some pictures of my other obsession: my car!!

[bigboy_toy85]

I'd love to post a picture of the car, but I'm on an iPhone and I haven't found out how to do it. And it's my friends car that I helped rebuild.

But your car is awsome. It would give the duster an extremely good run for it's money!

It will be awsome when it's painted!

[The Goat]

I do love the International line of tractors. Got an old 38hp banging around the property, prolly 30 or 40 years older than I am. Still chugging along.

LET me drive the mr2! I love the little boosted imports. Buddy just got an 05 Evo that was freshly rebuilt. Fast is an understatement.

Best thing was his old eclipse...my uncle is a nascar FREAK and has NEVER owned a vehicle with less than 8 cylinders. The second day my buddy got his eclipse he brought it down there for us to drive. My uncle could NOT stop talking about how even his diesel truck would beat the car. We let him get behind the wheel and took it up on the road.

He starts off, barks em off the start, and then shifts at like 5200rpm. Keeps doing it each time. Then starts talking about how it isn't that impressive. So he turns around and is about to take off back to the house. My buddies like, now do the same thing you did earlier, but remember you're not driving a ford and shift right before you tap (I think) 8 grand. When he came out of second in the low 80s and the tires barked, that changed his tune.

Kinda reminds me of 2strokes, these little imports have power WAY up high.

So what was that MR2 running? They had a guy 2-3 years ago who broke 9 seconds in his at the local track...no roll cage, banned for life. After the run he said even HE didn't think it was gonna run that fast.

[JasonB]

LOL at the comments here thanks guys. I hate ricers, i will come out and admit that up front! kids in civics and preludes etc all those cars with an NA motor making less torque than I need to take my trikes lug nuts off with lol My exhaust is actually needed, it was that or a straight 3 or 4 inch pipe comming straight out the side vent infront of the rear passenger side wheel which would have been loud enough to get me pulled over daily. anyways, the car is quick for what it is.

I cant honestly say theres many classic v8's out there that I can look at and know will beat me. My car in its very lightly moddified condition (exhaust/intake) would smash most detroit muscle. Ya, some of them make more than 300 to the wheels. that means a lot when you take a car that weighs 4,000 lbs and try to talk it up. tub it and spray it and I will show some respect but I dont really feel 90% of the classic muscle on the streets has on my rice burner. I mean , my dads 69 SS/RS 396 powered camaro was capable of what, high 14 second quarter miles when IT WAS BRAND NEW. my JDM stock motor in my car now with 17PSI and exhaust/intake has high 12's writen all over it. A local mr2 owner with the SAME EXACT set up as me pushed a 12.9 quarter mile from his car.

All Im saying is that v8's are great and I would love a c5 or c6 vette, but being lumped in with the rest of the import idiots is offensive and agrevating.

whats the duster run in the quarter mile? Or have you even had it to the track yet? I mean your buddy, since its not yours and all. And with just a cam and the mods you listed I cant see that land barge being able to break past the low 13's. Im sure it sounds and looks pretty though.


I pushed 13.5's back to back with a trap of 105mph with a slipping clutch that I had to back off of in all of second and half of third gear. I was only cutting 1.9 second 60 foots as well because that 6 puck SPEC clutch was burned up. That was on my first motor, Im on my 4th motor right now.

anyways not trying to come off like a dick its just really annoying when the v8 guys run their mouth like they have hot sh*t. 300 or more RWHP means nothing when your car weighs more than 1000lbs over mine with similar rwhp numbers. My car is putting down somewhere around 260/270rwhp as it sits, i should have dyno numbers in the next few weeks when i get some extra cash together.

AND ANYONE CAN DRIVE MY DUECE, you just gotta come to STL to do lol. I let people drive my car that i feel know what they are doing. atc-eric has done some crazy stuff in this car and was actually the first person to get it sideways when i first got it lol

[JasonB]

I like it - can I drive it????

I am a car enthusiast too - and I feel too many people have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to these little lightweight high HP Japanese cars. So many people think that old muscle cars are way faster. trust me - I LOVE muscle cars - but these little and I absolutly hate to use the word "ricers" will not only out perform alot of muscle cars in a straight line - they will run circles around them when it comes to handling. It is like the old school thinking about more noise = more power. not so. I also find this relates to Harley Vs Japan in motorcycles - tons of people that know nothing about actual performance assume that harleys are "fast" - like faster than modern sportbikes. Anyway - my last point in the ramble is something my Uncle tells me alot:

"People who know nothing about tractors buy John Deeres and people who know nothing about motorcycles buy Harleys"
He is right to a point. Image sells!!!!!!!

Anyway what I was getting at was: Nice car, can I drive it?

Also - what does the little symbol and "X" mean on the rear quarter???

the "X" was my drunken idea of what a "skull and cross bones" looks like. its supposed to be a skull and crossbones, "X" is bones, and the top shape has "X" 's for eyes and a mouth. anyways, its on my front trunk and on my rear quarter. Anyways, i was seriously drunk when I taped that off and sprayed it on lol

and did i hear right, that you might be comming with us to california this year?!?! Thats what atc eric was saying