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03-16-2016, 09:30 PM #101
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03-16-2016, 09:55 PM #102
Did somebody say, 2jz? Those will bolt into anything....
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03-16-2016, 10:24 PM #103
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03-17-2016, 12:54 AM #104
Not a "car" but I just picked one of these up, nice overview.
"It's like we're watching a movie... and then suddenly we're acting in it."
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03-17-2016, 07:43 AM #105
^^^
That's gorgeous. If I could ever find a 94-95 Nissan Pathfinder SE-V6 in as good shape as that truck I'd be in heaven.I still call it The Jake.
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03-17-2016, 07:54 AM #106
Love that truck.
GS300 had the inline 6 until 2005. 2006 it went to a V6, but still a good car."I don't pretend to have all the answers, and I think there's something to be said for that" -One For The Road
Brain dead and made of money.
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03-17-2016, 09:44 AM #107Funky But Chic
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03-17-2016, 11:09 AM #108
Here's a car that seems to have maintained its value:
https://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/d...7567/overview/
Love the way they looked without the rear wing. So cool.....
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03-17-2016, 11:12 AM #109
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03-17-2016, 04:36 PM #110
I have a 2001 s4, it has the same 2.7T engine you have. I replaced my turbos at 101k and Im at 159k now. If you can afford another 800-1000$ I'd get K04 or frankenturbos. The K03s aren't bad, but they seem to have more reliability issues than the upgrades. You have to pull the engine and front end apart to replace your turbos and replace a bunch of hardware during that service. You should also replace your timing belt and water pump while the car is apart. Unless you do it yourself you're looking at $5K.
This is the problem with buying a used $50,000 car, the parts department doesn't give a shit that you bought it for $5000. Repairs are easily $100 an hour or more and parts are still ridiculously expensive.
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03-17-2016, 06:41 PM #111
One of the best adventures I ever had was taking a greyhound from Taos to Seattle to buy a 78 F250 site-unseen for like $800 and drive it back. Crazy greyhound trip, guy flipped out and got kicked out of the bus. Blood on the ceiling and blocks and blocks of wall to wall bums at the Los Angeles terminal. Buses were jam packed because of a big snowstorm fucking the airlines up.
Spent a day hiking back and forth from seller's to parts store to put new fluids in it once I realized it hadn't been driven in ages. Then a week sleeping in the back of the truck at a tow yard hiking back and forth to the parts store to replace the water pump and the battery and the alternator and belts. Tow truck driver, Rick...Rick the lifesaver... actually let me borrow his camaro to go find a radiator at a junkyard. Had to get tires and rims and brakes before taking off.
Got near home and kept driving all the way to Albuquerque to get all the weed I stashed outside the greyhound station when they were walking drug dogs through and I panicked a little.
Those were the days. Real good times actually, total freeballing crazy adventure.
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03-17-2016, 07:05 PM #112Funky But Chic
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03-17-2016, 07:11 PM #113Funky But Chic
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03-18-2016, 08:08 AM #114
Yeah no audis for me thanks. Removing the whole front end of a car to do the timing belt? No thanks. Remove the engine to pull turbos? No thanks. Super heavy front end because the engine is so far forward? No thanks. I had a b7 a4 for about 6 months. Couldn't get rid of it fast enough. Good awd tech though.
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03-18-2016, 08:13 AM #115Funky But Chic
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meh, the car's been good. 12 years old, 150,000 miles almost, shit needs to be maintained. It may not need turbos anyways, that's just a suspected issue. All we really know is that there's an oil leak.
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03-18-2016, 08:20 AM #116
That's good that it has been a good car. Mine just gave me an impending sense of doom, when is the next thing going to break. And it was a 60k dealer maintained cream puff. When the ac cropped out in June, and the same day a glop of snow fell from a tree (June snow storm) and smashed the windshield, that was the last straw.
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03-18-2016, 08:21 AM #117
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03-18-2016, 09:48 AM #118Registered User
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How have I not called him yet?
http://vancouver.craigslist.ca/pml/cto/5493223630.html
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03-18-2016, 10:25 AM #119
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03-18-2016, 10:44 AM #120
^^^
Yup. That scene is burned into my mind from childhood. Cemented the Countach as the supercar standard for all time (personally).
Now, as far as what could go wrong with a 20+ year old Lambo? I couldn't even imagine how bad it would get. How well does eccentric Italian engineering age?I still call it The Jake.
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03-18-2016, 10:54 AM #121
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03-18-2016, 11:14 AM #122
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03-18-2016, 11:21 AM #123
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03-18-2016, 11:47 AM #124
It's undoubtedly true that between money, knowledge, and access to people and resources, Jay Leno is better prepared to maintain a car than just about anyone... But in the vid he says that car was his daily driver for 5 years, has 77k on the odo, and has been easy to maintain. He goes on and on about what a simple car it is... Maybe he just got a good one, but I'd think he knows what it is to own a car that's hard to maintain.
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03-18-2016, 12:17 PM #125
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