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For those who didn't watch the entire 24 Hours Of Le Mans by subsisting on a diet of Bawls and Pop Rocks this weekend, we've got a short wrap-up for you. We'll leave the salient details for below the jump, just in case there are some of you out there that TiVo'd the festivities and are planning to dole out the oil-burning goodness four hours at a time for the next week. Needless to say, some cars won. Others didn't. There was weather. If you want to know more you're going to have to click the button that says "more." LMP1 Class The big news here was that the trio of Peugeots fell to the #2 Audi Sport North America car driven by Capello, McNish and Kirstensen. Hmm... the Audis winning Le Mans. Where have we heard that before ? In case you were curious it was Audi, Pug, Pug, Audi, Pug, Audi. The drama continued all the way to the end with both the #2 Audi and the #7 Peugeot finishing on the same lap. LMP2 Though not as exciting as some of the other classes...
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Looks like the voting is still neck-and-neck on the Plate-O-Shrimp Edition Choose Your Eternity poll , so those of you who feel strongly about J. Frank Parnell's Malibu or Bud's Impala better go and cast some votes. Today we're going to ditch the common-theme-between-entrants idea and go with a couple of compelling-yet-markedly-different choices. Thanks- and a Project Car Hell Tipster T-shirt - to ZZMarcus for the tip! How would you like a stealthy sedan with design by Giorgetto Giugiaro and a Ferrari 308 Quattrovalvole engine under the hood? Say, perhaps, this 1989 Lancia Thema 8.32 , which just failed to sell when the top bid of $7600 didn't meet the reserve price? That means the seller's probably in a price-cutting mood! Never heard of the Thema? Well, head on over to this bitter and heavily pro-Thema-biased Wikipedia entry and check it out! This particular example is in "excellent original condition," according to the seller, needing only some minor paint...
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Yesterday's QOTD was a really good one for multiple reasons . One of the many topics discussed was power vs. torque, a concept still not that well understood by petrolheads. To radically simplify the argument, push-rod mills have less reciprocating mass and are therefor able to generate oodles of twisting force down low in the rev range. They tend to burble rather than scream, need larger displacements and don't rev all that high. On the other hand, smaller overhead valve engines are able to whirl up to lofty red lines and generate stellar horsepower figures, but sacrifice bottom-end grunt in the process. For example, lets compare the Z06's 7.0-liter V8 to the Ferrari F430's 4.3-liter V8. The uber (for now) Vette stumps up 505-hp at 6,800 rpm while the Ferrari's relatively diminutive power plant blats out 490-hp at 8,500 rpm. However, the Z06 stumps 470 ft-lb of twist at 4,800 rpm while the Italian can "only " muster 343 ft-lb at 5,250 rpm. There's a Talmud passage that deals with what...
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