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Simon: Nils? You can close in now. Nils?
John McClane: [on the guard's phone] Attention! Attention! Nils is dead! I repeat, Nils is dead, ----head. So's his pal, and those four guys from the East German All-Stars, your boys at the bank? They're gonna be a little late.
Simon: [on the phone] John... in the back of the truck you're driving, there's $13 billon dollars worth in gold bullion. I wonder would a deal be out of the question?
John McClane: [on the phone] Yeah, I got a deal for you. Come out from that rock you're hiding under, and I'll drive this truck up your ass.
Those are pushrods, not steeringrods (if you're thinking about two bumps on top of the front end of the chassis). They obviously needed some space and its better to have smal bumps than to make whole space rised and flattened which would possibly require more weight and worse aero.
This is a typical and classic case of two engineering teams having a conflict. The suspension guys have a geomerty that unfortunately, can't be altered in this area. And the aero people want a nose a certain dimension. So we wind up seeing two small bumps as a compromise, the least effect, the least negaitve impact.
dumrick wrote:Side note: beautiful number of posts Dave has now (962!). Instead of decimal system slaves we should celebrate numbers like 911, 917, 956, 959, 962...
