Wombat
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Anyone else done this?
I have noticed a heap of imports in town lately...masses of them, and while some are quite nice looking cars, the arrogance displayed by a lot of teh drivers pisses me enormously...I mean, there are other ways of getting horsepower than mounting huge intercoolers on small imports and fitting show-off valves (whoops, sorry, I mean "Blow-off valves...
) that are set so low that I am sure none of he boost is actually reaching the tiny cylinders....but it sounds good to thier mates.
That and the fact that even if you have a good driving record and are over 25 years old, you can hardly get insurance for the things, and when you can, it will cost thousands of dollars...in fact I am reliably informed that practically none of the young guys in town with imports have them insured at all...
Anyway, my son and I took to the wifes little car on the weekend to stir up the Fast & Furious gang a bit....
It's a 1973 Corolla Coupe...not a bad looking little dunger I suppose, and dead reliable. We fitted a 3" exhaust tip...well...a 3" stainless steel offcut from work, polished up and mounted to stick at a downward angle at the back so you can't look up it and see the asthmatic little one-and-a-half-inch standard exhaust system... . We the fitted an old sports steering wheel I had lying around, put a big old tacho on the steering column redlined at 7000 rpm...not that the poor little thing will rev over about 4500...
We then put a "battery location" triangle on the bonnet and "tow" arrow stickers front and rear, and a large "TR-D" sticker in the back window. We are yet to arrange a row of stickers down each side of the front of the doors...but when we do, they will be home designed and from a distance will look like the common Ricer boy stickers (G-Reddy, ApexI, etc), but up close they will have some novelty wording and be a parody on the originals...
There are other things in the pipeline, like maybe a fake intercooler or a blow-off valve attatched to a can of compressed air with a solenoid actuator so it can make the correct "whoosh" noise when you are driving along...I don't know...it depends what the missus will let me get away with!
I have noticed a heap of imports in town lately...masses of them, and while some are quite nice looking cars, the arrogance displayed by a lot of teh drivers pisses me enormously...I mean, there are other ways of getting horsepower than mounting huge intercoolers on small imports and fitting show-off valves (whoops, sorry, I mean "Blow-off valves...
) that are set so low that I am sure none of he boost is actually reaching the tiny cylinders....but it sounds good to thier mates.That and the fact that even if you have a good driving record and are over 25 years old, you can hardly get insurance for the things, and when you can, it will cost thousands of dollars...in fact I am reliably informed that practically none of the young guys in town with imports have them insured at all...
Anyway, my son and I took to the wifes little car on the weekend to stir up the Fast & Furious gang a bit....
It's a 1973 Corolla Coupe...not a bad looking little dunger I suppose, and dead reliable. We fitted a 3" exhaust tip...well...a 3" stainless steel offcut from work, polished up and mounted to stick at a downward angle at the back so you can't look up it and see the asthmatic little one-and-a-half-inch standard exhaust system...
. We the fitted an old sports steering wheel I had lying around, put a big old tacho on the steering column redlined at 7000 rpm...not that the poor little thing will rev over about 4500...We then put a "battery location" triangle on the bonnet and "tow" arrow stickers front and rear, and a large "TR-D" sticker in the back window. We are yet to arrange a row of stickers down each side of the front of the doors...but when we do, they will be home designed and from a distance will look like the common Ricer boy stickers (G-Reddy, ApexI, etc), but up close they will have some novelty wording and be a parody on the originals...
There are other things in the pipeline, like maybe a fake intercooler or a blow-off valve attatched to a can of compressed air with a solenoid actuator so it can make the correct "whoosh" noise when you are driving along...I don't know...it depends what the missus will let me get away with!