And since I have no shame I will show you guys what it is...

http://www.kcsr.org/images/cotm/july04timr/01.jpg

The first person to guess what this car traps gets a pat on the back.

et 13.6@fill in the blank

-Ethan

Originally posted by Ebanks
And since I have no shame I will show you guys what it is...

http://www.kcsr.org/images/cotm/july04timr/01.jpg

The first person to guess what this car traps gets a pat on the back.

et 13.6@fill in the blank

-Ethan

13.6@100m?

Im gonna say...104.

James

115

just because :)

Dude, it's not a Supra...:p :D

James

That little thing? I think it'll do the 1/4 mile in the 13.6 like you said, probably get up to about 74 mph.

108

It runs 13's in the 1/4 or 1/8?

Originally posted by jet864
Dude, it's not a Supra...:p :D

James

pretty close! lol

Originally posted by verylost
It runs 13's in the 1/4 or 1/8?

1/4... I don't deal in 1/8th mile times:)

Originally posted by Ebanks
1/4... I don't deal in 1/8th mile times:)

I did a little snooping and found some more pictures.
http://www.kcsr.org/images/cotm/july04timr/

After seeing those pictures, HOLY CRAP.
You have one hell of a sleeper there.

Buckle up ;)

It has a B6t swap (mercury capri xrti motor)

It also has a 30 shot. lol

-Ethan

haha I said 115 as I joke, and low and behold, I'm pretty close!

I wanna see some videos of some sweet kills ethan -- that'll be priceless to hand some BMW owners their doors :)

Originally posted by Ebanks
And since I have no shame I will show you guys what it is...

-Ethan

Dude ... is that guy taking a leak? (See attached picture) ... :D

BTW - are you joking? This thing cannot be trusted as a daily driver. What a piece.

M.

Originally posted by whipimpin
Dude ... is that guy taking a leak? (See attached picture) ... :D

BTW - are you joking? This thing cannot be trusted as a daily driver. What a piece.

M.

yes, i think he is taking a leak, and it being a piece is kind of the point!

Driving a car that is a complete piece of crap is great... No one looks at you, you don't have to worry about where you park or people breaking into it.... And if it traps higher than your typical low 13 second wrx or stock ws-6 trans am it's all the better:)

-Ethan

Originally posted by Ebanks
yes, i think he is taking a leak, and it being a piece is kind of the point!

Driving a car that is a complete piece of crap is great... No one looks at you, you don't have to worry about where you park or people breaking into it.... And if it traps higher than your typical low 13 second wrx or stock ws-6 trans am it's all the better:)

-Ethan

I understand that - lol. My concern is ... will it be reliable and comfortable enough for you to depend on daily? If you just want to mess around with it at the track - maybe show those annoying Eclipse guys what the deal is - more power to you. But if you plan on driving this thing every day ... I urge you to reconsider.

Best of luck w/ the purchase if you decide to go ahead with it.

M.

Originally posted by whipimpin
I understand that - lol. My concern is ... will it be reliable and comfortable enough for you to depend on daily? If you just want to mess around with it at the track - maybe show those annoying Eclipse guys what the deal is - more power to you. But if you plan on driving this thing every day ... I urge you to reconsider.

Best of luck w/ the purchase if you decide to go ahead with it.

M.

The guy I am buying it from is a well respected figure here in our local community. He has daily driven the car for the past year putting over 7k miles on it with the swap with zero issues other than o2 sensors going bad when he was running leaded fuel in it. We are doing a compression test on it before the purchase, but to be honest it is such a simple setup I can't imagine what problems I would have with it, other than going through front tires. lol

You should see what we use to daily when I lived in Springfield... A beat up 87 toyota carbed pickup with 415k miles on it. It looked 100x worse than this car, had more than 4x the mileage, and was still more reliable than any of the Lexus' I have owned!

I probably won't even take it to the track.. That is what the lexus is for once I get a good tranny in it.

You just gotta have faith:) Driving REAL beaters for daily drivers is honestly a very good and stress free experience.

-Ethan

Originally posted by Ebanks
And since I have no shame I will show you guys what it is...

http://www.kcsr.org/images/cotm/july04timr/01.jpg

The first person to guess what this car traps gets a pat on the back.

et 13.6@fill in the blank

-Ethan

Looks like a Ford Festiva. This was built for Ford by Kia using the basic platform of the Mazda 121 minicar that Mazda did not sell here. This car was eventually replaced by the Ford Aspire.....also built by Kia for Ford.

