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If y'all want to read about EMP, MIL-STD-464C has some good information. The actual EMP details are classified, but this has an unclassified version. The field is enormous and super fast. Making electronics to survive takes significant filtering and metal shielding that your vehicle electronics...

Try and see before adding more. The Redline oil has plenty already in there, so it's very unlikely you'll need more. Just remember that if you add too much slip additive, you'll kill the LSD action, so use as little as possible.

I just rebuilt my 25-year-old Arcan with parts from hcrcnow and it worked great. My jack is like new again for rather less money than buying a new jack. Probably the only things you need to change are the ram, pump, and release shaft seals. Obviously, also change the oil.

Please find and post your source. I have a really hard time believing that.

My '88 Supra only gets Toyota Red concentrate. It's perfect for the mix of iron, aluminum, and brass this car has. What is your heater core made out of? Mine is brass. I now have an aluminum radiator, but the original one was copper.

If the parking brake is a drum brake, the pads can stick to the drum when it sits for a long time, like a week or more. It's not water freezing - it's the shoes sticking to the drum. Often, a gentle bump with the engine can break them free, but not always. For my cars that sit undriven for a...

The W58 won't last long at all with 400hp. The R154 will and you can get built-up ones that'll take twice that. Ask the MkIII Supra people. It's not hard to identify the transmission.

Yeaaaa. The show that almost never met a car they didn't like. And, nobody on the show has ever really known how to drive. Their 0-60 and slalom times are a joke. Braking distance tests seem better because they're easy, but still do they actually try as hard as they should? It's likely not their...

For one data point, I just opened up a tube that had been triple wrapped in sandwich bags for 3 years, and it's still good. There was a little dried plug at the opening, but the rest is still fine. I used what I wanted to and wrapped it back up for next time.

If you have a clutch LSD, lots of FM will drastically reduce the LSD action, if you care about that. Adding lots of FM won't hurt anything, so it's worth a try. If it does reduce your clutch LSD action unacceptably, the fix is changing the oil and using less FM, which isn't hard. If it's not a...

Energy Suspension makes a silicone grease that's really sticky and resistant to wash-out.

I triple wrap my silicone RTV in zip-top sandwich bags, trying to squeeze out as much air as I can. Seems to keep it fresh for a long time. Nothing is perfect, but 3 baggies are cheap and easy. Yes, aluminized film would be rather less permeable than plain polyethylene, but I don't have any of...

Energy's own silicone grease is the goop to use. It's super sticky and as water resistant as you can get. It's likely just 2 bolts per bushing, so very easy to take off one at a time.

There's a ton of info on the web about this. I found this article to be a great place to start. The video is quite a data dump, but it's all true. Basically, if you have too much damping, the tire has too much of an effect. Tires are high-rate springs with little damping, so make a lousy...

With any car, it pays to read the wiring diagram to determine what the lower current will affect. In my '88 Supra, I had to bypass the tail light failure module and modify the flasher. I wanted to keep the tail light failure module, but the way the Superbright LEDs work, it just wasn't...