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100 years ago the old timers used the water transfer technique to apply paint evenly and thorougly over a chassis and frame. It worked really great and the technique is starting to make a comeback in the aftermarket auto parts industry.

   

How long will it take some rich prick's shithead kid to kill a bunch of people in a Vancouver street race with one of these idiotic things after daddy buys him one for his 18th birthday?

   

I don't know but I do know some idiot bought a Hellcat and totalled it less than 60 minutes later.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/dodge ... t-totaled/

   

They'd be a hoot at a place like Bonneville Flats where you can go in a straight line for miles and miles and never have to worry about hitting anything. Too much power and weight, as opposed to a rice-rocket motorbike, for the reflexes of practically every driver though because even a moderate curve at full speed will send that thing out of control.

   

Many non-North American manufacturers use a 'dip' process, where the assembled body of the car is immersed in an electrostatic coating 'pool'. Even entry level VW's and Nissans have paint on them that looks like a freaking mirror! The NA manufacturers still use robots to paint the completed body, and unless they are programmed right, and the paint is mixed right, the result is unpredictable. Like my old car.

   

That's the latest trend, turbocharged. Build a solid bottom end with no cam overlap. Fancy computer fuel management and a turbo. Drives, idles, runs like a regular engine until the boost kicks in.

No more hot rods that barely idle and spit raw fuel out the back. The new breed of turbo power is very well mannered. Until you floor it. Then FWOOSH hundreds of horsepower

   

But you can't put spark plugs on the tail pipe with the new ones and you have to worry about the dam computer. Yeah they are great on gas mileage but I really hate those computers in engines making everything way more complicated than it should be

   

Worry about that damn computer? OK grandma

   

I am a grandma.

My dream car has a carburetor and easily identifiable engine parts. Most of the new cars look the similar. Next your on a busy hyway look around the are all similar. Same back windows same lines and if you find one that's different it's usually ugly, patterned of an old design or a classic. Can't think of anytime I would want to go zero to mock in the blink of an eye

   

Wasn't talking about new muscle cars.
Trend is sticking a turbo and bolt-on fuel injection unit on any old vehicle.
Comes complete with self programming computer.

Bolts right in place of the carberator.

   

Oh wow that just blows my mind and wow. Would you still have the problem of blowing up the computer if you push start? I went months without a starter in college

   

Reminds me of my Renault 10 I had in college... went forever without a starter, mostly because I lived in Burnaby and there were hills everywhere. If you could roll it 10 feet & pop the clutch, it started.
Never got the fascination with muscle cars. Couldn't afford to run those Cudas and Roadrunners when gas was 39c a gallon. Built like crap, couldn't corner worth shit and drum brakes that stopped them as fast as a BC Ferry.

   

looking back it's a wonder that we made it with some of the cars we were driving. They sure were fun to drive and you didn't have to be a computer tech to work on them

   

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