Decided to go looking around for videos of great roads in the UK. Came across this, not sure I would enjoy the decent at 2:37, especially when there are no walls At 4:16 you get to see a 4x4 whose owner didn't realise that the laws of physics do still apply to them. It was strange watching the video and then starting to recognise that I had actually been there before.
Yea.... no. She's BEYOND rough. I wouldn't trust it to get me home. And they won't take anything less than $3500 for it. The search continues.
Any truck that runs and has a solid frame seems to fetch AT LEAST $2000-3000 in the Northeast. It's really bad trying to buy any truck used. Brand doesn't matter. There are exceptions for REAL beater base model trucks that need work but still.
The UK seems packed with great roads from what I've seen. I want to go there just for a road trip someday. On a side note, that spot in the video totally looks like Skyrim.
Yeah, there is quite a lot of nice twisty country roads, usually 60mph speed limits on them too, not that trying to take them at that sort of speed is always advisable
Same in New Zealand as everyone wants a ute but there isn't a lot of them available. that's why my dad is still keeping his 93 Courier diesel until it is worthless to keep it going.
Yeah, the laws here reguarding car mods suck ass, but there's nothing you can do really, just get your car's mods certified and you should be OK (so long as you get an engineer to approve your mods, things like engine swaps and body mods are OK). In any case, guys like that S2K driver aren't doing any help, they just give reason for police to harass other car guys. If you don't give cops reason to defect your car, they will probs get bored and go solve actual crimes Do it! 5.5K (~7K AUD) for a car like that seems rather cheap, here in Australia they would be asking 20 grand at least
Random question, anyone here blown up a turbo or experienced issues with not running a BOV? I've heard from people that it can really damage your turbo, and also that it doesn't really matter from others.
So, I have this turd of a Z31. It stopped running. Wonder what the problem is? Oh. Oh... Yeah I see you there you little sh*t. Chewing my wires.
Sell it asap lol. It's currently stripped down to a drivers seat and dash, prepped for a cage. It was gonna be lemon drift car project, but I also have a 1979 F-100 that needs restored. Would rather put money into the longer lasting vehicle first.
Would love to see it restored to factory condition. I know Im boring but I love nothing more than seeing old cars looking like they just rolled off the production line.
Issue with no bov is that throttle plate closes, you've now got a mass of air that can't move, it slams a huge wave of pressure backwards where it came from, your turbo. Often severe enough to physically try and pull the compressor wheel against its shaft which in turn puts the bearings under incredibly strain they aren't designed for, all while the wheel was spinning at 100k rpm. Often find this also causes the wheel to stop spinning, more vibration and non designed for loads on those bearings. I've heard of factory turbos seizing and dying because factory bov/dv systems have failed. If you're running a car with MAF metered fuelling, you really want a dv rather than bov btw. Bov is fine for MAP metered cars though.
I remembered my dad telling me that one of the reasons for it was because of a car accident caused by someone putting a v8 into a Mini in Auckland.
I'm sure there was more to it than just a couple crashes. You can crash a mazda 626 just as hard as a v8 swapped mini. The driver caused the crash. It's just a bunch of bureaucratic, money grabbing, security theater bs. I take personal offense to it.
I do too, which is why i'm gonna restore another truck thats in better shape than my F-100 right now, I plan to buy an older F-1, 40's or 50's to make a proper factory restoration, as everyone seems to hot rod them instead. The 1979 is going to be a military appreciation truck, it's going to be a frame off resto, but the body and it's dents will not be repaired, just painted olive drab so it looks like a used and abused war rig. But it will be painted like the old WWII Jeeps and GMC CCKW with the star on the doors and hood with the "serial number" on the side of the hood.
That sounds really cool. A small lift and some bigger tires on steelies would make that a really awesome looking truck.
I just learned the sad story of the GM EV1. I understand why they ended up destroying all the cars, but still...
