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That just reminds me of my long term comedy plan of building a drift Blazer.
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Fucknag posted:That just reminds me of my long term comedy plan of building a drift Blazer. Do it with a 2 door, late 90's / early 2000's model so I can live vicariously through you 
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Jan 26, 2015 00:51
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T1g4h posted:Do it with a 2 door, late 90's / early 2000's model so I can live vicariously through you This is probably a good idea. You don't need to roll any more vehicles off a mountain. 
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Jan 26, 2015 01:04
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SRT Caravan to troll autocrosses. Like the one on youtube that does the best burnout I've ever seen.
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Jan 26, 2015 01:09
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leica posted:SRT Caravan to troll autocrosses. Like the one on youtube that does the best burnout I've ever seen. You mentioned it, it must be posted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgk_6QMjVdQ
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Jan 26, 2015 01:12
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opengl128 posted:I'd love to see him dump the clutch on a gixxer like he does when driving his car I would pay to watch this.
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Jan 26, 2015 01:12
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Fucknag posted:You mentioned it, it must be posted. Yeeeeeeessssssss
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Extra posted:Results from the stock AWD class at the rallyx, first and last column are times in seconds. A bunch of japanese cars got spanked by an S10 driver because spoilers the driver is the most important part of a car not an idiotic fetish for hanzo steel folded 1000 times. The autocrosses here were dominated for a long time by a guy in a stock Dodge Omni GLH-S.
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Jan 26, 2015 01:25
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Fucknag posted:You mentioned it, it must be posted. related videos save the thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOVYcqZgJEM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH5P2hAU1PY
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Fucknag posted:You mentioned it, it must be posted. That fuckin spool.
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When this thread was in it's early stages, I felt sympathy for you, as a fellow person who ended up getting way over their loving head on a crazy project that was beyond their skill set. Well, my project is a lot more ambitious than just loving changing some goddamn battery cables, and I'm sane enough to have gotten a daily driver when I realized how loving insane I was (and losing all my project money for a while in the process). You're the worst kind of car forum poster, and I eagerly await when your pretentious, rehashed monologues from a shittier alternate universe version of Initial D end up motivating you to kill yourself by smashing your rusty shitbucket of a car into a tree. Just please don't take anyone else with you, you utterly incompetent man with awful pants. Edit: After rereading this, I realized that I seem way too goddamn pissed off at this. I just read like fifteen pages of this thread in one sitting, and... jesus. Not good for my sanity in large doses.
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HotCanadianChick posted:The autocrosses here were dominated for a long time by a guy in a stock Dodge Omni GLH-S. loving Omni's are a blast. I never did experience the GLH models, but my buddy had one in high school and it was an absolute blast to hoon around in.
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I had a GLH that I found on Craigslist for $800. Ended up selling it because my dad was tired of it always taking up his garage while I was at college. Regret it every god drat day.
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From what I know, they were pretty tunable. Nothing exciting, but it was a fairly lightweight car. I have always wanted a Spirit R/T, the Turbo 3 was a kick rear end motor.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:loving Omni's are a blast. I never did experience the GLH models, but my buddy had one in high school and it was an absolute blast to hoon around in. I test drove one a few years ago and it blew the turbo on the test drive. It was a pretty awesome 15 minutes.
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You know I started out as someone who thought you got a lot of "AI smarmyness" from people who forgot that we all used to know nothing about cars. I also even sympathized with your 80s jap car fanboyism. gently caress man I own a wrx now mostly because of fanboyness when I was a broke college student made me really want to make it happen when I had money. All my highschool projects were things that i got in way over my head in and I learned alot from loving things up. After that rant however, I think you might need to see the VA about some help. Also if your cheif was shouting at you about LIFE ADVICE chances are you needed it. Also from experience, E1s are generally in need of some life pro tips. I think a mod challenge would be awesome. Please do it IOC. Also quit drinking.
