1990 Nissan D21 4x2 with 53k miles for trade. Automatic sadly. But damnnn... Wonder if he'd take a Focus.
May not always be that simple. I for my part have been to enough hot rod shows that I can smell a cat delete. I don't even need to check under your car, I just need to stand somewhere vaguely behind it while it's running. The thing with that is, anyone who would actually care probably wouldn't be able to tell.
On a gas engine you can always smell the difference. My old green 7.3 Ford was straight piped, but there was a "Fake" cat on it, the truck had 4 inch turbo back exhaust, and right under the cab was a 6 inch long section of 5 inch welded in. I can only assume the previous owner did that as an attempt to sneak though an inspection. What's really funny, is that that Ford was no louder than the red 12 Valve, which still has it's full stock exhaust. with a cat the size of a watermelon and a muffler like a 55 gallon drum. This was after it's prime, when it had four matching wheels and tires, body side molding, and no camper shell.
2nd gen Dodges are loud, and I think the 24 valves are even louder than the 12 valves, or at least my 02 is louder than our 94 work truck.
Funny you say that, I was talking to a buddy of mine in town today, and he just picked up an 01 5 speed 24 valve, and it's totally untouched, all stock, not even a tuner, and I was thinking the same thing, that that 24 valve was louder than my 94.
You'd think it be the other way around, the 24v is newer and computerized it should be quieter and more refined but I guess not.
Personally I think cat converters should be a legal requirement on all vehicles that originally came fitted with one. However you should be able to change one out for a new one of different spec, then put regulations on cat converters to make sure that they all work as intended. I guess the alternative is to do a yearly emission test on all vehicles which would basically enforce that a cat needs to be fitted. But imo the first is likely preferable. As for the comment above about the 15 min inspections. If you are the type of person that maintains your car the inspections should be pretty quick and painless. The main point of them is to prevent roads from looking like Russia where anything goes regardless of its safety for others who may also want to be on the same road. Of course there is often some emissions stuff put in as well so that you don't give everyone lung cancer and asthma when you drive through densely populated areas.
Yeah, 15 mins was usually what it took, still cost was nearly 100 no matter how long it took. I always did replace parts before they were at minimum allowed and generally followed predictive maintenance, so when buying used car it was always bit of shock how poor condition many let their vehicles, replacing parts only when absolute must seemed to be route so many took. I did not really care if value of car was less than what servicing it cost during the year or two, for me it was more important to have vehicle (even very old) that I can hop in and drive thousand kilometer any time. With low income my cars usually were old and cheap, but I think that putting bit more to replacing parts during first year I got them to be as reliable as new ones, never have to get tow service even most expensive car I bought was around 2000 euros.
Safety inspections are nothing more than security theater bs. Emissions testing makes sense, but I still hate it. I have to deal with neither.
I've never had to have a safety inspection and the roads around here are far from looking like Russia. There are few duct tape and clear plastic window replacements but that's about as bad as it gets.
At this point our MOT inspections are so strict that you will fail for simply having an engine light on. Its just money grabbing non sense.
A small (seen one, maybe two examples in the wild) sub-trend I've seen that may be exclusive to Alaska - stretch 'n' poke on full-size (i.e. half-ton or larger) pickup trucks. They don't have ridiculous lowering, millions of stickers, or other "stance" trappings, but they do have the stretched low-pro tires. What should I even call this? Brosozoku? Shakotank?
I have seen this in videos, looks ridiculous, that ridiculous tire/wheel combination has been trend in euro tuning for many years, when I saw first of those on YT I could not help but burst to laughter, that is nothing short of ricer level, imo. What amazes me is when someone does something new, soon everyone does the same, so there is nothing original in most customized vehicles, but they are customized as everyone else does it, you would think that customizing would be attempt to create something original, but it is more of copying that I see.
Performance never goes out of style. Only cosmetics do. --- Post updated --- Improved production racing is easily the best tarmac racing going on today and it's happening in Australia. This kid jordan cox is an absolute fucking legend. This should shut up the FWD sucks crowd for a while. Go get them kid, you are the speedy speed boy.
According to Four Wheeler magazine Athens, Madrid, Mexico City and Paris are all planning on banning diesels by 2025. Are they f*cking dense? A diesel is usually more fuel efficient, produces much less harmful exhaust gasses, especially with a proper emissions control system, and the fuel takes less to refine. I see no possible reason why banning diesels is a good idea. Maybe somebody from Europe (or Mexico) might know more and can enlighten me. I hate that crap, and it is definitely becoming more common. It takes away the ability for a truck to do its main purpose like haul heavy crap or going off road, more so going off road.
I hate to break it to you but diesels pollute far far more than patrols do. Even if they do get higher milage the pollutants more than make up for it. Higher production of pollutants and less wind to carry them leads to harmful conditions for humans to live in. This causes many illnesses.
It was my understanding that diesels produce less greenhouse gasses but more gasses harmful to humans until they get things like EGR and DEF which nearly eliminate the more harmful gasses.
Did you see this epic battle between a Corolla and a Civic at clipsal about a week ago. I wasn't there but it would have been epic to see.
