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Most of the time a crate engine enters the equation there is some sort of hideously unsafe car waiting for it. Its safe to assume that if you are the kind of p

Most of the time a crate engine enters the equation there is some sort of hideously unsafe car waiting for it. Its safe to assume that if you are the kind of person installing a crate engine you have some sort of idea of what you are doing, and are capable of taking informed risks.

anon1m0us 7y ago
Your reasoning assumes people don't skip steps in the process of learning things. There are cliches to support my case. "Only knows enough to be dangerous" "More dollars than sense" That itself is dangerous. You're basically discouraging someone from offering advice to the general public because you think the knowledge is generally known, but that's just not the case. I have a general idea of what I'm doing but reading that comment changed my perspective of what is and isn't dangerous in a car and those dangers shift from ICE to electric. Frankly, I'm glad he opened my mind to the ideas.
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- dsfyu404ed 7y ago
  >That itself is dangerous. You're basically discouraging someone from offering advice to the general public because you think the knowledge is generally known, but that's just not the case. And if you don't discourage it all discourse gets drowned out into a bunch of "hurr durr don't forget your jack stands" type virtue signaling (in the technical sense, not the politically loaded sense) about safety and you get Reddit. You can't please everyone.
- jbottoms 7y ago
  IIRC the earlier work on roll-overs made the point that all cars have a resonate roll-over frequency that plays a part when drivers over correct a swerve. I wonder if anyone is taking a new look at that isdue. Also, whdn a bunch of combustion engines get displaced, what is therd to do with them beyond recycling the metal? Looks like the cost of these freed-up motors is about to drop. Motor futures; shorting anyone?
linsomniac 7y ago
Reminder: Kevin Hart is suing the builder of his Hellcat 700HP Plymouth Barracuda.
- Skunkleton 7y ago
  Not to be rude, but you would have to be real thick to not understand how unsafe that car would be. I know it's a harsh thing to say, especially because Kevin Hart was seriously injured. Still, when you take risks, sometimes it doesn't work out.
  - Gibbon1 7y ago
    One of my college professors said there are things that are intrinsically unsafe. Where layered defenses don't buy you much. A fuckup means a high risk of being injured.
  - emmelaich 7y ago
    Sadly yes. There's a reason that e.g. Shelby Cobras are so rare. Very easy to spin out a short wheelbase car with a V8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Cobra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Cobra
- olivermarks 7y ago
  It is a disgrace that Hart is suing the car builder.He had someone build a high performance show car and then allowed a friend to crash it. He is now wrecking everyone's right to modify and build cars because of his own stupidity.
- rasz 7y ago
  >The driver, Jared Black, lost control of Hart's 1970 Plymouth 'Cuda while driving with Hart and Black's fiancé, Rebecca Broxterman, in the back seat. The car plowed through a wooden fence and careened down an embankment, where it came to rest in a heap. Reminder: dont let your cool friends drive your race car. This is how Paul Walker died.
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anon1m0us 7y ago

Your reasoning assumes people don't skip steps in the process of learning things. There are cliches to support my case. "Only knows enough to be dangerous" "More dollars than sense" That itself is dangerous. You're basically discouraging someone from offering advice to the general public because you think the knowledge is generally known, but that's just not the case. I have a general idea of what I'm doing but reading that comment changed my perspective of what is and isn't dangerous in a car and those dangers shift from ICE to electric. Frankly, I'm glad he opened my mind to the ideas.

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dsfyu404ed 7y ago
>That itself is dangerous. You're basically discouraging someone from offering advice to the general public because you think the knowledge is generally known, but that's just not the case. And if you don't discourage it all discourse gets drowned out into a bunch of "hurr durr don't forget your jack stands" type virtue signaling (in the technical sense, not the politically loaded sense) about safety and you get Reddit. You can't please everyone.
jbottoms 7y ago
IIRC the earlier work on roll-overs made the point that all cars have a resonate roll-over frequency that plays a part when drivers over correct a swerve. I wonder if anyone is taking a new look at that isdue. Also, whdn a bunch of combustion engines get displaced, what is therd to do with them beyond recycling the metal? Looks like the cost of these freed-up motors is about to drop. Motor futures; shorting anyone?

linsomniac 7y ago

Reminder: Kevin Hart is suing the builder of his Hellcat 700HP Plymouth Barracuda.

Skunkleton 7y ago
Not to be rude, but you would have to be real thick to not understand how unsafe that car would be. I know it's a harsh thing to say, especially because Kevin Hart was seriously injured. Still, when you take risks, sometimes it doesn't work out.
- Gibbon1 7y ago
  One of my college professors said there are things that are intrinsically unsafe. Where layered defenses don't buy you much. A fuckup means a high risk of being injured.
- emmelaich 7y ago
  Sadly yes. There's a reason that e.g. Shelby Cobras are so rare. Very easy to spin out a short wheelbase car with a V8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Cobra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Cobra
olivermarks 7y ago
It is a disgrace that Hart is suing the car builder.He had someone build a high performance show car and then allowed a friend to crash it. He is now wrecking everyone's right to modify and build cars because of his own stupidity.
rasz 7y ago
>The driver, Jared Black, lost control of Hart's 1970 Plymouth 'Cuda while driving with Hart and Black's fiancé, Rebecca Broxterman, in the back seat. The car plowed through a wooden fence and careened down an embankment, where it came to rest in a heap. Reminder: dont let your cool friends drive your race car. This is how Paul Walker died.
- tashoecraft 7y ago