tranny went out with my integra. my girl and i needed a car that was reliable. we found a 89 accord for $600 it had 101k on it when we got it and all we needed to do was rebuild the carb.
the thing runs like a champ and already has 3k miles on it since last month. its clean as hell, interior and exterior. i'm thinking i might keep for a while do a h22 swap. keep exterior stock, but motor not

p.s cant beat the gas mileage either. i put $35 in gas and it went 365 miles til it hit the empty mark

 

my STi- it was my first turbocharged car,coming from hondas and acuras,i didn't want to bother adding a turbo to one,and I wanted awd as well.FWD sucks.

My miata-RWD,convertible,handling,light weight and lots of potential.what more could you ask for? forgot to add 30+ MPG's

 

It was $500 and now looks like this and handles damn awesome, and I havent spent too much money on it.



Its also never broken down or had any problems since I've owned it.

 

488 cubic inches of pissed off American horsepower and no frills.

 

^ the question was why?

Alot of people see Viper/Vette owners as over compensating. I think people are jealous because they can't afford it so it makes them feel better to say, "yeah, that dude just has a little dick".
News for ya guys, can't fuck a girl with a Vette....

 

mine was cheap to be honest not really what i was looking for but the a/c works and so does the heat and it had no major mechanical issuses with it so i figured it was for me

 

Found the guy in a bad spot and and took the car off his hands.
Also I love supras and wanted a 11 second daily.

now Im looking for a real deal s15.

 

I had owned a finicky modified car for five years and I was tired of having to fiddle with it all the time to keep it running right. I wanted something reliable, economical, RWD and fun to drive. Oh, it also had to be cheap, under $2,000 if possible. My first choice was a 1.6l Miata, maybe a 1.8l if I could find a great deal on one. Then I went and sat in one, or rather ON one, and realized it wasn't the car for me at almost 6'4.

Back when I bought my old DSM it was between a DSM, a 5.0 stang, and a 240. I wanted a turbo car so I went with the DSM because it was factory turbocharged. The turbo V8 5.0 was a total pipe dream at the time, well beyond my capabilities even in my imagination. I would've gotten the 240 but I didn't think I was capable of doing an engine swap. I put too much thought into the decision and not enough emotion- out of the three I liked the 240 best.

Having ruled out the Miata I went looking for a 240, found a bunch of riced out drifted out whore cars, got discouraged. Then I found what looked like an unmolested 240 base model coupe out in Orlando, went and checked it out and jumped on it. In reality it wasn't as unmolested as I thought, but other than needing a little bit of regular maintenance and having to fix up one or two amateur repair jobs perpetrated by the previous owner it's been good to me. It's also taught me that there's more to enjoying a car than having eleventeen-hundred horsepower and rock hard suspension and super wide cheater slicks and driving 200 MPH everywhere.

I've spent the last nine months figuring out what to do with the car and I've decided I enjoy the car enough in stock form that I'm pretty much going to keep it that way. I'm going to do a basic I/H/E and get XAT to chip it with a 93 octane tune. I'm going to get some stock alloy wheels to replace my steelies and throw some Azenis or RS-2s or something on them. I might lower it an inch or so on some H&R springs on the GR-2s I put on last December. I'm also going to start looking for a VLSD in the junkyard. Finally I'm thinking about splurging and buying a Silvia front end and getting the car painted a dark metallic silver color. I'm not sure on the last one because my cars have always looked like shit and I kinda like being able to drive and park anywhere and not having to worry about it.

 

The question was "what made you get your current car?"

My answer was "488 cid." If the Viper came with anything under 400cid I probably would have bought a Porsche or Ferrari or gone into oval track racing.

I own two Vipers. I'm REALLY over compensating. In fact, next month I'll be over compensating my brains out at Sebring.

 

Look into doing Q45 front brakes, it bolts right up(no moding) and you can do the whole swap for 200$ if you keep the stock rubber lines. They're twin piston vs. the stock Single, and have 11inch x 26mm or 28mm rotors. There not as good as 300zx brakes but they wont fade nearly as quick as the stockers.