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Mr. Sfoskett

I have no idea what I'm doing here. I wanted to contact you regarding your contributions & sources on the F150 page, but can't seem to find an e-mail for you in any of these pages. Forgive me for touching your page, but could you possibly e-mail me so that we may speak? Thank you, rfletcher@truckairbedz.com

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[edit] D2C Page Edit

Just informing you that I revised the D2C page to correctly indicate that platforms commonality with DEW98 according to statements made by Mustang Design Program Chief Engineer Hau Thai Tang in an interview with Motor Trend. For a direct quote of what Mr. Tang said

...........Thai-Tang adds that "at the component level, there's about 35-percent reusability from other Ford products. But in terms of pure DEW98 carryover, there's not a lot; the front chassis rail architecture, floorpans, trans tunnel, saddle-style fuel tanks are similar. The rest is new.".........

While Mr. Tang states that this is not a lot of commonality overall, the above, along with the unique roof structure the S197 would have to employ, constitutes the majority of the actual platform. This, along with the fact that D2C must have began with DEW98 as a basis for the above to have occured, makes it impossible for D2C to have been sourced from C1. Also keep in mind that Mr. Tang is stricly discussing parts carried over virtually intact in this statement.

Other components which had to be DEW98 based due to the use of DEW98 engineering hardpoints, like the firewall, but were so heavily modified that they possess little resemblence to their equivelant DEW98 components, and which Mr. Tang was not addressing, are still DEW98 based regardless. And since we know that D2C began on DEW98, we also know that it must share engineering hardpoints with DEW98. Amnd as you likely know these have been employed as a measure to demonstrate platform lineage for decades.

Thanks;

J. Saylor

[edit] Wikiproject Automobiles Notification

Hi Sfoskett, you were on the list of members at WikiProject Automobiles and we are introducing a new way of listing members, as the old list was becoming too long. Our new method involves having all of our members in a category.

To add yourself to the category just add the userbox to your user page by putting {{Wiki Auto Project}} where you want the userbox. Alternatively if you don't like the userbox you can add [[Category:WikiProject Automobiles members|Sfoskett]] to your userpage.

If you no longer wish to be a member of the project, simply don't add the userbox or category, there's no pressure. Thanks for your time, James086Talk | Contribs 04:26, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] '1965' Studebaker convertible is actually a '64 -- Caption changed

Please be aware that I have changed the caption in the Studebaker Lark article of the '1965' convertible. Since there were no 1965 convertibles, this would be a 1964. -- Thanks. TeemPlayer 10:36, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lincoln Continental Mark III misidentified

Hi, you added a picture of what you thought was a black 1969 Mark III to the 1968.5-1969 section of the Lincoln Continental Mark III article. The car in the picture is actually a 1970 Mark III with 1969 wheel covers. I am sure the incorrect wheel covers lead to your confusion, but the front parking light lenses and the interior seat pattern clearly identifies the vehicle as a 1970 model. 76spirit 19:06, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Mazda Wankel sales.JPG listed for deletion

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[edit] Survey Invitation

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[edit] honda template

I was surfing around Wikipedia and I just wanted to say how impressed I was with Template:Modern Honda vehicles. I'm far from a car fanatic but the template is really easy to understand and interact with, kudos. Vicarious 09:31, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Converters

Hi , i saw you have made these AUTO PS etc convert templates, just wondering if you could do also bhp to kW / PS converters. We had small discussion here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alfa_Romeo_Giulietta --Typ932 14:09, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Queen Mary & sub: photo

Because of the low light, your Wikicommons photo of the Queen Mary alongside the B-427 doesn't allow the sub to be seen clearly, especially in the thumbnail preview. I took a daytime photo from almost exactly the same vantage point. What do you think... dodge the original in PS, or replace it? — VoxLuna T / C  01:01, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Chevrolet TrailBlazer.jpg

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[edit] LS3

Whoa, when did those auto tags come around for neatly doing displacement and horsepower? Ayocee 16:43, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Morris Major

