which has much more to do with Rule of Law than petty racial discrimination, but of course, it was spun by the liberal media into verging on hate-crime. And as far as " But I will let people "show some maturity and a little deeper investigation" and google Trump lawsuit for racial discrimination, spend the rest of the day reading some factual information on this subject and make up their own mind."... I'd already done that prior to making my first statement regarding Trump. I've read the allegations, and the OUTCOMES of the suits. The cases either fizzled or were settled by consent order, with only small token monetary settlements to the plaintiffs. Fancy that.

Which reminds me...an old white male friend of mine who was on the short-list for a fighter-pilot's slot with the reserves back in about 1985 or so, was BUMPED in favor of a black applicant. My friend was easily the most qualified of the people he was in line with, having been flying a variety of aircraft since his 16th birthday, and was at the time working on a degree in aerospace engineering. His father, an airline captain, had been a B-47 pilot in the USAF, flying with nuclear weapons. My friend also had endorsements from prominent state political figures at the time. The black applicant who was chosen had never flown anything and had a liberal arts degree. Was there a racial quota system operating? Was it "reverse discrimination"? I guess we'll never know. My friend didn't SUE the Air Force.

And funny how being sued for something doesn't automatically make the allegations absolutely true, no matter WHAT the legal outcome. In case you've never heard, some INNOCENT people HAVE BEEN TRIED, FOUND GUILTY, and EXECUTED for MURDER. Nuisence lawsuits with no basis in fact are constantly filed in this country, and the "race card" is frequently played when it has no real bearing on anything. While discrimination is very real, and morally wrong, it is also NOT present every time somebody with hurt feelings starts screaming about it. Quoting Trump... ""We along with many, many other companies throughout the country, it was a federal lawsuit, were sued. We settled the suit with zero—with no admission of guilt. It was very easy to do."

While the Chevy BTD refers to did have a remote-mounted filter, it was a bypass setup, with quite small lines, and would not be appropriate for a racing or any really high-performance engine. However, afx is correct, the racing / high performance version is indeed pretty simple. BUT... if you're not familiar with the system, the drawing above can be misleading. It appears (if you don't already know what you're looking at) that the two lines tee into a common fitting. That (above) would be what it looks like from that angle, but it's not actually what is happening. The top 3/4 view (below) of the thing the oil filters screw on to looks like this, and you can see the lines going into it are in fact side-by-side...one line in, one out:

I think you;'ll find that "backlight" over here is primarily used by car-designers and "car guys" who've read a design book or two. Say "backlight" to the typical US car-show goer or man-in-the-street, and they'll either look at you like you're speaking Swahili, or assume you don't know the right name for either "taillight" or "reverse light".

Selling nature and flower pix can be a tough market. I know one very gifted professional photographer who has to do corporate shoots to make a living, as his exquisite flowers won't pay the bills. I have a few of his prints and they're breathtakingly beautiful, but he doesn't sell many. However, there are myriad options to explore other than traditional galleries and shows. Google "selling nature photos" for thousands of ideas. Here's a start... http://enviragallery.com/15-places-to-sell-nature-photography-online/ Ebay is another often overlooked potential marketplace to the entire world, as is Etsy, which specializes in handmade and art products. Here's a how-to for selling fine art on Etsy... https://www.etsy.com/seller-handbook/article/tips-for-selling-fine-art-on-etsy/22425080820 Sadly, you'll find that most people buy art because it's "marketed" or "sold" to them, or because "everybody else" buys a particular artist, or just to match the colors in a room...rarely because something in the art speaks to the potential buyer. It's much like the rest of human activity...

I suppose it takes some maturity and a little deeper investigation than simply swallowing whole the media load of carp to get to the truth. Of course, that takes effort...never really popular...and critical thinking skills...sorely lacking these days, jus' 'bout everywhere I look. Much simpler and apparently more rewarding to follow the mindlessly bleating herd...whether they be left OR right wing.

If you really believe that, I'm sorry. The liberal left-wing brainwashing has claimed another follower. And now, I'm pretty sure you've pushed this over the "political" ban line. Good job.

Google images for "Aston Martin Shooting Brake", and follow the links. There are quite a few of them, all real. Granted, some of the conversions can be less than graceful, but they're real.

