No. But these guys are talking about heatsoak and whatever and I'm laughing because this is a passenger car.

 

So, because I happen to notice a drop off in acceleration in the hotter months, and have a different utility curve than you on such things, you get to be an ass to me about it?

 

I think he's being irrational. He's concerned about a plastic intake on a car that has been designed not to eat its own intake. If he's that concerned about it, then he must assume Subaru is incompetent ... So why buy one?

 

mind my ignorance, but cars dont normally have plastic intakes??? (cars normal people drive at least.) I thought they pretty much all would! My Acura had one and I dont think there was a single crack in it after 13 years plastic is more durable than you think. Only air should be going in there, why would it crack and such...

 

and Lexus

 

Oh.

Anyway, I thought this How To Drift video by Chris Hasrris was fantastic.

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@ Kimchi...

 

 

Right huh!?

Our Lock N Lock never breaks!

 

Somebody's gonna getta hurt real bad. And I think you know who he is!

 

I am not worried in the least about plastic IMs.

On the LS1 there are people who have gone 250k+ mi on the factory composite intake manifold and they've only replaced the gaskets. There are other guys who use composite manifolds and run turbos/nitrous without issue.

And yes, I do track my car, so I am concerned about heat soak. More so than the manifold falling apart. I am much more worried about BMW and VW/Audi using plastic cooling system parts.

 

Preach it, brother. I'm tired of reading about broken plastic impellers in their water pumps.

 

Intakes, yes. I think the discussion here is about the intake manifold being plastic.

 

and plastic dipstick tubes

plastic coolant junctions

plastic thermostat housings

plastic coolant hose sections

so on...

I've seen all of those things break. Intake manifolds, not so much.

and what about plastic valve covers? Many cars have plastic valve covers, which are get doused with extremely hot oil, oil which can exceed coolant temperatures by 50-70 F.

 

If you think heat soak is not an issue in a daily driver, you have not driven enough cars or have always lived somewhere that doesn't get very hot.

Even driving on the street, you encounter issues with cars in summer here in CA. The temperature swing from winter to summer here can be as little as 40 degrees. People still notice... case in point, I think 3G TL owners are very familiar with the loss of power in summer temps, especially on 91 octane.

Plastic (more accurately, composite) intake manifolds are fine.

 

Ohhhhhhhhhh thank you.

Yea nvm I dunno what those are made out of haha

 

 

at O'Hare

 

I feel like Moses coming down from the mountain..... I saw a 959 today. for the first time.

and... had the fantastic opportunity to shoot it.

 

Has anyone been to VW's website lately? Jesus, I have no idea what they're doing.

If anyone can find the "Build Your VW" link on that site, you're a better person than I.

Ridiculous.

 

lol

 

"Find A Match" on the left menu bar?

Come on man.

Oh nevermind, that's not the regular build your own crap.

 

Speaking of VW, putzing around town in a rented white 2014 Jetta. Pretty fun little car.

 

like I said, you might have a concern when you track your car. during DD duties it means what? not a dang thing...

Go as the rest of the GM crowd about having to replace intakes due to cracking, parts rattling, etc because it was made out of plastic. There are quite a few of them and YT is full of people showing others how to fix it...

 

 

Yeah man, this is what I'm saying!

 

Yeah, tried to build a new Passat on VW's US site. Just gave up.


While we're on VWs, I've decided I hate driving my mom's 03 Passat. It has every dynamically negative trait you can think of. It's slow, shifts rough, has the throttle response of a duck, gets poor fuel economy, has plenty of body roll, no grip, and a rough ride.

Everything about it sucks. Except the key. I like the switchblade key.

 

LOL, I can understand that. Volkswagen was not building good cars during the early part of that decade.

They just fired the head of the MQB platform. The launch was not a smooth one and they've been paying the Wolfsburg peeps overtime to fix things.

They need to strongly consider replacing their head of NA operations too.

 

Interesting. I wonder how much more flying a car costs vs. trucking it.

... and I hope they're going to put a protective cover on that car!

 

Fast-forward 10 years & they're much better.
I had a '13 Passat TSI Wolfsburg for a rental for a week. Nice peppy little car & got pretty good MPG.

 

No protection from the straps on the bare wheels, either.

I wonder why the owner wouldn't ship it in a protected container.

 

^
Too expensive.

 

Fixed that for ya

I would imagine they'll cover the car once it's on the 747.

 

no thread on the 290 mph Hennessey Venom F5?? woww..... guess I'll make one

https://acurazine.com/forums/automotive-news-6/hennessey-venom-f5-news-915559/

 

BC got his Gemballa Mirage last week - here it is playing in Beverly Hills

 

^^^^Can't be BC's, it's not white.

 

I guess "BC" is a dumbass for driving like that on city streets. If you have that kind of green for a car, rent a track.

 

Beats you planting the news of it in here.





Thank you.

 

I'm not superstitious but, Carrera GT by Gemballa? That's asking for some misfortune.

Heard about that. Kind of scary considering how many cars are going to be relying on that platform.

 

Who is "BC"?

I see Massachusetts plates and his driving fits the typical Masshole driver.