loki

1 hour ago, dfelt said:

In a truck that is hauling stuff, this should do well to have smooth shifting with gas milage. 

yeah, when going up hills and just need a little more HP... say 200rpm?  this will hardly be noticed.

1 hour ago, Drew Dowdell said:

Would you be able to show the gear ratios for those since you found the information already?  I'm curious if there is more than one overdrive gear in the 10-speed.

I found the transmission ratios on wikipedia.   assuming they're right.

1 hour ago, Drew Dowdell said:

Would you be able to show the gear ratios for those since you found the information already?  I'm curious if there is more than one overdrive gear in the 10-speed.

for comparison,

Quote

10-speed automatic transmission featuring wider, 7.39 overall gear ratio spread

8L90 has a *7.015 ratio spread

The 6L80 (and similar 6L90) has a *6.037 ratio spread

The 4L80-E (and similar 4L85-E) has a *3.3 ratio spread

-Ratios were calculated from wikipedia's info.

40 minutes ago, Stew said:

If that was all, then why not just buy the Miata...........    FYI, the Fiat has the better suspension tuning, the Mazda the better powertrain IMO. 

"better".. the fiat is a turbo 1.4L.... right?  it is slightly heavier,
from fiat - " 160 horsepower and 184 lb-ft of torque "  that'd be closer to having the 2.5L in the car than the 2.0L with that torque...

2 hours ago, Drew Dowdell said:

Mazda isn't capped on the upper end by having a luxury brand above it.  They seem to be trying to creep into upper territory with loads of features.  They do seem to swap out some of the interior materials for better stuff as you climb the trim ladder. 

and they are trying to bring a(or more) safety feature down a level every year...

but they also have pretty useless stuff in it too.  like an adjustable lumbar  support in the driver's seat that... doesn't hold position...aka, pretty useless.

7 hours ago, A Horse With No Name said:

It would have to be a complete refresh, the outgoing Mazda 5 had the crash worthiness of a leftover popcorn bag from a cinema.

i don't doubt that... basically. but they redesigned ..basically everything else...not saying 1 more is insignificant...but for a "small van" it would be a segment only, right? it's still basically made for the Asian market.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Premacy

or not " In February 2016, Mazda Motor announced that development and production of minivans could end within the year. Sales of the Premacy, the MPV (Mazda and Biante would end by 2017 "

i've shared something like this before: I wonder if the mazda5 (MPV) has any future plans to come back?  just curious...

I still think a small truck could work...

rumor around the 'net is either '18 MY 3 will be refreashed with skyactiv 2 or it'll be CY '18. not sure.  HCCI in a production vehicle will be interesting...not much word if it'll be the 2.0L, 2.5L or what....

On 4/26/2017 at 0:22 PM, A Horse With No Name said:

I have seen what Acura does when it takes risks and pushes limits and there is a link to C and G.  Obviously they are smoking the same stuff our posters in the politics thread are enjoying so heavily...

what political threads? 

<iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="border:0px" src="https://books.google.com/books?id=ljSn7q8qlmkC&lpg=PA38&ots=N31u1FJ0Ry&dq=GM's%20unleaded%20engines%20before%2080's&pg=PA16&output=embed" width=500 height=500></iframe>

one of these will work.

https://books.google.com/books?id=ljSn7q8qlmkC&lpg=PA38&ots=N31u1FJ0Ry&dq=GM's unleaded engines before 80's&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q=GM's unleaded engines before 80's&f=false
 

5 hours ago, A Horse With No Name said:

I wonder if ti would pass modern emissions standards.  They ran forever....

wasn't it at least rated SULEV .. well, maybe not the S/C one, but the N/A was...
if it did have to be updated, raise the CR to ~10+, add DI and keep it with low end grunt.

DAYUM!!!!!

Just now, dfelt said:

 Your Funny!

* You're *

20 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

I'll take all of @loki's red votes if it makes loki sleep better at night..lol

.

2 minutes ago, dfelt said:

It is slowly going down! 

are you 2 conspiring against me? lol

27 minutes ago, Drew Dowdell said:

Voting is going to change in a few months anyway.  I"ve been testing out version 4.2 of the software and it has "reactions" rather than voting up or down.

any chance my bad rep will go away or be drastically reduced?   those are like from another lifetime. lol

31 minutes ago, surreal1272 said:

Yet he tries to point out name calling while calling me "narrow minded". Irony 101. Notice also that he depicted to the name calling accusation and had no valid rebuttal to my post. Classic deflection when you know you are wrong. 

narrow minded could be a criticism and not "name calling". not saying you're wrong...

15 minutes ago, Drew Dowdell said:

Yeah, Capitalism did similar things to Detroit as well.  When they starting to put short term profits over long term product quality. When they started considering people disposable.  When they started moving jobs overseas because they forgot the lessons of Henry Ford; pay your workers a wage that they can afford the products they build.  You can head over to Detroit and survey the destruction of rampant capitalism all you want. 

if capitalism did it to detroit, it's because investors thought there were better opportunities elsewhere. right or wrong, it's their $, so it's up to "them".

is there a post to refer FordC to for how REP is supposed to be used for?

12 minutes ago, FordCosworth said:

What is it with you all whining about votes? 

i sometimes use votes in redit for like, but i know it's not supposed to be like that.
this isn't facebook.  I've been the target of Drew's wrath too, but it's been like.. 4+ years?  i've also not be very active here for like 2 years either.

