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Kenny_McCormic
Kartless....
The luv is what came before the S10. Its really an Isuzu.
Kenny_McCormic
Kartless....
MAD DORIFTOS!!!!
I'm not going anywhere tonight, that car is stuck good, it will have to be dragged out by a 4x4. Stupid snowdrifts in my front yard and car ground clearance.
I'm not going anywhere tonight, that car is stuck good, it will have to be dragged out by a 4x4. Stupid snowdrifts in my front yard and car ground clearance.
Kenny_McCormic
Kartless....
Its the most snow I have seen in 10 years. Dads K-1500 had trouble getting my *** out of there, when the truck finally did find traction he ended up dragging the car too close to a pine tree and broke off my radio antenna.
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Oh well, the car doesn't even have a muffler right now, I wouldn't care if it didn't drone so bad. Sounds like a jap. motorcycle outside of the 2300-4000 rpm range, within that range you cant hear yourself think.
I have no front speakers.
The interior plastic is all as brittle as glass, my steering column cover is held on with electrical tape. The HVAC control panel is half pushed into the dash.
My AC doesn't work.
My wipers are messed up and the bushing on the motor was replaced with a ghetto rigged piece of rubber and a hose clamp after the nylon one exploded.
It needs an alignment, and rear sway bar links+bushings.
The fuel filler tube looks like its gonna **** the bed any day now.
It could use a new cap+ rotor, plugs and probably wires.
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Other than that the car starts every time on the 4th compression stroke, runs somewhat smoothly, and goes through all the gears fine. To top it all off, my gas pedal doesn't stick and the brakes will lock up all 4 wheels on command.
[*****ing]
Oh well, the car doesn't even have a muffler right now, I wouldn't care if it didn't drone so bad. Sounds like a jap. motorcycle outside of the 2300-4000 rpm range, within that range you cant hear yourself think.
I have no front speakers.
The interior plastic is all as brittle as glass, my steering column cover is held on with electrical tape. The HVAC control panel is half pushed into the dash.
My AC doesn't work.
My wipers are messed up and the bushing on the motor was replaced with a ghetto rigged piece of rubber and a hose clamp after the nylon one exploded.
It needs an alignment, and rear sway bar links+bushings.
The fuel filler tube looks like its gonna **** the bed any day now.
It could use a new cap+ rotor, plugs and probably wires.
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Other than that the car starts every time on the 4th compression stroke, runs somewhat smoothly, and goes through all the gears fine. To top it all off, my gas pedal doesn't stick and the brakes will lock up all 4 wheels on command.
modelengineer
Lord of the noise
Just bought a new (to me) car from a salvage auction. I was going to pull it apart and use the engine to build a mid-engined car, but it's too good to do that and I can repair it.
2002 Subaru Impreza RS 2.5. Just over 100,000 kilometres. Bargain at $2,900 !!!
1k to fix up, ~1k for rego and insurance and I have a car which would cost me around $14,000 to buy. SO happy!
112kw
Electric windows
Electric mirrors
Cruise control
Climate control air conditioning
Alloy wheels
4 wheel disc brakes
WRX bucket seats (replacements cost $2,500 each from Subaru!!!!!!! Made by Recaro)
2002 Subaru Impreza RS 2.5. Just over 100,000 kilometres. Bargain at $2,900 !!!
1k to fix up, ~1k for rego and insurance and I have a car which would cost me around $14,000 to buy. SO happy!
112kw
Electric windows
Electric mirrors
Cruise control
Climate control air conditioning
Alloy wheels
4 wheel disc brakes
WRX bucket seats (replacements cost $2,500 each from Subaru!!!!!!! Made by Recaro)
Kenny_McCormic
Kartless....
That Subaru have a turbo? Nice score either way.
