Car Thread - VROOM VROOM

[WelperHelper99]

Wow I haven't seen a Hyundai from that era in a long time. Almost forgot they existed.

It's a fun car. Previous owners were old people, banged it up a little, wore it down, had to replace quite a bit of shit, but knock on wood, its purring pretty good now. I know people talk about Hyundai being boring, but i'll take it. I've been without my phone for the past week, charge port broke, it needs repair, but since it has a tape deck and i have my aunts old tapes, i've been getting ad free music blasting through those premium infinity speakers. Feels good man. And the XG350 is just a beast with that 3.5 liter. It's not a sports car, it's a luxury car, its heavy, you can get out accelerated, but you aren't the slowest either; through sheer brute force of that big mini van 6 cylinder, it fucking moves and moves fast despite its weight.

 

[God's drunkest driver]

Glad it makes you happy, @WelperHelper99
Those cars did not make many people happy.

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GMT400 farms
Also I’m thinking about getting an OBS Blazer/2 door Tahoe. They’re somewhat hard to find plus more expensive than a regular 4door Tahoe. I’ve heard theirs a lot of decently priced ones in Mexico. But the problem is they’re in Mexico.

GMT400 good, I don't know what the benefit is of a GMT400 blazer over a regular tahoe unless you just want it to be as small as possible. I don't understand all of these people calling them OBS lately though, OBS is a '90s ford truck, nobody ever used to refer to a GMT400 as an OBS until recently. I blame stupid youtubers like hoover.

Just remember, TBI makes no power but CPI is going to fail if it wasn't replaced relatively recently and driven with no PCV and EGR garbage. I've owned some CPI GMs and every single one needed the unit replaced or rebuilt, one of them even had a crack on the main body of the unit so I couldn't get the core refund. The ABS unit on that era of GM trucks is failure prone and hard to diagnose as well. My beater Typhoon had an ABS problem that I could not track down, I eventually found a junkyard unit in a wrecked Bravada and swapped it, which worked. That was a pain in the ass to bleed. The Bravada also donated to me a spare transfer case (same unit as in the Typhoon). Those were pretty cool trucks, digital dash, CD player, leather or at least decent vinyl interior, a legit luxury SUV from the early 90s.

 

[Torque Wheeler]

I don't understand all of these people calling them OBS lately though, OBS is a '90s ford truck, nobody ever used to refer to a GMT400 as an OBS until recently. I blame stupid youtubers like hoover.

OBS = Old Body Style and only millennials and zoom zooms use that to describe a truck that came out before they were born

 

[Bassomatic]

I fell for the Toyota SUV meme am I going to make it

What did you get? Friend of mine has a Highlander hybrid with lowering springs, and a retune it SCOOTS. Not bad for a dad cruiser. Got another buddy with the Sexus "Sequioa" GX430 ? I think. Some mild wheeling mods, mall crawl and use really enjoy it and when he goes camping it makes one hell of a bed vs setting a tent up lol.

 

[Torque Wheeler]

What did you get? Friend of mine has a Highlander hybrid with lowering springs, and a retune it SCOOTS. Not bad for a dad cruiser. Got another buddy with the Sexus "Sequioa" GX430 ? I think. Some mild wheeling mods, mall crawl and use really enjoy it and when he goes camping it makes one hell of a bed vs setting a tent up lol.

Got a 4runner. I have the whole thing in pieces atm. Looking to use it to tow my toys around and use it as a comfy backup vehicle/highway cruiser

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

I saw a post-emissions diesel (2015) with 500k on it sell for 15,000. I don't even know if car prices are going to ever go down again at this rate absent total economic death.

 

[Sneeds]

GMT400 good

I also have a 4.3l gmt400 truck that I got for free from my brother in law years ago. It ran good till the 4.3 went to shit. It’s been sitting ever since, but now that I have some money saved up. I’m already looking into getting a 5.7 or 5.3 swapped into it.

 

[Bassomatic]

Got a 4runner. I have the whole thing in pieces atm. Looking to use it to tow my toys around and use it as a comfy backup vehicle/highway cruiser

What year? Also cool those are great too, I didn't mention them but still mad respect for them it's just I don't have a ton of personal time into them.

I saw a post-emissions diesel (2015) with 500k on it sell for 15,000. I don't even know if car prices are going to ever go down again at this rate absent total economic death.

What kind tho? Also location? I mean, a king ranch f350 dually I wouldn't think twice even on that miles if you said a golf tdi I'd shit myself, esp with price of the fuel

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

What kind tho? Also location? I mean, a king ranch f350 dually I wouldn't think twice even on that miles if you said a golf tdi I'd shit myself, esp with price of the fuel

Something worse. Much more worse than a Golf TDI. It was, God forbid, an employee purchased former "work truck".

