Lol, you think a Volvo mill is junk, but you want a rotary? These are great motors with massive potential. Turbos can do wonders. My B20 is at the machine shop being built to run about 40psi on alcohol. That's with a complete Volvo rotating assembly. Next year when it's on the road, you can bring me a 13B to feed it ;)

I’m mid restoration on an old pushrod Volvo, so yeah, I know. I just don’t get why you’re even bringing it up. Old paint like that Volvo blue are single stage. You literally grind off the wear with a buffer and it’s good to go. The paint is a plus on this car! Like $100 in supplies and a weekend in the driveway and…

This car is a driver right now. That paint looks like it would shine up as is, and there is no reason to assume the engine needs a tear down. “poor running” on a D-Jet car is usually cruddy injection, not a bum motor. The B20 in my 242 went over 300K miles on its factory build, with good compression until the end.…

The stock B20 is no slouch either. The fuel injected ones had big valves, and the “poor running” is probably a vacuum leak or a busted sensor on the stock D-jet injection. All the parts are there to convert to aftermarket injection if desired. These can do 200hp all motor on injection or carbs, and make great turbo…

A “nice, restored” shooting brake will be easily double the cost of this little guy. Wagons get a sizable premium over coupes. Even paying the mechanic wouldn’t be awful for this thing unless it’s really rusty. They’re very straightforward to work on.

And for every one they accidentally bolted together correctly, twenty have already been turned into refrigerators.

I think the answer is that you pay out the ass and hope for the best. My old Honda developed a nasty electrical gremlin I had no desire to fix about 14 months before I graduated. I went to a dealership that was super helpful, and I got the car I have today, but I’m paying for it.

You can't get financed on cheap and used. I was in this exact situation when I ended up with my Fusion. Banks won't touch a subprime auto loan under about 8-10k. It's just part of the high price of being poor.

I’m very excited to try the system out. It’s these guys here. The ultimate promise is being able to grab a late model Gen3/4 air meter/dizzy assembly, rig up an aftermarket fpr, and do the rest on a laptop. They have some kind of inbetween steps for K-basic and K-Lambda too.

2” matters when you're at the legal limit with the pop ups. Write your Congressman or something if that doesn't sit well with you.

I really like CIS. I describe it as a “perfect carburetor.” Very straightforward as long as you can wrap your head around the basic operating principles. For funsies, look up ‘frankencis.’ It's a Megasquirt hack for CIS that's in a late beta stage. I'm collecting parts to try a CIS-Motronic based implementation when…

Also not remotely legal due to height requirements for headlights, bringing us back to pop ups.

The article is making it sound all creepy, but I’m fairly certain it's what you just described. It's a way to sell vast chunks of space to companies like Clearchannel. It's actually kinda brilliant.

Mr. Fritch is dramatically downplaying the horror of CARB. Passing doesn’t just mean blowing clean. You have to pass visual, where every piece of OEM smog equipment must be in place, and every non-cosmetic drivetrain part needs a CARB EO number. There’s no rolling exemption either. Engine swaps can be done, but have…

So what you're saying is that because people don't have an essential skill, we should just dumb down the test until they can pass? Seems legit.

It also depends on if the LEO even knows the law. I was hassled by a cop who ticketed me for no inspection sticker. He had no clue what the antique plate was. The judge laughed at it and dismissed the charge, but it still wasted my day.

Saltwater is pretty nasty stuff. It eats holes in pretty much anything that isn't a fish.

The 914 wasn’t busy threatening its driver with instant fiery death. Turns out that impacts lap times.

It would be really smart of Nissan to let people buy things like Banks kits at the dealer and retain the warranty. I don’t get why all the OEMs haven’t gotten hip to that by now. It’s no more trouble to federalize since its an “aftermarket” mod, sneaking right past CAFE and the like. You would think the lure of…

That was hardly the only problem with the turbo 215. Besides which, selling a car that needs dealer provided fuel is idiotic.