These cars were exactly what they looked like....cheap, economical, no-nonsense commuters that did not even pretend to be sports cars or family haulers. They were fairly reliable (being a Mazda platform) but not quite to Toyota or Honda standards.

Ahhh, man what a sleeper. Reminds me of that minivan that pulled on a Z/28 in the 1/4.

A friend of mine used to drive the wheels off of his, he was on the bigger side so it was more of go-kart for him and due to the large amount of weight being on one side of the car, he would rountinely lift one rear wheel going around some corners!!!!

This car gets 30 MPG in town beating on it or 40 MPG highway even with this motor swap and the boost:)

Also, the car weighs 1800lbs, and I only weigh 125 lbs, so even with me in it we are still talking about a sub 2k lbs sled:)

-Ethan

My friend had a festiva that he paid 100 dollars for last year. He would call himself the festiva racer. This is the real FESTIVA Racer! I got to show him these pictures.

LOL, Enjoy your new ride I guess... Although... I'd never be caught dead in it.:)

-Anthony

Originally posted by Captain Bone
LOL, Enjoy your new ride I guess... Although... I'd never be caught dead in it.:)

-Anthony

you should drive a beater sometime... it's a life changing experience.

-Ethan

Originally posted by Captain Bone
Although... I'd never be caught dead in it.:)

-Anthony

Sad thing is, you could very easily be both caught and dead in it. :eek1: :(

You cant beat it for the price. Go for it :thumbup:

Agreed on a price. Having compression test done, and if the numbers are good it looks like I got a new car..... again.

-Ethan

Parallel parking must be super easy if you have a friend. Both of you can get out of the car and lift it into place. Or you can always chain it to a bike rack ;)

lol.. while digging around for more info the first thing that popped up in google was this:

http://www.sportcompactcarweb.com/tech/0401scc_hybrid/

apparently SCC did a swap article on this earlier this year.

-EThan

You're crazy Ethan!!!!
But I like your way of thinking, keep us posted.:cool:

Dang Ethan, that thing is nuts. I think it must be the scale of the car, but the Nitrous tank looks more like a scuba tank! :eek2:

BTW, the first manual transmission I ever drove was in one of these (stock of course) back in high school.

Bought it!

Originally posted by Ebanks
Bought it!

Congrats! :thumbup:

Let us know what you think of it :)
But what are you doing on here posting? go drive it! :D ;)

Originally posted by Attila

But what are you doing on here posting? go drive it! :D ;)

lol.. I am at work, or I would be driving it:)

-Ethan

Haha nice man, how much $$?

And you are so right about having a beater, I miss my ol 88 Tercel 4-speed. SO trouble-free, I never had to worry about keeping it clean, or fixing every little thing. I only had to remeber to put in another quart of oil every week :egads:

Hehe, nice little beater ya got there! :)

You said it traps higher than most trans-ams, camaros, wrx's ect though... my 99 camaro ss, when it was stock.. trapped 110.. had a little factory freak :) now it traps about 20mph faster with the aid of many parts ;) Must be nice with a little 30 shot though, i bet your bottles last forever... i dont get much use out of mine spraying a 150+ shot... :egads:

Originally posted by /Aerostar\
Haha nice man, how much $$?

And you are so right about having a beater, I miss my ol 88 Tercel 4-speed. SO trouble-free, I never had to worry about keeping it clean, or fixing every little thing. I only had to remeber to put in another quart of oil every week :egads:

~$3k.

I think the car itself is probably only worth like $750-$1000.

-Ethan

Originally posted by RTCamaroSS
Hehe, nice little beater ya got there! :)

You said it traps higher than most trans-ams, camaros, wrx's ect though... my 99 camaro ss, when it was stock.. trapped 110.. had a little factory freak :) now it traps about 20mph faster with the aid of many parts ;) Must be nice with a little 30 shot though, i bet your bottles last forever... i dont get much use out of mine spraying a 150+ shot... :egads:

Yeah, I was kind of figuring a stock ws6 or cobra would be a good run from a roll... I really wish I could get this thing to 60-ft, but I don't think it will ever happen without slicks, and if I do that it will shell the tranny.:(

Your car must be pretty mean to be trapping 130ish... The way f-bodys 60-ft that is probably a low 10 sec pass isn't it?!