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Whatcha need is a car that runs pretty well. You want to be happy with the thing at least 90% of the time. When something breaks, THEN you have a project that will teach you something about auto repair. While it's running well you get to do the fun stuff, like replacing the stereo and speakers, doing fluid changes, adding that little cigarette lighter with the pot leaf that lights up, etc.
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AcidRonin posted:Also quit drinking. Quit suggesting such blasphemy. His most recent posts are intelligent, refreshing, and thought-provoking. I just caught up on this thread and as a proud owner of a 1992 240sx SE 5speed coupe in my parents back yard with tires rotting into the ground, OP, I beg you, live the nippon dream . (i'm poor ok?) Just kidding sell this loving thing while you might still get out from under it because you're lazy and unwilling to take on the most basic responsibilities of car maintenance. You don't even need a car right now and you need to do a little bit of personal development before you own a beater in my honest opinion.
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A 240SX with the horrible truck engine also would have been a better choice. As for the OP in general, it's hard to believe people like him exist, unless this is an elaborate ruse by sigtrap.
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What you say:Sperglord Firecock posted:I dunno if this'll make much sense because I'm about halfway into a bottle of scotch or not, but I'll give it a shot anyways. What you do:  There is a disconnect here. A very large one. ... that's just hail damage on the subframe rails, right? You should make some LED interior lights for this sweet machine. 
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kastein posted:... that's just hail damage on the subframe rails, right? You should make some LED interior lights for this sweet machine. oof.
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AcidRonin posted:people who forgot that we all used to know nothing about cars. I started reading C&D and R&T around age 8 and helped do my first engine swap (moving a 16v engine from a rusted out Scirocco to a cleaner one) as a freshman in high school and my first car was a second gen Camaro I did a bunch of body and interior work on myself so I have no idea what you're talking about. 
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yeah you still don't know what the gently caress you're talking about
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I didn't know how to change my own oil in 2006 when I registered this account
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Sperglord Firecock posted:Quite honestly, a lot of people have the wrong idea, and lemme clear this up.
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Sperglord Firecock posted:It's about the American Dream. The idea that a young man can take a lovely-rear end car from far before he was born and turn it into something awesome Sperglord Firecock posted:The Foxbody Mustangs are neat, and lemme make this clear, very very neat, but What? Does not compute. Instead of trolling or making fun of you I'm going to take a second and point out how the mustang is exactly the car you should be buying. Rather than seeing it as a car that goes fast in a straight line and handles like poo poo, you should see it as a car that's fast enough for your needs from the gate without a turbo you could never hope to properly maintain & can be cheaply modified to handle as well as all the 80's weaboo boxes you think you want to own but probably couldn't handle ownership of. Mustangs are dead simple and most of the modifications you would want to make (subframe reinforcements, chassis stiffening, suspension) are the kind of thing you'd pay a shop to do for you anyways so it's not like your lack of car knowledge is holding you back from your redneck mustang american dream. Plus when you inevitably slam it into a wall taking a corner at 60 on a public road (don't do this,) it's not like it would be a huge loss, it's just another mustang. And it probably won't kill you, a lot of the cars you're looking at don't have airbags or basic safety equipment. HEY VAPER fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Jan 26, 2015 |
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My dad bought an '84 Corvette, it was a basket case. Once he got it running pretty well and wearing a nice new shiny red paint job, he spun into a wall on a wet freeway on-ramp. With the insurance payout he bought an '85 corvette, it was also a basket case. Once he got it up to snuff, kind of, it got totaled by an old lady that didn't see it (this one was gold, harder to see apparently). I thought we'd have a pretty sweet Corvette in about 20 years if the cycle continued, but he quit after two. Whatever you do in the future, never buy a dirt cheap corvette.
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The mod challenge should be a NIPPON SUPER DORIFTO DUCK TAPE BATTLE. The judges will be your local dope feinds.
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HEY VAPER posted:What? Does not compute. Dude you put way too much effort into this post. HE CAN'T GRASP CLUTCHING. how the gently caress is he going to understand the driving dynamics between an asian car and something built stateside? A halfass good driver could hand him his rear end with a lima powered mustang or even a 302 (nonHO) continental. E: Fwiw: I've owned two fox based vehicles. I'm not biased by any means.
