Automotive Addicts Lounge V2- Why we are all broke:
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[QUOTE=Squarebob;47571294]I had a fun drive home today, merged onto the highway goin the speed limit of 60mph and a county cop merges behind me from another highway and stayed there for the 20 miles to my turn off. Nobody behind us had the balls to go the usual 70mph that they do on that road so there was just a huge line of cars :v:[/QUOTE]
I love watching those lines, they form on any road whatsoever. I've seen four lane highways with three lanes empty because a cop car was going 60.
There's always a couple of guys trying to pass the line, but see the police car half way through and just give up, taking a spot even further back in the line.
Am I the only one who passes cops?
Back in August 2013, just a month after getting my car back from the shop after t-boning an SUV, I hit a curb and scraped a bunch of brand new paint off of it. I was livid. I hated looking at this one flaw on my car.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/bg517ejl.jpg[/img]
And then this past February, I hit an iceberg and busted up the other side of my car!
[img]http://i.imgur.com/9hoh9Lrl.jpg[/img]
And today, I installed the new bumper, yay! I'll be making lots of wide turns for a while, I imagine.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/ebMgdWul.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=CoilingTesla;47571377]Am I the only one who passes cops?[/QUOTE]
No way I'm doing it in Norway, they can stop you to check if your wheels/coilovers/window tint/spoiler/lights and so on fits the car's paperwork.
Then you get the leading questions...
Basically it's not worth the time saved.
[QUOTE=Oscar Lima Echo;47571485]No way I'm doing it in Norway, they can stop you to check if your wheels/coilovers/window tint/spoiler/lights and so on fits the car's paperwork.
Then you get the leading questions...
Basically it's not worth the time saved.[/QUOTE]
They're always on facebook or playing solitaire here. County police are only [i]slightly[/i] more situationally aware than the average licensed driver around here.
Now that I have an OEM steering wheel and airbags, I don't think I'd get in any trouble for it. Even when cops looked into my cabin before, they never said anything about the OMP steering wheel or not having airbags. They just said something along the lines of "nice piece of kit you got there."
I'd love to hear what a cop has to say about my $35 ebay intake.
The cops in Burbank are rad as hell. When it was raining here last, I went to a big abandoned parking lot to do donuts since my car is too slow and the diff too open to do it dry. A Burbank PD came into the lot in a Caprice and started doing donuts with me, then a sheriff in a Crown Vic happened to be passing by and joined both of us! It was great!
[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;47570816]m-mitsubishi GTO? Reliable? or are we thinking of different GTOs?[/QUOTE]
It's called the Mitsubishi 3000GT in the US, or is a badge-engineered Dodge Stealth.
Pontiac was around with the GTO muscle car before it.
Cops around here are relatively cool. I pass them like any car if they are driving slower than the limit, and I obviously dont pass them while speeding more that 3-5 over. I get casual waves and nods from them a sometimes.
It's a never ending battle trying to keep this thing clean. But I don't mind putting in the effort. On Sunday it got a maintenance wash and a second coat of Auto Glym HD wax. This picture is from before it was cleaned. I'm still waiting on my replacement alloy and I need to ask for another. And either a repair on the front bumper or a replacement for that as well as it was in a smack of some sort and the bumper is cracked with some minor paint damage.
[img]http://i60.tinypic.com/291p6jp.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=CoilingTesla;47571377]Am I the only one who passes cops?[/QUOTE]
i do
[QUOTE=CoilingTesla;47571503]They're always on facebook or playing solitaire here. County police are only [i]slightly[/i] more situationally aware than the average licensed driver around here.
Now that I have an [B]OEM steering wheel and airbags[/B], I don't think I'd get in any trouble for it. Even when cops looked into my cabin before, they never said anything about the OMP steering wheel or not having airbags. They just said something along the lines of "nice piece of kit you got there."
I'd love to hear what a cop has to say about my $35 ebay intake.[/QUOTE]
Ahhh fuck that reminds me the previous owner installed a M-tech wheel without airbags.
I just wonder what goes through someone's head as they throw out their airbag...
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;47571541]The cops in Burbank are rad as hell. When it was raining here last, I went to a big abandoned parking lot to do donuts since my car is too slow and the diff too open to do it dry. A Burbank PD came into the lot in a Caprice and started doing donuts with me, then a sheriff in a Crown Vic happened to be passing by and joined both of us! It was great![/QUOTE]
They were probably excited as hell to have some rain!
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[QUOTE=dcalde78;47571573]It's a never ending battle trying to keep this thing clean. But I don't mind putting in the effort. On Sunday it got a maintenance wash and a second coat of Auto Glym HD wax. This picture is from before it was cleaned. I'm still waiting on my replacement alloy and I need to ask for another. And either a repair on the front bumper or a replacement for that as well as it was in a smack of some sort and the bumper is cracked with some minor paint damage.
[img]http://i60.tinypic.com/291p6jp.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Nice looking FiST!
[QUOTE=CoilingTesla;47571377]Am I the only one who passes cops?[/QUOTE]
Yes. I did it once. [B][I]ONCE[/I][/B] and got a $460 ticket and half the allowed points on my license.