-Ethan

Originally posted by Ebanks
Yeah, I was kind of figuring a stock ws6 or cobra would be a good run from a roll... I really wish I could get this thing to 60-ft, but I don't think it will ever happen without slicks, and if I do that it will shell the tranny.:(

Your car must be pretty mean to be trapping 130ish... The way f-bodys 60-ft that is probably a low 10 sec pass isn't it?!

-Ethan

Stockers do anywhere from 12.8-13.8 depending on driver and track conditions. From a roll, you'd definately have a shot.

Mine should be mid 10's on a 150 shot of the juice... Mid 11's N/A. Ive got a few small things to work out. I cant get a good 60 foot to save my life with this stock rear end though... ive blown 4 of them.. course.. i was sidestepping the clutch at 5k rpm launching on nitrous, lol! i blew another one on the street, just messin around with the juice. Since my daily driver is broke, and im tryin not to put miles on the bike so i can sell it, ive been daily drivin a 10 second car.. and let me tell you, this thing is loud.. longtube headers, no cats, and true dual 3 inch piping to dumps before the axle :eek2: Maybe someday ill ditch the stock engine for something beefier..

Originally posted by RTCamaroSS
Stockers do anywhere from 12.8-13.8 depending on driver and track conditions. From a roll, you'd definately have a shot.

Mine should be mid 10's on a 150 shot of the juice... Mid 11's N/A. Ive got a few small things to work out. I cant get a good 60 foot to save my life with this stock rear end though... ive blown 4 of them.. course.. i was sidestepping the clutch at 5k rpm launching on nitrous, lol! i blew another one on the street, just messin around with the juice. Since my daily driver is broke, and im tryin not to put miles on the bike so i can sell it, ive been daily drivin a 10 second car.. and let me tell you, this thing is loud.. longtube headers, no cats, and true dual 3 inch piping to dumps before the axle :eek2: Maybe someday ill ditch the stock engine for something beefier..

Daily drivig 125+ MPH cars is fun.. I daily drove my old lexus for a while, and have been daily driving my new one which should be ~130 MPH 10.6-10.8 when I get the new trans in it.

Daily driving beaters is almost even more fun though :cool:

Funny quote from the guy I bought this car from... "It's fun to drive a car that, even when you lose the race, the other guy really still doesn't win".

-Ethan

Ethan has a point about "daily beaters"... I mean we all wear "wife beaters" why not drive a daily beater..lol
All jokin aside ... my non work related "homies" all drive beaters.... One of my fellaz drives an s55 or something like that and whips around daily in his 87 honda accord lxi with 230k.....Even hittin the clubs in it.. (if u pull a sweetie u know she ain't after your ride)...lol
Funny but I whip the minivan around daily and leave both lexus's at home many a time...
For me and my boyz its a "hood thing" ... gotta keep a bucket in the drive way...

On the DL/// (down low) ... for you single guys... beaters are a great way to "creep" without being seen. Everybody knows your hooked up whip so the beater allows you to be "inconspicuous" (spelling?) Plus the ladies never key up your "main" ride when u get busted... lol

Disclaimer.. BTW I am currently a devoted husband and father.. this info is from waaaaaayyyyyy back.. :cool:

Congrats Ethan!!
YOu should make some vids of the car and post them :cool:

Originally posted by Richie
Congrats Ethan!!
YOu should make some vids of the car and post them :cool:

I will, and if I can figure out some video editing software there will be some sweet 80s backround music. :)

Originally posted by Ebanks
I will, and if I can figure out some video editing software there will be some sweet 80s backround music. :)

LOL, looking forward to that allready :cool:

I can't wait to see/hear some kill stories from this machine. Can I suggest some Aha, Take on Me, or Falco, Rock Me Amadeus? :D

James

Take on me would be a good one considering the sleeper nature of the car :D :cool:

Bohemian Rapsody?
"I'm just a poor boy from a poor family..."
"momma I just killed a benz, put my pedal to the floor, I can't see him anymore, the race had juuuust begun"

Another One Bites the Dust?


Superfreak?


Oh the endless possibilities!