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Can only afford humble cars here....my wife has a '10 Kia Forte SX - nice car, handles well, crappy gas mileage...my son has my '05 Toyota Corolla S - nice car, great gas mileage...I drive an '03 Ford Focus - not a bad car, poor mpg compared to the 'yota, SLOW!!!, but handles really well for a bone stock compact car, feels much "bigger" ....if I hit the MegaMillions lottery tonight, I'd likely start with one of these - Porsche Cayman GT4....no automatic tranny offered :)
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fuelish said:
Can only afford humble cars here....my wife has a '10 Kia Forte SX - nice car, handles well, crappy gas mileage...my son has my '05 Toyota Corolla S - nice car, great gas mileage...I drive an '03 Ford Focus - not a bad car, poor mpg compared to the 'yota, SLOW!!!, but handles really well for a bone stock compact car, feels much "bigger" ....if I hit the MegaMillions lottery tonight, I'd likely start with one of these - Porsche Cayman GT4....no automatic tranny offered :)
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My friend did some Porsche driving experience thing in Vegas where they spend three days learning how to drive like maniacs and the instructor said that the Cayman in any trim is the best driving car Porsche has ever made. He said the handling was second to none... including the 911. I guess having he engine in the middle...where a sports car is supposed to have it... makes all the difference. He was so jazzed about the Cayman after that that I actually thought about maybe going to take a look at one but then I remembered that (a) it's waaaaay too expensive and (b) no hemi. So, like, what's the point of that? :)
 
mannye said:
Nitrous... I mean get a horse named Nitrous and hook it up the Vette! :)
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Actually I had at one point considered hitching my pony to the 'vette for her first time pulling an actual something, since she'd never been afraid of cars before and I imagined she'd have a total meltdown if I showed her the gig I bought...

And Tom, that's a pretty sexy looking bike!
 
It's all about gear ratios. Maybe putting some taller gears in the pumpkin will give the little vette some getup and go on the lower end of the rpm band.


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Nice Beemer! I like them because they are different. Sleek looks and uncommon. Even here where Ducati and other uncommon brands are all over the place I rarely see a BMW bike.


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The practical often outweighs the cool. I went from an Impala SS to a Lexus LS. Sometimes I miss the thumbs up I got with the Impala but then I turn on the air conditioned seats in the LS and it quickly goes away.


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Sigh, I may not drive anymore, or own a vehicle for that matter, but I do maintain & upgrade the two that my partner has around. Selvia is the little 4 banger of a `01 Subaru Forester L (Forest green too!) & Mozey (pronounced Mo-Z) is the 1986 Chevy camper conversion "Get-Away" van from Canukia, I mean Canada eh...

The Subi is easy, she gets taken to the guy with all the fancy computers & software to have anything more than an oil change or fill up the gas.

The Chevy, Mozey, is my baby! Got him and had the engine worked on a bit by a local gearhead so the engine was running properly, then the fun began! The electrical system for the van was working fine, but the electrical wiring in the back was a nightmare at best & a hazard waiting to melt the whole thing at the worst. So after the first season of not having things work correctly, or at all, I got the permission from the partner to retrofit the entire backends' electrical system! First I pulled out a rainbow wire that fed power to the backend, SEVEN colors, 4 wire gauges, one section held to another by various methods. My favorite being a couple of ring terminals held together with a nut & bolt wrapped in duct tape. New solenoid that I installed to only supply power when key is on & not at all times (isolating the batteries when the key is off), new wiring all around, additional wiring all over, new fuses, LED lighting installed in and out, even a new power center & battery. Now he's got enough lights inside to be visible from 300 meters through trees, shrubs & brush. Then there is the LED spot lamp I installed, we tested it by turning it on then pacing the distance, we got to 600 meters roughly, sadly we had to stop because we had reached the edge of the cliff, otherwise it'd be another couple hundred meters I bet!
 
mannye said:
It's all about gear ratios. Maybe putting some taller gears in the pumpkin will give the little vette some getup and go on the lower end of the rpm band.
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Won't help as long as it's still having a fuel delivery problem...
 
That can't be too hard to fix on a little Chevette can it? The whole fuel system is 10 feet of hose and a pump. Unless it's in the tank and with no access panel (you have to drop the tank) then it's a pain.




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mannye said:
...the instructor said that the Cayman in any trim is the best driving car Porsche has ever made. He said the handling was second to none... including the 911. I guess having he engine in the middle...where a sports car is supposed to have it... makes all the difference. ...
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Yeah....it could and should be their flagship model, but....they can't "dethrone" the 911 as the top o' the heap ;) Maybe they should just rebadge it as the 911 and go hog wild....although the purists would have a hissy fit, am sure
 
mannye said:
That can't be too hard to fix on a little Chevette can it? The whole fuel system is 10 feet of hose and a pump. Unless it's in the tank and with no access panel (you have to drop the tank) then it's a pain.
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You'd think, eh? We've dropped the tank three times (not much to put it back up on anymore either), blown air through the system both ways, and it's still impinged somewhere.
 
Chevette Girl said:
You'd think, eh? We've dropped the tank three times (not much to put it back up on anymore either), blown air through the system both ways, and it's still impinged somewhere.
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Doesn't that have a mechanical pump in the block? It's probably shot. It's also takes like three seconds to replace... if it's like i think it is. I don't know about your new fangled ('70s) cars.
 
fuelish said:
Yeah....it could and should be their flagship model, but....they can't "dethrone" the 911 as the top o' the heap ;) Maybe they should just rebadge it as the 911 and go hog wild....although the purists would have a hissy fit, am sure
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They did it a few years ago....they were just sneaky about it.

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It takes an afternoon to replace. I've done it. Twice. I think the cam on the engine that drives it is worn (400,000 km) since the pump is relatively new, this is why we added an inline electric fuel pump. It's a new-fangled 80's car...
 
Chevette Girl said:
It takes an afternoon to replace. I've done it. Twice. I think the cam on the engine that drives it is worn (400,000 km) since the pump is relatively new, this is why we added an inline electric fuel pump. It's a new-fangled 80's car...
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Pump is good, lines are good, I assume the filter is good. Still no power.... well for a Chevette. hmmmmm 80's you say? Still has a carb? Early 80's fuel injection sucked but carbs were at the peak of development. Maybe at this point you're losing some compression? Have you had the compression tested? Cheap to do and a wealth of information.
 
compression looks something like this 85 130 160 160 the last time I had it done, cylinder 1 and 2 were always at 130 even when the car only had 100,000 km on it, and about five years ago cylinder 1 had an incident with a chunk of spark plug ceramic insulation, so it LOOKS like it's down half a cylinder but in reality it's not actually that bad.

No, this is definitely a fuel thing, I can see through the clear fuel filter that it's just not running through the way it should, I see a little trickle in the bottom of the plastic housing instead of seeing a bubble at the top. When it's running and I spray carb cleaner into it, it increases the engine speed instead of decreasing it like I recall happening with a healthy fuel flow...

Carb got overhauled five years ago (jeebus, that long?) and I have a kit to do it again...
 
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