New Gas Cans For 2011 In The Sprint Cup Series

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Gone from the 2011 Nascar Sprint Cup series is the catch can man, and in are new ventilated fuel filler cans that will hold the new E15 ethanol based gas that the Sprint Cup drivers will be using to power their cup cars for the new season.

This is where things are going to get interesting.In the past the job of the catch can man was not only to catch the gas coming out of the car when the tank was full,but also to adjust the right height of the rear of the car as it pitted, if adjustments needed to be made.

In the past the gas guy was always done fueling the car before the tire changers were done with their job, but with the new ventilated gas can it has many more parts to it that is hard to line up correctly slowing down the gas guys job, so now the tire changers are going to be done while the car is still getting fueled up, and if that isn’t enough to turn things around in the past the team would weigh what was left in the gas can and also what was in the catch can to determine how much gas actually made it into the tank of the car. With the new can you pretty much are going to have the can to deal with. Read More

Nokia Phone Driving a BMW?

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nokia driving

It was only a matter of time before somebody decided that they could drive their BMW with their cell phone.  Honestly, I think it is fantastic that these two guys took on this challenge and successfully did it.   They are clearly pretty clever when it comes to electronics.  I think I would enjoy the radio controlled car more than the real one though.  I mean let’s be honest; what the heck do you do with it now?  Got ideas?  Post em up!


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Projects & Builds: A BMW E30 4G63 6-Speed Drag Car Build.

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Volkswagen owners are typically quite dedicated to their brand. Getting them to switch brands is usually tough, and often impossible.  Matt A. is clearly not a typical VW owner though, because, he didn’t seem to think twice about it.  Maybe it was all of the fire that made his decision easier….

Fire VW

Anyway…. one day a few years ago, Matt noticed a 1987 BMW 325i sitting at a friends shop.  It had been there quite a while and the owner of it didn’t seem too enthusiastic about fixing its mysterious electrical problem.   Matt inquired about it, and bought it with a devilish 4G63-inspired plan in mind. Read More

Bloodhound SSC: 133,000 Horsepower You Say?

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Bloodhound SSC

You may or may not remember back on October 15th 1997 when Andy Green squeezed himself between two jet engines in the “Thrust SSC” (Super Sonic Car) and piloted the first “car” through the sound barrier at a mind numbing 763 mph.  The Thrust SSC project itself was driven forward by a guy named Richard Noble, who actually held the land speed record himself from 1983-1997 with his previous car (the Thrust2) which only did 633 mph.  Now, 763 seems pretty quick to me, but it is just not fast enough for Mr.Noble.  As of yesterday, he and his crew of speed hunters officially have their 1000+ mph vehicle being built.  Wait.. what? Read More

Hello Texas, It Appears That You Had a Snow Day Today.

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texas snow day

Each winter, I dream of how exotic the weather must feel in Texas during January and February.  This year however, nature decided to toss a nasty curve ball at them.  As the northern states were getting buried under a glacier, nature turned back real quick and walloped Texas with almost a full ……inch of real snow.  Ouch!  The one and only thing that we can conclude from the image above is that snowpocalypse’s are certainly not bigger in Texas.