Jun 07, 2008 by DaShauvn J | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs
Last week one of my coworkers thought it would be fun to play a prank on me and put water in my gas tank. So now I have to get a new fuel system and complete engine flush - $3000.
What can I do to stop him from doing this again. What can
First off....don't lower yourself to that dirtbags level! Be the better man. Pursue legal action to make him have to pay for the repairs to your vehicle if you can prove it was him.
Secondly......I would get a second opinion on the repairs
Patrick D | Jun 07, 2008
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For want of a greener Formula One
I really didn’t have any and most likely will not have any time this week to put down a completely new post, so I’m stealing from myself. If you didn’t already know, I work for MSN Malaysia as a Sports Writer. I fancy myself as a Formula One/motorsport specific writer. So in trying to immortalize one of what I believe to be one of the better ones, here’s having at it:
For want of a greener Formula One
In a recent gush of will by a bunch of men in white coats who hang around Formula One paddocks with clipboards in their hands, the FIA has decided that it should now crack down on making Formula One a greener sport harder than ever.
Apart from the already agreed upon new engine specifications for the 2013 season, – a measly 1.5 litre, four-cylinder turbo-charged engine – the FIA is still hell-bent on finding more ways in which Formula One can earn further merits of green-ism. This scares me a whole lot to be honest.
The battle to make Formula One a green sport was always going to be a case of the Irresistible Force Paradox wasn’t it? Where an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. The nature of a Formula One car and its engineers is to be the best and the quickest it can be, while green-ism persists that they do it the other slower way around. Imposing Draconian laws to force teams into submission would do next to nothing but destroy the sport, so what are we to do then?
One bit of brilliance as seen recently in the field of merit-earning green-ism is the reintroduction of KERS to the 2011 season. Although nothing has been confirmed just yet, teams have already begun tinkering with the idea of making KERS a cost-friendly solution that everyone can garner to their benefit next year.
Personally, I like the KERS system. It recycles wasted power to produce even more power. Even Ferrari’s latest road-going concoction includes the system, the 2010 Ferrari 599 HY KERS. A mouthful to say the least, but Ferrari really did get the job of making a ‘green’ car done better than most didn’t they? Because unlike most other hybrids which suddenly turn into wimpy hatchbacks, Ferrari found yet another way to make the 599 go even faster. Which should really be the case in Formula One.
