What Car do you Drive?

CaseyDidder · Post by **CaseyDidder** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:07 am

Ninjatanuki wrote:'87 Toyota MR2 (aw11) and 2002 Nissan SE-R Spec-V (b15)

NICE MR2! I almost bought a 88 Supercharged MR2, but couldn't find one that had a good condition body with a well maintained mechanical aspect.

Beatmaniac: Thats what my car is going to be, or already is. Massive sleeper.

I'm getting a full turbo setup from TurboTech out of Canada, they specialize in sub compacts and my engine specifically. Assuming all goes well by the end of the year I should have a Swift faster than Ho's car.

yamcha61 · Post by **yamcha61** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:05 am

I drive a 97 tahoe. Nothin more to say other than it is really loud

Post by Ho » Fri Mar 18, 2005 7:33 am

CaseyDidder wrote:Assuming all goes well by the end of the year I should have a Swift faster than Ho's car.

Not much of a goal considering I don't race.

xK1 · Post by **xK1** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:44 am

I drive the very definition of a POS car: '94 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera with 233,000+ miles, a broken passenger side headlight, missing grill, drivers side door that doesn't open from the inside, passenger side door that you can't unlock from the outside, missing the fuse that controls the interior lights/clock because when it is in the horn goes off at random intervals, no heating or A/C because that fuse keeps blowing, and a cracked front windshield. And the transmission's been acting up recently. That's all the stuff I can remember off the top of my head, I'm sure that there is more wrong with it. Hopefully I'll only have to make it last 4 more months though...

BeatmaniacIIDX · Post by **BeatmaniacIIDX** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:21 pm

Might be faster. One of the guys I autoX'd with from St. Louis had a swift GTi and even turbo'd it was no match for the SRTs. He even had a Mitsu 20g turbo on it. Considered dropping in a JDM engine? They come stock with a turbo, around 140 crank BHP. Adding a turbo to a non-turbo engine will also make it less reliable, and puts the car at it's limits. Before the turbo kit I recomend a headgasket job, cams, change all major belts, clutch, intake, you'll have to either get a new standalone ECU or piggyback plus the cost of programing it, and you'll have to get a custom exhaust around 2.25" probably.

CgSquall · Post by **CgSquall** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:19 pm

Casey, there's a '86 MR2 for sale up here for $550 dollars, has a cracked fourth headgasket though. 5 speed. I was considering buying it myself, but i have no idea how much that'd cost to fix though, and honestly i don't really want one. If anybody wants to know if it's still for sale/the price and/or where it is, feel free to ask me and I'll make sure of everything since i'll be driving by there saturday(prolly)

UberAvonDancer · Post by **UberAvonDancer** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:00 pm

BeatmaniacIIDX wrote:Might be faster. One of the guys I autoX'd with from St. Louis had a swift GTi and even turbo'd it was no match for the SRTs. He even had a Mitsu 20g turbo on it. Considered dropping in a JDM engine? They come stock with a turbo, around 140 crank BHP. Adding a turbo to a non-turbo engine will also make it less reliable, and puts the car at it's limits. Before the turbo kit I recomend a headgasket job, cams, change all major belts, clutch, intake, you'll have to either get a new standalone ECU or piggyback plus the cost of programing it, and you'll have to get a custom exhaust around 2.25" probably.

Nothing special about the JDM engine. Seriously. And dont use Stage X when you talk about turbo/supers use horsepower ratings. I've seen a Stage 3 kit that only put out like 40 hp at max boost.

Anyways, at the moment I drive a 91 Grand Prix LE.

Cause engine shots make you cool

And the one thing that makes my car worth driving

Rock on.

