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[WhatInTheActualFuck]

In the States VW USA marketing had this phrase for a few years something like "Because doesn't' everyone deserve to have a well made German car"? They actually said this out loud on radio/TV while VWs were being Manufactured in Mexico. LMAO.

I still remember them trying to sell the Routan (a reskinned Dodge Caravan) based on its "German Engineering"...

 

[TiggerNits]

I've been considering buying an 06 Toyota Yaris without a motor I've been seeing Facebook. Because I have a line on a very, very cheap Volkswagen TDI motor that runs and can be converted too a bio diesel cheaply in Mexico, which is close by where I live

I could even get all my grease from local Asian food trucks and restaurants so it always smells like egg rolls

 

[God's drunkest driver]

I've been considering buying an 06 Toyota Yaris without a motor I've been seeing Facebook. Because I have a line on a very, very cheap Volkswagen TDI motor that runs and can be converted too a bio diesel cheaply in Mexico, which is close by where I live

I could even get all my grease from local Asian food trucks and restaurants so it always smells like egg rolls

There is a lot of fine junk in WVO. Make sure you at least have the space and budget for a settling tank and some really fine filtering.

 

[Bassomatic]

I don't know if there's anything wrong with your setup but there is a different feel in my experience. Because there are two of them the discs don't seem to engage the same way every time when you're street driving and sometimes the clutch grabs more than it usually does. That's not really noticeable in a drag launch or on a track but slipping the clutch to smoothly leave a stop without revving high requires more modulation and seems to produce inconsistent results.

Thanks for reconfirming. Yeah been two weeks it's just a different feel. Nothing I'm used to and I've driven anything with a stick you can dream of. I own a old english car so I know "slow" trans (funny enough drive a triumph or austin healy and you'll be great on a 90s truck lol) It's kinda weird but growing on me. Now I've heard it's rated for 500+ WHP (I make a tick under 210) so don't need break in. But I'm still doing it, and i've yet to "launch" or beat on it. Civic has 2 step so when I launch... it goes.

So after nearly two weeks of daily driving my Vantage, I can say, hand on heart, I made a mistake.
It's not bad, and feels/handles more like a sportscar than my Rapide did...but the engine is just so lethargic compared to the V12. When I floored the V12 it would ROAR; I could hear it in the cabin, and outside it was like thunder. The Vantage is just like a wet fart compared to that, and really, I'm doing motorway speeds in second gear so it's over before you know it.

The F1 Vantage though is the only car in recent time that made me sweat while driving it. That car saturated all of your senses and you were just zoned out somewhere until you stopped the car and noticed your heart racing and forehead in need of a mopdown.

Long story short...I need more money.

Oh woe is you Rapide is so nice and so fast only got a ride in it. Vantage, I've only been in an older one as a passenger.

Don't we all need more cash?

I've had the same S2000 for the last 14 years which hasn't skipped a beat, and my second car is a 14 yr old Aston...yea...new cars are not for me.

Were you that guy posting his 300K mile S2k with no air filter? lol.

So mrs basso can drive the civic now. She's saying "lets get something cool" No rush to boost the sexus... Now I know why I love her "get the cheap elise you're just gonna K swap it anyway"

 

[CaptainAutism69]

Were you that guy posting his 300K mile S2k with no air filter? lol.

No way! I treat my cars like babies. Look after them and they will look after you! My S2K has like, 75,000 miles on it and it's always been good to me.

 

[God's drunkest driver]

I sold one of my cars, and for no apparent reason one of my rotors has resigned in protest. This can't be good.

 

[Dean Pentel]

Any of you ever discover that something you've dreamed about for many years you'd actually despise if you really got it?

I got to see a Ferrari F40 yesterday. I didn't dare ask to drive it, though the owner let me sit in the driver's seat and even took me on a short ride in it. Fucking hell is that not a comfortable car to ride in! Conceptually it's cool and hell yes is it fast, but turns out a street legal race car gives no fucks about creature comforts.

