Too bad he can't just flip over the air cleaner lid. That's free.

 

I'll bet you did that when you took your dad's car out on a date. I did.

 

Why do you have to "beat" anyone? I don't think I've ever had my car over 55mph. Most of my "cruising" is along the beach @ about 7mph. Don't need more than 195hp to do that. Chicks don't care how fast your car goes...they want everyone to see them in it as you drive 'em to the $50 per course restaurant.

And no, I don't wish I was 18. At 18, I was a broke, four-eyed pimple-dork who couldn't get laid in a 'ho-house with a fistful of $100 bills. Now, @ 43, I get more azz than a toilet seat. I even have to say "no" on occasion.

 

[dream] ..... toilet seat ... azz..... [alarmclock] buzzzzzzzzzzzzzz buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz [/alarmclock] .. poofff .... [/dream]

 

 

Hell, *I'm* 43 too, and, pretty much just like at 18, I couldn't get laid in a two bit 'hohouse on two-fer night with a fresh gold card with a few krugerrands to throw in for tips!!!

Now the CAR....yep....if I left it filled up, keys in it and the ignition on and a $100 bill on the driver seat outside a sorority and IT would see PLENTY of "action"...



I think the direction THIS thread is going it should be merged with the "urban myths" thread....

EL CID - don't listen to these geezers' war stories anymore than you might your buds'.....you have a nice CAR - it ain't no magic wand dude! It's for driving and enjoying that - those "looks" from chicks won't translate into anything unless you got bucks, looks or dope and evne then only if you really want a kiddie payment on her two fatherless kids, the money she owes on her trailer rent or 3/4's of the bucks to pay for her crack habit....hope that ain't a shocker!

 

 

Hmmm...I'd hit it!. Hot, trashy welfare mom's =

 

Who knows, maybe the trailer and her dealer has some good parts to slap on the VETTE!!!

 

i know whats this guy means. im 22 and i have a 82 as well. all of the younger people thinks oohhh thats a corvette and think its like the fastest car ever! (exxageration)!!! but i know that there are ricers that can take me out easily. i mean, yeah, you can just ignore it but thats a big part of owning my car for me, i want to know that it is powerful and one of those you have to watch out for. because sure it looks great but its got nothing to back it up and that really sucks!!! !
i want the looks to equal the power because remeber when everyone is young they want to be the fastest! its only later that you just enjoy the car for what it is

 

Even the ricers have to spend money to make there car fast. Let me give you a secret - even your stock vette is faster than a ricer with his honda, exhaust, and wing. If he has a turbocharged eclipse or WRX than that's another story, but don't worry about 90% of the ricers. Most likely they are thinking the same thing - "my car is so slow, how can I make it faster with little money?". They can't, so they put stickers on them and add a wing. The other guy wrote of the Eclipse that went 14? Let me tell you, you can't do that without a turbo, intercooler, AND nitrous, and that goes for, like I said, 90% of the ricers. Sooo - do what all your friends with the ricers do and lie about your horsepower, or add a $70 cold air intake if you wish and tell them it adds 60 horsepower.

Oh and for guy who has a friend with the Eclipse GS-T that runs 14.1 (which I have to doubt unless it's sprayed)? One word - crankwalk! Your friend will know what Im talking about. I'm shocked that any old turboed 2nd generation eclipses are still working.

 

if you add the dual exhaust its going to make the car sound like a beast and make the ricers tremble in their sticker box

 

I have some corvette headers in the shop ill ask my dad if he wants them or not.And if he doesnt you can pay me for the shipping and ill send em to you.

 

Some of the early 70's big block vettes were the most powerful and fastest cars made for the next 20 years, with the only exception of the highest end hand built things from Europe for typically twenty TIMES the cost...

...unfortunately that went away....

BUT YOU CAN GET IT AND MUCH MORE BACK!!!

[doddering ancient squivering voice: ON] Here you go again....you modren yutes....

I find exactly the reverse - more newer/younger enthusiasts are more interested in the looks, the styles, the appreciation from others...more "codger league" enthusiasts (35-55 typically) will spend ungodly amounts of money, screwing over the appearance if necessary in preference of pure performance.

You get in little highway contests with the real porsche league folks, risking sizable tickets, and you find them 40-60 more than 20-30....just like I "budget" (find another barely unmaxed out CC!) a max of $1,000/month for fuel, I "budget" $1,000/year for ticket lawyers...

.... sonny, I have not spent nearly EIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS to "just enjoy it for what it is" - *I* want to kill BUGATTIS & MCLARENS!!!

I hope, by the time I hit $125K or so, to be able to beat anything you can buy for under $1M in real world contests on real roads, giving them some in absolute handling and some in braking, but making it up in balance in raw power. If I can figure out a way to incorporate AWD, I don't even give them the first of that. They will still also have huge edges in economy and emmissions - but there aren't any "E's" in MY religion.

I may not make it - I might grease myself getting there - I almost certainly will go broke (maybe several times!) getting there - but I think it's doable with a C3 platform - to be the equal or superior of true current day supercars in toto, for 1/8th the cost.

BTW, "sonny" , I am happy to hear from you and the starter of the thread not EVERYONE born after AMERICA landed on the Moon is a "metrosexual" more concerned with $2500 of 24" rims and "styyyyle" - that the "old school" of SUBSTANCE before IMAGE is what matters!

 

acuatlly, it's first gen, and it's got a Small 16b turbo, and it works beautifully, pumping out 16 pounds of boost and no nitrous. I'll post pics when i get the pics of my car up. he's my best bud, so his car is in a couple of my shots.

 

El_Cid, I feel for you also. I am 23 years old and deal with the ricer crowd alot. When I got my 79' started it had a worn out L-48. I needed to devote alot of my summer job earnings to get where I am now with it. I got over $5000 in the engine, trans and new rear gears. It now has alot of "go" to compliment the "show." I can keep most of the ricers in my dust. The lastest "demonstration" was against a twin turbo 300zx that had alot of mods to it. I beat it best out of three. In short, you need to save up some money to get it to be a quick car.

 

That's cool. I didn't mean to come off as a smart-@ss. Eclipses are good cars, I have one myself, but the point is those cars stock are 16 second cars even with the turbos (the 4 wheel drive versions are a bit quicker due to traction). Now I bet he put some money into that car to get the boost up to 16 -intercoolers, fuel injectors, some engine work, etc. The point is you can spend the same amount of money on a stock late 70's chevy engine, or buy a crate engine, and be in the 13's.

 

THANK YOU. even if you arent able to give them, thank you

 

your welcome. we might be able to in a few weeks. i have to get the cat set up and tuned first because with side pipes the car wont fit on the lift.

 

Can't get side pipes on a lift....dagnabit!!! Is this all lifts?