I'm on my 3rd new vw and the dealership experience has led me to pick a different brand for the next car.
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and potentially far less expensive!
aftermarket knee parts do not work well with manual transmissions :)
lol it was a tongue in cheek post
automatic brz/frs?
I used to do knife sharpening as a hobby, now it's a "when I feel like it" job. I buy lots of different knives (different steels, shapes, finishes, etc.) to learn how to work with them, then sharpen/customize/etc. and give them away as gifts. I started sharpening for a local restaurant or two and now, after my…
no grease is for squeaky brakepads.
Yeah, but it didn't kill the balance too badly - a sandbag in the spare tire area up front worked wonders :P
mine was an aluminum v8, but archie's done a lot of these :) with iron sbc's
That frame is much stronger than most people realize; the body panels are non structural, the frame itself is extremely strong. Years of dragstrip launches in my v8 fiero and everything was still fine (for an 80's GM!)
Well, the car doesn't gain a whole lot of weight from the v8 swap, really.
I had a 1986 GT that I bought in my freshman year of high school - pretty quick for a highschool car, and the V6 thru a flowmaster sounded awesome (to highschool me). So awesome - later on I bought a 1987 GT that later developed bottom end issues. For about 1100 bucks I swapped in a 4.9pfi v8 from a cadillac. The most…
a v8 fiero :D
Only change one thing at a time.
This advice has served me very well in my professional life.
yeah - I was thinking a really long drawer slider and channel, so it's effectively locked-in. Not infallible, but less... fallible.
haha me too
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I run a knife sharpening service in my spare time, so it's straights all the way for me! It's definitely a labor of love - the first 2-3 shaves off a fresh honed blade can be a little rough, but that fourth shave... heaven! I also make my own shaving soaps (a well honed razor, bowl, brush, and homemade soap is…