Recent content by FlyPenFly

The Macan uses a Audi/VW DSG unit that's been rebranded PDK. The 911, Boxster, and Cayman use a ZF unit that's far more robust, better built, and higher performing.

Yup, his background as an engineer is invaluable.

A buddy of mine only does like a pint bleed every year on his track car for the last several years. Just doing caliper bleeds and he's never had an issue and it never reads above 1% at the reservoir.

As you might have guessed wife has been driving it the most. We sold her Mazda Meridian 2.5 turbo CX50 because it kinda just sat after I bought this car. So went from an in warranty Japanese car to this out of warranty 4,400lb British cruiser lol. She loves it though and I've done pretty much...

Yes, RL didn't respond. It turns out the viscosity was wrong and PDK is very sensitive it seems to exact specs on the fluid. There was hesitation on shifting and irregular shifting patterns that were alleviated when the fluid was completely changed out to OEM spec. "Liqui Moly 8100 is close at...

What’s so bad about it? I guess personally I was watching for the information to do it myself so it wasn’t for entertainment.

Just thought this was interesting. I believe the Redline fluid recommendation thing they have online is way too generous on what it thinks it can cover. Using their recommendations caused major issues for this guy: Personally, I plan to do this as well but I'll be using at least the Fuchs...

I dont think there was much smoke near where I lived

The side intakes are like a vacuum. Changing the air filter requires putting the top in service position and removing a bunch of trim and the top engine cover which is somewhat of an ordeal because it's a large solid steel piece. Some bonus pics at the end.

I think it's super simple, just checks resistance and voltage. measures against what you set as the capacity.

Another cool video but this time the LS1 which was poorly put into a 996 911. Interesting bit about sanding down spun bearings.

The later B58 are amazing engines but the first 2 years or something of the B58 using PLASTIC oil pumps for some god forsaken reason and some of those are showing to unpredictably fail which is awful. If you're tuning, the B58 is probably easy to make lots of power. The design of this engine is...

To some degree but these engines are also becoming crazy complicated because of the requirements being placed on them.

Remember when Toyota used to be reliable? 100,000 engine replacements… so far on this new V6. They’re still blaming engine debris but a lot of it doesn’t make sense. https://www.thedrive.com/news/toyota-built-its-reputation-on-reliability-the-tundra-is-threatening-to-undo-it

When the BMW S54 engine first reached customers, it was rated for Xw30 and then went to a 10w60 after rod bearings starting going. In a similar fashion much more recently, GM changed their recommendation from a 0w20 to a 0w40 as has been widely documented throughout the internet. So it seems...