I was driving down a small town very close to the Alps the other day, and the winding roads were just like they are in Initial D. It’s a very sharp contrast to the very wide and extremely flat freeways of Houston, TX. I was getting such a exhilirating rush from driving (extremely slowly) those winding curves. I can’t imagine doing more than 60 km/h down those roads. Those downhill specialists are in a whole different class.
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A friend of mine is very close to buying a 2012 GTR…Working on his finances now, but already told him as a finders fee he owes me a drive
Well, I’m hopefully getting a Miata soon. Cant get a text back or an answered phone call, I guess no one wants to sell their Miata. I’m getting fed up over it actually, half tempted to get a del Sol, in its stead, cause I want that topless life, but a Sol is FWD Honda, and I already have a nice one, and done with them.
hahaha, about a year ago i almost got a 996 carrera (with a rebuilt 3.6l engine) for $12k. car was pretty nice, went out to see it, ran well, but the owner had title issues so the deal felt shaky. oh well, some other time. oh, and t-top isn’t drop top (close though)
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Don’t get a Del Sol. Miata’s are timeless and a standard. Plus they’re easy as shit to do swaps on. You don’t have to know much about cars and you can wrench on them. Otherwise you can get a BMW Z3 which are pretty dope IMO.
Del Sols are sick too. Depending on what crowd you roll. There is a certain market for Del Sol’s but a lot of them are pretty beat up. That said wont cost you hardly anything to get it back to mint.
Yeah but how do i explain this… I know your SRT4 because that is a very popular car with tuners and came into popularity when i was growing up… Not my favorite car at all just because of the looks but undeniably fast and hilarious how de-tuned the earlier models were. Close the waste gate… add a bar of boost… That stuff i know. But when the car is older than like 1990 it just falls off my radar for some reason lol ahaha
You know I was looking at them as well. Basically as a summer car. But I keep wanting a S2K. My uncle said he would let me buy his Boxter S so that may replace the Mazda, but I have been wanting to mess with a miata for a while. The Del Sol is cool, but lately I’ve been stepping away from Hondas. Been looking at an easy summer whip to cruise lake shore drive at night. Right now the Miata and RSX-s are the contenders. Chicago has tons of whips for a low amount because it cost a lot to own a car here.
The only thing I hate about cars is the amount of money you got to throw in to even chip the “satisfied meter” when ever you start working on your car. I know one dude that spend close to 30g’s ontop of what he paid for his STI and he said he needed another 30 to even feel remotely content about his car. This is the reason why I stick to bikes now, there’s only so much you can do before it becomes overkill real fast in most situations.
Question: I still have coil overs sitting in the box but have heard that daily driving through harsh winters can have detrimental effects like lock rings being seized or the gas inside the chambers to leak out. I have BC Sports for a 12’ Civic Si. So I talked to a couple car guys that they said it shouldn’t be a big enough issue as long as I frequently wash the car but I’m not sure considering the midwest gets nasty during the winter.
That a why you buy cars with you know, real power from the get go.
The biggest trap is that people buy dinky ass slow cars with dreams of making them “fast”. Power is expensive, if power is what you want, but something that designed for power. Sti, Lancer, Honda etc where not designed for speed. Its like taking a challenger and nodding it for tight technical circuit/autocross.
Buying a sti which isn’t fast in any real sense, and making it a 11-12 sec car would have cost as much as buying something with real power capabilities. Because you have to strip the engine and rebuild it with brand new anything because boxer series engines have a severe diminishing returns on power generation. Simply put, it’s not an efficient engine for real power.
He could have bought a vette, viper, Porsche, nsx, etc for the same price, and for the same $$$ would be destroying anything that’s not a purpose built drag car.
If you k ow how to car, and u derstand the engineering and theory behind engines at a basic level, It’s not an expensive because the knowledge prevents you from making dumb mistakes like buying a boxer/inline 6 car and trying to make it a 10-11 sec car. They pay that much only because they want to take something, and rework it into something its not, and that costs $$$$. A lot of it
My friend for example has a 5.7 manual challenger RT. 30k. He wanted the srt core which was base everything but premium mechanical components. Couldn’t because of his budget.
With less than 1000$ he’s faster than a 6.1 srt. And can actually beat 6.4 srt in the first 60-100 ft.
For an extra 1000$ I’m positive he can be as fast, if not faster than a 6.4. It’s about being smart and having a goal when you change and modify your car for a specific function on which it was built. off.
Um… Sti and Evo are 4 sec 0-60 , and already run 12’s…and definitely faster than NSX and pretty much every car you named. Bad comparison. The NSX is a Honda. Also Porsches are also boxer engines which would also have any inherent shortcomings that you say an STi would.
