This has been rolling around in the back of my mind for weeks now, and with the recent spat of issues I've been having with the X-Terra, I'm seriously considering it.
So I was watching the Skid Factory about a month ago and this was said:
Naturally I was off to Harrops website to locate this:
Now I'm seriously sitting here wondering how cheaply a 50kish mile 4WD Armada can be obtained for, if I'd be willing to sell the MS3 to do it, or if I should just get one, build it, and replace the wifes X-Terra in the middle of the night with it and see if she notices.
I'm having a hard time finding a problem with a 500 whp family hauler.
Mndsm
MegaDork
3/11/20 1:45 p.m.
Do I have to pick just one?
In reply to Mndsm :
I'm full of bad ideas. They're usually discarded within a day or so of thinking how much fun they'd be.
This one has been weird because it keeps popping to the forefront of my mind when I think about replacing either the Vibe or the X-Terra.
Maybe it's just the fact that, while new cars are nice, I really don't want a car payment.
Last time this happened I bought the RX-3.
Mndsm
MegaDork
3/11/20 2:15 p.m.
In reply to The0retical :
I hear ya. I've not had a car payment since the ms3 and I am loathe to do it again. The used garbage I shop for is hilarious
I keep having the idea of putting a turbo through the hood of the family 4cyl, auto, Kia sorento.
Add some power, give it some street cred.
Mndsm
MegaDork
3/11/20 2:36 p.m.
NoBrakesRacing said:
I keep having the idea of putting a turbo through the hood of the family 4cyl, auto, Kia sorento.
Add some power, give it some street cred.
Fe3 based? Could be worthy.
In reply to The0retical :
Buddy of mine has an Avalanche with the 6.0/4L60 combo. He put a blower on it and hooned a 500 hp DD for a couple of years until annual transmission rebuilds got tiresome. He pulled the blower back off and it sits on a shelf in his garage now.
Oldest one i have is doing a twin engine Geo Storm....
My hardcore one is building a GTLM version of a Buick Century.. on the W platform. full carbon everything, xtrac sequential with pneumatic activated paddles, ect.
Yes. I suspect those ideas drove most of us to find this place in the first place.
I mean I have a Porsche 924 that I want to swap a Chrysler 2.2L Turbo into with Corvette or Miata front and rear suspension.
Its a terrible idea in SO many ways and I'd be better served to build something, nearly anything else.
I can't let go of a dirt modified on the street.
NOHOME
MegaDork
3/11/20 4:15 p.m.
Some of my best ideas are bad ones.
I want to buy a clean but non-op '80s El Camino and a clean, fully operational LS400 or 430 and move everything possible from the Lexus to the GM.
Appleseed said:
I can't let go of a dirt modified on the street.
Thanks. Just when I hadn't thought about something like that in a long time. (Ok, maybe a few weeks.)
I've been daydreaming lately of a v8 caddy srx and slapping the sts-v blower on it
Mid-engined turboed V8 RWD minivan is an idea I've had since I was a kid but will probably never do.
