Author Archives: Will@FluxAuto

The Ohio Mile – Hot Rod Unlimited

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Hot Rod Magazine checks out the Ohio Mile hosted by the East Coast Timing Association. This event is essentially the East Coast equivalent of the Bonneville Salt Flats. It used to be run on a WWII runway in Maxton, North Carolina until the military reclaimed that location. Now the ECTA has found an abandoned runway in Wilmington, Ohio where racers can safely attempt to break the 200 mph barrier. Of the 175 who entered, 24 were able to do it.


Source: Motor Trend on YouTube

1970 Cuda 440 Six Pack – Big Muscle

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If I was to pick up a muscle car project, it would definitely be a Mopar. My friend tells me that makes sense because I’m kind of weird. If liking this video means that I’m a little weird, then I’m definitely OK with that. Big Muscle on Drive found this amazing 1970 triple black, numbers matching 1970 Barracuda 440 six pack. The owner first rode in it over 40 years ago when his cousin owned it. He bought it from his cousin for 1000 dollars and has kept it ever since. He did a nut and bolt restoration and upgraded the original engine to output over 700 horsepower.


Source: DRIVE on YouTube

Battles at 10,000 rpm – Best Motoring

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The Best Motoring crew sets out to find the ultimate naturally aspirated car the only way they know how: a track battle. These guys do car reviews similar to shows like Top Gear, but the big difference is they like to interact with aftermarket tuners such as Spoon, J’s Racing and Powerhouse Amuse. They do a lot of wheel to wheel track racing and touge road racing to compare cars and discuss tuning philosophies. For this particular comparison, they try to find the best of tuned naturally aspirated cars. They talk about the benefits of NA tuning versus turbochargers and then they see whose car is fastest around Tsukuba. The lineup runs from a B18 CRX to a couple of NSX’s, a 350Z and 20b 3-rotor FD RX-7 by RE Amemiya.


Source: GT Channel on YouTube

Venus Transit by the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory

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The NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory took this video of the Venus transit on June 5th, 2012. We’re able to see it for the first time like this thanks to the technology developed for the SDO. It’s pretty amazing. I’ll let NASA explain the details:

“On June 5 2012, SDO collected images of the rarest predictable solar event–the transit of Venus across the face of the sun.  This event happens in pairs eight years apart that are separated from each other by 105 or 121 years.  The last transit was in 2004 and the next will not happen until 2117.

The videos and images displayed here are constructed from several wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light and a portion of the visible spectrum.  The red colored sun is the 304 angstrom ultraviolet, the golden colored sun is 171 angstrom, the magenta sun is 1700 angstrom, and the orange sun is filtered visible light.  304 and 171 show the atmosphere of the sun, which does not appear in the visible part of the spectrum.”


Source: NASA Explorer on YouTube