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Incidently, one of the founders of a PA company that I have done a lot of work for over the years used to have a Kawasaki Triple. Allegedly, he was able to claim it on his tax return as a "musical instrument". He actually did produce music and sound collages, and probably did record the bike and use the sound, but still. Well done, that man....

might have been this bloke. He apparently makes a habit of welding smaller motors together to make bigger ones, and does a lot of the work with a hacksaw and a file. https://www.youtube.com/@AllenMillyard

@p6x all of that, without doubt. I wouldn't even like lose what is in my wardrobe. Trivial stuff, but I dread the thought.

Yeah, capitalism is the only way to go.

Yes, but... Norway is apparently one of the world leaders in electric transport, despite this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway#Economy I expect they have thought well about placing so much value in electric cars. I rather suspect that they have seen the light at the other end of the tunnel, and realised that it is, indeed, an oncoming train.

Well, I'm prone to that myself... Maybe it would help to look at it from the other end, i.e. "going back". It doesn't seem illogical to me at all that the pipe increases in diameter from front to back. There are factors that I really can't judge relating to reflected pressure waves coupled with negative pressure at the head, resonance helping to suck out the gases, and so on, but the bottom line is "get that gas out of there". It seems logical to me that the pipe is getting bigger towards the exit.

What a delightfully silly car. I love it. PS: for those interested in velocity stacks, this link was posted a while back on the german forum. Seems plausible to me. http://www.profblairandassociates.com/pdfs/RET_Bellmouth_Sept.pdf

All the exhausts I have seen have had the "male" part of the fitting on the "upstream" side, and the "female" part on the "downstream" side. That strikes me as the only sensible way to build them. With the male part on the downstream side, it is almost certain to leak at the join, I would imagine.

An anecdote: I used to work at the Linde annual stockholders meeting. I don't remember when this was exactly, but it is at least 15 years ago, maybe closer to 20. Anyway, at one of the stockholders meetings they talked a lot about big investments they had made in Hydrogen. A couple of years later, one of the stockholders asked why, after the big investments, there hadn't been much movement in that direction. The CEO's answer was very honest and very short: "it seems there is more resistance to hydrogen from certain directions than we reckoned with." Linde hasn't given up. Their site today: https://www.linde.com/clean-energy I am convinced that hydrogen will come to play an important role, both in transport and in "stationary engines" like, for instance, high-power mobile generators. The oil industry is doing its best, I reckon, to slow that down as much as possible.

I didn't even make it to the end of that one. The woman is, plain and simple, a fucking idiot.

It's probably inevitable, but I don't want to use it. I don't like machines that talk to me as if they were really thinking identities. AI is still a long way off from being "real" intelligence. It just does what it was programmed to do, based on information that the programming directed it to collect. f

Because those three-cylinder two-stroke motors, all of them, where just mad. Brilliant. Exciting. Sounded great. Sounded mad. And they were from Kawasaki. 'Nuff said. No arguments to the contrary will be taken into consideration.

I'd never heard of solid state batteries, but went looking. Wiki knows everything. If the article is to be believed, the technology is just about to burst onto the world market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_battery

For me too. When the lottery win happens, I'll be buying one of them too. Perhaps even before the Countach.

This would be the version in Europe that P5X mentioned. Opel Manta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel_Manta There was even a film starring it. Well, actually it was social commentary based on cliches revolving around the Manta, but anyway...

Something like this? I'd buy that for a dollar...

I quite liked this opening sequence... When the lottery win happens, I will be buying a Countach.

No. Unfortunately I never had one, but you got my taste down pefectly.

Yeah, it would have been. I remember hearing about that at the time. I gather the Celica box was a more or less straight up bolt in replacement for the "Aussie" four speed. And worked better and was stronger...

You blokes are on the right track. From the Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Monaro The current car is an Opel Astra station wagon with a 1.6 CDTI Ecotec motor

This was a fantastic car. A friend of mine had one. LH Torana with the L39 option. The Toranas without the hot-rod option were mostly shitboxes. Reliable, but boring. Ask @Lucky Phil, I'm sure he has some stories to tell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Torana Don't ask me. I had one of these, Holden Monara GTS 186S, unfortunately the model with the 186 cu. inch 6-cylinder, not the one with the 327 Chevy V8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Monaro#First_generation_(1968–1971) Mine was white, with a black vinyl roof, but had the stripe like this one.

Thanks. Good to learn about a reliable "local supplier", even it they are more than 500 km away from me.

Perhaps they are, I don't know. I think the fact that Matthies has a regulator produced is more relevant. There are any number of suppliers that sell stuff from Matthies. EDIT: or direct from Motomike, assuming they deliver outside of Germany. https://motomike.eu/en/search/7002035/in/all/article/903853 Observant readers will notice that that is the same picture that docc posted further up, this time direct from the Matthies site. I've already established in the past, looking for other things, that there are a number of suppliers who offer stuff that they source from Matthies using the same part numbers that Matthies uses.

In Australia, at least, the problem is that the Aboriginies, before the Europeans came, used to burn off regularly to create grazing ground for the kangaroos. That doesn't happen any more, and the current experts are still learning how to deal with the bush and how much, and how often, it has to burn to stay healthy. The bush in Australia needs to have low-grade fires regularly to stay healthy. Too much "protection" leads to a build-up of highly flammable detritus, so that when it inevitably burns, the fire is too hot for the trees and kills everything instead of renewing it. From the document that you linked: I suspect a similar situation: forest that was left to its own devices and burned "cold" regularly is now, in the vicinity of new housing developements, not able to burn off, and is not being cleared. This leads to a build-up of dead material on the ground, so when it inevitably does burn the fire is much hotter than it would have been under "natural circumstances", and is much harder to keep under control. Once again the "Australian experience", which is currently not always practised in Australia as I understand it, shows that the way to go is make sure there are no easily flammable sources in and around the buildings, and set "cold burns", i.e. deliberate forest fires under conditions that are not conducive to wildfires (winter, just after rainfall, whatever), to keep the amount of detritus on the ground under control.

Yes. At least I hope so.