Porsche Put 54 Pounds Of Extra Weight In My Car To Make It Nicer To Drive, So I Threw It Away

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[mylife]

Do you ever get to a point in a multi-year project where you start to lose steam and you’re worried that the thing that used to be a car sitting on your QuickJacks in the garage is rapidly transforming into a really expensive paperweight? Lately that’s how I’ve been feeling about my Boxster. I used to love this car, but then I decided to turn it into an ambitious electrified track car and it’s been in various states of disassembly ever since. Well, over the weekend I hacked off the windshield, and I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited about moving forward with the project.

Illustration for article titled Porsche Put 54 Pounds Of Extra Weight In My Car To Make It Nicer To Drive, So I Threw It Away Porsche Put 12 Pounds Of Extra Weight In My Car To Make It Nicer To Drive, So I Threw It Away There is nothing I despise more than concessions to comfort in a sports car.

The last time I took some weight out of one of my Porsche project cars you folks in the comments section had a lot to say about it. It’s unsafe. It’s not what the German engineers intended. It’s going to completely screw up the handling! And that was just a small anti-vibration weight hanging off the engine mount of an entry level model Porsche forgot about pretty much as soon as it ended production in 1976! I can only imagine what you’ll think of me removing something actually useful like a shield for wind. I bet it’ll be similar to my mother’s reaction when I told her I’d quit my job to become a writer.

[Yo-Yo]

I tried to resize pic, but it never works for me

Resizing is easy. You have two choices: Either specify a specific width, or specify a percentage of the available display window.

To resize via specific width, for example, 500 pixels, you would type:

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/f8kkDPp.jpg" width="500">

and get:

To allow the image to dynamically resize, for example to 75% of the available display width of the current tab, you would type:

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/f8kkDPp.jpg" width="50%">

And get:

The cool thing about specifying a percentage is that it automatically resized the image if you resize your browser, and it automatically displays correctly on a laptop with a 1920 pixel wide display and on a desktop with a 3960 pixel wide display.

[mylife]

I always forget too, and it pisses me off that in the age of digital phones they all default to 1 gabillion megapixels!

[eyeamok]

this is what I put at the end, immediately following .jpg

jpg” “height=218” “width=285”></img>

where did I go wrong??

[mylife]

you over shot the runway

[Yo-Yo]

Not even with a gold-plated HF ICON socket wrench?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77mh9oFBwAM

https://www.harborfreight.com/38-in-drive-professional-ratchet-gold-plated-56907.html

[mylife]

you need more instrumentation time...

[mylife]

Real fake Chinese gold plate?

[null and void]

Try:

< img src=[the url] width=500>

[heavy metal]

i’ve ridden a few 3 wheeler atvs and you’re correct about high siding...

the manufacturer of the frankenstein trike kit took all of that into consideration...

the raked triple trees for the forks throws the front wheel approximately 6 inches further out from the stock position to reduce the high siding effect when cornering...

check out the kit...

it’s a very well built setup...

[mylife]

put a knurled handle on it so I don’t bust my knuckles...

[mylife]

I’ll take your word for it and understand since I can no longer ride either

[null and void]

KEWL!!!!!

[Yo-Yo]

this is what I put at the end, immediately following .jpg jpg” “height=218” “width=285”> where did I go wrong??

I can't tell for sure, but by looking at the source code for this page, you may have forgotten the closing >.

[Yo-Yo]

Real fake Chinese gold plate?

Not real fake, but real thin.

[null and void]

If you specify BOTH height AND width you have to guess the right numbers to maintain aspect ratio, if you specify EITHER height OR width the aspect ratio is preserved.

[mylife]

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Transcending the limits of sanity so we don’t have to. Thanks!!!

[heavy metal]

with almost 30 years of operating automotive towing and recovery services i’ve cleaned up numerous motorcycle wrecks...

i absolutely refuse to ride a motorcycle on the streets...

[mylife]

Cheers!

[mylife]

depends on the streets...