Agreed. Going from an 8 valve VW with mechanical injection to a BMW with 24 valves, digital injection, 30 odd different computers, and throttle by variable valve lift - no throttle plate - is remarkable. And the newer ones are even more sophisticated! Definitely the days of adjusting the timing with a wrench and your ear are long gone but I don't really miss all the tinkering and tuning I used to do 😛 I tune with an app on my phone now. And I still do some repair work myself like brakes, plugs, filters etc.
Having to use software to "register" a battery is overkill but the software cost less than taking it to a shop and I don't need to buy it again. Just another "tool" these days.
Having to use software to "register" a battery is overkill but the software cost less than taking it to a shop and I don't need to buy it again. Just another "tool" these days.
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Digital... valve lift, EGR, injection, water pump, oil pump, engine knock in order to adjust all the motor parameters to all different fuels
We are going out of reality, that's the point IMHO, the feeling is out of sight of the average guy.
I was unaware of the Peugeot 504 coupe, funny they basically used the same design.
I had always thought the Fiat coupe had been designed by Fiat, although the spider was definitely Pininfarina designed.
I actually like the windshield better on the 504.
I had always thought the Fiat coupe had been designed by Fiat, although the spider was definitely Pininfarina designed.
I actually like the windshield better on the 504.
This car was using the one of the most bad conceived motor of the France industry history, the first version of the "fabulous" V6PRV, the one that have been buyed by the American people in order to put it in the Delorean car (back to the future).
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I remember that engine, it came in a bunch of Volvo’s here in the states.
I just looked at some pictures of a 124 Sport Coupe that’s for sale nearby, and am very glad I now have audio as a hobby!
I just looked at some pictures of a 124 Sport Coupe that’s for sale nearby, and am very glad I now have audio as a hobby!
Fighting in order to obtain the strict minimal requirements in term of sound rendering, in a sound hostile environment.
Not only a hobby IMHO, it is evolution.
My father had a red 124 Sport Coupe when I was a kid. I remember it starting to rain hard once when we were on the freeway. Dad cranked up the variable speed wipers all the way up, and noted how fast they were going just before the driver's side wiper arm flew off of the car leaving him completely blind. He had to pull over and move the passenger side wiper over to his side to get us home.
The coupe was eventually replaced with a 131 sedan, which was replaced by an Alfa Berlina.
So do I, as it was a gutless POS. Fortunately, my parents 164E had the old B30 straight six in it.
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We had a VW bus with vacuum powered wipers when I was young, so the effect was the same when it rained hard.
A good friend had a 164, was a fast car for the time, and for a Volvo.
I had a Berlina as well, traded it for an Austin Mini. Nearly bought a 131, but it had problems so I passed it over. Having only been exposed to VWs growing up, tha Alfa just seemed to garrish to me at the time, I went with my comfort zone of more utilitarian cars.
Come to think of it, my 124 coupe had scratch marks on the windscreen from a wiper coming loose...
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My first car was a 1949 Plymouth with a flathead 6 cylinder. Vacuum powered windshield wipers were the only choice back then. Does it rain in Florida?
That's the real reason for downshifting when approaching a traffic light.....to make enough vacuum so that you can see it from far enough away so that the tiny drum brakes could stop the car on a flooded road if it is red.
I remembered how the wipers would move almost rapidly under a downshift!
A local got busted a week or so back after being clocked at 192mph on a hiway nearby.
Turns out it was a friend of a fiend, and am not too surprised, is a small community of car maniacs after all.
A local got busted a week or so back after being clocked at 192mph on a hiway nearby.
Turns out it was a friend of a fiend, and am not too surprised, is a small community of car maniacs after all.
Wow! That even beats the guy in daddies Mercedes who got clocked at 308 km/h in a 100 km/h zone the other day!
I don't know anything about Nelson Racing Engines, but Factory Five started out a long time ago selling Cobra kit cars that used the power plant, wiring, and many other parts from a donor 5.0 Mustang. A friend had one near completion when a big layoff came and he lost his job. It was still in his garage when I left Florida 6 years ago.
I had big plans to build a kit Cobra in 1987 or so, had a donor vehicle, and was going to flip a Porsche 914 I had to bankroll the kit. The fact that I didn’t is probably why I’m still alive!
You may be right! One of my favorite reads used to be a couple of pages by Rich Taylor describing what it's like to drive a Cobra.