Any Car Guys on the Forum?

[Tree-Fiddy]

No problem. :hatsoff:

The challenge of adding turbos is accounting for the plumbing and increased heat. Seems like he got that figured out. Looks like he did a really nice job there. Very impressive!

P.S. I just realized both Bree Olson and Tree-Fiddy are from Fort Wayne. Just so everybody knows how it works, if I make a Gearhead Love Connection, they have to name their first kid after me! :tongue:

Thanks for the kind words man, it makes all the hard work worth it!!!

And I heard she's from around here, maybe one day I'll meet her!

 

[Hypergalaxy]

No. I had a Ranger and a Probe (worst car ever produced perhaps?) and anything that could've went wrong with the g'damn Probe went wrong. The Ranger was just all around junky engineering, IMO.

Now you're embarrassing yourself :1orglaugh

 

[Tree-Fiddy]

Sure just basic, nothing like ripping the car off the axle at the first stop sing you come to

Don't jinx me now

You're a millionaire aren't you. Or should I just refer to you as Vin Diesel now... You owe me a 10 second care, by the way...:dunno:

Nope, just a normal college kid

I'll care for 10 seconds for you

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[Born2Jizz]

No. I had a Ranger and a Probe (worst car ever produced perhaps?) and anything that could've went wrong with the g'damn Probe went wrong. The Ranger was just all around junky engineering, IMO.



I don't think you guys get nailed like we do up here in the northnorth midwest. Also the shit up here sometimes freezes right away because many times when we get it we are well below freezing.

We got a wet snow on xmas eve and that shit turned to stacks of ice over night, I can't remember how many accidents they reported next day but I think it was well over 300 just in the metro.

:eek: Why you must be in Minnesota!

 

[Rey C.]

Just a basic build

Riiiiiight. :rofl:

Nice work, my man. That's the kind of innovative stuff I love to look at when I go to car shows. What have you done with the paint & body so far?

 

[Tree-Fiddy]

Hopefully this works

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[jasonk282]

Riiiiiight. :rofl:

Nice work, my man. That's the kind of innovative stuff I love to look at when I go to car shows. What have you done with the paint & body so far?

I say keep it real, primer and rust.

 

[pully89]

shit i've been reading this thread and most of has gone over my head, which wouldnt be too bad if i wasnt currently studying mechanical engineering at uni! but i will talk about the only car i have bought, but unfortunatly dont still own, me two friends for our gap went on a road trip round america, they went everywhere but i only got to see the east coast, in a 1983 mercedes benz 300 D turbo diesel, it was trully awful but also amazing at the same time

 

[Tree-Fiddy]

Riiiiiight. :rofl:

Nice work, my man. That's the kind of innovative stuff I love to look at when I go to car shows. What have you done with the paint & body so far?

Thanks man! Gonna pretty much keep the stock body with feed side skirts and a shine auto project rear street diffuser (not a fan of body kits AT ALL) might do a 99+ front end later on down the line. As for paint, trying to decide between the Cyber Grey Metallic that's on the new Vettes and Camaros, or wrap it in a matte black or matte white vinyl

 

[Rey C.]

Similar, Maybe? Not sure.

I can pick it up for about 1,000$. The body isn't bad (some repair, but no replace on the body), hasn't run for years and I'd likely drop a totally new everything under the hood. But I get stuff cheap, so other than my time, refurb cost would be about 6,000$.

I think it is a no. Nice car, though.

If you do a first rate restoration, would the car be worth at least $7 grand? I'm not really that familiar with that car or Swedish cars in general. I knew a girl in college who had the wagon version of that car, called the P1800, I think. Can't really remember the car very well (odd for me, I know), but she had a crazy body and that's really why I hung around her.

