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Took the first “long” roadtrip in the Ascent, even though the wife has piled miles on like gas is free… 🤬 Anyways, went from near Muncie, IN to Yorktown VA via US-35 and I-64, ended up right at 1,450 miles round trip. Will be pulling UOA sample to see how dilution is doing since it was...

Just got my notice in the mail; extends to 1 year from date of letter regardless of mileage, or 10 years / 100k for all others under 100k. Seems like they should just start selling them with 10/100 B2B….

We’re told that EVs are always cleaner, but I asked Grok to analyze how long you could drive the average low-emissions vehicle and have lower overall emissions than a pure EV that was operated with “worst-case” conditions. Even I was surprised at the results; even in California with their...

Although very light on detail, it's a cool acknowledgement for the guy and his investment of time and probably 7 figures if not 8. That kind of development on my 3.5Eco would result in over 4k HP... mind boggling. Congrats to Mike Mazurowski and his triple turbo Nissan SR20 making over 2,300 HP...

Stubby legs are hard to live with. Poor Impreza has to scream just to keep up with the slower traffic! 😂

Leftover 2024 Accord rental, 28k rented on 4/27/25. I’m not a huge Honda fan, especially after the EarthDreams fiasco. So when I arrived last minute (forgotten, even) in FAT and I got assigned a year-old, 28k Accord, I was less than thrilled. But actually, the 1.5TGDI CVT is decent for city...

Got a decently built (5800X CPU, 6750XT GPU, 64GB 4000MHz RAM, 2GB 990Pro) computer for the live stream at church. The 3 PTZ Optics cameras are quite a load on the network but nothing for the computer. vMIX processing time is never above 3ms. I want to get the 3 cameras and PTZ joystick directly...

These Pirellis were on the Ascent I bought, and with aftermarket rims, so 55k vehicle miles but no idea on tires. After an additional 12k on them and knowing a Midwest winter is coming, I didn’t feel comfortable leaving them on (about 6/32” depth). It’s clear to me the front end of the Ascent...

So I built a new rifle out of almost all sale price stuff just to have something to play with at long yardages. It’s all built around a Faxon 24” 416R 5R rifling with 1:7 twist. Poverty Pony upper & lower receivers, some off-brand Optics Planet clearance 20” handguard, Rise Armament RA-242 Gen 2...

Out tonight at IRP to support the @High Performance Lubricants teams. It was neat to see @HPL Plant Manager and David Ward intently focused on helping all the cars. Measuring tire diameters, reading data logs, and the excitement of all the drivers. Maybe David could provide a list of all the...

So I picked up this Ascent a couple months back and within 150 miles or so I drained it and put HPL Premium Plus 0w30 and a Fram Endurance 7317 on. This is my wife’s vehicle, and she is probably 65% short-trip city and 35% highway as a guess. When I pulled this in-service sample, I went ahead...

E85 as we all know is 51-83% ethanol. Used my RevX ethanol testing kit for the first time today with Casey’s pump E85, and WOW! Sure looks like it’s right at 83% to me! Makes the mixing calculation to E30 pretty easy!

Just got wind that on August 14th, David Ward will personally be racing at Indianapolis Raceway Park! I just heard that Dave set the track record lap time at his last race, and since IRP is “almost” local to me (about 1.5 hrs) I’m planning on showing up to show support for Dave & his hobby (and...

Obviously hydro is easy to see why there’s a lot of material involved. But the almost exponential overall material increase needed to go all the way to solar really blew my mind. And these are actual DOE numbers they’ve known for at least a decade at this point! Now, it makes more sense why the...

Derale has very poor documentation on their remote filter mounts. Has anyone used the dual filter mount with one full-flow and one bypass filter? How did you plumb it? Or, could you run a sandwich mount that retains filter in almost-stock location and run the sandwich mount line to a Frantz or...

At least they’re doing research on this effect, even if you normally never hear anything about it. Goes into the detail of why large PV arrays are always hotter than natural ecosystems, and it turns out, even hotter than normal manmade structures like cities. Kinda seems this is a step...

So, do they want people to buy solar or not? Wonder how long this will take to cross the pond… https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/17/energy-companies-charging-nsw-solar-panel-owners-for-exporting-power-criticised-by-lobby-group

1st time running the No VII Euro, so I figured I'd take an in-service sample from the Stahlbus valve I installed at last oil change. How convenient! Going to roll these out to all my other vehicles even though it's essentially $50/per. Anyways, back to the sample. Looks like just under 2ppm...

Picked up 37HP and 28ft-lbs over LS3 manifold. This would be an easy no-brainer on Camaro/Corvette and any engine swaps… https://www.lsxmag.com/tech-stories/the-performance-design-xs-intake-manifold-does-what-others-dont/

$0.50/gal gas tax increase in the next two years… https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/californias-secret-gas-tax-hike-coming-in-2025