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Welcome Richard, I love Colorado, I was in Colorado Springs for "training", my Hotel window looked straight at Mount Cheyenne, the Nuclear Bunker, lovely part of the world. And Pikes Peak is just up the road. :cool:

They used to have to, as one set of plugs is unreachable. I think the Discovery to do drivetrain work they remove the whole body from the chassis!

The worst I saw was a friend of the wifes Hyundai Elantra (I think) someone in marketing decided that to sell in the RSA market they needed a Diesel as it was a Rep car market. So they shoehorned this diesel motor in and off to go, then it needed a cam belt change, ok no issue "oh sheet" its...

In an electric motor ZZ is ok, in the electric motor any .001% efficiency improvement will be taken.

No I stole the Pic from ADV Rider, I just happened to see it there (they have a TS thread) https://advrider.com/f/threads/2-stroke-picture-thread.297308/page-255#post-51510265 https://advrider.com/f/threads/suzuki-ts-thread.833175/

She is a massive Top Fuel Drag fan 👍

Yes Massive Detonation and they Yield. (y)

No CAD does not do this generally only in a coarse version, I mean real FEA and CFD.

No, its not an off the wall calculation, its more than a few lines and I would need to do it before lunch, but not stupid difficult. I had problems with "control" you need to steer a ship, it wants to go northwest, but the waves are coming from the East at so many waves a minute at such a depth...

Low cars generally include low profile tyres, with the potholes I have an aversion to Low Profiles. :rolleyes:

Nephew and friends in Mid Wales.

The difference these days, is that the entire Con Rod and actually the whole motor can be modelled and analysed using Finite Element Analysis, so every small stress raiser can be found and designed out, not just by good practice, but by analysis. (y)

Strangely to many, this is not the test that would normally be used to determine the "strength" in terms of suitability for use. The real test is to determine the point at which the steel elongates, the steel is elastic until a point (it recovers its extension) then it yeilds and is "plastic"...

Yep, it is 06:20 and I have waterred all the House plants and some outside, a beautiful Cool Spring morning, I started early as it is forecast for 35C later, but not your humidity in the Swamp. (y) :cool:

100% reducing reciprocating mass for faster response, clunky forgings versus precision and as for including a VW Diesel rod, they are comparing a chunk of granite with a beautiful statue, they should weigh a set of them and see the variance on the M rods versus the clunky forgings. :rolleyes...

The one was designed with a slide rule and a big factor of safety applied, to cater for a lack of material composition control and imprecise machining. The other is very precise and controlled manufacturing and is therefore much lighter for use in a “race” engine. The test is ******** in my view.

Any “Northern Lights” Grizz? My Nephew at the Welsh coast had. 👍

My daughter worked at a VET, she organised ours with Outsurance, I hate Outsurance, but their Policy has a fixed excess, not a % of the claims like a lot of others. Our policy kicked in and 48 hours later we had a R15,000 claim for a broken foot (freak accident stomped on by another full grown...

Good luck Zog's Power is usually the first to go down, especially with the way the USA transmits. (y)