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[QUOTE=Oscar Lima Echo;47571485]No way I'm doing it in Norway, they can stop you to check if your wheels/coilovers/window tint/spoiler/lights and so on fits the car's paperwork.
Then you get the leading questions...
Basically it's not worth the time saved.[/QUOTE]
It's not hard to keep your car legal. Wheels can vary about 5% in circumference without there being a problem. Get your coils approved and your wheels aligned. Tint from the B pillar and back, unless you paint it, you should be good. Don't install aftermarket HIDs or non-approved extra lights, and you're all good.
[QUOTE=Grenadiac;47570981]Current generation Civics are just God-awful. I don't have a problem with Jap imports or tuning said imports although personally they aren't my style, but current gen Civics are grocery getters and they aren't even very good at that - my mother had one and it was quickly replaced.[/QUOTE]
The 2014-2015 is a pretty decent car and the 8th gens are all really solid cars too provided you get it in a Si with a K series/manual and stiffer suspension. They're actually crazy good platforms with insane amounts of aftermarket just like the earlier ones. The difference between the older gutless single cam ones and these later ones is that you slap a turbo on the stock K series and make 400whp with a clutch upgrade, ARP headstuds and a fresh OEM headgasket. 250whp is "easily" possible N/A too. K series cars are basically the big leagues compared to the older stuff which has long been proven to be decent. Everything is much more expensive but something like 500-600hp is "easy" to make while with the older B series stuff you're building a straight race motor
[QUOTE=CoilingTesla;47571188]I'm pretty sure Civics, by definition, are economy cars. Not the slowest, but still economy cars. I wouldn't bother supercharging it unless you want to rent another car to drive for the next couple months, because once you start going forced induction, you're gonna have to modify quite a bit of the engine bay, and unless you're rebuilding the whole engine with performance-oriented parts (performance exhaust, lower-compression pistons, new piston sleeves, stronger con-rods, new cams, and new valves and valve-springs), it's kind of just a waste to just slap a supercharger and an aftermarket ECM on a newer car like that. It will probably ruin it's reliability and not add as much power as you are expecting. Also, good luck with the electrical problems you will be sorting out for god knows how long.[/QUOTE]
Superchargers are complete bolt-on, you can expect about 300-350whp from one of the K24 Si if you do a few supporting bolt-on mods and get it tuned. You absolutely do not need to do a damn thing to a K series before 350whp depending on which motor it is and after that it highly depends on the tune and goals entirely. I'll post a video of an entirely stock car with a supercharger, slicks, injectors and an E85 tune put down some solid numbers. If you want like 450-600hp or so you basically just need a motor "built" for boost with some forged pistons and rods and everything rebuilt to the correct tolerances for that power level. There's tons of 600-800hp builds on K series motors of relatively "simple" sleeved setups which can be done on a really good budget for the actual power level. Although at this point you're just making a drag car and transmissions and axles will turn into glitter if you don't treat it nice like anything else.
CT Engineering makes a wonderful kit that is literally just like bolt on 50-75whp and go, beyond that you have turbos and all sorts of stuff. Hondata also has some really neat traction control stuff that will clean up a launch immensely and get rid of all the wheel spin that FWD cars love to do under boost so you can actually go somewhere fast.
[video=youtube;hxQFERzlQHM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxQFERzlQHM[/video]
This is literally as stock as you can get with power adders.
If you didn't read my posts from the last two pages of the AA DIY thread and want to see what I tried helping him with, here's a link. Otherwise, feel free to bash K series stuff which S2000 owners often swap to for more N/A power and is used in a ton of kit cars as well as being worked on as a Miata swap kit from what I remember.
[url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1250106&p=46914578&highlight=#post46914578[/url]
[QUOTE=slayer3032;47571800]The 2014-2015 is a pretty decent car and the 8th gens are all really solid cars too provided you get it in a Si with a K series/manual and stiffer suspension. They're actually crazy good platforms with insane amounts of aftermarket just like the earlier ones. The difference between the older gutless single cam ones and these later ones is that you slap a turbo on the stock K series and make 400whp with a clutch upgrade, ARP headstuds and a fresh OEM headgasket. 250whp is "easily" possible N/A too. K series cars are basically the big leagues compared to the older stuff which has long been proven to be decent. Everything is much more expensive but something like 500-600hp is "easy" to make while with the older B series stuff you're building a straight race motor
Superchargers are complete bolt-on, you can expect about 300-350whp from one of the K24 Si if you do a few supporting bolt-on mods and get it tuned. You absolutely do not need to do a damn thing to a K series before 350whp depending on which motor it is and after that it highly depends on the tune and goals entirely. I'll post a video of an entirely stock car with a supercharger, slicks, injectors and an E85 tune put down some solid numbers. If you want like 450-600hp or so you basically just need a motor "built" for boost with some forged pistons and rods and everything rebuilt to the correct tolerances for that power level. There's tons of 600-800hp builds on K series motors of relatively "simple" sleeved setups which can be done on a really good budget for the actual power level. Although at this point you're just making a drag car and transmissions and axles will turn into glitter if you don't treat it nice like anything else.