Just found out the Camry is gonna need $300 in rear end parts. Non serviceable ball-socket joints in the rear lateral control rods, the whole rods have to be replaced, dealer only part @ $150 a side. What asre the odds of me finding a 92-96 Camry in a junkyard with low miles and arms that don't have the adjusters rusted shut? I might sell this car that is seemingly on the fast track to POS status.
Its a $1000 KBB car and needs $80 in ignition, $300 in the rear end just to keep it safe, not to mention the sway bar links are going bad, its getting rusty, stalled on me today for no apparent reason, to top it all off the car drinks gas like its going out of style. It gets 22 mpg in the summer. That's horrible for a 2.2 I4 car with a 2932lb curb weight, I could do that in a 5.7 Camaro. I'm afraid to check now when I have to rev the **** out of it on a daily basis just to get it moving.
Maybe my Toyota has become depressed over Toyota's quality recently falling off a cliff and is doing the traditional Japanese thing, killing itself. I fear one of these days the car will just disembowel itself.
Just found out the Camry is gonna need $300 in rear end parts. Non serviceable ball-socket joints in the rear lateral control rods, the whole rods have to be replaced, dealer only part @ $150 a side. What asre the odds of me finding a 92-96 Camry in a junkyard with low miles and arms that don't have the adjusters rusted shut? I might sell this car that is seemingly on the fast track to POS status.
Its a $1000 KBB car and needs $80 in ignition, $300 in the rear end just to keep it safe, not to mention the sway bar links are going bad, its getting rusty, stalled on me today for no apparent reason, to top it all off the car drinks gas like its going out of style. It gets 22 mpg in the summer. That's horrible for a 2.2 I4 car with a 2932lb curb weight, I could do that in a 5.7 Camaro. I'm afraid to check now when I have to rev the **** out of it on a daily basis just to get it moving.
Maybe my Toyota has become depressed over Toyota's quality recently falling off a cliff and is doing the traditional Japanese thing, killing itself. I fear one of these days the car will just disembowel itself.
sideways
Unfinished projects king.
Just bought a new (to me) car from a salvage auction. I was going to pull it apart and use the engine to build a mid-engined car, but it's too good to do that and I can repair it.
2002 Subaru Impreza RS 2.5. Just over 100,000 kilometres. Bargain at $2,900 !!!
1k to fix up, ~1k for rego and insurance and I have a car which would cost me around $14,000 to buy. SO happy!
112kw
Electric windows
Electric mirrors
Cruise control
Climate control air conditioning
Alloy wheels
4 wheel disc brakes
WRX bucket seats (replacements cost $2,500 each from Subaru!!!!!!! Made by Recaro)
Nice!
Good luck with fixing it up! PS: 4 wheel drive locost, you know you want to
EDIT: Is it still registered? Its still got plates on it?
Hayden
That One Guy
Occational Annoyance
I am soooo jealous modelengineer! You should totally rally that thing out!
On a sidenote... What's it like shifting with your left hand?
On a sidenote... What's it like shifting with your left hand?
Kenny_McCormic
Kartless....
Probably normal for him.
sideways
Unfinished projects king.
Silly Americans, driving on the WRONG side of the road and with their steering wheels in the WRONG place
Hayden
modelengineer
Lord of the noise
Thanks everyone, I'm very happy with the car. I've removed all the broken parts and I now need to find:
Offside headlight and foglight
Front bumper
Bonnet (hood for all you Americans)
Offside front... panel. Not sure of it's name
And a small section of a frame for the offside front where it has been damaged
Kenny, it's not the turbo. Being 19 y.o insurance on a WRX (turbo) is off the charts, and they sell for big money at the auctions.
Hayden, 4 wheel drive locost? Hehehehehe, it would be crazy but the subaru 4wd system puts the engine in front of the front axles. In a locost the engine is behind the front axles.
Thanks That One Guy, I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the car. I'll probably just put some unequal length headers on it (home made of course) and a new exhaust to bring out the boxer rumble. I've also got an aftermarket ECU which I plan to put in it to get a few more horses out of the engine, along with a few goodies like traction control, launch control, 2 stage rev limiter, etc.
