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You might be suprised but chances are even the Chevron, Shell, etc. have ethanol in them. I know that most unleaded race fuels sold on the west coast do. MTBE, the major competitor to ethanol, is no longer legal in California and is no longer being used as an oxygenate in the vast majority of...

Looking at the seats I would say that you definitely have a '65 Interior which is different color red than '66.

Thank you. With regards to the Quarter Trim I was thinking it was plastic and wanted to replace it instead of change its color but I checked and it is indeed metal so I will just paint it. Thanks again.

I have a '66 Coupe and have some questions about the differences between the standard '65 and '66 interiors. I've decided to do a two-tone '65 bright red/white interior because the extra cost of the stock colored aqua dash pad and steering wheel over a red one almost covers the increased cost...

Looking at my Tempo/Topaz repair manual it says the little "deailies" on the bottom of the master cylinder are pressure control valves for the rear brakes. The front most goes to the right rear brake and the rear most goes to the left rear brake. Most likely it they are not your problem as...

The question you need to ask is not can it be fixed, but am I willing to fix it myself or pay to have it fixed? And if you can't answer that off hand you need to ask yourself will the time and money I spend to fix the car be worth it both at the time I do it and when the car is finished? If...

For all of the Oregon residents feeling left out here is the '06 Oregon State car. And a link to the website. Oregon State SAE As a FormulaSAE alum I can't say enough about the experience that is gained from the program. And SAE grads are definitely the best their are. No other group of...

Bought this on Sunday for $3500. The damage you see is all it has except for a little bit of rust through around the gas tank in the trunk. And besides a repaint and a some bolt on engine work it is all original.

Ford Taurus, which coincidentally has nearly the same impact zone design as the Toyota Camry and there was a lawsuit over it. The stuff with the Abrams would be a different professor.

I have one thing to say about the origins of the Focus, it is an updated Escort. Which means its American. One of my Mechanical Engineering instructors was working at Ford at the time and mentioned this when she was talking about the work she did on impact test modelling. She also said she...

The Magnum has another thing going for it in that it is a wagon. Alot of car magazines guys have been wanting wagons to return and this could be their way of solidifying the return of the wagon.

Oversquare engines have bad heat transfer characteristics when compared to square and undersquare engines. This is because they have a larger surface area for a given displacement. This means they lose alot more of the energy released from the fuel. It also means more friction. I like oversquare...

Does anyone recognize those valve covers as being off of a different Ford car? When I looked at them the little tag said 4.6L. I just figured it was a parts bin piece but I don't recognize the valve covers.

Hey, I was there too, with Oregon State. Frankly I wasn't impressed by the overall look of the car up close, but when you are around FSAE cars it is hard to be impressed by production cars. The GT looked great for a production car though. That video wouldn't happen to be of the drive through the...

The EVO, RX-8, and GTO were all out LAST year or early this year and the SSR is a truck so they will get no consideration for 2005 Car of the Year. The new Vanquish is too high market so it too will likely have no chance. The 300C is just what Motor Trend is looking for as far as COY...

About what GM will be doing in for their truck engines? They are building a V10. I was at the GM Powertrain development plant a couple weeks ago and some guys spotted a prototype and asked the tour guide about it. They also mentioned that their cold dyno is going to have support for 10 cylinder...

I believe that the 69-70 were not of the original platform but an updated and larger version of the platform. Simmilar to the relationship between the Fox-4/Sn95 and the original Fox.

I'm not fond of the front fascia mods they did the foglights look bad and don't fit that car or most other cars.

Think about it though, the idea of a test mule is to abuse it in every conceivable way. They probably encourage driving over curbs and running into things.

The added heat dissipation of the Aluminum is in general a bad thing. The lost heat is heat that wasn't used to make power. Idealy there would be no heat loss from the engine and no parts would fail if heat built up. In that respect Iron is better than Aluminum because it retains more heat in...