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When will Trump repeal the CAFE standards? Bring back the real V8 engines?

Posted on 5/13/25 at 5:58 pm
Posted by Crappieman
Member since Apr 2025
223 posts
Posted on 5/13/25 at 5:58 pm
Bring back the GM Vortec 5.3 and the Toyota 5.7. Both are tanks and deserve to return to market.
Posted by CuyahogaTigerJr
Northeast ohio
Member since Aug 2018
2323 posts
Posted on 5/13/25 at 6:24 pm to
Really just a 4 banger with out cvt but I hear yeah
Posted by M. A. Ryland
silver spring, MD
Member since Dec 2005
2115 posts
Posted on 5/13/25 at 6:28 pm to
I want my incandescent bulbs back.
Posted by lsufan1971
Zachary
Member since Nov 2003
21674 posts
Posted on 5/13/25 at 6:32 pm to
quote:

Bring back the GM Vortec 5.3 and the Toyota 5.7. Both are tanks and deserve to return to market.


Sorry it won’t happen. It would cost 100’s of millions to retool factories. What happens in 3 years if a D gets elected again.
Posted by Doctor Strangelove
Member since Feb 2018
3124 posts
Posted on 5/13/25 at 6:48 pm to
Also, go back to R 22 for refrigerant. The cost has more than tripled in 6 years for a 3.5 ton Trane unit. I am told it’s due to EPA constantly banning refrigerants in favor of something “less” harmful to the environment.
Posted by International_Aggie
Member since Oct 2012
1867 posts
Posted on 5/13/25 at 8:01 pm to
The 5.3 vortex still exists, it’s just been over worked by the stupid AFM.
Posted by Crappieman
Member since Apr 2025
223 posts
Posted on 5/13/25 at 8:05 pm to
Give me the plain ol vortec 5.3 with 4 speed tranny.
Posted by captainFid
Vestavia, AL
Member since Dec 2014
7841 posts
Posted on 5/13/25 at 8:10 pm to
And don't forget... we need him to get rid of DEF for diesels.
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
Here
Member since Jan 2011
69217 posts
Posted on 5/13/25 at 8:32 pm to
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need him to get rid of DEF for diesels.


Its a pipe dream
Posted by FATBOY TIGER
Valhalla
Member since Jan 2016
11456 posts
Posted on 5/13/25 at 8:37 pm to
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.. we need him to get rid of DEF for diesels.


You can get rid of it.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
96923 posts
Posted on 5/13/25 at 8:47 pm to
Leaded gas
4 barrel carbs
R-12 Freon
Posted by The_Duke
Member since Nov 2016
3886 posts
Posted on 5/13/25 at 9:12 pm to
quote:

Also, go back to R 22 for refrigerant. The cost has more than tripled in 6 years for a 3.5 ton Trane unit. I am told it’s due to EPA constantly banning refrigerants in favor of something “less” harmful to the environment.


Why stop there?

Let's bring back Lead Paint and asbestos insulation
Posted by Jack Ruby
Member since Apr 2014
25381 posts
Posted on 5/13/25 at 9:26 pm to
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Give me the plain ol vortec 5.3 with 4 speed tranny


That 4L60E is a POS though.
Posted by GhostofJimMorrison
Member since Feb 2025
77 posts
Posted on 5/13/25 at 9:41 pm to
Not really your type of conversation bubbles. Ever considered starting a "glory hole" forum on here for you and the rest of the Blue Oyster Club?
Posted by Crappieman
Member since Apr 2025
223 posts
Posted on 5/13/25 at 9:50 pm to
It lasts longer than these newer multi-speed trannies.

In 2007 I bought a new 2007 Chevy classis LS. Now has 250,000 miles and engine doesn't use/leak oil. 4L60E has has 3 transmission flushes through the years. Still my daily driver. No GM built truck today is that solid.
Posted by Wishnitwas1998
where TN, MS, and AL meet
Member since Oct 2010
61680 posts
Posted on 5/13/25 at 10:20 pm to
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Sorry it won’t happen. It would cost 100’s of millions to retool factories. What happens in 3 years if a D gets elected again.


This is the unseen and mostly unspoken of cost of our modern method of governing via countless EOs. Even when a conservative like Trump fixes old EOs that are bad it still comes with a cost of refitting to do things the old way and a lot of times due to that cost producers never will and that's IF a D doesn't show up in less than 4 years and force them back

It's all very fricked
Posted by Beessnax
Member since Nov 2015
10220 posts
Posted on 5/13/25 at 10:31 pm to
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Sorry it won’t happen. It would cost 100’s of millions to retool factories


Well nobody is buying this new crap unless they absolutely have to and no business can survive without customers
Posted by TrueTiger
Chicken's most valuable
Member since Sep 2004
76849 posts
Posted on 5/13/25 at 11:48 pm to
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Let's bring back Lead Paint and asbestos insulation



I grew up in a house with lead paint and asbestos.


No problems. We didn't eat the paint or break up the asbestos and snort it.
Posted by TheBoo
South to Louisiana
Member since Aug 2012
5135 posts
Posted on 5/14/25 at 12:31 am to
I have a 400 hp small block in my F150..

But I completely agree.

Get rid of the emissions bs for gas and diesel engines.
This post was edited on 5/14/25 at 1:28 pm
Posted by Loserman
Member since Sep 2007
22968 posts
Posted on 5/14/25 at 5:39 am to
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Leaded gas
4 barrel carbs
R-12 Freon



One of this is definitely not like the others.

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