The hood braces were in the way, so he removed them for about a foot in each direction, but then used a jigsaw, which could have cut through the braces.
I was typing this while writing and thought "Having the exhaust in front of him will be problematic since he drives with his window open."
"Let's see if I can still breathe while driving the car, which is kind of important."
He drove less than normal because the fumes were overwhelming.
"The windows were down which upset some people."
People keep insisting he uses off-road fuel, so not for the first time he clearly showed the fuel before he added it to the tank, and since people claimed temperature differences would affect the actual fuel economy, he showed the temperature before he ran a fuel economy run, and said that if it wasn't the same temperature afterward, he would wait.
He said that he has tortured the Saturn more than enough. He will try more experiments with the Kubota, but in a different car.
Doesn't he have two more Saturns?!
He will torture the Renault next: