This was a cheap budget build for a shop stereo. Go ahead and find me a better set of compact stereo speakers for $60.

It’s amazing the quality you can get with basic pre-built components these days. You can save even more money by trawling the second-hand market for something re-buildable because, honestly, stereo speakers themselves haven’t changed much over the past 20 years. It’s mostly the amplification that has evolved.

I…

How much are you looking to spend?

Great acid test. If she says yes after that kind of project then she truly knows what she’s in for marrying a Jalop.

Heh, this was definitely a high-level audio nerd conversation that’s gonna sound like a foreign language to the uninitiated. If you’re interested in getting started with the hobby and want to build a cheap DIY Hi-Fi then you should refer to this post:

It was, I was just annoyed that the actual language in the lease wasn’t included in the original post (It was over on the Consumerist’s much more informative article) and I didn’t see it anywhere here in the comments either. Figured your thread would be a good place to put it.

“No … elected official of the Government of the United States or the Government of the District of Columbia, shall be admitted to any share or part of this lease, or to any benefit that may arise therefrom.”

That italicized bit of the lease agreement seems pretty damn clear. Donald doesn’t even need to have any share…

Fair enough, although with the increasing prevalence of hybrid and battery-powered cars, electrically-driven A/C compressors are getting pretty attainable.

One of my dream car builds is a Lotus Exige with this type of super-hot K20/K24 hybrid engine swapped in. Straight K20 swaps have been done in the Exige chassis before, and anywhere a K20 will fit a beastly hybrid K will fit as well.

I’m sure, but people fit the K24 in CRX chassis, so it’s gotta be do-able in the later civic. The best things in life are hard to achieve :D

Awww, makes sense.

It could still work in totally built, full-banana form though. 400 horsepower should be enough to mix it up in the 2000-3000cc class. Granted, that’s probably a $20,000 engine build.

A guy can dream!

Great drivetrain, but I would love to see this thing run with a K20/K24 hybrid. You get a punchy 2.4 liters of displacement with a screaming type-S VTECH cylinder head. The little beasts will get over 300 horsepower naturally aspirated without trouble and upwards of 400 in fully-built form:

RHD-only badge, RHD-only car if you ask me. If available as both, ehh, go on then.

+1 for the fantastic intake honkus noises. If you can’t justify the purchase with better engine sound alone, you’ve made a mistake.

We didn’t give a damn about power gains when we threw a CAI on Project Hoondy. It was that sonorous V6 growl we were after:

+1 for “hot air intake”

Only if your infinity is Right Hand Drive :P

It’s not having a CAI, that’s fine, it’s bragging about having a CAI. CAI is the cheapest, easiest, most idiot-proof “power mod.” Bragging about having one is like bragging about getting to first base. Yea, good job there skippy; nice “gains”.

“I have no idea what happened, but it was cool as hell.”

I love laughing at the advertisements for “ultra lite” beers such as Bud 55 or Miller 64. They are always showing really fit, athletic people drinking their beer.

Ok, I thought so, but damn, you gotta use an /s for sarcasm tag next time. That comment bruised my soul a little.

I say this as a former enthusiastic owner of an elderly Chrysler Corp product. Fun to drive it was, pretty to look at it was not.