O 16581 72452 5 · Post by **O 16581 72452 5** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:12 pm

BeatmaniacIIDX wrote:Might be faster. One of the guys I autoX'd with from St. Louis had a swift GTi and even turbo'd it was no match for the SRTs. He even had a Mitsu 20g turbo on it. Considered dropping in a JDM engine? They come stock with a turbo, around 140 crank BHP. Adding a turbo to a non-turbo engine will also make it less reliable, and puts the car at it's limits. Before the turbo kit I recomend a headgasket job, cams, change all major belts, clutch, intake, you'll have to either get a new standalone ECU or piggyback plus the cost of programing it, and you'll have to get a custom exhaust around 2.25" probably.

Yo,

Psh, fuck that, i turbo'd a junkyard engine as-is.

There's also FMUs for fuel management, i ran one for a few weeks before socketing my ECU and reprogramming it with an EPROM chip. FMUs are much easier, though they won't make quite a much power as an EMS and argueably a "piggyback", an EMS will run around $1,000, AFCs are around $300, both require either another $300 for a wideband or $80 for dyno time. FMUs are $80 and work fine, but i suggest running higher pressure injectors, the stock ones run a possibility of locking from the high pressure.

Ottop · Post by **Ottop** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:44 pm

I drive a 1997 Civic Hx. 2 Door, 5 Speed. Dropped a little bit and sitting on 16's. ( No... not gay hubcaps, nice rims. :| ) yokohama low profile tires, brand new. Under the hood... a few chips and cold air intake. Tops out at 135 but with great acceleration. (Spelling on Accelleration? :S ) I'll grab some picture for you later. :P

BeatmaniacIIDX · Post by **BeatmaniacIIDX** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:40 pm

That MR2 is fucked. A headgaskets a headgasket, it's all one piece and requires taking the head off. Something I refuse to do again until I start at UTi. But yeah, UAD, I have an issue of Banzai (European japanese auto mag) and they have an Aussie GTi and mention that it comes turbo'd, which is good because compression is lower, etc. I think all they get in the US is higher cam profiles. I dunno, I have a Geo Metro sitting on blocks outside, I'd have to check.

Ninjatanuki · Post by **Ninjatanuki** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:59 am

Headgaskets are so fucking easy to replace =/

You can get it done in under 2 hours, thats if you have no hands.

CaseyDidder · Post by **CaseyDidder** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:02 am

Ninjatanuki wrote:Headgaskets are so fucking easy to replace =/

You can get it done in under 2 hours, thats if you have no hands.

agreed, head gasket is not a big deal at all.

as for turboing my car, go do a little research before you talk about it as if it's a honda

and you do know what JDM stands for right? Also, dropping another engine in would equal hell of a lot more weight for the power I'd recieve and would totally nulify the point of my car. When you say headgasket job, wtf is that? You mean getting the head port/polished, or replacing the gaskets? I already plan on getting my head done along with new cams for the engine, clutch is new (6 puck I think), and 2.25" is way to big for my car, I'll probably go with a 2" or even a 1.75".

That guy apparently had no idea how to properly modify a swift, he couldn't stay with an SRT4.

Juwi bean · Post by **Juwi bean** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:36 am

UberAvonDancer wrote: Anyways, at the moment I drive a 91 Grand Prix LE.

That picture is a good angle...it makes Rurounin look really good lol.

I should put pix of my car up...or the new one I want...hm...

Dyme · Post by **Dyme** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:04 am

soon i shall be driving a 1979 Camero

BeatmaniacIIDX · Post by **BeatmaniacIIDX** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:36 pm

A headgasket is easy when it hasn't blown yet. Now it probably will need a head job and such. Plus, in an MR2, you have to drop the engine through the bottom to work on it, which means you need alot of equipment, a friend with the equipment, or have a shop do it for $700 or so. But the EDM/ADM/JDM Swift engine doesn't weigh much more, just weight from the turbo and accessories. Plus, it would be cheaper to get that engine and have it swapped in. It costs usually between 2-3k for a shop to install a turbo kit, even on a Honda. You will be in the 14s on the 1/4 mi though if you have a manual, which I'm guesing you do.