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Nov 20, 2009 - 03:10 PM |
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New toys. |
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Been forced to do a lot of shit to my car this year both by mistake and by dumb luck, but in the end it came out well. I went from this:
to this:
Lost the variable valve timing function of VTEC which was better for gas mileage, but I upgraded from 1.6L to 1.8L and added a ridiculously short-geared transmission (4,200 rpm at 75mph in 5th...oops lol). That was good to get me down to a 14.9 in the quarter, but more importantly I now have the torque to get out of corners a little quicker.
Not that anyone cares about this sort of thing, but this stuff just arrived yesterday after 3 months of me waiting for overnight parts from Japan (hrhr):
And until that stuff gets installed, she looks like this:
Old cars suck. People are right, they cost you a ton of money.
| Currently Playing: Over the Hills and Far Away - Led Zeppelin |
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