I enjoyed the Austin Kimberley article that I see you kicked off. Thank you. I was wondering (purely out of my own personal interest) whether you might have time and information available to do something similar for the Australian built Morris Major from a decade or so earlier. I remember it turned up in a 1960s version of 'The Observers' Book of Cars' (a pocket sized compendium for infant car nuts produced annually here in England at that time) but my son has borrowed my copy.... Thanks for giving it thought. At least. Charles01 06:33, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template

Hi. Is it me or there's something wrong in this template? --Gliu use my carrier pigeon 04:39, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

It was a vandalism, it's ok now. --Gliu use my carrier pigeon 04:43, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 'More horsepower'

I notice that you debated this at User talk:RivGuySC. The issue has cropped up again. Please see the MOS talk page and give your opinion. Editore99 14:53, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong width on Jeep Grand Cherokee?

Hello. You originally contributed a width of 84.2 inches wide for the Jeep Grand Cherokee WK article, but that seems to be wrong. See the discussion on the page's talk section. The correct width would seem to be 74.2 inches. Perhaps you could double-check your source on this. 207.69.139.145 06:37, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mazda T platform

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[edit] BMW M10

Hi Sfoskett. I see that (over a year ago now!) you added the "Models" table to the BMW M10 page. Are you able to explain it to me? I don't understand why there are 4 rows labelled "M10B18" and two rows labelled "M10B18V". Thanks. DH85868993 13:04, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Global_Hybrid_Cooperation_transmission_cutaway.jpg

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[edit] Lansing Car Chassis Assembly

I've nominated Lansing Car Chassis Assembly for deletion, because it's really just part of Lansing Car Assembly. If you'd like, you could copy this information over to that page. Lansing Car Assembly consists of quite a few different buildings, but it's still all LCA. --71.206.107.202 00:19, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CfD nomination of Category:Classic vehicles

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[edit] Photo source info

Greetings, Sfoskett. I received a message regarding a photo you uploaded, Image:Lexus GS.jpg, probably because I uploaded a contrast-adjusted version of it. The message is here: User_talk:Enigma3542002#Image_source_problem_with_Image:Lexus_GS.jpg. As the original uploader of the photo, would you be able to add source info to the pic? Otherwise the photo will be deleted. If you can do that, I probably will transfer the photo to Wikimedia Commons. Thank you for your help. Enigma3542002 19:08, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Enterprise storage

A {{prod}} template has been added to the article Enterprise storage, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with {{db-author}}. Austin Murphy 16:52, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 'Auto hp' template

Hi,

I see that 'Auto hp' template can take '18 hp' and convert it to '18 hp (13 kW)'. Can it be made to convert '18 horsepower'? Lightmouse 14:24, 21 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Redirect of GM S platform

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[edit] Laura Ashé

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[edit] Template:Buick/temp

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Also Template:Ferrari vehicles/Temp Bryan Derksen 05:35, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Honda MPYA transmission

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[edit] ft•lbf vs. lb•ft

Greetings, Sfoskett. I've always perceived a problem with Template:Auto ft.lbf, for it generates a unit notation that is not only incorrect for the application, but also not appropriately formatted. If you'll take a quick look at Foot-pound force, you'll see that ft•lbf is the formal notation for the unit of energy, while lb•ft is used to denote torque. In practice, lb•ft and ft•lb are used interchangeably to denote torque — though many physics professors over the years taught me that lb•ft is to be preferred — but ft•lbf is not used to denote the torque output of an engine or motor except on Wikipedia, as it seems. What would be the correct procedure to initiate a discussion proposing that the unit label produced by this widely-used template be corrected? Thanks. --Scheinwerfermann (talk) 17:29, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Interesting. I posted the paragraph above ↑ with minor modifications to all the discussion areas I could think of, and got exactly zero response, so I went ahead and changed the template. Touch wood, so far so good. Perhaps the loud ones who forced ft•lbf on us have moved on to bigger and better things. Enjoy the beach. --Scheinwerfermann (talk) 03:08, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of HP E-series

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[edit] Tremec T-45 transmission

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[edit] AfD nomination of Chrysler LA engine

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[edit] Honda H3 transmission

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[edit] Jatco JF506E transmission

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[edit] Mazda F4A-EL transmission

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[edit] Ward's AutoWorld

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Amati.jpg

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