I have to say, even the pushrod 3.4L is decent power for that weight. Such an improvement over even the 2.8, let alone the 2.5L. And the 3.4L is a direct swap that can be accomplished for less than a grand given the right car to start with and a used engine.

Where am I from? I live in the US, in Oregon, but I'm from Estonia.. I have a bright yellow GT with a 3.4L swap that I got running sort of recently.. still trying to get it to run smooth.. but man does the 3.4 make a difference over the 2.8. Lights up the tires with no effort on dry pavement. Not something the 2.8 was…

It's fine with even smaller mods. The 3.4L pushrod is a direct swap and gives it the oompf that car needed.

Except it was never marketed as a sports car. It may have the looks and other qualifications, mid-engine, two door two seater, etc.. but it was always marketed, and insured, as an economy car..

Yea I know it was mentioned before, but this is a better version of the video...

The Olds 88 has a wheelbase of 110.8 inches..

Yea I know the angles are a bit off, but proportionally, if the wheels line up, the other points should line up as well.. Though yes, it could be the circa 1995 model as opposed to the 96+ model.

The body is the same isn't it? The only difference really being the side markers, so that would make it fit even better, moving the side markers a bit closer to the wheel well..

Scaled the top image a bit. The wheels line up nicely with the mirror and where the kink in the roofline starts and where the windshield starts. The side markers line up pretty nice as well. The difference can be attributed to motion blur. The only thing still that doesn't quite fit is the length of the rear deck, but…

So when they say "authenticated cable, satellite or telco customers", what does that exactly mean? Just the big ones like Comcast, Verizon, Dish and DirectTV? Or does it include the little ones too? I'm on Frontier FIOS. Used to be Verizon until Verizon decided they didn't want to provide FIOS TV phone and internet to…

Heh, from what I hear, it's a great place to park a car... once..

"a wimpy week-long drizzle" is only part of what we get. We get drizzle, rain, downpour, showers and sprinkles. For a Portlander, those are all different. The drizzle may last a week at a time, but for the rest of the time from September to June, there's still precipitation, but it maybe showers or rain or sprinkle.

So my cousin in Estonia did his research, and when it came time to upgrade his Lada rally car to something more competitive in the summertime, he decided on a CRX. To get the most bang for his buck and be competitive in the FWD class, it had to be the B16A (VTec Yo) engine one. You would not believe how difficult it…

And on the topic of the one-way streets, to the most part you can figure that out. That is until you happen on any of the two or three one way streets that are for buses only, except for that one lane in the middle, where you can't turn anywhere for like 5 blocks, and at the end it makes you turn the other way than…

Yea the politeness has it's downsides. If you're waiting behind a row of cars in a four way stop, all of them are waving to each other to go first, it kinda gets on your nerves. Seeing that once or twice is fine, but ever friggin morning driving to work, it just pisses you off.

Washington driving culture as a hole is a bit sketchy, not just Seattle. They have a tendency to slam on their breaks without looking in the mirror and change lanes over 3 lanes to make the exit on the last minute, right after going exactly the speed limit in the left lane, holding up a row of traffic behind them..

New York City is kind of a given here, but as something different, I'm gonna cast another vote for Portland, OR. The city is a maze of one-way streets, and caters to bicyclists and pedestrians over drivers. One of the latest is the "Implied Crosswalk" law, where a pedestrian can walk onto the street anywhere, and…

On a serious note though, yellow cars do attract bugs more than other cars for some reason. Not to this capacity, but it's not uncommon on a hot day to see bees and ladybugs on a yellow car.

Of course it's Portland! I've seen worse on 205. I once saw a 4 door sedan on the on-ramp to 205, with a mattress on top, not tied down or anything. Four people in the car, all with a hand out the window holding it down. Going onto Interstate 205. A highway. Kinda with I had a reason to follow them and see the thing…

I was just about to say the fire thing.. "No, as you can see, my Fiero has not caught fire yet."