videcormeum

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.

Ebanks

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

mmarshall

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.

Technics

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!!!!

Ebanks

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

usmanj

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Captain Bone

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

-Anthony

Ebanks

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

-Ethan

SecPole14

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

The_Hitman

You cant beat it for the price. Go for it

Ebanks

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

-Ethan

verylost

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

Ebanks

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

Richie

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

Overclocker

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!

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