In my latest food desert video (rendering as I type) there is a bit at the end about the USDA requesting submachineguns in their latest funding bleg.

I have it right now, on my Win. 8.1 machine I mentioned in my OP. The only thing I use it for is logging in at Starbucks so Starbucks does not mess up my Chrome tabs from the last session. Sometimes I use it to report problems to MS. End of list.

How about they get the version that came with Win. 8 working right before moving on to bigger, better things? IE has been my last choice in a browser for well over a decade because almost anything else works better.

Groovy! The first one that came up on Google was for a motorcycle.

They are a lot easier on a car, at least from my experience. When I got the Charger, it got about 5 MPG (and I measured it) PLUS the idle was so low it could barely run the good turn signal! After a refresher from the old guys at the hobby shop, I was able to tune it by ear close enough. Tuning it with a vacuum gauge is the proper way I need to remember how to do next.

Not planning to run flat tappet. Just about the only original part that will stay in this engine is the block. Going with roller cam/lifters, stroker crank, forged pistons and rods, aluminum heads, aluminum six-pack intake, ceramic coated stainless headers, etc. Wait, one original tried and true that might stay is the original 1972 electronic ignition, but still leaning to coil-near-plug setup. There is a zinc additive for people running flat tappets, but I thought that was for brake-in? Learn new stuff every day, which is the cool thing about every day!

She is a street car, not a strip car. Looking for more of a continental/pro touring feel rather than a filling shaking 1972 feel, lol. I don't need high octane unless I have high compression. Sure, I will need higher than 87 if I am above 10:1, but since nearly all of my use will be below 3,000 RPM it is probably not much of an issue. But as I said earlier, all of the "rubber" in the fuel system will be E85 safe anyway. IIRC, don't all the new Holley carbs come that way anyway now? If not I guess I'll have to do a gasket and seal swap. The heads I like are 63cc combustion chamber. Edelbrock keeps promising a tighter one in their catalog, but they still haven't produced one. Subject to change, but right now I plan for the new pistons to come up to the deck, and the bore and stroke will be modified a wee bit too ;)

My Charger has a 904 Torqueflight automatic from the factory. Sticking with the same bell housing, upgrading a few of the internals. Its big brother the 747 was the first automatic to be faster than a straight shift and the 904s handled excess of 500 HP on drag strips all day and night, back in the day.

Oh yea? Microbial contamination of fuel ethanol fermentations
Ethanol-loving bacteria accelerate cracking of pipeline steels Plus what the guy with the motorcycle upthread is complaining about.

Yep, but not exactly "low" compression, at least not as low as the 1972 factory version of that engine. But it will be kept in pump gas compression range, 10:1 11:1 ish I think. Most of my driving, she will be running on the center 2bbl. anyway, the only time I anticipate opening up the outboards is passing on the highway.

I guess that might have been the issue, people claiming marina receipt gas that they used in their cars, or something.