I followed your advice and went with some Bilsteins (though 4600s, since I anticipated lifting it soon, and didn’t want to spend TOO much coin).  Read more

Only had my pocket Charpy tester with me.

If I have to turn in my engineer-card for being so ill-prepared, I understand. Read more

It’s time to start my first overlanding build. Read more

Oh hell yeah we’re talking TXVs on a mainstream car website. Not the first time, and hopefully not the last.

Beautiful part! Read more

This is my speciality.  Read more

A great guess. My engineer-source provides that reasoning, as well! (See update) Read more

I don’t know why you graced us with this, but I’m happy you did. Read more

I keep a little vial of it in my necklace. Read more

Indeed, those look like heat shields.

Mounts are SUPER sensitive to heat, and there’s lots of that going around in any engine bay.

Lucky for this mid-engine Corvette, the “fan blast” heat that comes through the radiators isn’t filling the engine compartment as it would be on a front-engine car. But you’ve still got… Read more

Agreed. I didn’t need the second “much.” It was unnecessary.  Read more

Like I write in the story, the current interior is nice. Dated, but nice. Read more

This is standard procedure in journalism. You refer to subjects by their last names.

(It probably “feels” a bit odd because her last name is a first name). Read more

I also think her writeup includes better photos and a good video, so I’ve just gone ahead and updated my story to suggest that folks check out her work. Read more

I actually hadn’t seen Stef’s story, despite a search before starting this. Odd. (If I had seen her writeup, I wouldn’t have written this, as I have no interest in reporting non-original stories!)


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This comment started out sounding a bit grumpy, but totally redeemed itself with the Brave Little Toaster analogy (and clip!).

Nice job. Read more

I can’t wait to off-road the crap out of one. Read more

I, too, enjoyed his writing.

It’s infrequent that I’ll block-quote a subject to this extent. Normally I’ll interview them for the story, and intersperse quotes in my writing.

But this was just solid. Like most of the truck. Read more

My next project is in worse shape than this truck. Read more

I don’t think that’s necessarily the case. I myself would probably not be willy to do that paperwork, though Loren tells me it’s not that hard. Read more

Thanks for the feedback, Robb. I’ll address a few points.

1. The Mach-E absolutely does understeer. Quite a few outlets say the same, and agree that stability control tends to clean it up after the car plows initially when entering corners. I will admit that I do differ from a number of writers who call the car “fun”… Read more