evolutionmovement wrote:Enough about you're damn Alfa! I'm jealous enough already.
When you are in the Pacific North West we can get together for a "ride" and a jar or two.
Subtle (normally aspirated engines suck):
05 Legacy GT Wagon with Cobb chip.
62 Alfa Romeo Spider- had a 1.6 L with 80 hp, now 2 L with 160 torque. Curb weight 2050 lbs.
93 Leg Twgn fmic, vf34, etc. ((sold))
The plan is to build this vehicle out of an old Cessna 152 and drive it across country. As I'll be heading to Washington, I might as well hit Vancouver. I hope I can get the suspension sorted so that it rides nice as I want it to be a comfortable daily driver, but it will be tough where anything unspring is so much higher a percentage of the total weight as well as allowing for the additional weight of a passenger without bottoming out. I'm exploring several options. The good thing is that the cockpit of a 152 is cramped so only small chicks can realistically fit (the few that would dare ride in it), making the weight change for the suspension a little more manageable.
Don't hold your breath for any of this. I also have several more books to get out, a damn house to maintain, and lots of head scratching to build this thing. I hope to get a fuselage this summer. I'm also hoping that having a junk airplane in the yard will look much less white trash than a junk car.
Midnight in a Perfect World on Amazon or order anywhere. The first book in a quartet chronicling the rise of a man from angry criminal to philanthropist. Midnight... is a distopic noirish novel featuring 'Duchess', a modified 1990 Subaru Legacy wagon.
I was on Fort Vancouver Way (the road Clark College is on for any locals) and its a fairly long, two lane rd. Well the speedlimits 25, BUT everybody does 40 on it.
I was sitting at the stoplight and a CRX pulls up (it was also reeeallly wet) and it had been rattlecanned lime green... YUK...
And it had an FMIC... But it wasnt hooked up (litterally LOL)
So... I glance at him, more than anything just looking at the glory that is rice, and he starts to rev his engine (can you say fart can?)...
Well, I bit... Light turned green, I launched, he spun... and spun, and spun, and caught!
But I had already taken off so he had not a chance of catching me...
Ahh, the beauty thats AWD! Just dont count on it to stop you.
Streetracing = ftl
Nick
1987 Audi 4000CS quattro...soon to be 20VT
1994 Dodge Ram 2500 4x4 CTD, #11 plate, 30 psi, Scotty II intake, 4" exhaust
~Spencer
94 Legacy Turbo (550 Robtune/ej20h v2 Sti RA drivetrain)
94 Legacy Ti Wagon (5mt ej22e)
91 rhd Legacy GT Wagon (factory 5mt, ej20g)
93 rhd Legacy GT type S2 Sedan (4eat, ej20g)
91 rhd Legacy Ti Type S 1.8
03 Lincoln LS V8 Sport
08 300 SRT8
I was able to keep up with a supercharged s2000 at Thunderhill raceway during a NASA HPDE eveng here in Northern California. But I think that was more of a driver skill difference because that thing should have spanked me.
Imprezive wrote:I was able to keep up with a supercharged s2000 at Thunderhill raceway during a NASA HPDE eveng here in Northern California. But I think that was more of a driver skill difference because that thing should have spanked me.
It is honestly about 90% driver unless you are on a course with super mile- long straightaways.
I caught up with a C4 Z06 (405hp much?) with exhaust and spanked him at BeaveRun (among many many other cars). Shame on the driver, not the car. The car is definitely faster than a 160hp early 90's family sedan...