The driver broke his thumb.
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My 911SC holds 13.75 quarts in the system. Although with all the lines running up to the oil coolers, the coolers themselves, etc, the typical oil change capacity is about 10 quartsâevery 4,000 miles or 3 times per year.
do you change oil every four months regardless of miles?
I donât do more than 3000 miles a year in my non-daily-drivers, so i wind up doing oil changes once a year in those cars. (A 2002 E46 BMW wagon, a 2011 Cayman and a 2013 Mazda MX5)
Yes. Itâs a regimen that has worked for me for decades.
The Porsche never sees road salt so I change it at the start of driving weather.
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I liked Rowan playing those roles as well, but I also like his Mr Bean character. Itâs supposed to be a bit ridiculous. However, I much prefer him in his original shows and not so much the movies. The movies got somewhat annoying rather quickly with only a few truly funny parts.
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If you havenât seen Mr Bean perform with the London Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle, 2012 Olympics, you should.
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I drove an Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio today. The power was beyond what I expected. I would say itâs far beyond the power of '60âs muscle cars off the showroom floor⌠And the chassis is perfectly up to the task. Nice car. But $90K. $90K.
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For those of us who started driving in the early '70âs you can just move the decimal point one place to the right for most everything. Cars, houses, gasoline, clothes, etc.
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My girlfriend has the Alfa. Nice machine.
She is eagerly waiting for the new 1,000BHP Alfa.
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Uhhhâdoes she have a sister?
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If you would have read the links I posted you would have learned that there are many companies that do recycle these batteries. VW Group even has there own EV battery recycling plant.
Unlike liquid hydrocarbons, whose energy content is gone after theyâre burned as gasoline, an atom of cobalt is an atom of cobalt regardless of how many batteries itâs been in. So, end-of-life EV batteries offer a future source of those valuable metals, already extracted from the ground and neatly packaged in a box.
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The meaning of fast cars in the US (and anywhere else than in Germany) is on race tracks and from traffic lights to the next, correct?
Exactly. The recycling of the batteries is a major positive variable in the overall Ev equation.
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And roll racing.
(Two cars line up at, for example, 60 MPH. At a signal from one of the drivers the cars accelerate as fast as possible, often to 150 MPH or so.)
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It really wasnât until recently⌠hard to put a number on it⌠that American car companies started building cars that were really performance cars. 0-60 is all they wanted to build and declare them sports cars. The first track weekend I did was in 2000 or thereabouts⌠a guy had a brand new Corvette⌠forget the the model⌠anywho⌠he had to leave for home at lunch the first day because the brakes would boil away. Back then, there were very very few cars that were âtrack readyâ off the showroom floor. Porsches were (I had one). The American car companies know that very few would ever take their cars out on a track so why waste the cost? A buddy of mine who worked in the car industry in Detroit said the joke back in the day about GM was âif a customer doesnât see it, it ainât in thereâ.
So what is fast? Stupid word. For me, I like âsports carâ and could care less about fast. What is a sports car? A car that is track ready right off the showroom floor⌠brakes, cooling, and oiling are all to the task of continual, repetitious stress.
Peace
Bruce in Philly
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I heavily tracked and coached in a 2001 Corvette Z06 without any issues, such as brakes boiling.
While there are a good number of competent sports cars, including Porsches, all street cars with which I am familiar need some upgrades/mods to be solid track weapons. While we like to pretend they are street cars, not race cars. A hard twenty minute session reveals this. 
This includes beefing up the brakes - minimum of better and fresh fluid, appropriate pads, attention to brake cooling; engine cooling, tranny cooling can be an issue, track appropriate alignment, wheels/tires, etc.
But many sport cars can run some open track time out of the box without an issue as long as you keep an eye on everything and keep it rational, respecting the machinery.
On the topic of brake cooling, the C7 Z06 comes with add-on brake cooling ducts, restrictors, etc. for track use. GM recommends this equipment, while OEM, not be used on the street. As I recall, there some extra goodies for other C7s as well, but not for the base model.
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In my yoot, I was all about power. Why would anyone care about anything other than a straight line?
I was crazy about my SS396 Chevelle.
But then my sister came home with a new boyfriend driving a 1962(?) Alfa Giulietta Veloce Spider. Maybe 80 HP. But after driving it about 1 mile, my life changed. I still remember every detail of the moment I bought my first set of track tires. They were a very different kind of slicks. (Blue Streaks)
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Cool. 
As a side note, I have drag raced a couple of my cars (bracket racing only). I am lousy off of the line. I am impressed with the skill of a good drag racer.
Especially when theyâre dealing with a manual trans.
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