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when i was 16 bought a rx7 TII with a large single turbo running on 16 psi on the stock ecu. and drove it for 2000 mi and she exploded. haha i had no idea but dam was she fast. and man have i moved on from there fun experience rebuilding and learning about these cars.

 

Bought an NA S5 when I didn't know how to drive stick. Believe the girl when she said it was rebuilt with a street port. Blew the oil control rings, took the engine out and sold it (he verified it wasn't rebuilt nor street ported) then I swapped in the REW in.

 

that is ******* great.......




epic.....

 

Was leaking coolant bad due to a cracked hose and decided to stop at autozone to put coolant in opened the hood popped off the cap and had a boiling hot volcano of antifreeze spray all over the engine bay and me.......thankfully didnt burn to bad

bought a salvaged rx7.....

 

^lol...love it!

 

Wired up my first efan backwards, instead of pulling air
Through the radiator I was blowing hot air onto it. Spent two weeks trying to figure out why adding an efan was causing me too overheat.

 

you are a brave man.

 

fearless like jet li

 

lol im curious how well and long those held up? being a former euro tech for 3 years i have never seen or heard anyone actually try it. cause in theory it would. also im assuming you had the 540?

 

what is a 540?

I only had a 1985 740 volvo that was lowered with U clamps. They held up great, never gave me problems. It did a great job decreasing body roll and I highly recommend it to people who dont have enough money to fix their car up right.

mickey mouse to the 3rd degree

Than, I sold the car and never heard from it ever again. For all I know someone prolly drove it into the LA river.

 

My Worse Noob Moment was when I first was learning about cars. I owned a 90 Celica at the time and did anything anyone could think of to it. got alot of props and alot of laughs but in the end, I got a good sale value out of it.

Painting the interior is something I'd never do again. Definitely not to my FC

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I rattle canned everything on that thing

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that is hilarious

 

When I was a n00b I used to launch my 88 GTU at redline (had a puck clutch when I bought it). I'd tach it up until the rev buzzer and it would take off. A friend warned me that it would break stuff, but I didn't listen. I ended up blowing a diff, a transmission, and all my mounts.

 

i thought "n/a" meant "not available" as in "turbo not available"

 

I bought a RB presilencer drove it over a speed bump and scraped the whole thing. I forgot to measure the clearance between the floor and presilencer which is about 2.5 inches. This is not good if I plan on driving in the touges. Mods for front broom lip please. >_< doh... noob<<<

 

when i was 18 i had a 87 t2 changed interior and disconected the cale to fuel pump car never started took me 2 months to realized the cable wasnt connected. when i finally got it running i crashed it a month after still regret it to dis day.

 

i bought a 90 n/a when i was 16 it had blue interior...i changed it to black by spray painting everything inside with duplicolor interior paint...carpet, seats, headliner...everything...that thing smelled like spray paint untill i sold it and it looked like ****!!!

 

I sprayed painted my 86 sport flat black. Then sold it. I still miss it because it was very reliable all year round considering I would red line it most of the time.

 

I'll have fun with this ...
Well first car was a geo metro. Worked 36 hr straight. Fell asleep woke up to drift it into a ditch
Tore the front radiator up and crossmember ..... sold it for 300. God 60 mpg I miss that

Bought a gsx awd and moded the hell out of it Blew it up put it in the shop only to have it broken into and all mods stolen. And walked away leaving the car sitting

Bought a bike with no title grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Bought a rx7!!! Worked on it a lot Loved my black primer and costume int. Only to sell it later because my girl didn't like it

Well I wised up and said F U I'm getting another
Soon to come a BIG *** MY CAR THREAD.
Woooohooooooo!!!!
Ps that all happened between 18 and 21 I'm 23 now

 

I'm still a noob, after rebuilding and installing my current 13-BT, I went to start it for the first time. It started right up, and I sat there and let it idle, smiling and feeling really proud of myself. Then I realized I had yet to install a fan! Doh! Luckily I noticed before it got hot....

 

About 30 years ago I was driving my '67 Morgan (RHD, TR-4 engine) from DC to my brother's wedding in Chicago.
At 2am on the Pennsylvania Turnpike I heard a terrible noise and the car basically stopped.

It was too dark to see what was going on, so I fell asleep on the shoulder (not easy to do) and was roused by a State trooper around sunrise.
Popped the bonnet (British cars don't have "hoods") to find a fist sized hole in the block with a broken rod hanging out.

The trooper offered to call an "authorized" tow truck but I didn't have enough money to pay for it ("authorized"= "licensed to steal"), so he told me I had an hour to get it off the turnpike or I'd be ticketed AND have to pay the tow fee.

Figuring I had nothing to lose, I tried to start the car and miraculously, it fired up and I drove (on the shoulder with the trooper behind me) about 20 miles to the next exit where it puked it's guts out right at the tollbooth.

So, there I am in rural Pennsylvania with a dead British car, no money and no idea what to do.

Finally, this wizened farmer pulled up and offered to help.
We rotated the crank, accessed the rod bolts and removed the broken rod, then covered the hole in the block with cardboard and duct tape, poured in some oil and the bitch started up again!

Long (agonizing) story short, that tough old car drove over two hundred miles back to DC on 3 cylinders and about 30 qts. of oil.
(Hint: cardboard and duct tape don't stick very well to a greasy/oily block)

So, what was "noobish" about this tale?
I somehow thought that taking an old British car halfway across the country was a good idea.
Also, it was February, so I not only missed the wedding but froze my *** off as well.

 

I had originally planned a 13BT swap.

 

well first off, the title of the thread should be
"When you WERE a noob" not "where" that implies a location, not past tense sentence

Lloyd

 

sheeeet. im 26 now.

noobness 1: bought a 89 integra at 18. head gasket blew 3 weeks later. fixed it. 4 weeks later; steering columb broke doing 80 on the 210 west headed to palmdale. crashed and done

noobness 2: bought 99 integra. dumped like 7k to get a k series in there.
ran it into a wall on the 710 got cut off.

noobness 3. bought an 2006 Evo MR IX i could afford the 600/mo payment and the insurance. that was until l the recession hit and i got laid off.

now i own a car i know very little about but learned so much so far.

 

Bought a 1995 Monte Carlo Z34. Fast for it's day but if you know about you know the dreaded oil leak. Mechanic also told me it was the head gasket so i paid him to replace that. Last time I'm ever buying a car without research. I was 16...now I'm 18. Sold it to buy my second Rx-7.