It's getting hard to find 60's sports cars for a reasonable price (that don't need a helluva lot of work). It may be worth buying just to park for awhile, or until you have the time to work on it. I could have bought a '70 something V12 E-type Series 3 for just around $6 grand back in '93 or '94. It didn't need much work at all. I could have parked it and just watched it increase in value - without EVER touching it. But I didn't buy it, and like the good girls I've known, there's another one that got away. :crash:

 

[Born2Jizz]

You owe me a 10 second car, by the way...:dunno:

Don't jinx me now

I'll care for 10 seconds for you

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*ahem*... I uhhh... Don't know what the hell you're talking about, sir... Now! Where's my car?? :dunno:

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Now you're embarrassing yourself :1orglaugh

Well, I've owned at least 7 cars in my life, some of them shit, a couple pretty nice. The Probe I bought I bought with a cracked head gasket (yeah, I know) and everything went to hell from there -fuel pump, starter, you name it - but the car was just so damn clean I bought it, when I was still young-n-dumb. It was an f-in lemon, the only one I've ever owned, and I was still just right at about senior year.

I bought my granny's old '69 T-Bird and sold it for a nice profit and bought the car I drive now, about 5 years ago. The T-Bird was sitting in her garage for at least 20 years when I bought it, it was clean, but those T-Birds were just so damn big.

 

[Born2Jizz]

Well, I've owned about at least 7 cars in my life, some of them shit, a couple pretty nice. I bought my granny's old '69 T-Bird and sold it for a nice profit and bought the car I drive now, about 5 years ago.

Nice! :thumbsup:







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[Tree-Fiddy]

*ahem*... I uhhh... Don't know what the hell you're talking about, sir... Now! Where's my car?? :dunno:

LOL, the car might be a bit of a problem, I could afford the care

 

[Born2Jizz]

LOL, the car might be a bit of a problem, I could afford the care

Ouch! Well played, sir. :thumbsup:

 

[Rey C.]

Thanks man! Gonna pretty much keep the stock body with feed side skirts and a shine auto project rear street diffuser (not a fan of body kits AT ALL) might do a 99+ front end later on down the line. As for paint, trying to decide between the Cyber Grey Metallic that's on the new Vettes and Camaros, or wrap it in a matte black or matte white vinyl

Sounds tight, whatever direction you go. I'm a pretty critical person. Yet, I can't say anything bad about what you've done with that car... or where you're going with it. Make sure to post some pics when you get done. I think we can have pics in our personal galleries here... is that right??? Maybe that's just for OCSM's... not sure.

But now... what ya could do (what I would do ), get Bree to pose with the car and I garon-damn-tee you that the pics won't get taken down - especially if she's wearing her FreeOnes t-shirt. A public place, like a car show or NOPI event, ya never know... she might go for it. :thumbsup:

 

[Embryoyo]

Got me 1990 CRX DX. It's a piece of crap, but it's been reliable as fuck and averages 35+ MPG still, 20 years later. It's really easy & cheap to repair anything that breaks on it to, a huge plus.

Still, I'm going for an E36 Bimmer this year, most likely a 318is.

 

[Born2Jizz]

But now... what ya could do (what I would do ), get Bree to pose with the car and I garon-damn-tee you that the pics won't get taken down - especially if she's wearing her FreeOnes t-shirt. A public place, like a car show or NOPI event, ya never know... she might go for it. :thumbsup:

THAT, sir, is an EXCELLENT idea!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

:eek: Why you must be in Minnesota!

Don't ever drive a nice car up here. The salt is possitively ungodly on the car's exterior. My body was superb 5 years ago when I bought it; I washed it regularly and took good care of it, but now the entire bottom is rusted out. It's a painful thing to have to go through. Best to buy a $500 hunk o' shit for the winters because it makes no sense to drive something nice.

Got me 1990 CRX DX. It's a piece of crap, but it's been reliable as fuck and averages 35+ MPG still, 20 years later. It's really easy & cheap to repair anything that breaks on it to, a huge plus.

Still, I'm going for an E36 Bimmer this year, most likely a 318is.

Those little things, I tell ya'...I know they are easy to soup up though and sometimes you'll see them all riced out on the roads fast as hell.

 

[Born2Jizz]

Don't ever drive a nice car up here. The salt is possitively ungodly on the car's exterior. My body was superb 5 years ago when I bought it; I washed it regularly and took good care of it, but now the entire bottom is rusted out. It's a painful thing to have to go through. Best to buy a $500 hunk o' shit for the winters because it makes no sense to drive something nice.

Don't worry, I'm in MN. I know how it goes! :thumbsup: