So this is the start of my unlimited 4wd diesel pulling truck. i will be using the cab off a vts dodge ram an adding the long box off a snaptite kit. The motor unless someone can line me up with a b series Cummins like 6.7,5.9 C rail,24v,12v any help with that would be great. If not i will be using a cat motor out of a semi scaled down. The frame will be a full tube frame.
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Williams has announced the appointment of Alex Wurz as a “driver mentor” for the two young drivers Bruno Senna and Pastor Maldonado. This is a sensible move given that the two men have limited experience in F1 and may thus not be fully equipped to deal with all the questions that they have to handle. [...]
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NASCAR announced that Jimmie Johnson?s #48 car for the Daytona 500 has failed opening day inspection on Friday. Officials announced that unapproved modifications to the C-Post on the car were discovered. The parts in question were taken by officials and the team was allowed to repair the damage in time for Daytona 500 qualifying on [...]
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NASCAR, more than any other sport, carries the specter of grievous injury, or worse, with it every time the green flag drops. You see the drivers kiss their families goodbye before every race, and theres a part of you that ? Continue reading ?
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Audi UK has announced the RS5 facelift order books open this week with a starting price of GBP 58,725 OTR.
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]gonna call this one done…for now…maybe a seat replacement, the kit seat has a really bad ejector pin mark on it. the engine is fully wired with linkage for the blower hat and it also has all fuel lines. the pulleys were replaced with some i made on my lathe. i also made the front coil overs on my lathe using the springs from a bic lighter. paint is just testors with wet look clear on the frame and dupont eurathane clear on the body over testors blue. i didnt like the chute pack in the kit so i replaced it with the one from the stone woods and cook willys. the chute cord is some braded cord that i got from joann fabrics…kind of a neat little addition. as for now i am leaving the spoiler off, not sure if i like it. this was a quick and fun build…something a little different from the norm. enjoy
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Red Bull won both the drivers’ and constructors’ championships for the second successive year in 2011. Here, design chief Adrian Newey and team principal Christian Horner talk to me about their plans for 2012 and praise the dedication, hunger and desire of Sebastian Vettel, who became the youngest ever double world champion.
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Tomorrow’s a packed day on the Streetsblog calendar, starting with a morning event at NYU’s Rudin Center with City Council Transportation Committee Chair James Vacca. Wondering how Vacca intends to keep the pressure on NYPD to reform its crash investigation protocols? Or how the council member squares his public stances on street safety with his [...]
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Help! I purchased a built-up 1/25 AMT 1932 Ford 5-window Coupe off of Ebay, and when it arrived, it was in worse shape than I expected. I got most of the built-up cleanly torn apart, but my attempts to "save" the body ended poorly. As you can see in the photo below, the driver's side door is damaged beyond repair.
So, does anyone have an old 1/25 AMT 1932 Ford 5-window Coupe body in their parts box, that they'd trade to me? It only has to have a good driver's-side to it, as I can perform some surgery to cut a good driver's side and put it into my body.
I have a fairly extensive parts box to trade from. Thanks!
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One by one, vehicles with BMW?s soulful naturally aspirated inline-six are biting the dust. As expected, BMW has announced that the 2013 X3 xDrive 28i crossover will swap the 3.0-liter inline-six for a turbocharged, 2.0-liter four. (Based on our experiences with the latter engine so far, it’s also pretty good, if not as linear as [...]
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Race Winner: Kyle Busch Age: 26 Team: No. 18 M&M?s Toyota Owner: Joe Gibbs Crew Chief: Dave Rogers – Kyle Busch won the Budweiser Shootout at Daytona, his first victory in six starts in the annual non-points preseason event. – Busch?s previous best finish in the Shootout was fourth in 2010. – Busch led three [...]
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Honda took it on the chin for its boring redesign of the Civic, but here’s one thing it got right: Reducing the use of toxic chemicals in the manufacturing process for its interior. According to the Ecology Center’s new report on HealthyStuff.org, the 2012 Civic uses the least off-gassing plastics, materials that can lead to volatile organic compound emissions. VOC’s have been linked to health problems including cancer and birth defects, according to the report.
“Research shows that vehicle interiors contain a unique cocktail of hundreds of toxic chemicals that off-gas in small, confined spaces,” said Jeff Gearhart, Research Director at the Ecology Center, in a statement. “Since these chemicals are not regulated, consumers have no way of knowing the dangers they face. Our testing is intended to expose those dangers and encourage manufacturers to use safer alternatives.”
