(Finally) PICTURES of MY BABY!!...
12-18-2003, 01:28 PM
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255/35 R18 rear,
255/40 R18 front
"Z" rated
The car was almost all built from different parts. The original (the very first owner) had an S4 that had no wheels, lights, interior, rear end, instrument cluster (it shows many more miles than what it has), all this had been stolen form the car. The next owner (the one before me) took the job to find every piece needed, and he did put the car together. Also he fixed everything that can be fixed on a 928 , mechanically (i call that expensive debugging)
I am fisnishing fixing some little interior details, i will put a lot of pics in the company website.
I'll be selling the car pretty soon...i know is hard....i mean , you start getting attached to the nice machine, to the endless acceleration...
255/40 R18 front
"Z" rated
The car was almost all built from different parts. The original (the very first owner) had an S4 that had no wheels, lights, interior, rear end, instrument cluster (it shows many more miles than what it has), all this had been stolen form the car. The next owner (the one before me) took the job to find every piece needed, and he did put the car together. Also he fixed everything that can be fixed on a 928 , mechanically (i call that expensive debugging)
I am fisnishing fixing some little interior details, i will put a lot of pics in the company website.
I'll be selling the car pretty soon...i know is hard....i mean , you start getting attached to the nice machine, to the endless acceleration...
12-18-2003, 03:47 PM
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Details, details, details:
NEW:
-Belts (all)
-Hoses (all)
-Motor Mounts
-Air Conditioning is recently serviced (it can freeze you)
-New radiator
-New Torque tube, bearings (front and rear), flex plates (the riangular ones)
-ETC....
-WHAT other car can give you so much satisfaction????
NEW:
-Belts (all)
-Hoses (all)
-Motor Mounts
-Air Conditioning is recently serviced (it can freeze you)
-New radiator
-New Torque tube, bearings (front and rear), flex plates (the riangular ones)
-ETC....
-WHAT other car can give you so much satisfaction????
12-18-2003, 08:20 PM
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rice power
nice shark.
Your ricer numbers are a little off though. I am not a fan of rice rockets but you gotta give them credit.
Buy a civic or integra - $5,000
16x7 wheels & Z rated tires $1,200
New suspension $3,000
Supercharger $2,500
Various aftermarket mods and bolt-ons from the plethora of available cheap horsepower-making parts - $3,000
- now mr ricer has a screaming fast car for new econobox money
Result: A car that will rip a new ******* for our 928s off the line and that will also handle very competently. You would pass this thing as it caps out at 126 mph unless he changed the gearing, but it made you its bitch for the whole of a "normal" race. By the time you pass him you WILL be doing 3 times his speed because he will have backed off the accelerator and is now enjoying a tasty beverage while laughing his *** off at the porsche that tried to race him.
More importantly, he is gonna have to change his plugs timing belt and water pump for insignificant cost, but his car is going to drive for 200 thousand miles for NO MONEY. Ours last that long, yeah, but the cost of keeping them in shape is staggering compared to hondas.
Now, to reclaim my shark owner status I must say that our cars are beautiful machines that honda will never match in class or cool factor. We got roaring v8's not whining vacuum cleaner motors.
I guess Im posting this because a lot of people on this board discount ricers for the wrong reason. Consequently, ricers could quote this board and laugh at us for the mistakes made about rice power. They are lame because they are so damned lame not because we can outperform them for a total car cost of $20,000. For kids, rice rockets are a super-super-super cheap way to get a car that will rip new ones for anything stock on the road.
Your ricer numbers are a little off though. I am not a fan of rice rockets but you gotta give them credit.
Buy a civic or integra - $5,000
16x7 wheels & Z rated tires $1,200
New suspension $3,000
Supercharger $2,500
Various aftermarket mods and bolt-ons from the plethora of available cheap horsepower-making parts - $3,000
- now mr ricer has a screaming fast car for new econobox money
Result: A car that will rip a new ******* for our 928s off the line and that will also handle very competently. You would pass this thing as it caps out at 126 mph unless he changed the gearing, but it made you its bitch for the whole of a "normal" race. By the time you pass him you WILL be doing 3 times his speed because he will have backed off the accelerator and is now enjoying a tasty beverage while laughing his *** off at the porsche that tried to race him.
More importantly, he is gonna have to change his plugs timing belt and water pump for insignificant cost, but his car is going to drive for 200 thousand miles for NO MONEY. Ours last that long, yeah, but the cost of keeping them in shape is staggering compared to hondas.
Now, to reclaim my shark owner status I must say that our cars are beautiful machines that honda will never match in class or cool factor. We got roaring v8's not whining vacuum cleaner motors.
I guess Im posting this because a lot of people on this board discount ricers for the wrong reason. Consequently, ricers could quote this board and laugh at us for the mistakes made about rice power. They are lame because they are so damned lame not because we can outperform them for a total car cost of $20,000. For kids, rice rockets are a super-super-super cheap way to get a car that will rip new ones for anything stock on the road.
12-19-2003, 02:11 PM
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....(my other car is an Acura Legend....)great car, no problems BUT
Not wow! factor
No one even looks at you when driving a Honda...
Porsches look REALLY expensive-classy cars, and you keep the ferrari guy next to you wandering what kind of car is that one?!?!? (your 928, of course)
We get to have Porsche wheels, and they are not only nice, but useful
Only an NSX will be as stable @ 155MPH as a 928, everything else will shake
what else?
Not wow! factor
No one even looks at you when driving a Honda...
Porsches look REALLY expensive-classy cars, and you keep the ferrari guy next to you wandering what kind of car is that one?!?!? (your 928, of course)
We get to have Porsche wheels, and they are not only nice, but useful
Only an NSX will be as stable @ 155MPH as a 928, everything else will shake
what else?