Need help finding a cheap car with potential
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Kenny
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Need help finding a cheap car with potential
I drive 60 miles a day, so I'm looking for a fuel efficient car with tuning potential, that isnt too hard to work on ( I would like to do cams, intake, work on the head and what not. I dont really want to get to pistons or anything where i have to pull the motor).
I have a 2000 dollar budget for a car, and will slowly be putting money into it after that, also id like it to be somewhat a sleeper, I want a manual, but if its nice and only auto ill consider it.
So far Heres a few of the cars I was thinking
civic hatch with a d16 vtec - I figue it can be a sleeper if i dont rice it out
1995 golf 2.0 8v - i think it eould be lighter then a civic
1998 regal supercharged - Im not too sure how good they are on gas, but it deffinitly would be a sleeper
Im really looking for somekind of hatch or small car.. as far as i know the regal, or GTP would be the only car over a 4 cyl ill take.
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I have a 2000 dollar budget for a car, and will slowly be putting money into it after that, also id like it to be somewhat a sleeper, I want a manual, but if its nice and only auto ill consider it.
So far Heres a few of the cars I was thinking
civic hatch with a d16 vtec - I figue it can be a sleeper if i dont rice it out
1995 golf 2.0 8v - i think it eould be lighter then a civic
1998 regal supercharged - Im not too sure how good they are on gas, but it deffinitly would be a sleeper
Im really looking for somekind of hatch or small car.. as far as i know the regal, or GTP would be the only car over a 4 cyl ill take.
ee
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88-89 Honda CRX
I had one with a (I think) B16B and it was a great little car that always got 32-35mpg.
I had one with a (I think) B16B and it was a great little car that always got 32-35mpg.
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Originally Posted by JustMiata
It's like this: The toadstool juice fires through the unicorn injector into the fairy dust chamber, where the tiny wizard does his secret work...Then a gang of keebler elves get hopped up on the crystalline byproduct of the wizard's tinkering, (they smoke it) and then the elves push the spinning triangle through a series of dimensional portals to a final realm codenamed the "exhaust port..." At least that's my undersanding of rotary sorcery...
OH LAWD JESUS ITS A FIRE!
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Not much at all
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OH SNAP!
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Oh god he even types like a ricer. You have 3 choices to go by when you build a car fast, relighable or cheap. You can only pick 2. You already chose cheap so pick the other.
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Driving definitions: Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car and Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car. Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall and Torque is how far you take the wall with you.
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Do not buy a VW with the 2.slow, it is fucking terrible. Get a 1.8T, slap on an intake and turbo-back exhaust, then turn up the boost, bam 30 HP with no real work.
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