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So what you're saying is I need to track with a baseball bat in the trunk so when I wad it up I can make sure the job is...complete :cwl:

I gotta admit I'm confused now myself. Because you're bummed about 10k hit in resale now you're willing to roll the dice on being completely liable for any future repairs? If you have enough money that no warranty is not an issue, then why handwring about value in the first place? Even if your...

Honest question out of curiosity, are there car companies that as a policy do no-questions-asked automatic buy back of 60-80k cars with engine failures to protect their customers resale values?

Make sure they're enabled! If I remember correctly they're not by default. Set them now and then enjoy after you forget you even have them...

No idea, whatever the default is!

Yes my first real pull through 3 full gears up a steep, long long onramp is an experience burned into my mind. The first time seeing the shift lights come on.... :whew:

I'm starting to suspect there is a software lock, perhaps new for the gen 2 voodoos? I haven't posted about it yet because I want to experiment more before getting flamed for having it wrong, but I've gotten close twice now to bringing the car into the shop for a noticeable lack of power...

I personally just can't with FWD, just can't. Not even when AWD is tacked on. I really do appreciate the renaissance in cheap performance with hot hatches these days, it's just, why FWD? For a ground-up designed car RWD should be easier to package and cheaper, so it's not even a question of...

Oh you're talking about the 5.0 gen 3? I think other dude asking about getting a "gen 3" replacement for his GT350 is confused

What is the Gen 3 exactly? I've seen it a couple times now lately, it's separate from the 2019/GT500 based revision that I thought was Gen 2 right? Or is that actually Gen 3?

Even with this the case then why would ford recommend you "vary engine speed", of all things, for 1st 100 miles? There's no incentive for them to make up shit in the manual. There must be something that is not completely broken in still just from factory run in. I agree in terms of not needing...

Yes it's called the bathtub curve. Manufacturing defects are going to appear very early on as problems, then there are few problems until parts start to wear out later on. That's what warranties are for!

Are you referring to me? My drag race example was showing how two equal, flat torque motors (not equal HP) but one with higher redline (and thus higher HP rating) would most definitely be faster. There's no way around that, whether they have the same gears, or optimized (the higher HP would have...

It seems most commonly what happens is people get engine torque and wheel torque after gearing confused. Torque is quite literally the accelerating force that makes your butt go faster. The problem is that it is not engine torque, it's wheel torque, that makes buttgofast. To convert engine...

I think that's pretty much what he said. It's not the softest suspension out there but it doesn't slam into the bushings and over-rebound afterwards like softer suspensions do in extreme cases, even other adaptive suspensions I've driven which sometimes still feel pretty bad. I would take the...

I actually would say the opposite, in that we've probably seen or heard about most if not the vast majority of voodoo failures. In 2020 no one with a 60k plus car "doesn't have internet access" or doesn't know how to use it. If my 120 mile HEP blew up first thing I'd do is sign up here to bitch...

C'mon now, yes it's perfectly possible to DD a GT350, but to not believe some, or even most people might prefer the coyote/GT for DD is silly. The GT is a normal car built for normal driving. You can hop in it and not have to wait 20 minutes for oil temps. It has actual torque down low so you...

I didn't even wind up getting out yesterday but hopefully this weekend?

It was on Mulholland Highway around Malibu lake! I'm probably going to be out tomorrow :sunglasses:

Pretty much, I think this was in Malibu Creek state park