โMay-06-2018 07:40 PM
โMay-10-2018 11:23 PM
PNichols wrote:
Regarding the V10 in our small E450 Class C motorhome: The diesel guys and V8 gasser guys seem to think the high RPM and high spirited V10 is less than desirable in an RV. I love it ... especially when dropped out of overdrive for climing a grade to pass the other engine types.
โMay-10-2018 08:22 PM
โMay-10-2018 08:17 PM
โMay-10-2018 07:59 PM
โMay-10-2018 11:00 AM
David ... continuing off topic ... was it transparent aluminum or transparent titanium in that Star Trek movie?
โMay-10-2018 09:01 AM
myredracer wrote:
Off topic for sure (oops). Been to the Historic races at Laguna Seca in CA a number of times where the big boys with big bank accounts from around the world take their toys to play. The sound of historic F1 cars from the 60s & 70s with open exhaust is truly amazing. A few hundred cylinders rounding the last turn and then accelerating down the straight at a zillion rpm is a crazy wonderful sound! My bucket list has camping at their trackside CG at the top of the list - expensive and you have to book years in advance tho.
Sometimes I close my eyes in our V10 F250, blip the throttle and think I'm in an F1 car somewhere. Then I open my eyes and realize I'm on the interstate at 65 mph with the TT in tow...
โMay-10-2018 07:09 AM
โMay-10-2018 06:49 AM
pnichols wrote:Off topic for sure (oops). Been to the Historic races at Laguna Seca in CA a number of times where the big boys with big bank accounts from around the world take their toys to play. The sound of historic F1 cars from the 60s & 70s with open exhaust is truly amazing. A few hundred cylinders rounding the last turn and then accelerating down the straight at a zillion rpm is a crazy wonderful sound! My bucket list has camping at their trackside CG at the top of the list - expensive and you have to book years in advance tho.
I don't know about Ferrari "quality" ... but the V12 one I rode passenger in once as the owner went from 7000 RPM-on-up through the gears was a sound almost like no other! I say "almost" because I've heard only one other engine sound that bested that V12's whine ... a recording of the incomparable banshee scream of a BRM V16 at 10,000+ RPM.
P.S. That's why I like our RV's V10 ... cuz it's cylinder count is a wee bit closer to 12 and 16 cylinders than those of a V8, a 6 cylinder, a 5 cylinder, a 4 cylinder, or electric, or whatever other weird type engine that is winding up in today's RVs. ๐
โMay-10-2018 01:45 AM
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
I was always amazed at the idiocy of Italian shoe design versus price and durability and COMFORT. Pain. Fragile. But they gotta the style.
โMay-09-2018 08:55 PM
myredracer wrote:
He once showed me a Ferrari Dino 246 GTS (circa 1970s) he was working on. Undeniably sexy-looking as h*ll on the outside but under the skin, cheaply built just like the Fiats of the day. I so lusted after one of those Ferraris for a long time but that was the day the lust got busted forever.
โMay-09-2018 01:59 PM
โMay-09-2018 01:25 PM
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:Italian product image? Used to have a next door neighbor that restored exotic cars for ultra-wealthy and influential folks like Nicolas Cage's Mercedes Gullwing (before he went broke) and Justin Trudeau's Mercedes roadster (originally owned by his father Pierre Trudeau). He once showed me a Ferrari Dino 246 GTS (circa 1970s) he was working on. Undeniably sexy-looking as h*ll on the outside but under the skin, cheaply built just like the Fiats of the day. I so lusted after one of those Ferraris for a long time but that was the day the lust got busted forever. ๐
I was always amazed at the idiocy of Italian shoe design versus price and durability and COMFORT. Pain. Fragile. But they gotta the style.
โMay-09-2018 11:36 AM
SidecarFlip wrote:
Luan is the industry name for cheap particle board....Aircraft grade... Laughable. Nothing aviation grade in any Rv that I know of.
โMay-09-2018 08:02 AM