Still got my old plywood 70s one, very sturdy item..... Someone gave me a newer one, and though it has a few bells and whistles it's crap strength compared to the oldie... 🙂
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This is not that contradictory. Replacing an engine is quite easy compared to works inside like changing pistons for instance. Swapping large assemblies ask for about no mechanics skill, no advanced tools. Changing a gearbox is easy, repairing a gearbox is something I am totally able to do.
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Marine quality plywood at that. Some of the new ones are thin stamped steel with plastic jaws. Even the screws that tighten the jaws are plastic. One of the big box stores (Home Depot I think) was giving them away with a large purchase so I got one....I looked at the construction and never used it.
I did however grab one of these when I found it at a yard sale for $5. It contains all my Dremel tools and accessories. It's plastic screws are suitable for that kind of light weight work, but I supplement them with some equally junky but metal Harbor Freight woodworking clamps when the job requires a big squeeze.
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A Husky stainless socket from that period is still stainless and used regularly. Stainless today appears to mean oxidizes slowly.
We call them co-workers... anyway, no matter how annoying you shouldn’t kill people....😀😀😀
The web is full of over unity devices, they are all hoaxes or at best innocent lack of understanding. Common are the ones that don't understand the concept of power factor.
I had a neighbor with a pair of those in 1987, in Seattle. They were noisy little cars as I recall, but interesting looking anyways.
The NSU was Peripheral port, like the 26B le mans car. So yes noisy. The port timing overlap was extreme.
Another car that a good friend had was a Fiat X-19, with a twincam 2.0, Lancia 5 spd.
The power to weight ratio and handling made it quite a fun car, had been widened in the rear around 3”, had Weber sidedrafts with huge air horns, 38mm chokes, around 160hp, in a 1700 pound car...
My uncle had won the regional autocross in an X-19, during the early 80s also, wound up getting the engine from the car years later, was fun put into a ‘79 Fiat 128, revved to over 9,000 rpm.
While in high school there was a guy who’d put a built up VW engine in his X-19, was quite fast, extra light weight with no cooling system. The (polished)Volkswagen transaxle poked out of the rear a bit, was pretty cool.
If I were to have another car from that era, it would probably be a 124 Sport Coupe, with the factory Weber IDFs. I had one, but it was hit by a tree in a windstorm, miss that car.
The power to weight ratio and handling made it quite a fun car, had been widened in the rear around 3”, had Weber sidedrafts with huge air horns, 38mm chokes, around 160hp, in a 1700 pound car...
My uncle had won the regional autocross in an X-19, during the early 80s also, wound up getting the engine from the car years later, was fun put into a ‘79 Fiat 128, revved to over 9,000 rpm.
While in high school there was a guy who’d put a built up VW engine in his X-19, was quite fast, extra light weight with no cooling system. The (polished)Volkswagen transaxle poked out of the rear a bit, was pretty cool.
If I were to have another car from that era, it would probably be a 124 Sport Coupe, with the factory Weber IDFs. I had one, but it was hit by a tree in a windstorm, miss that car.
I remember a long-ago car magazine article (circa 1990 or so) about somebody stuffing the Yamaha V6 from a Ford Taurus SHO into the back seat of a Ford Festiva, creating what they called the Shogun. Two hundred twenty horsepower, mid engine, RWD, in a tiny hatchback. 😱
Anyone remember the W20 Toyota MR2, also early 1990s? To my eye, perhaps the most beautiful Toyota model ever, and it was small, light, mid-engined, stuck like glue in the turns (but let go abruptly if you went too far), and the turbo versions were genuinely fast, with 200 BHP.
I wanted one badly, but I'm several inches too tall to fit well in one. My head constantly hit the roof when a friend gave me a ride in his.
-Gnobuddy
Always being poor, I only had a 124 Special T (dual overhead cam) which of course looked exactly like a Lada. It was fun to out drag the boy racers in their Escorts, etc, when they were expecting Lada acceleration. The fun stopped when the cam belt stripped and 7 valves met the pistons! Amazingly I only had to replace the valves themselves, nothing else.
Of course, Fiat sold the production equipment to Lada, IIRC, so visually the Lada WAS a Fiat 124.
Nowadays the problem is that all cars looks the same.
It's the melted cough drop theory at work.
All new cars are designed after a melted cough drop 🙂
You should take a look at the motor technologies, the evolutions are gigantic, ..."but you can't see them when you look at the car"