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It's all coming apart. Car related.
16 years ago
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I've decided I can do better with my track car. Recently I haven't wanted to drive. At all. I've avoided work just because it involves driving. So the money I was/am supposed to spend on my road car is now going on the track car. I've made it perfect, and now I'm pulling it apart and I'm going to re-do it in the same way as before. Only with more knowledge, and better materials. 540 bhp might have been enough when I was a child, but among real cars, like the brand-new race-tuned Corvettes which stomped the car not so long ago, it's just not quite enough, regardless of driver. So, the whole car is being dismantled, right down to its component parts. It's all going to be cleaned and polished, if there's anything more I can do to improve it, I will, and then it'll go back together again.
It'll likely take two years, and cost about 30,000 of your American monies.
Why am I doing it?
Because I have no-one.
It's going to be stripped right down to the bare shell. It'll be miraculous if it ever goes back together again.
I know.
It's literally amazing how uninteresting something can be.
I chuckled. WIP pics, por favor.
Should actually be 30,000.
I was still thinking in proper currency when I typed that figure.
It's already a serious racer,
and this new overhaul and refresh probably wont make much difference.
It will if it all goes tits up and never goes back together again
You'll thrash me.
I have no idea what you have, but you'll thrash me.
What I'm aiming for is a fiesty road car more than a proper track-glue speedway racer. Not exactly material for the 24hrs at LeMans.
Besides all that, you, unlike I, have the financial fortitude to build your car right this very moment. :D
I really really don't.
and I could draw up designs... if I could draw... or design.
That's plan C, in case I lose my car license. Turbocharged, injection, seven-speed, race-tuned, and only 50cc. The trick is to get something Japanese, and pre 1976, which I know is very old, but if it's newer, it has to be restricted, by law, to 30mph. With an older one, I can have a proper motorcyle (not a silly hairdryer thing) which I can insure under "classic" insurance, pay no tax for it, and ramp up the power to a sizzling 30bhp.
http://www.trilulilu.ro/mark35/1684.....eo_google_com=
Less romantic in my case, I'm sure.
I'm far less cool as well, and so is my car.
So what kind of Vette is it you're working on?
Does sound very much like me.
This is the vette:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1699439/
It's going to be almost completely standard, just improved.
But why?
It's just a load of old bits of steel, rust, torn carpet, and black dirt.
As above,
what could I possibly take photographs of?
The throttle bodies?
"Here's a detailed photo of a big lump of metal and plastic."
Too late, it's already gutted.
Smash those corvettes for me!
If you're serious about chipping in, I'm serious about you and me taking both my cars out for a track day thrash.
Then ice cream.
Acura are great for tuning.
Anti-roll bars. Strut-top braces. Carbon-fibre roof transplant.
Gotta kill that horrible body roll that the Japanese know the Americans require.
Don't tell anyone, but I'm not drawing any more.
Still in the sitting-around-in-pieces stage, pending funding.