Monster Garage Builds Rice!
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The "Auto Zone" in Lomita,Ca.
has service that's a disgrace to the business,but I guess you get what you pay for.Most are kids with the lowest pay.I guess that's the American Way now.
has service that's a disgrace to the business,but I guess you get what you pay for.Most are kids with the lowest pay.I guess that's the American Way now.
discount autoparts = discount workers. you get what you pay for.
I saw the show. It didn't even say how fast it would go in the end! I can't stand those riced out 4 bangers, if you want a strong car start off with a Camaro, Mustang, Vette with a V8 with some musscle already under the hood and skip the weak 4 bangers!!!!! I thought Jesse already knew this!!!
There's a new breed of engineers entering the workforce these days.
Back in the bad old days (only a decade ago), we'd have our muscle cars, and compare our weekend's wrenching on Monday morning, carbs, cams, exhaust, etc etc.
The new breed compare their stereos, how good their mechanics are (and how much they spend is staggering compared to a dcade ago).
There IS, however, a quiet type at work who is a real dark horse. He's rebuilding (for the third time) his Skyline GT.
He works on it and programmes his injection himself. Used to be 500hp as a twin turbo, but was lacking in bottom end.
How do you fix the bottom end ?
You draw up the engine bay and ancilliaries in CAD. Draw in a supercharger.
Then draw up the required manifolding.
Submit the drawings to a foundry, and get the parts made up....then put it together and programme it yourself.
He still spends buckets of money, but I am somewhat in awe.
Back in the bad old days (only a decade ago), we'd have our muscle cars, and compare our weekend's wrenching on Monday morning, carbs, cams, exhaust, etc etc.
The new breed compare their stereos, how good their mechanics are (and how much they spend is staggering compared to a dcade ago).
There IS, however, a quiet type at work who is a real dark horse. He's rebuilding (for the third time) his Skyline GT.
He works on it and programmes his injection himself. Used to be 500hp as a twin turbo, but was lacking in bottom end.
How do you fix the bottom end ?
You draw up the engine bay and ancilliaries in CAD. Draw in a supercharger.
Then draw up the required manifolding.
Submit the drawings to a foundry, and get the parts made up....then put it together and programme it yourself.
He still spends buckets of money, but I am somewhat in awe.
I am not in awe, a front wheel drive piece of crap is still a front wheel drive piece of crap even if you spend $100,000 on it.
I'll take this back when ferrari starts selling a front wheel drive sports car.
They may be comparing their stereos, but it wont be long before they have to write messages to each other or learn sign language because they are deaf. Hopefully none of these idiots will have bred.
Oh, if the car has a real engine, it doesnt need superchargers, nitrous, 4 valves per cylinder or a turbo to make enough power to move the car.
Dan
[ May 19, 2004, 05:55 AM: Message edited by: Dan4510 ]
I'll take this back when ferrari starts selling a front wheel drive sports car.
They may be comparing their stereos, but it wont be long before they have to write messages to each other or learn sign language because they are deaf. Hopefully none of these idiots will have bred.
Oh, if the car has a real engine, it doesnt need superchargers, nitrous, 4 valves per cylinder or a turbo to make enough power to move the car.
Dan
[ May 19, 2004, 05:55 AM: Message edited by: Dan4510 ]
Nah,
he's got too much money, and no life actually.
He bought a very high priced, very high performance grey import vehicle (Japan is Right Hand Drive, and turn over their cars every 30 or 40 thousand miles).
He drove that for a bit.
Then he needed ball bearing turbos (big ones), so he pulled the front to pieces, and fitted them, and a flash engine management system. (rebuild #1)
More performance upgrades to get to his 500hp took the head off. (rebuild #2)
Now the blower/turbo (#3).
Note, that the bottom end has never been to bits (sorry, my poor terminology in "rebuild"). I reckon he should swap his 2.8 litre bottom end for a 3 litre this time while he's in there, but he won't.
he's got too much money, and no life actually.
He bought a very high priced, very high performance grey import vehicle (Japan is Right Hand Drive, and turn over their cars every 30 or 40 thousand miles).
He drove that for a bit.
Then he needed ball bearing turbos (big ones), so he pulled the front to pieces, and fitted them, and a flash engine management system. (rebuild #1)
More performance upgrades to get to his 500hp took the head off. (rebuild #2)
Now the blower/turbo (#3).