Bull. I can name any number of non-white-male successful business people in my own part of the world. I just happened to pick three I know personally. Here are some more. A woman I wrote a successful patent for owns a company that manufactures jewelry accessories. Two other patent clients were female nurses who invented a medical instrument. A woman I knew very well many years ago is an aerospace engineer, a pilot, and has multiple ratings...including large jet transports. I bought my Jag, in 1995, from a female flight attendant who bought it in England. There is a chain of nail salons here owned by Vietnamese women. One of my patent examiners last time out was also Vietnamese. There's a very large Mexican-owned residential painting company close by, not to mention tons of restaurants. There are also Thai and Indian restaurants nearby, all successful, also long term. There are MANY Mexican-owned landscaping companies locally as well. The accountancy firm that did the books for the last company I ran was woman-owned, as was the law firm that represented them. There is a LARGE woman-owned PLUMBING company here. One of my old female clients in another business owned her own successful holistic and alternative health consulting company. The local spokesperson for the Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition was a woman, and has gone on to a successful career as a marketing executive. The daughter of one of the guys I've worked with building hot-rods here is a high-level exec with Facebook. A black man I used to know in SCCA who raced a TR-250 was an engineer. The Mayor of Atlanta is black, as is a large proportion of city elected officials and employees. One of the highest-paid anchors in the history of Atlanta TV was a black woman. The computer service and repair wizards I use now are all Asian...except for the young white male trainee who really doesn't know what he's doing yet...and there are surely dozens if not hundreds of female real-estate agents in the metro area who are doing very well indeed, including the one who sold my last house and a couple I've dated. These are just off the top of my head. People see what they want to see, what they've been TOLD to see, and not what's actually there...whether someone chooses to see "white male privilege" or "oppressive discrimination", it's all exaggerated just to make excuses for failure. And yes, I'll admit there ARE fools among us who discriminate on the basis of skin color or "gender", but they don't actually run the world. If an idiot bigot gets in the way, go around him. Screaming in protest won't change his outlook, and only makes the screamer look like as big a fool. People STILL want to come to the USA or the West for the opportunity, and the sheer number of successful recent immigrants and minorities in my own small circle of friends and acquaintances proves to me that anyone who's BORN here and whines about oppression and lack of opportunity just isn't trying. Any questions?

Shooting brake is essentially a variation of "station wagon" (similar to "estate car"). Saloon is "sedan". Here's an Aston shooting-brake.

Gasoline vs petrol.

Usually known as hydraulic and fuel "lines" in the US, I've encountered them frequently referred to as "pipes" in the UK. Then there's "scuttle", in US-speak "cowl panel". "Firewall" pretty universally here, sometimes "bulkhead" in other English-speaking countries.

Hmmmm.... Not much worse treatment "for simply being a man" than to be ripped out of civilian life at 18 years of age, forced to abandon just about every facet of civilized behavior, and put in a position where you have to kill without remorse and risk being killed, violently and often horribly, by people you've never seen and with whom you have no personal quarrel...and then, as in the case with the Vietnam period, to be spit-on when you come home. Yet this is what happened through two world wars and assorted "conflicts" where it was the strongest and healthiest of the young MEN who were shipped overseas to kill and die. It wasn't that women weren't "allowed" in combat. Nobody in his right mind WANTS to go to war. It was because women were PROTECTED from combat. Why?? Because WOMEN were universally seen as being MORE VALUABLE than men, the future of civilization, the real strength and core of humanity, and the ones who stayed home and held a country together, a country that had IDEAS and IDEALS that seemed to MEN to be worth fighting and dying for. Sadly, successive generations of slackers and whiners and crybabies have been doing their dammedest to tear down everything that seemed to be of real value. While it is true that men start wars, it's also true that GOOD MEN DIE TO END THEM, and the freedom to moan and carp endlessly about how horrible and "oppressive" this country is, is one of the things the whiners all have to be thankful for to the MEN who gave their lives for the right to free expression.

You can indeed street-drive a Lenco, but it's not the ideal gearbox for a nice quiet drive in the country on Sunday morning...

Not a lot. When I was a twerp kid, my "completion" rate was 100%. One kit, one kill. Years later, when I'd progressed to the point where my models didn't look like they were built by a drunk chimp, my completion rate dropped to almost zero.

Marketing, actually.

Feel free to start.

I once had a client, for whom I designed a 1:1 body kit for a popular Porsche, insist on setting a selling price for the kit at less than the cost to produce the things. When I pointed out the economic fallacy of his approach, he argued vehemently that he'd "make it up on volume". Honest.

Sorry, I disagree. "Manshaming" can only manipulate chickenexhaust little wusses, not actual adult men...but there are fewer and fewer of those every day. And an actual adult man can quite easily talk about "difficult or scary" subjects.

If the built-ups of this kit I've bought over the years are any indication, it takes at least one, maybe two tubes of glue to build it.

I'm never going to buy into the white-male-privilege carp that's endlessly promoted now by whining feminists and myriad other "marginalized" groups who only want a free ride. Anydammbody who has a reasonable brain and works HARD in pursuit of a goal CAN make it in the USA. Still. I personally know (and like and respect very much) a black man who, as a dirt-poor kid in a rural South Carolina town, used to walk by the podunk little airport, fell in love with airplanes, decided he wanted to work around them, and talked the airport operator into hiring him to sweep floors and clean toilets. He worked hard and showed up reliably, saved his money, went on to become a licensed A&P mechanic (he's one of the best aviation sheet-metal men I know), and got his pilot's license and multiple ratings. I also know a fairly recent Mexican immigrant who does excellent body-work. He doesn't speak English very well (his English is a whole lot better than my Spanish), but he's set up his own little restoration shop, on the side, and is making pretty damm good money. Sara Blakely, the Spanx queen, is a local woman who REALLY made it big in business. Whining is for whiners. Achievers just get the job done. And in response to the OP's question " Were you ever been (sic) treated badly because you are a man? Divorce, etc" Men have traditionally come out on the losing end of divorce. The woman has always tended to get the house and most of the assets, plus alimony and child support. Ain't nothin' new. God knows, I've paid MY share.