Also had no clue how small they are. I fit in it just fine, I simply mean the overall dimensions are much smaller in person than one realizes. I only know cars a little tiny bit so most of you probably already knew all this but I was damn surprised.

Now all that said, if I could get my hands a good condition, low mileage '06 TVR Tuscan or Sagaris, I'm unlikely to bitch about anything. Probably.

 

[Eadred]

Any of you ever discover that something you've dreamed about for many years you'd actually despise if you really got it?

I got to see a Ferrari F40 yesterday. I didn't dare ask to drive it, though the owner let me sit in the driver's seat and even took me on a short ride in it. Fucking hell is that not a comfortable car to ride in! Conceptually it's cool and hell yes is it fast, but turns out a street legal race car gives no fucks about creature comforts.

Also had no clue how small they are. I fit in it just fine, I simply mean the overall dimensions are much smaller in person than one realizes. I only know cars a little tiny bit so most of you probably already knew all this but I was damn surprised.

Now all that said, if I could get my hands a good condition, low mileage '06 TVR Tuscan or Sagaris, I'm unlikely to bitch about anything. Probably.

I'd expect a lot of a F40, but comfort? Jesus man.....

 

[God's drunkest driver]

Almost any performance car made before the 2000s is small. Even the V12 cars. Though just like every other car, supercars have gotten bigger. In a lineup at a cars and coffee it was quite noticeable that a murcielago was over a foot and a half longer than a countach. I’ve never seen an F40 parked next to anything else, only on its own roped off. I think the width of supercars makes them look bigger than they are in pictures and out of context because they are all several inches wider than a normal car. They’re like Hummer H2 wide.

 

[Bassomatic]

No way! I treat my cars like babies. Look after them and they will look after you! My S2K has like, 75,000 miles on it and it's always been good to me.

AP1 or AP2?

I could nerd out about the s2k for ages, but as I just put a 1500 dollar clutch in a 91 civic... You can guess I'm a bit a honda geek.

I sold one of my cars, and for no apparent reason one of my rotors has resigned in protest. This can't be good.
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Not saying LS swap it. But, LS swap it. Jokes aside, out of all the cars I've been blessed enough to be in and drive, a FD with a LS1 t56 and straight pipe was absolutely right. Sure cars are faster better etc but that chassis is brilliant, that motor on it, with grunt. yea...

I'd like to get a FC white (I know Inital D said it's cool too) keep that near stock. LS3 swap an FD. To this day FDs look futuristic, despite being 30+ years old. Mazda doesn't get the love it should for it's entire lineup imho.

My friends have a cx7 as a family hauler, the look the interior and feel of it has soul/care. Find that in your Nissan Murano or even a current LR Disco.

 

[CaptainAutism69]

AP1 or AP2?

I'm Europoor so it's the AP1 facelift. We never got the AP2

 

[Nall]

I've been considering buying an 06 Toyota Yaris without a motor I've been seeing Facebook. Because I have a line on a very, very cheap Volkswagen TDI motor that runs and can be converted too a bio diesel cheaply in Mexico, which is close by where I live

I could even get all my grease from local Asian food trucks and restaurants so it always smells like egg rolls

DAMN I wish that Yaris was in my area. I deadass have a Prius engine sitting in my garage I’ve been itching to put in something. The Yaris ((I believe)) uses the same engine, it’s just kinda fucky wucky when it comes to mating it the a Yaris trans, but could deffo make it work

 

[TiggerNits]

DAMN I wish that Yaris was in my area. I deadass have a Prius engine sitting in my garage I’ve been itching to put in something. The Yaris ((I believe)) uses the same engine, it’s just kinda fucky wucky when it comes to mating it the a Yaris trans, but could deffo make it work

Isn't the electric motor also the starter on the Prius? I'm not sure you could retrofit that to operate if that's the case, unless there's a simple swap to pop the electric motor in for a regular solenoid I suppose

 

[God's drunkest driver]

Not saying LS swap it. But, LS swap it. Jokes aside, out of all the cars I've been blessed enough to be in and drive, a FD with a LS1 t56 and straight pipe was absolutely right. Sure cars are faster better etc but that chassis is brilliant, that motor on it, with grunt. yea...

