Late nite oppo

"Brighammer" (balcorn80) 03/14/2020 at 02:49 • Filed to: Late night Oppo, random thoughts, toys, Mk2 VW, BMW 2002TII TOURING

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Just finished filing my taxes. Hopefully that still mtters long enough to get paid out. I’d like to buy new injectors and possibly a rebuild for my MazdaBishi.

Sitting back after tossing El Ten Eleven’s Banker Hill on the turntable and sipping a sparkling water, I had some late nite ruminations and thought I’d share.

Feel free to add to or argue.

Toy car “ collection” pic for fun.

I don’t seriously collect. But for a while my wife bought and sold vintage toys and I kept what I wanted.

If the Aztec con cept had been released by Su baru or Toyota today (and said concept fleshed out by either Toyota or Subaru and not GM) it would sell pretty well.

I cannot decide if it’s big oil or big government who doesn’t let us have all the cool diesels the rest of the world has. Either way it comes down to lost revenue. Either rvenue lost due to lack of fuel being bought because of increased mileage, or revenue lost due to taxes not getting paid on said fuel not being bought, due to increased mileage.

When I was a kid my dad had a fetish for 60s mustangs that lasted until a couple years ago(he’s always been a mechanic. Farm or otherwise). Now he doesn’t really care about cool or not cool cars. How do I not do that when I get “old”? He’s only 61...

Is it bad that I purposely do not drive cars newer than 2006 because I'm afraid I'll want one and I'm perfectly stoked on my old junk right now?

DipodomysDeserti > Brighammer 03/14/2020 at 08:21

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Filed my taxes a month ago and have yet to see my return.

Diesel engines sucking ass are why we can’t have cool diesels. I once owned a 335d. Great car when it wasn’t at the dealership. Traded it in in a soccer mom X1 with a four banger that makes about the same power and  is more fuel efficient.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Brighammer 03/14/2020 at 11:26

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While I love the Pajero, the driving experience tells me why these small diesels weren’t a thing here. I love it, but I don’t think the average American consumer would’ve been willing to put of with the trade offs of old school, mechanically injected diesels en masse . The generally less power (or atleast over a smaller rpm range) , the turbo power delivery with all the lag, the increased noise and vibration, engines that need some temperature on a cold start before they’re really happy to do the things, ect...

I think those tradeoffs are worth the mechanical simplicity and pretty tremendous fuel economy it seems to be getting, but I think the turn the key and go mentality of most folks would’ve doomed them.  

Brighammer > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 03/14/2020 at 11:40

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Fair point.

I love my 85 xj with all of its 86hp. I appreciate the 21-23 mpg it gets over the 14-16 my wife gets in her 98 XJ with the 4.0. hers is more ... Inspiring to drive.

But I know mine will get me there. And honestly, after driving VW rabbits and dashers that were NA diesels, the 2.1 Renault j8s engine is a blast.

The 4d55t I swapped into my Mazda, for me, was a vast improvement. I got 16 -18 mpg with the gas 2.6. I get 23-25 with the diesel. It IS a bit slower. And I do have to let them both warm up before wanting to drive them.