chickenmanq
07-31-2002, 08:27 PM
I was reading the V6 Accord and Eclipse kill post, and it just reminded me of yesterday. I'm in Modesto right now, on the first part of my 3 week vacation from work. Well needed, I might add.
If you didn't read the update, I'm driving a 90 ugly-ass Chrylser New Yorker named Godzilla. (Way too comfortable with leather and power everything.) Keeping the 63 Ford, and selling the 81 Accord.
So, as much as the Chrysler wallows around the corners, it has really nice straight-line pickup. I don't know how much hp it makes, but it's a torquey 3.3 V6. So I took off from Flagstaff after changing out the CV shafts. They're still holding, but throwing grease. I figured maybe they over-filled them on remanufacture. Either way, it's not doing anything bad so I'm going to drive it. I can afford to wreck some CV shafts, but I can't replace engine mounts. Interesting little problem with Chrylsers I won't get into now.
I get to Modesto and my cousin and I are doing some errands and being California, there's all sorts of riced-out Hondas that want to race.
So we get this one guy while we're blasting blue oyster cult (hence the name Godzilla) and have no problem toasting him. Found out a lot of other cars on the road are slower as well. It's incredibly funny though. The rear of the car squats because the struts are gone. It's not horrible, but the fact that this ugly American luxury car I'm driving can toast a lot of imports (and lets face it, most of the people racing in town don't corner) is a riot. You should see the faces when Grampa's 150,000 mile Pimp Ride spanks 'em. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>
If you didn't read the update, I'm driving a 90 ugly-ass Chrylser New Yorker named Godzilla. (Way too comfortable with leather and power everything.) Keeping the 63 Ford, and selling the 81 Accord.
So, as much as the Chrysler wallows around the corners, it has really nice straight-line pickup. I don't know how much hp it makes, but it's a torquey 3.3 V6. So I took off from Flagstaff after changing out the CV shafts. They're still holding, but throwing grease. I figured maybe they over-filled them on remanufacture. Either way, it's not doing anything bad so I'm going to drive it. I can afford to wreck some CV shafts, but I can't replace engine mounts. Interesting little problem with Chrylsers I won't get into now.
I get to Modesto and my cousin and I are doing some errands and being California, there's all sorts of riced-out Hondas that want to race.
So we get this one guy while we're blasting blue oyster cult (hence the name Godzilla) and have no problem toasting him. Found out a lot of other cars on the road are slower as well. It's incredibly funny though. The rear of the car squats because the struts are gone. It's not horrible, but the fact that this ugly American luxury car I'm driving can toast a lot of imports (and lets face it, most of the people racing in town don't corner) is a riot. You should see the faces when Grampa's 150,000 mile Pimp Ride spanks 'em. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>