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Yes. That was the scene at Corvette club events when I bought my C4 in 1991. They would stand around all day and talk about which wax is the best. When I asked them how well their cars ran at track days, they would look at me like I had antennas sticking out of my head. "Oh no, track days...

I have a coworker that bought a C7 that had been hit in the front end. He had the car delivered on a rollback truck and worked on it in the parking lot for a couple of weeks rebuilding the front suspension and repairing the body damage, which was slight. I was skeptical that he could do a good...

I have found a car in Los Angeles, CA that I am interested in buying. Problem is, I'm 2800 miles away in Michigan. It's at a specialty dealer, not a private owner. I am hesitant to agree to a sale over the phone before I inspect and drive the car. How would you out there in BITOG land suggest I...

The FIA. They manipulated the final race to favor Max Verstappen. I will always think that Max's first championship will have an asterisk* next to it because of that.

2014 Buick Verano T 121390 miles total, 6610 miles OCI Out: M1 ECF 5w40 In: Same No filter change. Oil life monitor at 2% when oil was changed.

The LV3 engine series is even-fire and has a balance shaft.

Chin Motorsports is an organization that puts on excellent High Performance Driving Events on racetracks around the USA. Look them up.

Yes. My 1972 GMC 1500. I flew out to Oregon, paid the guy with a bank draft that I took out in his town, and drove it 2200 miles back to Michigan over four days.

A V8 would be going too far. I wish GM had kept producing the LT-based 4.3L V6. That engine would be a good fit in this vehicle. They could have bored it to ~4.6 liters and pumped the power up to about 350 hp.

Give yourself some time to get used to the auto stop-start.

Four different wear and contaminant metals in a fresh oil sample. I think their comments are appropriate. Send the oil analysis report to Quaker State and see if you can get a refund.

Ferrari's last F1 championship was in 2007. I doubt that Hammy can win one there. In recent years, their race strategies and pit calls have repeatedly shown they are most capable of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Wow. Amazing that Hammy would leave Mercedes. I thought he was going to retire from there. He has nothing left to prove in the sport, and I don't think he's been the same since he was robbed of his 8th championship. 2025 is going to be a null year due to it being the last of the current...

You're running an Iron wear rate of 3ppm per 1000 miles, which is OK. The change in viscosity from the previous reading is weird. Which is closer to the expected viscosity?

I like the M1 ESP 5w30 suggestion.

The EPA has multiple Tiers of emissions regulations on locomotives. They're up to Tier 4, but the railroads aren't buying them because of high operating costs and low reliability. Currently GE is not building any new locomotives, so one could say that excessively stringent emissions regulations...

They have a Carrabba's in the metro area. It's a chain restaurant, but I like Carrabba's. The most famous Indianapolis restaurant I know of is St Elmo's in the downtown area, close to Monument Circle. But it's a steakhouse, not Italian. If you want to take in Indy 500 memorabilia, The Union...

The steering seems slow compared to my Z28. I wonder if the Z had a faster ratio. I still have the original springs and shocks from my Z28 that I took off when I went to the Eibach springs and Koni shocks. The car came with Cooper tires on factory SS 10-spoke wheels, and I have two other sets of...

It's just control for the sake of control. Somehow the human race managed to survive without artificial speed limiters in cars.

I did a nationwide search on Autotrader.com for 4th-Gen V6/5-speed Camaros and Firebirds to see if there were better deals out there. Nine Camaros showed up, no Firebirds. There was one with about the same amount of miles at about the same price, and others that were low miles for double the money.