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When you spend ages on your CSR entry and then see the rest of the competition
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When you only have 2 hours to make a âcarâ for BRC
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When you close the beta and temps go way down
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When you have just a small shot of N2O
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When something is an awesome idea on paper⌠and not so awesome in reality.
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Why why would they do that!? Also fwd v8 What car?
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It looks like a Northstar V8⌠so I assume a Caddy?
I donât actually know because a friend sent this to me, and he got it off Facebook, or so he says.
âWhat car is that?â was the first thing I asked him, lol.
After some Googling, apparently Toyota 4.7L V8s have the same design. >.>
Excuse my french but thats fucking ridicolus to have to remove the entire intake manifold to get to the starter
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Looking at that engine bay⌠it may not have fit anywhere else⌠and that is the time when they should have reconsidered the concept of a FWD V8 of that size in general.
Now I really have to ask why Toyota did such a thing too. They donât mount their V8s transversely, so space shouldnât be a driving force for that starter location. 
As for intake removal⌠I faced a similar issue with my Altima; though not for the starter, but for the PCV valve. Iâll probably post the whole story in a new thread about repairs that Iâve been thinking about making, but the short version of it is that I technically had to remove the intake manifold to get to said PCV (even though I didnât do it that way). The reason for that is KA24DEs were originally designed to be mounted longitudinally, and in that configuration, getting to the PCV valve isnât an issue. Well years later they adapted the KA to be mounted transversely for Altimas. I wouldnât really expect them to redesign the whole system because of that. Toyotaâs V8 though⌠leaves me scratching my head.
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That way you canât fix it in your driveway, you have to go bend over at the dealership to get it fixed.
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About half of itâs uses were longitudinal, so they likely didnât do any revisions for the ones that got transverse applications. So although 240SX, Frontier, and Xterra owners will be happy servicing their own cars, most others wonât.
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i remember seeing that before, i think it was a way of getting around requiring a permit for expansion
Oh man, the new Sportage.
I really hate that thing .
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