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Detroit, 6:56 PM
Sun Nov 22
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Now, I just need to find that money somewhere.
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I can't ever imagine Bizzarrini trying to break down engine notes into numbers and algorithms.
And I don't like how it sounds. But it is how I would imagine how a high revving Yamaha engine to sound.
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See my comment below about just how great high-revving Yamaha engines can be.
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[www.yamaha-motor.com]
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And yes. Obviously following that logic, modern Italian cars are going to sound less soulful than the classic ones. I don't think anyone can deny that.
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BTW sounds great, although I normally remove the accousting dampening "tanks" and other unnecessary items from my intakes. I like to hear those pulses in concert with the exhaust.
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Ferraris dont need that...
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I don't know if it's true or not, but I remember reading a blurb in Motor Trend where it was said that Ferrari frequently sacrifices some degree of engine efficiency just to get the right sound. Again, I don't know how true that is, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it was true.
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Might as well play a throttle-angle influenced V12 soundtrack over the speakers. Would be cheaper than pipes.
#tips
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Gas struts wear out. Just sitting around they slowly lose their charge over time. That's physics, can't change it. And just sitting around, the prop rod keeps on being a prop rod. It weighs about the same as a single gas strut - a carbon fiber one probably weighs less - and right there you've got a weight savings. One prop rod displaces two heavy, fallible gas struts.
Is a prop rod fallible? Sure. It can rust into nothingness - oops, not this one. It can bend and break under load - oops, you'd have to do something stupid, like bend the car around a phone pole to do that. It can pop out of the catch hole and drop the hood on your head - oops, that's gonna leave a mark. But with $400K invested, you're probably not going to lift the hood outside of your climate-controlled, hermetically sealed, Mafia insured eighteen-space garage. So no wind. The Mafia wouldn't allow it.
At 88 miles an hour, the two solenoid cases pop out of the Alien intake and start eating the oil coolers. #lexuslfa
11/04/09
+1 on the gas struts.
Nothing like having marginal ones and finding today was the day it was too cool to hold the hood up when a 2 mph breeze touched it.
/learned not to place hand in hood's travel without a broomstick as a backup hood prop...the hard way #lexuslfa
11/04/09
Supercars are NOT reliable.
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This was done for weight alone. And it passed the cost-benefit analysis algorithm that Toyota doubtless subject the entire car to. #lexuslfa
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pfft
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Civic dx?
Is there any other kind, baby? #lexuslfa
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The LFA is designed for and marketed to someone looking for high performance as well as all the highest-tech and greatest creature comforts that his 400,000.00 can buy. Your analogy is like comparing a Veyron to a Le Mans Prototype. Other than that, it was....perfect. #lexuslfa
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vaya con dios #lexuslfa
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Wow. #lexuslfa
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@tempesjo: No, you'll have to get the transparent hood for that! Adds madd street cred too, yo. #lexuslfa
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