My car is paid for, fairly economical, has four doors, a man pedal, sounds good, and is tough as nails.
I drive it every day. I've done all the work on it. So what if it has a rebuilt title, I don't plan on selling it, ever. I went on my honeymoon in it, it brought my baby home from the hospital in it. It's only ever seen full synthetic, every 5000 miles. So what if it quits, I'll rebuild it, and keep going.
150,000 miles, still as much fun as ever.
So, what is it?
Sorry, pretty important detail, huh?
I'll see if I can snap some pics tommorrow, but it's a 2001 Nissan Sentra, last of the SR20's, which are always a hot commodity one week before racewars.
Indeed.
Overnight parts from Japan
In case anyone is curious, the factor of safety used when engineering the SR20 was OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My car is paid for, fairly economical, has two doors, a man pedal, sounds good, and is tough as nails.
I drive it every day. I've done all the work on it. So what if it has a clean title, I don't plan on selling it, ever. It tells women that I'm not interested in a family yet, so no need to worry about room for children. It's only seen synthetic, every 3000 miles. Who cares if the engine dies? I'll put an LS7 in and keep trucking along.
50,000 miles, still as much fun as ever.
My name is CelicaHalftrac, and the only car i love right now is the one that hasn't moved in over two years. 
My love is long gone, 94 Ranger with suspension kit 3.55 trac loc and a 4.0L with a stick.
She turned the quarter right at 15 secs and 88 mph. Not bad at the time given 5.0 Mustangs were only about 2 mph faster. Fun to go through the twistys too
Can you tell I was a fan of the SCCA ITT truck series?
FlightService wrote:Can you tell I was a fan of the SCCA ITT truck series?
It was an awesome series that never got its full promotion.
And who says trucks and specifically I-beam Rangers can't handle??? 
And to be on topic: I most of the time hate mine. It's an auto that gets abysmal mileage and most of the time handles like crap. But it is so far been reliable as an anvil with the amounts of neglected maintenance it endures. 120k and still soaking up the miles.
Ranger50 wrote:It was an awesome series that never got its full promotion.
And to be on topic: I most of the time hate mine. It's an auto that gets abysmal mileage and most of the time handles like crap. But it is so far been reliable as an anvil with the amounts of neglected maintenance it endures. 120k and still soaking up the miles.
You had to fiddle with them to get them to turn, but completely doable.
The biggest weakness of my Ranger was the gearbox. That torquey 4.0L 160 hp V6 had great low end and midrange punch. Nice for 3rd gear low speed corners. But the Mazda sourced 5 speed just wasn't all that.
I miss my truck
This "factor of safety was over 9000" thing: Are you saying that the SR20 was engineered to be 9000 times as strong as it needed to be? This sounds like a weird, but cool, decision for a profit-making organization. Details? Source?
Stealthtercel wrote:This "factor of safety was over 9000" thing: Are you saying that the SR20 was engineered to be 9000 times as strong as it needed to be? This sounds like a weird, but cool, decision for a profit-making organization. Details? Source?
It is much overbuilt, yes...
I'm not so much a fan of the valvetrain design, but as long as you aren't spinning it to the moon and/or bouncing rev limiter constantly, it's entirely sufficient. 
In reply to Stealthtercel:
I am willing to bet that was an exaggeration from the FF vibe of the conversation.
OK. Thanks. Clearly I need coffee. You may now resume the love.
Some one hasn't watch Dragon Ball.
BoostedBrandon wrote:My car is paid for, fairly economical, has four doors, a man pedal, sounds good, and is tough as nails.
I drive it every day. I've done all the work on it. So what if it has a rebuilt title, I don't plan on selling it, ever. I went on my honeymoon in it, it brought my baby home from the hospital in it. It's only ever seen full synthetic, every 5000 miles. So what if it quits, I'll rebuild it, and keep going.
150,000 miles, still as much fun as ever.
My pickup is paid for by others several times over has nearly 400,000 miles on it, is tough as nails and goes through snow and mud when others are staying home in the garage.. and has hauled home the stuff to build my house with.. (50,000 bd.ft. of timbers, 500 tons of stone, Insulation panels (S.I.P.'s) to cover a 5500 sq.ft. house with R30 walls and R50 roof) Windows, doors etc. Has hauled my race cars all over the countrym, still get's 17 MPG in the city and 19 on the highway.. and looks good doing it.
OH and to get to that nearly 400,000 I've spent about $1000 outside of normal maintenance.
