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Ay sights worth seeing along the way? Interesting historical stuff or museums or places of cultural importance? Where to stop and eat along the way?

Hello Everyone, I have a question and I think I know the answer but want to clarify & confirm I bought a used engine from eBay and pulled the head off, sent it for porting/polishing/bigger valves/worked manifolds etc. I also sent a USED camshaft to be included in the build and the valve lash...

My parents are are taking a holiday around the southern states, I'm looking for some car rental info for my Dad. Mum & Dad land in Atlanta on the 8th May and will need to rent until the 19th, giving the car back to the rental company in New Orleans. Hertz and Avis are crazy expensive, can any...

I've often told people on here that complain of issues with their automatics to convert to or buy a manual. That might be changing, I always regarded a pneumatic shifted sequential as the best option but a new technology of torque converted direct drive is changing my opinion. Details in this...

A well off friend of mine insists it should be 10w60 going into his M1 because that's what M cars need, but I don't know if that applies to the M1. Does anybody Know what is appropriate for a car which is a fair weather weekend toy?

Well maybe not ever, but it sure ain't cheap...

I don't mean the little one you had as a kid, I mean a slingshot that outguns a .45acp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLxnNP-ycVQ

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ulh1ktCsc1Y Whatcha think?

Specifically MOS2 interactions with different base stock Respected members on here have reported using MOS2 in vehicles that spend some time sitting and finding the additive settled out in the bottom of the sump.. With regard to base stock.. I'm not a chemist but my understandings are: The M...

So recently I got a 6 month driving ban, and I have a question about storing additivized fuel.. Just before the ban I threw in a full bottle of SI1 and filled up on Shell, and now that mix is gonna sit in my tank unused for the next 6 months - my question is? Although SI1 is not Stabil, will...

I was reading the test criteria for jaso fc/fd compared to iso egd and they both mention detergency requirements. I pulled a couple of msds but couldn't see anything.. Is pea wishful thinking? Im using valvoline durablend at c. 500:1 in a 4 stroke, plugs are clean and im wondering what they...

As per title, have any of you sent away a sample of the horrible goop in the bottom of your catch can for analysis? Im wondering if any labs offer this service, and if it would help me with trending analysis when used in conjunction with a regular UOA? Discuss..

Talking to a couple of friends last night, we got onto the topic of how you know when you're a proper mechanic, Let me give a couple of examples; You know you're a mechanic when every knuckle has skin missing and you think its normal You know you're a mechanic when you keep a supersize tub of...

I might be wrong but aren't the majority of cars in America auto? Do you guys generally prefer automatic to manual? Whats the reason for the US auto vs. Europe manual bias? IMO, automatic is easy to drive but boring, and being less involved gives more opportunity for being distracted whereas...

Plans are for a 3.0 V6 with the new technology, diagram here http://images.cdn.autocar.co.uk/sites/autocar.co.uk/files/Audi-Electric-biturbo-1.jpg Looks interesting, cant wait to read a road-test..

If a coolant filter is a good idea, tell me why! Brands to use/stay away from? Spin on vs. Inline? Only with certain types of coolant? I want to know if I should retrofit a system like this to my scirocco. Thanks,

It's a Mahle OC51 - I don't want to under use it because that would be wasteful but I don't want to risk going beyond its service life, either. It's filtering Millers Nano 10w40 if that makes any difference? link included for clarification...

Its a VW 2.0 litre 16 valve, 58psi boost at circa 1000 hp - I watched the clip on youtube and first thing I thought was "I wonder what oil he uses in that thing" like what could withstan the blowby and the heat and the shear from that much pressure an temperature.. Would Redline's 70wt nitro...

It's probably a bit late to ask this as I'm already doing it, but, I want to know if there are any potential pros or cons to using two fuel filters inline? The filter for my application is a Mahle KL15, the larger of the two in this picture -...