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Old Aug 31, 2005 | 04:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Fordified
What does Joe's car run? And the idea is to build a car as a forum, not just attach a forum name to someone's car.
Joes car runs 11s and it's still on the stock turbo and no nitrous. The thing alot of you people don't know is people from the forum have helped out with joes car. From help with tuning, lending a hand working on it and so forth. If I was going to attach a forum to a car I would just attach it to jerrys car. Or if need be I'll just donate an evo3 16g to the goodwill car and it will skip the 10s all together.
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Old Aug 31, 2005 | 05:05 AM
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CMS will help support the H/A car.
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Old Aug 31, 2005 | 05:58 AM
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audio hq > your mom

hell our car probably would never run
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Old Aug 31, 2005 | 12:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Orion ZyGarian
Isnt there more than just drag racing??? Its obvious that project Goodwill would pwn...but how about specifically designated for TR project cars that need to compete in 1/4 mi, gas mileage, auto-x, skidpad?, dyno, torque, torque curve, comfort, looks...

this is kind of missing the whole point of the Ford build up. we wanted to see how fast we could go with extra parts we had in our garages.
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Old Aug 31, 2005 | 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by 4drwhore
Joes car runs 11s and it's still on the stock turbo and no nitrous. The thing alot of you people don't know is people from the forum have helped out with joes car. From help with tuning, lending a hand working on it and so forth. If I was going to attach a forum to a car I would just attach it to jerrys car. Or if need be I'll just donate an evo3 16g to the goodwill car and it will skip the 10s all together.
you can use joes car, and we can use scotts car. all the ford guys will go help scott put it back together. then we all helped on it. we win
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Old Aug 31, 2005 | 01:27 PM
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Well H/A's project is looking like its going to happen...The main thing I was worried about is someone that can fab/weld..And I think we have someone that can help us in that area...So is any other forum beside's Ford doing this¿
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Old Aug 31, 2005 | 01:33 PM
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Originally Posted by figment
you can use joes car, and we can use scotts car. all the ford guys will go help scott put it back together. then we all helped on it. we win
Sure put it back together with the 10k worth of parts that are on it vs. the ~5000 spent on the goodwill car including the car.

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Old Aug 31, 2005 | 01:36 PM
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I like the idea, but would much rather see the cars compete in something other then drag racing, even though thats not really feasible.
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Old Aug 31, 2005 | 01:36 PM
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Goodwill would need to install the nitrous. Aren't you Ford guys looking for 10's? Lots of people contributed parts or cheap parts to goodwill but it's not the same, it's not a group project like the Ford forum and it's Joe's car, not a forum car. Hell, he hasn't even volunteered it and wouldn't, because it's not the same as building a car from the ground up as a forum, deciding how to build it and donating spare parts to the cause.

I'm sure there are enough DSMers with spare parts and even spare cars laying around that TBDSM could put together a hell of a runner, probably even 10's if they followed Goodwill-style weight reduction and 9's if they put a big enough turbo on it. But I don't see DSMers getting together in an act of cooperation this big- hell, out of all of us in the area how many make it out to monthly meets? For that matter, do we even have monthly Brandon Hooters meets anymore? After I found out about them, I only went to one before I broke my car again .
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Old Aug 31, 2005 | 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by 4drwhore
Mitsu tech already won. Project goodwill is ours, SUCKERS!

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