What Other Cars are in Your Household?
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Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 533
From: Alberta, Canada
We have a '94 Ranger XLT 2WD for my wife to drive to work. I used to have a '94 Cavalier Z24 ( 3.1L MPFI V6) as a project car, but it was impossible to find body panels for, so we had to scrap it.
Looking at something cheap and small for a new project some time next year. Maybe an old Civic or a Mazda Protege wagon. Something like that, anyways. Might even try to find a cheap ecotec if parts are still as readily available as they used to be.
Looking at something cheap and small for a new project some time next year. Maybe an old Civic or a Mazda Protege wagon. Something like that, anyways. Might even try to find a cheap ecotec if parts are still as readily available as they used to be.
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Joined: Apr 2015
Posts: 50
From: Wpg,mb,canada
yeah its a really fun car. super stiff suspension very fun to drive. i got it for $800.00, pulled the motor apart to re-ring and gasket it, only to find 1 bent connecting rod and 1 cracked cylinder fml. bought a parts car for $300.00 and swapped the motor out. back on the road wooot !!! my first non honda in years.
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Joined: May 2014
Posts: 1,917
From: Delaware
1997 2.2ltr AWD Subaru Impreza Outback Sport (AWD/Auto) - Purchased late in 1996 (19yrs now). 5psi Turbocharged/ 60hp Nitrous on stock engine and still runs great today with only using Apexi SAFC. And the guys said it would blow up! This was before the WRXs hit the states.
Ran a best of 13.03@100mph back in 2001 Ran 18.2@76mph stock. I only wanted to hit a 16 second 1/4 mile. Hehe!
~~~~See it on this Motorweek video at 5:34
2010 3.5ltr Toyota Rav4 V6 (AWD/Auto)- Weapon R intake (Homemade to be CAI with S&B filter), custom exhaust. **No Tune** Ran a best of
on 11/20/15. And some said an intake and exhaust would be a waste of time. Stock it ran 15.1/15.2@92mph.
2015 1.5ltr Honda Fit LX CVT The slow car that runs low 15's with just homemade intake and full Japan spec J's exhaust. Hoping to run high 14's N/A once I get it tuned and dialed in with my most recent mods. It ran 17.1-17.2@82mph stock. I'm getting between 46-51mpg btw. See Sig!
1989 2.2 ltr Subaru XT6 (AWD/Auto) My favorite car and is my baby. I love this because I have not seen another one on the road in over 10yrs. Custom intake, custom header, custom exhaust, custom pulley, timing advanced, 4.44 SVX custom gears, etc. Work in progress! May just put an Subaru STI engine in it and call it a day. LOVE this car! It is soooo ugly. Hahaha!
Ran a best of 13.03@100mph back in 2001 Ran 18.2@76mph stock. I only wanted to hit a 16 second 1/4 mile. Hehe!
~~~~See it on this Motorweek video at 5:34
2010 3.5ltr Toyota Rav4 V6 (AWD/Auto)- Weapon R intake (Homemade to be CAI with S&B filter), custom exhaust. **No Tune** Ran a best of
2015 1.5ltr Honda Fit LX CVT The slow car that runs low 15's with just homemade intake and full Japan spec J's exhaust. Hoping to run high 14's N/A once I get it tuned and dialed in with my most recent mods. It ran 17.1-17.2@82mph stock. I'm getting between 46-51mpg btw. See Sig!
1989 2.2 ltr Subaru XT6 (AWD/Auto) My favorite car and is my baby. I love this because I have not seen another one on the road in over 10yrs. Custom intake, custom header, custom exhaust, custom pulley, timing advanced, 4.44 SVX custom gears, etc. Work in progress! May just put an Subaru STI engine in it and call it a day. LOVE this car! It is soooo ugly. Hahaha!
Last edited by Myxalplyx; Dec 10, 2015 at 04:49 AM.
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Joined: Jun 2016
Posts: 948
From: Foothills of the Smokies, east Tennessee
My son drives our old '05 Corolla S...has been an incredibly reliable car, quite the appliance - I had previously made it a lil more fun to drive with fatter tires and a front strut bar/fatter rear stabilizer bar inside the torsion beam ....my wife drives a '10 Kia Forte SX - pretty fun car, bone stock. Powerful enough, but it's the older model, so the HP comes from a 2.4L motor....mpg not the greatest, and I guess Kia's idea of "sport suspension" is to "make it stiff" - rides fine here in east TN, but is brutal when taken to crappy roads up north (hello Detroit!!!). I drive the '15 Fit, 6 spd mt, and only change was the Progress RSB - worth the $$$, great fun car.
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Joined: Jun 2016
Posts: 61
From: PacNW
I've been looking at that Progress RSB for a '16 LX, but wondering about the benefit for everyday city & country driving -- no racing or rallye -- is that how you use yours? Thx.