What kind of car does everyone drive?

[Scotracer]

So, in light of of my post almost a year ago here is what I ended up with...





9,000rpm, Lift-off Oversteering heaven

[ISLAMATRON]

Wow, MrT, that's a lot of fun race cars you got there.

Anyway, I drive a blue 2000 Volvo v70 AWD. I know it's not fun to drive around town, but it works great when I load my two bicycles (Mountain and Road) and my canoe, or skis on top of it and go up to the Adirondack mountains to enjoy the weekends with friends or family; this happens every other week.
For going around town or to work, I have a 50cc Vespa (soon will be installing the Malossi 70cc kit for a little more help when I have a passenger on. Just have not gotten delivery of it yet, aghrrr.)
I also got a 1999 Mazda Miata which I bought for 100 dollars just two weeks ago. Now it's sitting in the garage, until January, when I'm gonna replace pretty much everything. That's gonna be next year's project. I wanna make it a decent yet cheap car to drive around the track in New Jersey. The chassis and body panels are decent, but the old owner has brutalized the engine, suspension, brakes, transmission...where do I stop? There's a few things wrong with it, no question, but it's gonna be fun working on it just as much as racing it afterwards.

Drop a turbo rotary in it... 350hp easy, and lighter than miata 4 banger or even a V8 with comparable power.

[ISLAMATRON]

Well my fun car is a 89 Mazda RX-7 with a big Turbo (T04) thrown on it, standalone fuel management, coil over suspension, stripped down to less than 2100 lbs with driver, no A/C, no Power steering, no luxury at all... cept for the cupholder.

About 350hp to the wheels on a very conservative engine tune, excellent power(revs to 10K) and handling... need to upgrade the brakes.

Great fun out on the autoX track but I want to start letting it stretch its legs on bigger tracks.

[Shrek]

The car that superstars want,a 1999 Ford Taurus max of 115mph (i should know) and 7,000rpms and a 1966 Chevy C-10 with a 350 and a manual don't know the speed just got done finishing it

[FGD]

'06 Mazda MX5

[jddh1]

So, in light of of my post almost a year ago here is what I ended up with...

9,000rpm, Lift-off Oversteering heaven

Dude, you should've covered the plates, or blurred them. We won't do anything here, but there's bastards out there that search the web for these things and do illegal stuff with them.
So, I'd say edit your post.

[djos]

This is what I have atm (02 Mazda Astina):


but I'll be giving it to the SO next year (she has a 98 Corolla) and getting one of these:



Ford G6ET - 4.0ltr i6 intercooled Turbo, RWD with 270kw's (362hp) of Aussie Muscle!

[Giblet]

Well my fun car is a 89 Mazda RX-7 with a big Turbo (T04) thrown on it, standalone fuel management, coil over suspension, stripped down to less than 2100 lbs with driver, no A/C, no Power steering, no luxury at all... cept for the cupholder.

About 350hp to the wheels on a very conservative engine tune, excellent power(revs to 10K) and handling... need to upgrade the brakes.

Great fun out on the autoX track but I want to start letting it stretch its legs on bigger tracks.

And louder than a Formula 1 car

Just frackin with ya.

350 HP in a FWD drive car, especially Integra's, torque steer will be a nightmare. A drag car sure... but the Honda engines are their own bag of fun.

[wrcsti]

I have an E34 525i. Rims are now grey.

[Slow Polk]

So, in light of of my post almost a year ago here is what I ended up with...

9,000rpm, Lift-off Oversteering heaven

Nice ride. Those always looked like fun cars.

Here's mine:


Typical American bucket of bolts. Doesn't do anything particularly well, but its amazing easy to work on.

[Scotracer]

So, in light of of my post almost a year ago here is what I ended up with...

9,000rpm, Lift-off Oversteering heaven

Dude, you should've covered the plates, or blurred them. We won't do anything here, but there's bastards out there that search the web for these things and do illegal stuff with them.
So, I'd say edit your post.

I may. I mean, it is publicly displayed information anyway. Thanks for the concern

So, in light of of my post almost a year ago here is what I ended up with...

9,000rpm, Lift-off Oversteering heaven

Nice ride. Those always looked like fun cars.

I'll say

Evo mag (probably the biggest mag in the UK) named it as one of their Top-10 all time great car icons:

http://www.evo.co.uk/carreviews/cargrou ... 4_gtr.html

http://www.evo.co.uk/carreviews/cargrou ... tegra.html

[peteskar]

I have a 2008 F430, Oh wait thats right I fix cars. I have a 2005 Toyota Tundra Double Cab V8 - stock, I fix cars therefore I hate working on my own stuff. Once I fake my death I will have an F430

[FGD]

Wow, MrT, that's a lot of fun race cars you got there.

Anyway, I drive a blue 2000 Volvo v70 AWD. I know it's not fun to drive around town, but it works great when I load my two bicycles (Mountain and Road) and my canoe, or skis on top of it and go up to the Adirondack mountains to enjoy the weekends with friends or family; this happens every other week.
For going around town or to work, I have a 50cc Vespa (soon will be installing the Malossi 70cc kit for a little more help when I have a passenger on. Just have not gotten delivery of it yet, aghrrr.)
I also got a 1999 Mazda Miata which I bought for 100 dollars just two weeks ago. Now it's sitting in the garage, until January, when I'm gonna replace pretty much everything. That's gonna be next year's project. I wanna make it a decent yet cheap car to drive around the track in New Jersey. The chassis and body panels are decent, but the old owner has brutalized the engine, suspension, brakes, transmission...where do I stop? There's a few things wrong with it, no question, but it's gonna be fun working on it just as much as racing it afterwards.

Drop a turbo rotary in it... 350hp easy, and lighter than miata 4 banger or even a V8 with comparable power.

Something to add to ISLAMATRON's advice... Drop in a 350 hp turbocharged 13b and hold on for dear life. Yikes!

[tk421]

Scotracer, I'm glad you had the presence of mind to update us after all this time!

My car--Earl is his name-- is a 2008 Mazdaspeed3 with their cold air intake, and I also had the badges removed. Ever since they came out with it, it's been my dream car, and every once in a while I still can't believe I have one! The name Earl comes from some oldies song that my dad remembered when we were trying to name it. The line from the song is, "All my friends call me Speedo but my real name is Mr. Earl." So it just kinda stuck after that. Anyway, I'm looking forward to taking it to it's first track day this summer at Gateway!

Favorite Activity: Smoking Nissan 350Z's!

[ISLAMATRON]

Well my fun car is a 89 Mazda RX-7 with a big Turbo (T04) thrown on it, standalone fuel management, coil over suspension, stripped down to less than 2100 lbs with driver, no A/C, no Power steering, no luxury at all... cept for the cupholder.

About 350hp to the wheels on a very conservative engine tune, excellent power(revs to 10K) and handling... need to upgrade the brakes.

Great fun out on the autoX track but I want to start letting it stretch its legs on bigger tracks.

And louder than a Formula 1 car

Just frackin with ya.

350 HP in a FWD drive car, especially Integra's, torque steer will be a nightmare. A drag car sure... but the Honda engines are their own bag of fun.

RX-7 are RWD(and with the 13b being as small as it is, it can be considered mid engined), I'm not sure what you mean, but yes 350 in a FWD is absurd, why anyone would think any FWD car could be a sportscar escapes me.