Mutt The Race Truck

[SuperBuickGuy]

If I had to guess, I would guess VM Motori common rail... I'm not sure what it is. It wouldn't surprise me if it was from a Fiat asset like VM Motori is. I think they used them already in the baby Compass SUV which got surprisingly sucky economy. It's so electronic, I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with it. That's where your Benz mill shines! It will still run after an EMP bomb goes off, making it the perfect Zombie Attack Vehicle.



Hopefully the electro-magnetic pulse bomb doesn't go off in Ohio and kill all the electronic timers, so we can still get a time. Maybe somebody should take a Krondek (sp?) just in case...

store a few timers in a concrete, parking garage.

[STINEY]

Concrete shields EMP?

[TheSilverBuick]

I think my Centurion will still run after an EMP blast, but I don't know where I'd be able to fill the tank =P

[CTX-SLPR]

With all these "run away diesel" videos Braub keeps posting, you'd think Dan could run his ride on the motor oil of all the computerized cars left for dead after an EMP.

[fabricatordave]

it will run just fine on trans fluid. lots of dead cars with autos in them after a EMP blast

[rightpedal]

Or home heating oil.....if the mutated zombies dont drink all the stuff first.

It warms my heart. We can still completely derail a thread after all these years.

Steve

[DanStokes]

I'm staying completely out of this.

On an unrelated note - my fall cold came back with a vengence so I haven't been out to the shop in days. The project is not abandoned, just on hold.

Dan

[Russell]

Get well soon!

[Deaf Bob]

I am not endorseing this... But it oughta do ya! http://titus2homemaker.com/2013/01/h...-decongestant/

[SuperBuickGuy]

let me get this straight, you get sick, load up on onions and garlic... is the purpose then to get your friends (who can still smell) out of the house so you can watch soaps without fear of the ridicule that generally garners?

[DanStokes]

I can't get the home remedy to open, not even from your Email. Something's weird.

As far as watching soaps - well, no. I DO, however, watch home improvement shows when I'm holed up in the house for days. There, I said it, right out loud.

Dan

[CTX-SLPR]

Cold... Thai food or Kimchi.

My wife says Kimchi is like special forces for your immune system, one good dose and stuff clears up in like 2 days tops generally.

[DanStokes]

Can't do it. I've tried but other than little bits of kimchi WITH Be-Bim-Bob I really can't do it. I guess I'm TOO European - as far as I can tell, 1/2 German and 1/2 English. Besides, no Korean restaurants here (I wonder why?) - an order of Be-Bim-Bob sounds good for dinner.

Dan

[SuperBuickGuy]

Concrete shields EMP?

yes - I know this will come as a surprise, but the media has so overblown the EMP thing. Most basement garages are more than sufficient to protect a car from EMP blasts, there's even some testing that's shown that steel-bodied cars do enough to protect the circuits...

I think my Centurion will still run after an EMP blast, but I don't know where I'd be able to fill the tank =P

it will if you store an HEI computer in a lead lined box, bury them in a cave, or use the aforementioned concrete parking garage....

and as a general rule - the air force has been protecting their planes from EMP for decades, it's not heavy anything that does it, it's simply more robust systems , aluminum surrounding critical circuits, and good grounding to those shields... honestly, do you think that if one space-burst bomb was enough to shut the entire US down; someone would have done it long before now?....

[STINEY]

... honestly, do you think that if one space-burst bomb was enough to shut the entire US down; someone would have done it long before now?....

Honestly, that is something I have been pondering for some time. If its so easy, why haven't the collective-cuckcoos done it? Guess now we all know.......answer MUST be "They already have and it didn't work".