I’ll just leave this here

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[KensAuto]

Yeah, because "real men" name their engines after a mythical Japanese monster that kept them from falling asleep at night as small children.


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[TexasRedNeck]

Ill see your 7.3 with a 9.4




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[Flyin6]

^^^ Tex has a point!^^^^^^^^^

[wyorunner]

Ill see your 7.3 with a 9.4




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Doesn’t count, it doesn’t have a mythical creature name

[Flyin6]

Ill see your 7.3 with a 9.4




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Doesn’t count, it doesn’t have a mythical creature name

Sorry T-

I'm gunna have to over-rule here!

Tex wins

[Bigdave_185]

At least it’s not a Tesla


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[Flyin6]

At least it’s not a Tesla


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Speaking of which, I was watching technology videos on that car yesterday.
It is so far ahead of almost every other car on earth it isn't funny. I heard two scientists/engineers say that somehow Tesla seems to have redefined physics with the motor. That motor I just found out is the same in model 3 and the plaid. Only the control panel mechanism is different. Therefore, it is just a matter of time before there are a bunch of 8.8-second Model 3's running around! Someone's gunna crack the code on the programming.

And this new motor is so advanced that this engineering firm which bought a Tesla and is reverse engineering it is selling parts of it to BMW, Toyota, and others. Somehow Tesla has managed to convert almost all of the negative/wasted energy (Heat) back into electricity which is then stored in the battery pack (again.)

There is some breakthrough stuff on the horizon with this company. Just look at the range differences between that new supercar that goes 350+ MPH and my Model 3 which can travel 315 miles, has a top speed of 162 and a quarter mile in the 11.50's. That new car has a range of 620 miles!!!!!!!!
Nothing on earth can do that...Nothing. It was rumored that Elon has a new super battery, but is withholding it for now...

Another thing is how fast that company evolves the design. How long has the Model 3 been around? Was it 2017? 2018? Well it was a bunch of aluminum panels all bonded together when first conceived. The second design, that was all secret btw, never announced as a major redesign, introduced the car having the entire back half as a single casting!!! An aluminum casting! But he was not done. about 18 months later the front end also became a one-piece aluminum casting. The car chassis is actually only three pieces!
The motors have been redesigned three times as well. Remember the thing that had 450HP? Well, there was some modification, and it was then 472hp. Then something else and it was 495hp. I saw an early 2022 car placed on the dyno and it was putting down 522 to the wheel. In Camaro language that would be around 700 crank HP! And the car just got this ultra-Ailen-designed new motor... It can make 10,000 NM of torque...That's 7,375 ft-lbs. That's no joke. That could briskly move a semi, not a 4,300 car.

I also discovered the motor controller is shipped with an explosive charge factory installed!!!!! It turns out that if the thing fails to respond to attempts to shut it down, a program running in the background will fire an explosive charge which separates the heavy copper bus cables permanently interrupting the power supply.

[BobbyB]

a program running in the background will fire an explosive charge which separates the heavy copper bus cables permanently interrupting the power supply.

Yea I'd like to avoid anything resembling that in a vehicle myself or more importantly my wife/son and future kids may be in.

[KensAuto]

a program running in the background will fire an explosive charge which separates the heavy copper bus cables permanently interrupting the power supply.

Yea I'd like to avoid anything resembling that in a vehicle myself or more importantly my wife/son and future kids may be in.

All modern vehicles have explosive charges in them Bobby. Not just the airbags, but also the seatbelts.

 ...I may or may not have played around with them multiple times.

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[JR]

Yep, we don't tighten them enough, so a charge does it for you.

[BobbyB]

All modern vehicles have explosive charges in them Bobby. Not just the airbags, but also the seatbelts.

I'm aware of the existence of the charges. It was more of the combination of copper and explosives, I tend to visit the forum when I'm really tired and without coffee. My brain thinks of things faster than I type them. Disregard some of what I type lol.

[Nate]

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[Flyin6]

That's all there is to it?

[Bigdave_185]

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Don’t worry Nate I laughed


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[oklawall]

Just like a ball point pen only bigger.

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[Sammconn]

Somebody ah filled their drawers…