CT Engineering makes a wonderful kit that is literally just like bolt on 50-75whp and go, beyond that you have turbos and all sorts of stuff. Hondata also has some really neat traction control stuff that will clean up a launch immensely and get rid of all the wheel spin that FWD cars love to do under boost so you can actually go somewhere fast.
[video=youtube;hxQFERzlQHM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxQFERzlQHM[/video]
This is literally as stock as you can get with power adders.
If you didn't read my posts from the last two pages of the AA DIY thread and want to see what I tried helping him with, here's a link. Otherwise, feel free to bash K series stuff which S2000 owners often swap to for more N/A power and is used in a ton of kit cars as well as being worked on as a Miata swap kit from what I remember.
[url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1250106&p=46914578&highlight=#post46914578[/url][/QUOTE]
Thanks for backing me up.
I looked at that super charging system, and was impressed. Especially for the price. The guy that said I'd still have a PoS ricer and wouldn't have it for two months is full of it.
Whew that last page fizzled quicker than I thought.
I curbed a wheel for the first time today on my Corollabortion. I was sad.. but at least it was the wheel that fell onto it's face a couple years ago and got some jinks. Still, ugh.
[QUOTE=Oscar Lima Echo;47571628]
I just wonder what goes through someone's head as they throw out their airbag...[/QUOTE]
Generally, the steering wheel
[video=youtube;bVySCyu3AtA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVySCyu3AtA[/video]
Easiest repair I've ever performed, with the most satisfying result
[QUOTE=slayer3032;47571800]
[video=youtube;hxQFERzlQHM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxQFERzlQHM[/video]
This is literally as stock as you can get with power adders.
If you didn't read my posts from the last two pages of the AA DIY thread and want to see what I tried helping him with, here's a link. Otherwise, feel free to bash K series stuff which S2000 owners often swap to for more N/A power and is used in a ton of kit cars as well as being worked on as a Miata swap kit from what I remember.
[url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1250106&p=46914578&highlight=#post46914578[/url][/QUOTE]
Huh, I won't lie, that's pretty badass. Don't underestimate a Civic that's not covered in stickers.
If you go through with the S/C kit faze, post pics.
[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;47567530]Hydraulic systems use incompressable fluids dude[/QUOTE]
...Duh.........? Your point?
"A liquid is a nearly incompressible fluid that conforms to the shape of its container but retains a (nearly) constant volume independent of pressure." - Wikipedia.
:science:
Hop into the car to go to the store. Gas light has been on, decide to check how much is left.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/ULk9CKu.jpg[/img]
*clenches buttcheeks*
You don't say
[img]http://i.imgur.com/XlduXVY.jpg[/img]
The lovely thing about Fords, they're x-Miles to empty is always about 20 to 30 miles off. I've seen my Dad's get down to -3 miles until empty before, and he still wasn't concerned in his old 250. :v:
Granted, my work truck starts to run rough when it's at about the 1/4 tank mark, so....
Dont use the "X miles to empty"... mine is 50mi off. This blazer thinks it can get 300mi to a tank.
250mi is rare.
220 is uncommon.
Fuel light comes on = 1 gallon of fuel left
Hey guys, FYI, fuel pumps require lubricant. Guess what lubes fuel pumps...the fuel itself. Don't run your cars on less than a quarter tank unless if you have a replacement pump sitting in the trunk.
quarter tank? More like dont run it to the light.
Quarter tank is fine.
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1031910/Stuff/STC_0171.JPG[/t]
I dont know who you two are. I will find you. And I will make you reinstall thoes radiators you stole.
And make you pay for each and every one of thoes tools.
I put the game cam in a different place this time.... hopefully will catch their face.
You're a piece of shit if you rob parts off someone else's car, derelict or not
There's something extra rotten about stealing from a classic awaiting resto.
[QUOTE=Slithers;47573280]Hey guys, FYI, fuel pumps require lubricant. Guess what lubes fuel pumps...the fuel itself. Don't run your cars on less than a quarter tank unless if you have a replacement pump sitting in the trunk.[/QUOTE]
Soon as it runs dry your motor stops, as long as your fuel pump pulls fuel it's lubricated. Running it dry really isn't that bad for it. Although if you have a 200k mile old pump on it's last leg that may kill it.
The whole 1/4 tank thing has to do with heat, the fuel keeps your pump cool. However, this only applies primarily to mechanical pumps, weak shitty designs and expensive high flow pumps. The average pump in a 1990+ fuel injection car isn't going to care much what you do to it. All I have to do is pop the seat out, wind out 10 bolts and pop in a new $65 pump or any from a junkyard for free.
[QUOTE=Tmaxx;47565950]The 944 is fucking sexy, yes, but also hilariously underpowered. That said, you [I]are[/I] getting it for a steal. I'm kinda jealous. I'd love to have a porch, even the 944, for 5300 doll hairs.[/QUOTE]
There's a craigslist ad in Cali for $1900 "running" 944. Also I don't think they are that underpowered for how light they are.
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late response lol
[editline]21st April 2015[/editline]
And dang can't believe I forgot about this thread. Here's a pics from a photoshoot for the 2+2
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