Note, that the bottom end has never been to bits (sorry, my poor terminology in "rebuild"). I reckon he should swap his 2.8 litre bottom end for a 3 litre this time while he's in there, but he won't.
haha, this discussion reminded me of when I was sharing a house with 2 other guys, and he was a mate of one of them.
I had a 5 litre V-8 Torana (quadrajet, headers, cam, etc), and was changing the oil.......2 litres of Mobil 1 15W-50, and 3 litres of Duckhams 15W-50.
He made fun of my oil change.
I blew his (then current) 5 litre Commodore into the weeds.
I had a 5 litre V-8 Torana (quadrajet, headers, cam, etc), and was changing the oil.......2 litres of Mobil 1 15W-50, and 3 litres of Duckhams 15W-50.
He made fun of my oil change.
I blew his (then current) 5 litre Commodore into the weeds.
A word of caution......the Skyline is a very wicked 2.0, 2.2, maybe a 3.0L car....I forget now. As Shannow stated, they are AWD and properly modded, can smoke just about anything out there. I've seen videos of those things running the 1/4......and I'm impressed!
Then again.....you can make a Saturn go really fast as long as you have the dough to do it!
Then again.....you can make a Saturn go really fast as long as you have the dough to do it!
This discussion is really beginning to sound bigoted. Really, without being direct, many of you seem to hold some animosity towards the Japanese and their fine products. I somehow suspect the same animosity probably doesn’t hold true to the Germans and their fine engineering. Nonetheless, the fact remains that the new “hotrods” are the 4-banger front wheel drive cars. Detroit had better wake up to this, regardless of what our interpretation of what a hotrod is, or they will continue their declining market share losses to better made, better engineered Japanese makes. Clearly, DC sees this with their substandard Neon, and Ford, to a lessor extent with its SVT Focus.
I grew up in the 70's and if you'd seen what we did then, well looking back now we were pretty silly too. I say let the kids have their fun, I did. Styles change.
[ May 19, 2004, 02:51 PM: Message edited by: JohnnyO ]
Brand, country of origin is irrelevant, a front wheel drive ricer poc (piece of crap) is still that. It may be that I am dinosaur, but a brrrp can muffler, a large wing, and stickers just dont make a car fast. The amounts of money these idiots throw away is insane. 10% more horsepower on a car with only 110 to start with just doesnt do that much.
I built a 65 4 door plymouth for about $8000 (including car purchase and all parts) over four years. Runs the quarter in 14.00, never broke a part in over 1200 1/4 mile runs. This is running the engine at 5600 rpm tops. Get ok gas mileage if you keep your foot out of it. Eats all kinds of high dollar supposdly fast cars. Best of all--I built it myself. 2nd best of all, dont need computers to work on it.
Dan
F@rt tube used to be my favorite term for those insane exhaust tips, but I think Dan's term just surpassed that. What a riot!
BTW, check out this exhaust:
http://www.beaterz.com/reviews/0300/p49.htm
riceboy.com
if you want to see some rice, check out this site. it's not been updated in a while, but man, do these cars have stickers!
personally, i laugh my *** off at:
1. any front wheel drive car with a huge rear wing
2. small slammed pickup trucks that practically come to a stop to get over a speed bump
3. any numbnut in an SUV who creeps over railroad tracks
4. dubs. on anything.
if you want to see some rice, check out this site. it's not been updated in a while, but man, do these cars have stickers!
personally, i laugh my *** off at:
1. any front wheel drive car with a huge rear wing
2. small slammed pickup trucks that practically come to a stop to get over a speed bump
3. any numbnut in an SUV who creeps over railroad tracks
4. dubs. on anything.
God forbid that a company would spend any time ever finding out what the customer might want, We have this, you will buy this....quote:
Originally posted by JohnnyO:
On the subject of "not getting it" btw, a local Ford dealer had a new Focus on the lot with bodykit, wing, wheels, stickers, exhaust, intake, etc. It was there forever. I looked at it one day and saw that it was an automatic.Somewhere in the dealer's office is a fat old white guy saying "Humph, last time we get a car for the kids. They don't know what's good."
Dan
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