i didnt actually mourn it i just find it odd that vw stopped production of theyr highest selling passat model
Then again, it's really just the same Civic Type R, but half of the top is cut off (except for the spoiler for some reason) and has two engines in the bed. It's also called Project P (which of course stands for Pickup).
God damn I need a project. Anything. I want to make something fast. Something silly like a 300 I6 Ford or a 305 Olds or something. I just want to make something fast for cheap.
Build a go-kart? Weld together some steel tube, throw on a lawn mower engine or cheap motorbike engine. It won't be fast, but it will feel fast. I guess you could go full Morgan and make one out of wood if metalwork isn't your thing. Motorbikes are cheap, if that floats your boat.
the ford 300 can make a surprising amount of power if you steal some powerstroke turbos, put on a good carb,exhaust, and port the head, the earlier ones have no plastic on them and the EFI ones have plastic timing gears but the EFI ones have a better head, exaust and manifold
I'd imagine that there are aftermarket metal timing gears for the EFI 300's. I'd build EFI because they're better from the get go, but it'd still see a head, camshaft, and such.
metal gears set off the knock sensor for some reason, but you can still turbo the EFI if you install bigger injectors and the plastic gears fail due to age not wear
I noticed some funny coincidences about both my cars both are abused, the firebird is covered in small dents, was jumped, and has rear end accident damage that was poorly repaired(there is at least a few pounds of bondo on the rear quarter. The bronco has definitely been off road, and is missing wheel well trim and mudflaps on the driver side. both have large dents in the driver side door and large scratches in the driver glass from missing window felt both are missing the original wheels both had homemade exhausts both had a stereo hacked in with the scars to prove it both have around 230k on them both are very rare combinations both engines have low redlines, lots of torque(403:185hp 320 lb-ft 5500 redline 300 145hp 265 lb-ft 5000 redline) and can make quite more power than one would think both are projects but the bronco is almost done, I need a job so I can get what I need for the firebird
I mean, what is there to say? There is nothing exceptional about the vehicle in any way. It will probably do a fine job of getting you from a to b in relative comfort, just like every other SUV on the market.
I was bored so I decided to see if I could, quickly and in freehand, nail the profile of the Ferrari 365GTB/4. Here's what I've done so far. I think I made the roof too tall and the rear wheel well too small, causing the whole thing to look off somehow... and to be honest, I think it looks better on paper than in scanned-in form. However, please do keep in mind that I've never really arted before and that what I have so far was done in less than 30 minutes on the back of a shipping invoice.
I would agree that the roof is too tall. Perhaps the bonnet is also a little short, since the windscreen should protrude in-front of the 'a pillars'. The overhangs also look a little small. Spoiler: You may consider this cheating? (overlay of your image on real car)
Windshield also looks too skinny as well (or the window slant is much smaller than on the 365). But atleast it was a good attempt at best.
I actually had the roof better before, then derped and thought it looked too much like a Corvette. I guess that's what I get for working from crummy Wikipedia imagery that was also not of the same angle. The different front wheel well is because I based the front end on the Competizione version out of convenience, and the bucktooth air dam combined with the perspective that image was taken from kind of messed with my head.
Here is the image I worked from if you would like it: https://www.classicdriver.com/sites...ferrari_365_gtb4_daytona_01.jpg?itok=6MA_VJAw And flipped if that is more your thing: I must confess that I know very little about classic cars, so matching the exact model etc wasn't something I could have done.
