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Gravy Train

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  1. Nobody pushed the bleeding edge of the 2JZ’s stock sequential units because they didn’t flow for shit. The N54 is forged up and arguably offers the same potential as the 2JZ with supporting turbo and fuel mods. Reliability is an oversold claim these days. Toyota’s shit is boring and it’s possible to build a reliable car with engineering dollars... look at Porsche. Want an appliance with a low TCO? Buy a Tesla. Too expensive? Wait for the VW ID.3.
  2. Fuck appliance cars.
  3. There are plenty of reliable, capable and competitive alternatives out there that don't look like a failed Pikachu model. $52K for a new 4Runner, built on a 12-year old V6 and 5-speed auto? No thanks.
  4. The whole car is contracted out to Magna Steyr in Austria but the sheetmetal is Toyota's design. Some say the suspension tuning and powertrain calibration is Toyota's also, but everything underneath has BMW's part numbers stamped on them, the turbocharger system is BMW Mahle and the DME is BMW Bosch Motronic. I'm probably the most prominent TMNA-basher here but I just don't see why they should be awarded with sales and a decades-old reputation of reliability when most of their lineup is produced with yesteryear's tech. They're price-competitive and reliable for a reason-- they've had the better half of a decade to perfect a product. Their kitchy techno-art design language coming out of Aichi seems to be lost on the U.S. consumer and is the only barrier from completely associating the brand with the olds.
  5. It's so cute of Toyota to try to be competitive in the luxury performance segments. In a world of small-displacement, turbocharged Germans, I suppose it's nice to still be able to purchase a high-strung, Yamaha-designed, 5-liter NA V8. But that motor is going on 10 years of age.
  6. I looked it up. Doesn't make a shit because the correlation is only common to Mack Brown's teams.
  7. You'd be surprised to see how much headroom all the German turbocharged motors have left in them. 2.5L RS3s and TT-RSs making over 500HP with a tune and a couple bolt-ons, the new X3M just cracked 10.80s tune-only, RS7s making 800 HP on pump with a turbo cartridge swap and 991 turbos putting close to 1000HP to the wheels with a turbo swap on E85. Direct Injection, advancements in turbocharger design and target-based tuning kicked off this new horsepower war no more than five years ago. The Germans were already sandbagging on stock power estimates, building their performance-oriented engines with forged rotating assemblies and fuel systems capable of 150-200% flow beyond stock duty. Behind all that are the BMW M-DCT, Audi DSG and Porsche PDK 7-speed dual-clutch gearboxes and ZF 8HP90 rated to or capable of taking 1000Nm without wincing.
  8. I didn't see the game but read later that Hurts threw some bad balls, to the potential of 3 INTs and one pick-six, had KU's DBs been able to catch them.
  9. OU is 129/130 in penalty yards, averaging 90.75 penalty yards per game with 33 penalties recorded over 4 games. The Texas average is 53 ypg with 24 penalties recorded over the last 4 games, 10 of those coming from the attempted robbery in Morgantown.
  10. I turned it off, that's not a penalty. Fuck you, New York, for turning this product into the mess it is, and clearly not worth my time.
  11. Hell, there's a flash tune already for the 2020 550i? I'd ask who they're using. But yes, if anything acts up with the powertrain, there's a good chance BMW will discover it once it's connected to dealership diagnostic tunes. If the dealer applies any updates to the car, they'll overwrite the flash tune also. Like Bert mentioned, get used to the car first and then go back for the tune if you get bored with the power. Audi isn't tune-friendly any longer-- any difference in the flash counter or checksum will flag the VIN as 'TD1', allowing them to dispute powertrain service claims if they can point it to a modification.
  12. 24ish is too generous. I don't want to say it but I also don't believe it. Hold them shits to 9, mmmmaaayybe 14.
  13. I'm looking for a single as well and will split if we find a deal on a pair.
  14. SEC effect for hanging around a grossly-overrated UGA who Texas blasted nine months ago. ND will have no ranked teams left on their schedule by the time they get to Michigan.
  15. Fuck that, there's no redeeming quality to playing those fucks again.. or LSU, or Bama. Texas should get two chances to beat OUsux this season and that's all that matters to me.
  16. FIFY
  17. It's the latter until the results come in next week against K-State on the road and they should be very much in that game. It will be legit if they get past Okie Lite three weeks later.
  18. Fuck off, Gunter. 1. Sanford is dumpy in comparison 2. Washing the stadium out in red is gimmicky 3. Burnt orange is among the most difficult colors to replicate with LED lighting and often requires a fourth (amber) emitter
  19. I wouldn't have been upset to see Goff folded there, instead they reward him with that bullshit when he was trying to extend to the sticks.
  20. It works against less-athletic OL play, backfield statues and green QBs, but there are far too many opponents on our slate with experienced, athletic, mobile QBs who can elude it while the blitz has left a soft middle zone for easy conversions or DBs on an island who never play the ball and don't seem to quite play man, giving up a reception before making contact with the receiver. I need to see the 3-2-6 mixed up with a 4-2-5 in the same game and let the DEs do work instead of just clogging up the interior lanes. I also need to see the corners attempt to jam the receivers off the LOS instead of making every opponent with pass protection a track meet.
  21. Good grief end the game now.
  22. Unbelievable whiffed kill shots
  23. Gonna have to underscore the first line for these little bitches.
  24. Really? You have a better case chasing up media in Norman/OKC fist as OUsux wasted multiple seasons, two CFP appearances and two Heisman trophies among year over year of QBs re-writing their record books for the same perceived reason.
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