I'd like to get a FC white (I know Inital D said it's cool too) keep that near stock. LS3 swap an FD. To this day FDs look futuristic, despite being 30+ years old. Mazda doesn't get the love it should for it's entire lineup imho.

There are plenty of LS swapped FDs out there, it's not for me. Half of the point of an FD is that it's different from other sports cars, not just a miata with a turbo and a fixed roof. 13Bs are easy enough to rebuild, though it's no longer cheap to do so. Luckily at this point nice rolling chassis FDs cost $20k+ so it's more cost effective to sell an FD and buy a C5 Z06 to mod than to hack up an FD for a LS swap.

 

[Troon_Patrol]

Any of you ever discover that something you've dreamed about for many years you'd actually despise if you really got it?

I've seen about a dozen classic/vintage car regretful purchases. So very very may years ago my brother approaches me when we were younger, "Bro, Mr Smith across the street wants to get rid of the car he never drives, let's buy it looks cool as fuck!"

Mr. Smith's car was a 1970's Mopar, I forget maybe a Dodge Coronet? Something made by Chrysler, paint was original an I think he only drove it across the street on street sweeping days. My brother is all pumped up about acquiring an old American muscle car. Here's the thing about my brother, I love him and I would people in holes in the fucking desert for him, I've dragged him out of bar fights before the cops showed up and worse but he never got that mechanical aptitude my grandfather our father, or I have. I explain to him that car is not like a Toyota corolla. It handles like shit, needs 5X the maintenance, drinks more gas than I used to drink Vodka and unless it's got the rare 440 engine it's not much faster than a V6 Camry.

I recall taking a old Toyota Land cruiser to Maaco I was planning on flipping (for all the foreign Kiwis Maaco is a chain of cheap paint/body shops, you get what you pay for, not a place I would take a car worth over 10K too) I think it was Maaco? For a quick and cheap paint job. When I get there, there's some stupid faggot rockabilly looking asshole yelling at the manager, he brought in what looked like a 1954 Chevy Bel Air and was screaming at that manager the paint job didn't end up looking like the car deserved to be in a museum or showroom. He's yelling at this manager about every minor detail and the door jams weren't painted perfectly, blah blah blah.... 50 yards away across the street there is a regular paint and body shop a competing business that had some higher quality cars than Maaco handles. Somehow this stupid faggot thought a $1,000 paint job was going to look the same as a $5,000. Another dickhead driving a vintage vehicle knowing nothing at all about cars or car maintenance.

 

[God's drunkest driver]

Somehow this stupid faggot thought a $1,000 paint job was going to look the same as a $5,000.

You should see what a good paint job costs today. I miss the days when a $5,000 paint job was OEM quality.

 

[Troon_Patrol]

You should see what a good paint job costs today. I miss the days when a $5,000 paint job was OEM quality.

I know, this was quite a while ago. A few days ago somebody rear ended my favorite car, we are all just stopped waiting in line at a drive through and I was at full stop, got bopped at about 3MPH by a Tesla Y model. left a very odd "dent" a perfectly round concave dent going maybe 1/4"-3/8" deep into the bumper roughly 3/4" diameter. This happened at night and I pride myself on being a rational reasonable understanding person. (see my latest post in the AAA thread for some real car related drama)
Niggers don't understand how cars or security cameras work
We exchange all info I take a photo of the DL and plates and they are very insistent on going around insurance. I express I don't care as long as my bumper is fixed, this is my favorite car I own and it means a lot to me, I've spent a lot of time doing some custom mods that I won't openly post here. I tell them give me a couple of weeks to get some estimates, I work a lot of hours. Everyone leaves on a respectful terms.