Shifting with the left hand just seems right, I would have thought you'd want your right hand on the wheel at all times (if you're right handed). Although, my buggy has the gear lever on the right side and it also feels normal, but it's sequential so it's a bit different.
Offside headlight and foglight
Front bumper
Bonnet (hood for all you Americans)
Offside front... panel. Not sure of it's name
And a small section of a frame for the offside front where it has been damaged
Kenny, it's not the turbo. Being 19 y.o insurance on a WRX (turbo) is off the charts, and they sell for big money at the auctions.
Hayden, 4 wheel drive locost? Hehehehehe, it would be crazy but the subaru 4wd system puts the engine in front of the front axles. In a locost the engine is behind the front axles.
Thanks That One Guy, I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the car. I'll probably just put some unequal length headers on it (home made of course) and a new exhaust to bring out the boxer rumble. I've also got an aftermarket ECU which I plan to put in it to get a few more horses out of the engine, along with a few goodies like traction control, launch control, 2 stage rev limiter, etc.
Shifting with the left hand just seems right, I would have thought you'd want your right hand on the wheel at all times (if you're right handed). Although, my buggy has the gear lever on the right side and it also feels normal, but it's sequential so it's a bit different.
Kenny_McCormic
Kartless....
Silly Americans, driving on the WRONG side of the road and with their steering wheels in the WRONG place
Hayden
We drive on the RIGHT side of the road. Your RHD puts the drivers towards the middle of the road too.
Silly Americans, driving on the WRONG side of the road and with their steering wheels in the WRONG place
Hayden
at least were not upside down!
anderkart
Moderator
You guys got me wondering why some countries chose to drive on different sides of the road.
If anyone else was kinda wondering about this subject I found a bunch of really good info at this site:
http://users.telenet.be/worldstandards/driving on the left.htm
If anyone else was kinda wondering about this subject I found a bunch of really good info at this site:
http://users.telenet.be/worldstandards/driving on the left.htm
sideways
Unfinished projects king.
Wow, you've made quick progress, I wish I had your motivation
Duno if its in your state but in some states in Australia but when your on your P plates your not allowed to drive a car with a turbo or with a V8 or a hi performance 6, stupid rule I think :toetap05:
Do Subarus still have the front drive shafts coming out of the sides of the gear box? Never worked on an Impreza, just Brumbys on stuff. I must get that locost book(the haynes one right?). I'd love to build one!
Well your upside down from my point of view!
Good read, thanks!
Hayden
sideways
Unfinished projects king.
Diesels are exempt that I'm pretty sure. Your P licence is the first two years of having your licence, basically there's more restrictions when you have them.
Hayden
modelengineer
Lord of the noise
Yeah, it's not turbo, but that P plate rule is so stupid and we have them for 3 years here in NSW.
No turbo's (turbo diesels excepted), no V8's, no 6 cylinders over 200kw, AND there's a whole list of other cars which are not allowed.
They don't even mention power to weight, so I could drive a 199kw locost which will do 0-100kph in < 4 seconds, but I can't drive a crummy old V8 ute.
The gearbox on the subie has the front driveshafts coming out the sides of the gearbox. To make a mid engined car you lock the centre differential and use the previous front wheel drive outputs to drive the rear wheels. It's a great setup.
No turbo's (turbo diesels excepted), no V8's, no 6 cylinders over 200kw, AND there's a whole list of other cars which are not allowed.
They don't even mention power to weight, so I could drive a 199kw locost which will do 0-100kph in < 4 seconds, but I can't drive a crummy old V8 ute.
The gearbox on the subie has the front driveshafts coming out the sides of the gearbox. To make a mid engined car you lock the centre differential and use the previous front wheel drive outputs to drive the rear wheels. It's a great setup.
anderkart
Moderator
Good read, thanks!
Hayden
Yer welcome Hayden, I thought that was pretty interesting too.