"banjo cat ghost of oppo past" (brgdsm)
11/04/2015 at 21:38 • Filed to: Project Car
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"banjo cat ghost of oppo past" (brgdsm)
11/04/2015 at 21:38 • Filed to: Project Car | 0
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So I’m going to drive across town for no reason, again. Also yesterday I put my project car back on the road. Woot.
Mostly I wanted to see how it started and drove cold. Also I really, really like how stiff it is around corners and the direct steering.
Plus if you ever wondered what Jaguar’s British Racing Green would look like with a green pearl overspray, there you go. About 9 years ago I had a sense of humor/ irony when given a huge paint code book in a dusty trade school building.
Tavarish is right, nothing like a good driver’s car.
Or at least a car you enjoy driving.
I am so very glad I blitzed so many suspension and handling issues in its longer periods of hibernation, such as the beefy rear swaybar, urethane camber bushings and an oil change for the rear LSD.
Stock springs and blown shocks were replaced with adjustable units and the warped rotors (that earned me a failure to stop ticket two halloweens ago) were replaced with DBA’s, Hawk pads and braided lines.
TLDR
: It is enjoyable even if the turbo comes in a bit later
On that note for its last service the seized Evo3 turbo was replaced with what I thought was a bargain big 20G turbo, is actually a steal of a Garrett dual ball bearing GT3076R!
Don’t even care that I’m on snow tires, tis the season and the Khumo Ecsta SPT’s it sat on for way too long were dry rotted. Praise the lawd I horded those snow’s in my bedroom closet. I will reward myself with winter rally.
Arite that’s enough typing grabbing my keys and leaving bye all...
PS9
> banjo cat ghost of oppo past
11/04/2015 at 21:43 |
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Don’t know why you’d spend all that money on a Garrett when the real HP increasing mod is right in front of you. I mean... ‘speed stick’. It says what it does right there on the label!
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banjo cat ghost of oppo past
> PS9
11/04/2015 at 21:51 |
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I
smell
faster
. Forreals.
TheD0k_2many toys 2little time
> banjo cat ghost of oppo past
11/05/2015 at 03:06 |
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people who make crank walk jokes know nothing about DSM’s lol. my buddies 1g is almost back on the road. waiting on new valves. Makes me miss my 2g
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banjo cat ghost of oppo past
> TheD0k_2many toys 2little time
11/05/2015 at 11:31 |
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The plan was to move on to another car I’d eventually miss like six years ago but this one just stuck around because my mechanic “ allowed” it to sit there for so long on and off , but so did I. They were also banking that I’d eventually sell it to them because their son had one. Nope .
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TheD0k_2many toys 2little time
> banjo cat ghost of oppo past
11/06/2015 at 00:37 |
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haha yea I loved mine but I wanted to move on to other projects. So I bought a truck 5.3l to rebuild and put into something eventually