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cursedshitbox posted:Dude you put way too much effort into this post. I don't expect him to understand the differences in driving dynamics, I was just trying to get the point across that he shouldn't write off the mustang because of the common but incorrect notion that mustangs are only good for driving in a straight line. I think its the perfect fit for him: naturally aspirated, simple as poo poo, fun, and dirt cheap parts. There's only one way to learn clutching, and that's repetition. If a manual car is his only way of getting around, he will learn eventually. Ok sure you guys have me on the whole "he can't even change a battery cable without an internet person showing up at his house and forcing him to do it" but you could say the same thing about the majority of mustang owners and they're all doing fine because mustangs are simple as poo poo. If he can manage to gently caress up a v8 mustang he's not going to be any better off in an appliance car, so the only valid alternative is to suggest OP doesn't own a car. He obviously doesn't care about fuel economy and a 90's camry would be arguably just-as-if-not-more expensive to maintain than a 90s mustang. HEY VAPER fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Jan 27, 2015 |
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Bear in mind, we've told him repeatedly of ways to help learn how to get the feel for the clutch, and all for nothing.
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InitialDave posted:Bear in mind, we've told him repeatedly of ways to help learn how to get the feel for the clutch, and all for nothing. If nobody had actually met him I'd be positive he was a parachute. But then, I know quite a few guys like this in the navy. He's a stereotype that gets bounced out for good reason.
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InitialDave posted:Bear in mind, we've told him repeatedly of ways to help learn how to get the feel for the clutch, and all for nothing. I was loving terrible when I bought my first manual car despite reading everything I could on the internet, taking it to 5th without accelerating, etc. A few months and many embarrassing hill stalls later it became second nature. There really isn't any substitute for muscle memory.
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Just so everyone knows our words of wisdom are still doing gently caress ALL. He just sent me this in a PM "gently caress yes, someone said they're really interested in buying it, came out, drove it, and was pretty drat impressed by it. AND HE DIDN'T NOTICE THE RUST." WTF......he is the opitomy of a PO 
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As long as he doesn't lie about the condition, I wouldn't feel bad about him simply not disclosing it. Someone will end up holding the bag for it, at some point.
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Eh, you can't blame SF for not seeing the rust his PO didn't tell him about, and then moan about him not telling his buyer when they didn't spot it. Right or wrong on either side, you have to be consistent.
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SouthsideSaint posted:Just so everyone knows our words of wisdom are still doing gently caress ALL. He just sent me this in a PM You just described literally every single human being who has ever sold a used car and you're expecting us to get outraged? It's up to the buyer to evaluate what they're buying.
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Yeah, no, that's just getting upset that he's selling a used car in Chicago. I'm literally not surprised that this is happening because, well, Sperg didn't check for rust when he bought the drat thing so he's just playing the part of the guy that sold him the car in the first place.
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Sperglord Firecock posted:I dunno if this'll make much sense because I'm about halfway into a bottle of scotch or not, but I'll give it a shot anyways. But you cant make it awsome dude, you cant even swap battery cables. Working on cars is not hard, but you have to learn it. If you have a mechanical incling you can do a lot with some youtube, a service manual and a sixpack of beer. But if you are completly without skill or experiance, your are much better of with a simple, well running machine that you can hone your skills on by doing the preventative maintenance and finally, when you have hosed up the clutch you can try to replace it before having it towed to a garage to do i for you.If you get a RX7 or 928 it will end up as my left testicle; cold,alone,ridden with cancer and removed and by the way, shouldent you be spending money on moving out from your moms place rather then buying sweet JDM specials? I dont intend to sound mean, but im kinda a dick
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fjelltorsk posted:and by the way, shouldent you be spending money on moving out from your moms place rather then buying sweet JDM specials? Counterpoint: living at moms house with minimal expenses is the ideal time and place to own a sweet JDM ricerocket.
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