Recent content by dr_klopek

You might be surprised. Flyin' Miata states that the typical LSx swap adds about 180 lbs, with 120 lbs over the front wheels and 60 lbs over the back. F/R balance is changed by only a few percentage points.

Think some folks are missing the point a little bit. The 2.0l > 2.5l swap requires very little custom work or parts, it's largely just mixing and matching OEM parts to fit the 2.5l variant of the same fundamental engine architecture. Not exactly drop-in, but not too far from it. Cost runs from...

I picked up this OTC set a while ago. Quality seems fine. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000HT6TUE

2011 Toyota Sienna 158k miles Out: Mobil 1 0w30 ESP w/ Toyota filter In: Mobil 1 5w30 ESP w/ WIX filter

Seems overly dramatic. Every single program "cheats" pretty much wherever they think the NCAA either can't or won't be bothered to enforce their regulations, and it's been going on for decades now. It's how the game is played. Michigan got popped because a low-level staffer decided that paying...

I'm honestly curious what Max has done or said this season to be perceived as arrogant. 9 races out of 10, he pulls ahead by several seconds just a few laps into the race, cruises to the end, and then tells the SkyTV reporter that the car was "simply lovely" to drive that day and thanks the team...

A significant part of the problem here is that the FIA is changing the regulation set too frequently. If you keep the regulations relatively static for a longer period of time, the rest of the field has more time to copy the frontrunners, and you get some parity between teams near the end of the...

Sounds like a nightmare to work for.

As soon as I read the original post I guessed what it was. The 2GR-FE is a great engine but unfortunately those rubber oil cooler lines (and the VVTi line) are its achilles' heel in some years. You were actually very, very fortunate, when that line goes, it frequently goes catastrophically and...