I have family in the body auto body industry they tell me wait for the next day, take a few good daylight pics and they'll send over some estimates. I wash the light dust off the car and it's really not that bad just this odd singular round impression. Now I used to do my own bodywork from dent puller to bondo to clearcoat when I actually had time for these things. So I know there's no mystery to me whats really involved in matching OEM paint, this is not a $150K car just a premium S197-2 with a lot of custom work. I send pics to the family member and the factory paint code. Just for fun I find a local tiny body shop good reviews but the kind of tiny hole in the wall place you expect cheap labor from. The guy looks at this round 1/4" deep 3/4" dent and thinks it over for 20 seconds and says "umm about $1,200 for the bumper" my reply "well it's not my money so I don't want to complain to much but, that seems a bit high" "oh umm well here's the thing theres a "Bar" behind and if they bent that that needs to be replaced, what kind of car hit you"? "It was a Tesla Y series" "Oh see there you go, that car weighs over 5,000lbs, it probably bashed in the bar I'm talking about, we're gonna need 3 days with the car" "well ok can you just print out an estimate not an invoice but some ballpark numbers I can send them?" "Oh, yeah, um we don't really do that unless we are contracted to work on the car"

First of all a Tesla Y doesn't weight over 5,000 lbs. Second of all 2,000 lbs or 5,000 lbs its an impact at an estimated around 3mph, 3rd of all the "Bar" is a most likely a giant piece of polyester foam and no it doesn't need replacing. The bumper besides the dent, is strait across not deformed, the guy doesn't even pull a flat strait edge body line ruler out to even check for deviation left to right. I figured he was going to sand the hole plug the hole with high build bondo, light build primer and hit the entire bumper with 600 grit and factory OEM black then a clearcoat and tell me around $400. Now am I naive or is that a bit more realistic for a shitty small time body shop?

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

Not saying LS swap it. But, LS swap it. Jokes aside, out of all the cars I've been blessed enough to be in and drive, a FD with a LS1 t56 and straight pipe was absolutely right. Sure cars are faster better etc but that chassis is brilliant, that motor on it, with grunt. yea...

I'd like to get a FC white (I know Inital D said it's cool too) keep that near stock. LS3 swap an FD. To this day FDs look futuristic, despite being 30+ years old. Mazda doesn't get the love it should for it's entire lineup imho.

There's nothing wrong with an RX-7 that a SBC swap can't fix. I get the appeal of the rotary, but unless you want to rev to the moon, it's objectively a terrible powerplant by comparison.

 

[God's drunkest driver]

Now am I naive or is that a bit more realistic for a shitty small time body shop?

Body shops replace parts and do paint these days. Most probably don't even pull frames and stuff. I am sickened at the prospect of having to find a body shop to work on one of my uncommon old cars if anything were to happen to them because I just know most of them will look online, see that new parts don't exist and turn me away.

There's nothing wrong with an RX-7 that a SBC swap can't fix. I get the appeal of the rotary, but unless you want to rev to the moon, it's objectively a terrible powerplant by comparison.

No way. SBC swaps are backwoods meth user shit, it isn't 1992 anymore. If you're going to chevy V8 swap something, make it an LS or don't do it. LS swaps I can co-sign because the LS is an all-aluminum engine that actually makes decent power stock and is only 30lb or so heavier than a twin turbo 13B, but if you put an SBC in anything wasn't originally available with one these days you deserve to drop a 292 casting head on your foot. Those things are just ballast at this point.

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

No way. SBC swaps are backwoods meth user shit, it isn't 1992 anymore. If you're going to chevy V8 swap something, make it an LS or don't do it. LS swaps I can co-sign because the LS is an all-aluminum engine that actually makes decent power stock and is only 30lb or so heavier than a twin turbo 13B, but if you put an SBC in anything wasn't originally available with one these days you deserve to drop a 292 casting head on your foot. Those things are just ballast at this point.

Sorry - by SBC, I was being a bit too sweeping/inclusive - LS motors are still "technically" SBCs but yeah - that would be the most common thing currently. My point is that a compact pushrod V8 fits nicely and fixes what's wrong with the RX.