19 minutes ago, surreal1272 said:

I see what you are saying but even that article points out that there would be no US without slavery. Again though, that was not my point (I also pointed out child and underpaid labor in my original post on the subject). It was that capitalism owes a lot of its early success here to very shady and immoral practices. Again, refer to the history of the American railroad as a guide here. 

i gotcha. but this is lots of anecdotal comments., i've been doing it too.. sorta. lol

we can't change the past and it's an easy target to moralize or rationalize about stuff you had no chance to change. ...maybe this is why we are so militarily involved around the world...

the labor of the 1800's allowed for rapid expansion at the cost of many lives and liberties. there were also "child soldiers" of the civil war, the moralizing can't only be directed at "economic tyrants".. anyway......

6 minutes ago, FordCosworth said:

I win...

When you can't debate without name calling, it is you that lost.

Debate 101

kinda sad.. isn't it like saying i win at a staring contest? while it can't be disputed if both know they are playing... just sayin.   

11 minutes ago, Drew Dowdell said:

Sadly, the 4.3 is actually small enough to fit under the hood of the new Impala. They just won't do it.

i think i remember you saying this. dang HP wars....or more specifically hp/L...

4 minutes ago, Drew Dowdell said:

One wonders what the government of Venezuela plans to do with an auto manufacturing plant that has no parts suppliers.  At this point, it's just a large box on land.

warehouse, or worse.

1 minute ago, surreal1272 said:

No we don't. It was to point out that we owe the first 150 years of our success to free labor moreso than capitalism itself. 

i don't think that's how it works... slavery represses greater capital generation....

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/slavery-and-anti-slavery/resources/was-slavery-engine-american-economic-growth

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/09/economic-history-2

but since we can't run this experiment, there can be no proof oneway or the other

2 hours ago, Drew Dowdell said:

@trinacriabob - yeah, the 3500 and 3900 both hold up very well.  I continue to be impressed with their smoothness.  It's a shame that the Horsepower per Liter crowd killed them in the marketplace.  The 3500 may only make 219 hp which is just higher than the 196hp in the new 2.5 in the base Impala, but it also makes 35 lb-ft more torque and at a lower RPM.   I know I'd rather have the smoothness of the 3500 over the rather rough sounding (even as far as 4-cylinder go) 2.5 liter.

and we'll never see it (3.5 or 3.9) with a 6-speed(+) and updated like the 4.3 has been. with a straight ratio for hp the 3.5 would make ~231hp, and ~258 for the 3.9. those look like great 2.0L Turbo replacement ranges for those that don't want a turbo in midsize and large sedans to midsize crossovers and ... small trucks.

Always liked Dwightlooi's technical ideas and explanations.

1 hour ago, surreal1272 said:

@hyperv6--You spoke of the 150 years of pure capitalism building this country prior to the New Deal. Does that include the same capitalism responsible for the railroad industry that ran rough shod accross this country, displacing Native Americans while being built by Chinese and Mexican slave labor? How about our vast agriculture that was made successful by African American slave labor? Or how about the budding industrial revolution which led to such fine labor practices such as child labor and Irish slave labor? I can go on if you'd like but I am curious as to which part of early American capitalism should we owe our "success"? This country was built by economic tyrants.

 

We won't even get into you Puritan statements since Drew covered the bases there. f@#king puritans, a group so uptight that England said "get the f@#k out".

@Surreal1272, to break it down, don't we just have to show that either slave labor is actually part of capitalism, or is a practice not compatible?

33 minutes ago, FordCosworth said:

I downvote your whiny white guilt and condescending attitude. 

The whole damn world was built by " economic tyrants who exploited slaves ". FYI, the term  “slave” stems from “Slavic” i.e. can be a reference to the experience of millions of (white) Slavish people who endured centuries of slavery at the hands of African muslims. This, of course, is a most inconvenient truth, for it is a most Politically Incorrect truth. But truth is the truth. Easy enough to read about it too and includes most all countries and races, yet I don't see you crying for them.

 

just to make it simpler in the future, quote a place that has this info..... http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=slave

39 minutes ago, Drew Dowdell said:

King Charles I, who himself was not afraid to have people killed for not adhering to a rather strict faith, had to tell the Puritans to knock it off with the persecution of other religions.

hypocrites, that what those people were...except the king was the biggest one cause he had the power - army - , oh wait, he the authority also, being the head of the religion NVM!!!! 

3 minutes ago, dfelt said:

Yes could be their Prime Directive or Thor closed the gate to us!

You forgot "Spoiler alert!"!!!!

2 minutes ago, dfelt said:

Too bad GM did not have a way to defend their properties around the world.

i think the bailout was the only chance they got from us. no blackwater security sent there.   i'd say GM has the right to defend their property, but paying for security may not be worth it...

Tesla could have covered them with their stock worth alone.

if there can be proof of wrong and right... that must mean there is objective truth right?  how close are we to be able to know and control things with science?  i'd say somewhat far, but not in the grand scheme of things. thus if science is somewhat far, since living things are much more complex, we still have many "discoveries" to find, prove and spread this object truth.

if interstellar travelers existed... any technology that we can't understand, is essentially magic.  i'm not ruling that out, and would explain some things from prehistoric caves and such. but then the question is, why haven't they been back?  Star treks 'prime directive"?  lol

1 hour ago, surreal1272 said:

That would be the king of all thieves, the Catholic Church.

nice diversionary post of one line,  (not wrong though) did you know this, or google it?

you have any substance to add?

57 minutes ago, dfelt said:

Religion the questionable guide of Humanity.

yes, but another entry in the catechism is ...

" 35 Man's faculties make him capable of coming to a knowledge of the existence of a personal God. But for man to be able to enter into real intimacy with him, God willed both to reveal himself to man and to give him the grace of being able to welcome this revelation in faith. The proofs of God's existence, however, can predispose one to faith and help one to see that faith is not opposed to reason."

2000+years of logic and reason that the church has used to get to where it is today. Mistakes have been made, but is that the fault of the religion or human nature? i put 2000+ because of the jewish tradition that had been the roots of christian tradition.