Lastly depend on which models you’re talking about it would be no faster stock than an STi or Lancer. The latest Viper is over 100, Vette, 911, ect all start at 70-90. STARTS. And if you spend 60k on say a used viper and you take a used sti for 15, you spend up to the difference, and you are walking all over the Viper. Not that you’re that far off stock. So it doesnt even make sense to say you could spend more money on an expensive car to be faster + plus spending on top. Of course, it would likely be faster…you’ve spent more on just you car than the Sti has in his car and mods.
And if you are comparing an STi + the difference or whatever to a stock used 60K car, then it’s an even worse comparison. Because a 60K Porsche is not going to be a fast one, or new. Likely one that would get stomped by an STi or Evo stock for stock. So take your $60K used base Carrera, and compare it to a used 15K STi, and put $45K into it and it would be pretty bad.
Miata and RSX-S are very different…
Depends on what you want out of it.
Lol who says you are buying new. You can buy a c5 z06 for 20k, or a base c6 for about 20k. For 10k a supercharge or turbo will make you really fast.
A Porsche is about 35k used, add a bigger, you add a bigger turbo and cooling. We aren’t trying to double the power in this car. That means new drivetrain.
An nsx costs 25-35k, twin turbo it.
A viper costs 45k.
That’s still cheaper than buying a new sti/Lancer and dumping another 30k to make it fast. Let’s also not forget that the cars above are still drivable everyday cars, unlike fully “built” sti/lancer and they become notoriously unreliable like kswap Frankenstein engines with a bite ratio above 10-11 iirc. All the cars listed with said modifications cost less than buying new sti/Lancet and then dropping another 30-40g+ on them to make them fast. And this doesn’t include drivetrain work. Of which the sti doesn’t have because it’s meant for rally buses, and the new kancers have fragile everything.
Also a lancer/sti isn’t truly fast. It a fast only from 0-60 because of it a aggressive gearung. It’s 1/4 mile drag times are laughable.
It’s cheaper to buy a already purpose built power plant and drop another 10-15k, than buying a new lancer/sti and paying for the car again to give it any sense of real speed.
And even if you buy used, and you end up paying about the same, at least the cars listed are drivable and much more reliable than a lancer/sti that make that amount of power.
I like muscle cars but the more obscure variety. Sure the Challengers, Chargers, and Mustangs are cool but I’ve been big on the more obscure muscle cars.
Mercury Marauder (probably my favorite car of all time). It’s right on the border of being a muscle car and being a grand tourer but whatever.
Oldsmobile 442
Buick Grand National
Love dem GNX’s…
Grand Nationals are dope. Buying power is hella cheap if you’re going Mustang, Camaro, Corvette route. Even Japanese you can get some easy with an IS300 or SC300. We’re talking 5 grand to start the car and maybe another 5 into it.
That Grand National though. Anyone who is a fan of that car should watch Black Air. A nice doc on the car and other stuff.
I don’t even know how some people my age can already afford cars. I have government school loans I haven’t even began to repay yet.
Not bad at all! I happen to be a fan of the '66 Chevy Nova, '70 Camaro, '71 Plymouth AAR Cudas, '72 Ford Gran Torinos, '77 Pontiac T/A Firebirds, '65 Shelby Cobra 427s and Daytona Coupes.
As for other old cars, '59 Chevy Impala, '57 and '63 Ford T-Bird, '61 Jaguar E-Type Coupe, Toyota 2000 GT, '31 Duesenberg, '64 Ford Galaxie, '68 Toyota Land Cruiser, Lambo Miura, Greenwood Widebody Corvette, '55 Corvette, and certain others.
Aside from old cars of many colours, I’ve also an interest in a small range of JDMs, certain off-road/rally class cars, '90s supercars, and some kustom cars.
I’ve never been big on motorsports or the engineering of a car. What I am mostly interested in is the body styling, the ideas people come up with their kustom cars, and to some extent the culture that goes along with it. What kind of image you like to portray about your car and yourself interests me more than how much money you’ve put into it, how powerful it is, how low it is, how loud it is, how much backfire it produces, how much rubber it can burn, I honestly do not find any of that stuff impressive.
What I do appreciate is when a car is either designed with careful attention to details and subtly of its intentions, or when its modified with thought put into a balance between aesthetic and performance changes. It’s not something you’ll grow out of, but something you’ll come back to 10-20 years from now and still like it. It took me a few years to develop this taste. The '61 Jaguar E-Type is one example of a beautifully designed car:
Some of you won’t find this too appealing. I myself wasn’t a fan of this car’s look not up until 4 years ago.
Buick Roadmaster Riviera, always beautiful.
Datsun 510 always good IMO
my personal favorite car ever made.