Chevy 2500 HD 4x4 with a 6.6 LML. No maintenance done except maybe oil changes and repairs, and it had the following:
Turbocharger failure fixed
Injection pump failure fixed (Still shavings in the fuel filter...)
Power Mirrors won't work
Turn signal not work
Horn doesn't work
EGR failure
4x4 won't disengage properly due to bad actuators
Lol interior shot to hell, anything plastic cracked.
Sway bars are shit
Bushings, what are those?
Ball joint cracked
Driver side door panel controls fucked
Lol tailgate got rear ended wont open
Muffler or CC had some sort of obstruction (collapsed in on its self)

 

[I need more BMWs]

I saw a post-emissions diesel (2015) with 500k on it sell for 15,000. I don't even know if car prices are going to ever go down again at this rate absent total economic death.

Damn, that's retarded.

 

[God's drunkest driver]

@I need more BMWs
>740iL

Only acceptable because M73s are turds. M120 is the superior luxury car V12. The E38 is definitely better looking than the W140 though.

 

[I need more BMWs]

@I need more BMWs
>740iL

Only acceptable because M73s are turds. M120 is the superior luxury car V12. The E38 is definitely better looking than the W140 though.

I think the W140 looks nice, but it definitely depends on the wheels and if it's black.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Ok question for my fellow kiwis.

What is the proper way to patch frame/body rust aside from replacing the part (Car is old and no more NOS)? Older vehicles (30+ years) that are steel, not plastic too.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

@I need more BMWs
>740iL

Only acceptable because M73s are turds. M120 is the superior luxury car V12. The E38 is definitely better looking than the W140 though.

They're not turds at all. It's one of the most reliable V12 and is related to the venerable S70/2 V12 in the McLaren F1.

 

[Torque Wheeler]

Ok question for my fellow kiwis.

What is the proper way to patch frame/body rust aside from replacing the part (Car is old and no more NOS)? Older vehicles (30+ years) that are steel, not plastic too.

Run away. Don't do it. That's an embarrassing, sad way to die. If you're asking those kind of questions, you're going to die. Even if you take it to a professional to get it fixed, will you really know if it's fixed properly?

That being said, I've welded plenty of gussets and patches on my off-roaders, but I would never do it to an on-road vehicle.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Run away. Don't do it. That's an embarrassing, sad way to die. If you're asking those kind of questions, you're going to die. Even if you take it to a professional to get it fixed, will you really know if it's fixed properly?

That being said, I've welded plenty of gussets and patches on my off-roaders, but I would never do it to an on-road vehicle.

I just wanted something an old truck to use as a snowplow. Granted, now that I think of this it probably is a horrific idea since it's 4x2. I'd be better off taking the engine and transmission and wielding it into a box frame with treads.

I guess I could always take it for parts and swap out the engine to another frame that's not shit though.

 

[Torque Wheeler]

I just wanted something an old truck to use as a snowplow. Granted, now that I think of this it probably is a horrific idea since it's 4x2. I'd be better off taking the engine and transmission and wielding it into a box frame with treads.

I guess I could always take it for parts and swap out the engine to another frame that's not shit though.

I got a front end loader with a bucket to plow out the shop in the winter and I'm never going back. You can plow with a 4x2 if you use chains and load the bed up with a lot of weight.

SUVs in my area haven't inflated nearly as bad as trucks in my area and that's why I ended up with a 4runner. I'm sure something like a Tahoe wouldn't make for a bad snow truck

 

[salvuserit]

Chevus 4th gen smolblok. Go fast. Go Cheap. Buy your knock off turbo before imports from china are banned.

 

[salvuserit]

Ok question for my fellow kiwis.

What is the proper way to patch frame/body rust aside from replacing the part (Car is old and no more NOS)? Older vehicles (30+ years) that are steel, not plastic too.

You can find stock of either the same steel or steel that is possible to weld to your body. If it's a domestic car you can probably find preformed steel for common rust areas. Weld it in and grind it to shape. Bondo isn't all that bad for small holes in places like the wheel wells, just be sure you remove all the rust first.

 

[God's drunkest driver]

They're not turds at all. It's one of the most reliable V12 and is related to the venerable S70/2 V12 in the McLaren F1.

Oh please, not this shit again. Saying an M73 is related to an S70/2 is like saying the smog 305 in an ‘80s chevy truck is related to a cup car engine. The S70/2 barely has any commonality with an S70 let alone an M73. It is a DOHC 48V engine that shares almost zero parts with the SOHC M70 series. The M70s are turds. They make way less power and torque across the board than an M120 and sound like crap, though that has more to do with the headers than the engine. Not to mention they have basically zero performance potential because of its small valve head; the same size as M20 valves. The M70 series of engines also have a similar valvetrain as an M40, which is horrible for anything over 6,500rpm. The M120 specs more similarly to an S70, the M70/73 is miles behind.