Austarion

i use picasa.. its run by google, so i assume it will be arround forever.

www.lesoft.co.uk there is a free version which does one cylinder at a time. looks pretty simple and easy to use, and if you have the $$, a pretty good suspension setup simulator too. i am letting my bmw build up get away from me a bit, and will be using this to help design my cam, and intake tumpets...

oh for god's sake. it was a joke. and when i try to explain why the mrs's car does not have a carb when people (even some highly esteemed mechanics) try to tell me its carb'd i just say when the injectors are before the throttle plate, it tbi.

close enough for me.

i mean, if 2005 formula1 cars used it...

http://www.gurneyflap.com/ferrariengines.html

i am skeptical. has anyone got solid data on fuel eonomy or power gains? i personally would have thought that getting rid of the hydrogen and pumping the pure oxygen into the engine would be better.. in terms of power gains anyway. but then given that a car engine breathes 1000's of litres of air a ...

the great god thor decides to go down to earth for some nooky. after he finishes pleasuring his vestal virgin, he decides to tell her the honor she has just recieved
"i am THOR!" he says.
"tho am i," she agrees "but it wath loth of fun"

I work in a school and i've noticed that when it comes to spelling, you've either got it or you don't. Alot of the teachers spelling's terrible, their little posters and signs about math, english or religion have spelling errors ALL the time. I can spell pretty good, but when I was little (8) I oft...

just drill a hole up the middle, then stick a hex spanner that fits snugly inside the hole and put drill in reverse, works in noi time

suck on the end of the vacuum advance hose and see if the dizzy advances. that will tell you if your vac advance is still working. timing should be done without vacuum advance on. vacuum advance advances timing with vacuum and retards it with boost. knock sensor, this retards timing when knock is de...

what about using koni part number 8641-1221 inserts in the standard housing? they are koni sport adjustables for mr2. then you would have height and damping adjustment.

a lot of guys fit them to get better and bigger brakes.

and how ae86 and ke70 share a lot of stuff.

does this mean that coilovers might be adapted to a starion?

(just a thought)

what do you estimate is the total weight penalty?

what about using pink batts (the special soundproofing one) and stuffing that into every cavity you can find, with regular dynamat type stuff on floor, doors, firewall and roof?

hmmm.
sounds like a challenge.

i must find a reasonably large plastic model of a starion to test this with...

i was wondering how hard it would be, using some thing like glass reinforced plastic (i have seem it done with the same stuff that real estate signs are made of, with glass fibre either side), to make a flat under body for a starion. with a decent front splitter on an airdam, running the length of t...