Honda does not use bromine-based flame retardants in the Civic and specs PVC-free interior fabrics and trim, while also eliminating most heavy metals from the interior.
The worst vehicle tested, the 2011 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport, “contained bromine and antimony-based flame retardants in the seating and center console; chromium treated leather on several components; and over 400 ppm lead in seating materials,” according to the report.
The good news is that PVC use is declining overall, with 17 percent of new models boasting PVC-free interiors, up from none in 2006, according to HealthyStuff.org. Some 60 percent of new vehicles do not contain bromine flame retardants. It seems that automakers are backing efforts to eliminate these hazardous chemicals from vehicle interiors, with HealthyStuff.org pointing out that Ford and Volvo have adopted voluntary third-party eco labels for some of their vehicles. The average ratings for Ford’s vehicles showed a 30-percent improvement from the 2009/2010 study.
Click past the jump for a video and the full press release, including the 10 best and worst vehicles in the study.
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Shawn Langdon raced to the provisional No. 1 qualifying position in Top Fuel on Friday at the NHRA Arizona Nationals at Firebird International Raceway.
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This morning’s City Council hearing on traffic crash investigations is already having an impact. Public Safety Committee Chair Peter Vallone, Jr. and Transportation Committee Chair James Vacca announced today that they will introduce a resolution in support of Albany legislation to make it clear that the police can enforce the state’s careless driving law.
Right now, [...]
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Vitaly Petrov is to join Caterham F1 Team in place of Jarno Trulli this year. The Russian was at the Anglo-Malaysian team’s factory in Hingham on Friday for a seat fitting ahead of his first run with the team at the second pre-season test in Barcelona on February 21-24. Team Principal Tony Fernandes said: “We [...]
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Filed under: Convertible, Coupe, Performance, Racing
There’s little question that Caterham is on the rise. The British automaker may still be known primarily for building continuation models of the classic Lotus Seven, but under the new ownership of AirAsia chief Tony Fernandes, it is expanding in a big way.
The company teamed up with Lola for the SP/300.R, one of the only vehicles Caterham has ever made that was not based on the Seven. Caterham now also has its own F1 team, and has promoted the team’s technical director Mike Gascoyne – a longtime F1 engineer and chassis designer – as chief technical officer for the entire group, overseeing the road car division, the advanced composites operation, the new R&D center and the motorsport division.
That’s not all, though. Caterham has been rumored to be working on a new model line – to be developed and built in-house completely separate from the Seven and SP/300.R – details of which are just beginning to emerge. Although Caterham has reportedly considered going mid-engine with its new model, it is likely to stick with the traditional front-engine, rear-drive setup, with a monocoque chassis built around an F1-style tub, but likely not made of carbon fiber.
Caterham is reportedly intent on keeping both price and weight to a minimum, but the new model is being designed with more creature comforts than its existing stablemates. Both coupe and convertible versions are envisioned from the outset, and while powertrain is still being negotiated with potential suppliers, a supercharged version could be in the cards as well. Discussions are repprtedly also underway with various design studios, but one thing’s for sure: this one won’t be designed by Colin Chapman.
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Jamie McMurray – Photo Credit: Robert Laberge / Getty Images for NASCARRain forced NASCAR officials to cancel the remainder of the final NSCS Budweiser Shootout practice session with just seven-laps into the session, and twelve cars getting in practice. With those seven-laps, and with a lap speed of 197.689 mph, it was Jamie McMurray posting…more»
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Season Starts In Shootout Style Before the points-paying season gets under way with the Daytona 500, Feb. 26 at 1 p.m. ET on FOX, fans will get to see many of their NASCAR Sprint Cup Series favorites in the 34th annual Shootout at Daytona. The race distance will again be 75 laps (187.5 miles), consisting [...]
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Pedro de la Rosa believes Formula 1 racing will not change much this year despite the introduction of new tyres by Pirelli. The Italian firm has decided to alter its compounds in order to reduce the gap between the softer and the harder tyres, hoping that racing will be even better than last year.
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Filed under: Etc., Chrysler, Dodge
When Chrysler showed off the new SRT Viper logo earlier this week, something struck us as odd. It looked familiar. A little too familiar. And not just in the Cobra Command way.
It took until this morning and a tip from our friend John to make the connection. Look at the new Viper logo, then look at the Flying Lizard Motorsports on the right. Coincidence? Surely. But still, there’s got to be more than one way to draw a nice asp…
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