Project Car(s)

[Anonymous]

Here's my baby. Pretty much bone stock - city living isn't really conducive to working on your car. 

It's going to be dangerous when I live in the suburbs again someday and have room for more cars. LOL.

[Anonymous]

Very nice - I love how fun those cars are and they don't even need mods. Not to mention, if you don't mod, you don't compromise other things...

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Very nice - I love how fun those cars are and they don't even need mods. Not to mention, if you don't mod, you don't compromise other things...

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I've mainly had Mustangs and Camaros and had no idea I'd love this VW as much as I do. My ex had just bought it shortly before we met in FL, and it just made way more sense to bring it to NYC than my car. I was the one who stubbornly insisted we keep a car living in Manhattan, so I took over the payments and ended up keeping it in the divorce. LOL.

However . . . . . 

[Anonymous]

It's cool to find out you can have a car that rips in a straight line but can also handle, isn't it? Have you ever seen the extremes the 1.8T and 2.0T have been taken to? It's berserk!

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

It's cool to find out you can have a car that rips in a straight line but can also handle, isn't it? Have you ever seen the extremes the 1.8T and 2.0T have been taken to? It's berserk!

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I'm seeing some right now browsing the MK5 Golf forums. (It's a quiet day at the office and I didn't get enough sleep last night.)

[Anonymous]

It's a little more old-school, but there are some terrifying rides using boosted I-5 engines. Hell's Racing has done some that are truly at the lunatic fringe, like this one:

https://youtu.be/vxIOyBlxCGM

[Anonymous]

Currently building two snow-bashers, and an odd ball:

1- A '99 Bravada with aftermarket overbored v8 block, low to mid-range torque cam, beefed up 4L60E, True Trac in the rear end, reman AWD center, an e-locker in the front, an no ricer-themed aesthetics or exhaust system.

2- An '01 Explorer with aftermarket 302 block (stock), Eaton M112 SC, low to mid-range torque cam, beefed up 4R70W, True Trac in the rear, reman AWD (w/manual disconnect mod), and an e-locker up front, and no ricer-themed aesthetics or exhaust system.

3- An 84 Buick Electra Park Avenue that's undergoing heart transplant and a plastic surgery, before getting a Megasquirt based EFI system etc.

I'm boring.

[Anonymous]

Those sound like a lot of fun honestly. I love oddball builds. I work with a guy who somehow put a Honda 3.5 V6 and transmission in an early-2000s Civic hatch, and has a plow on it. It's the craziest thing to look at but it gets up and RUNS!

[Anonymous]

Did I jinx it or something? You guys wouldn't believe this, but my Explorer was totaled tonight when a DUI basket case of a moron pulled in front of me when I was going 60mph. Seems so unreal! It hasn't even been 24 hours since I mentioned that truck here.

[Anonymous]

Ugh, I hate hearing things like that. You're ok though right?