H.M. Murdock

I respectfully disagree. The necessary engine management technology was not in the mass market back then. ECUs from the 90s were more primitive and dealing with the turbocharger dynamics was an afterthought. Your 90s 4 banger was dumping fuel at high output and running inefficiently in some manner in almost all load scenarios. And it was probably a dog off boost with its low compression (I'm assuming, I don't know what truck you had). Today's engine control has a much higher sample rate and can adjust output before the next rev. There are many more sensors which influence the various algorithms. There are many more maps that the ECU uses in its strategy and these maps are much larger in dimension than before. Knock strategies are much improved from the old "pull all timing" method. The Ford EcoBoost uses a wideband o2 sensor which allows it to remain in closed loop much more often. Cars from the 90's went open loop practically off-idle. Variable valve timing was not present on mass produced cars (I'm not talking VTEC here). You put 180k on a turbo 4 but that is not typical. Oil in a turbo engine degrades much faster from the extreme heat cycling and engine wear is usually quite higher in terms of metals found in the oil during analysis (even changing it twice as often). And as the center cartridge gradually wears out of spec coolant can be introduced into the oil and oil finds its way into the charge air increasing probability of detonation. New turbochargers have benefited greatly from better materials which result in much tighter tolerances and improved service life of the turbo compared to a turbo that you'd find in a mass produced car in the 90's. As for intercoolers, when they were actually used in mass production back then they were usually undersized and placement in the engine bay was too much of a compromise. My NA headers have a surface temp of around 200 *F after I shutdown. My turbo downpipe and turbo have a surface temp of 500 *F after I shutdown. And the turbo is a much larger object radiating a lot more heat than NA headers. There is a big difference in the heat radiated and explains why underhood plastics get brittle and break, batteries explode and parts melt (heat shield or not). Heat management still has a long way to catch up to the current technology.

As a matter of entertainment, is there a record for the most # of Constitutional amendments violated by a single proposed bill? I'm thinking the record would be held by an elected official in Hudson or southeast Bergen County for sure. Surely her background as a broken bone photographer has provided her with the legal knowledge and accuity to craft new laws that impact millions. I'm glad Assemblywoman Jimenez took time off her day job to write this garbage.

Wyoming is nice but Vermont is more practical for us rooted on the east coast.

Maybe wasn't ready for the mass market until the current era of precise computerized engine control, direct injection, valve actuators, etc. Turbocharged cars with a carburetor or mechanical fuel injection were a sad affair (and also widow makers). Fuel injected turbos from the 90's weren't much better but you could at least tune them for track days or racing without much compromise. Optimizing for the variables encountered in daily driving was still impossible. The current technology is pretty damn cool actually and there's not much left on the table to be improved -- ready for the big leagues of mass production I suppose. Of course there is still the issue of essentially a small sun living under the hood, relentlessly scorching anything nearby for the duration of its existence. Maybe some trickle-down technology from NASA will address that one day

I for one am shocked! To think that the idea of having the NRA there was an empty gesture? And now I'm learning that Biden and friends are solely concerned with taking guns away rather than figuring out how to prevent and defend against the acts of extreme violence that prompted this blue ribbon commitee. Next I suppose we're going to find out Obama has been wiping his ass with one of the original Constitutions?

Your introductory sentence was: That is the context and you created it. I hope people stop feeding you.

4 days including weekend for my last transfer (out Friday, came back this Monday)

My PTP forms switched from typewritten to handwritten in 2008 I guess the typewriter they had broke and the parts department for the Royal Typewriter Company wasn't picking up their phone :unknw:

To be fair those Zorbs are really dangerous in a hilly urban environment, i.e. San Francisco. Hundreds would be dead in its wake.

Ok that was pretty good

Some poor kid on a Jetski is going to hit the top of that underwater mountain and go flyin' over the handlebars

Are we voting for best truck? Then another vote for Toyota Tundra (HiLux). Or a Dodge Cummins if you're hauling. I'm curious how these EcoBoost engines will fare at the 10-15 year mark in the used market. Turbo gas engines don't age well. I love the quest for power by turbo though.

There's no room for compromise here. There just isn't enough material left to make another cut.

I had a buddy whose father flipped his caravan head over heel in a horrific accident on the Driscoll Bridge. He survived only because he wasn't wearing his seatbelt and was cleanly ejected. So therefore my friend adamantly refused to ever wear his seatbelt. I haven't spoken to him in a while but I wouldn't be surprised to hear that he died in a minor traffic accident. Screw Nader but I wear a seatbelt, especially on NJ roads considering who we share them with.

Was is a verbal or written warning? Some people forget that warnings show up on the MDT on subsequent lookups

Kyle Myers.. Kyle Sherman is from Shore Shot

I need to get on the reloading bandwagon YESTERDAY!

Yeah thanks for sharing, thinking positive

If your references have actually received the letters then IMO you are in good shape

Yes there are 5 additional pins on USB 3.0 -- 2 Tx (-,+), 2 Rx (-,+) and another ground (signal return/drain). The drain pin actually splits into 2 physical wires for the cable run -- within the sheaths of each shielded signal pair (Tx and Rx). I'm thinking you lost the signal drain - pin connection from a stress break within one of the connectors.

My $100 AK has outperformed my IRA for almost a decade. It's currently worth over $1,000 and apparently it will soon be priceless. Perhaps one day I shall trade someone my AK for 10 ARs. Insanity.

Thanks Scott, back at you. Will be in touch when I'm in the area.

Scott, just listening to you recount what you've been hearing on the radio is making my blood boil. Hearing some mouthbreather start an argument with "Like I'm totally not against like guns, but"... I am headed to the range right now to bleed some pressure off.

I just went through every page in Firefox and it all looks good to me The text in the right pane of the various sections is word wrapping thin for lack of a better word (i.e. the text to the right of the pictures could extend further to the right before it wraps to the next line). But maybe that is part of the design? Also there is a rogue "<" between 1 and 2 in http://countmotorcycles.com/faq_splitting.html Congrats

Where do you shoot intercooler? I had a RSO like that once -- picks a person, sits on them, criticizes them until they leave. Find out their hours and shoot when they're not there. Those types of RSOs don't get many hours from the boss man anyway. Maybe even join a different range. What's the point of going shooting if you're not having a good time? Every visit to the range has the potential to be great!