Aluminum body is absolute trash.
04-27-2004, 12:42 PM
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Originally posted by Mikelikes2drive
yeah.. Xavier is right, Borla will shoot flames, you just gotta do it right. Next time get a plate number. Dont just stand there shocked with a dumbfounded look, even though that might be your first reaction. Look at your car gettin smashed and try to get a license plate number... thats a hit and run big trouble. When someone hit me and tried to run, i threw my keys and my shoe and a rock. only the keys and the rock hit, and i left a couple of scratches and a dent, but i didnt pay for it. He had to do that with his own money :/ i guess that was dumb and he might have been able to sue me, but he didnt and he stopped. Luckily i was bigger then him :D
yeah.. Xavier is right, Borla will shoot flames, you just gotta do it right. Next time get a plate number. Dont just stand there shocked with a dumbfounded look, even though that might be your first reaction. Look at your car gettin smashed and try to get a license plate number... thats a hit and run big trouble. When someone hit me and tried to run, i threw my keys and my shoe and a rock. only the keys and the rock hit, and i left a couple of scratches and a dent, but i didnt pay for it. He had to do that with his own money :/ i guess that was dumb and he might have been able to sue me, but he didnt and he stopped. Luckily i was bigger then him :D
04-27-2004, 01:51 PM
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Re: Aluminum body is absolute trash.
Originally posted by jaehyun127
Ok, i've had the F*cking car for almost 1/2 a year now. I must add, the car is ONE HELL OF A CAR, but there are a lot of problems with it. To all the threads out there, someone explain to me what a M flash or L flash is. Moving on, one afternoon, a person smashed me backing out of a parking spot. They did not look at the rear view mirror, and decided to turn the car on, and bullet out. I had NO time to react, and the damage was not INTENSE, but there are several scratches and the welding or safety bars are imprinted on my door. AS i am only a student, i have to repair the car, and the damage was worth $2100. It looked like nothing. The damage ran from the passenger door, all the way back to the rear 1/4 panel. Good god, it's alot of work, and i have to wait until the parts come in. I am replacing the door, but i don't have enough money to replace the 1/4 panel, so i'm asking the body shop to work on it. However, Aluminum is extremely hard to work with!!! It's not like steel. Sure, aluminum is lighter, but the damage is extensive, and it's a lot weaker. Just take ur finger, and press on the hood... it goes in, etc. The car is EXCELLENT!!! Don't get me wrong... but right now, it's a mess. Someone please make me feel better... PLEASE!! Or if you know someone that is selling a RT. DOOR in sunglight silver, please reply. Thank you!!
BTW, i dont 'know where i'm supposed to add what i have done to the car, but i currently have a BORLA exhaust on the car. I am getting the canzoomer stage 1 soon (hopefully). Also, The borla DOES not shoot flames!!! I was sooo anticipating that... and iknow many people say that the borla exhaust shoots flames, but mine does not..! Has the body shop installed the borla exhaust wrong? Is that why it does not shoot flames? Is it possible to install an exhaust wrong?? Please get back to me people.. and this is a great website!!!
sorry to quote his disertation but It's been a while since he posted so I wanted to direct this to him.
james
Ok, i've had the F*cking car for almost 1/2 a year now. I must add, the car is ONE HELL OF A CAR, but there are a lot of problems with it. To all the threads out there, someone explain to me what a M flash or L flash is. Moving on, one afternoon, a person smashed me backing out of a parking spot. They did not look at the rear view mirror, and decided to turn the car on, and bullet out. I had NO time to react, and the damage was not INTENSE, but there are several scratches and the welding or safety bars are imprinted on my door. AS i am only a student, i have to repair the car, and the damage was worth $2100. It looked like nothing. The damage ran from the passenger door, all the way back to the rear 1/4 panel. Good god, it's alot of work, and i have to wait until the parts come in. I am replacing the door, but i don't have enough money to replace the 1/4 panel, so i'm asking the body shop to work on it. However, Aluminum is extremely hard to work with!!! It's not like steel. Sure, aluminum is lighter, but the damage is extensive, and it's a lot weaker. Just take ur finger, and press on the hood... it goes in, etc. The car is EXCELLENT!!! Don't get me wrong... but right now, it's a mess. Someone please make me feel better... PLEASE!! Or if you know someone that is selling a RT. DOOR in sunglight silver, please reply. Thank you!!
BTW, i dont 'know where i'm supposed to add what i have done to the car, but i currently have a BORLA exhaust on the car. I am getting the canzoomer stage 1 soon (hopefully). Also, The borla DOES not shoot flames!!! I was sooo anticipating that... and iknow many people say that the borla exhaust shoots flames, but mine does not..! Has the body shop installed the borla exhaust wrong? Is that why it does not shoot flames? Is it possible to install an exhaust wrong?? Please get back to me people.. and this is a great website!!!
sorry to quote his disertation but It's been a while since he posted so I wanted to direct this to him.
james
Aluminum body heh? well the engine on the 8 isn't exactly a viper v10. so in order to get the power to weight ratio down so that the 8 can scoot to a decent speed the alum. body is a must. it's a slight trade off but man do those dents and cheap feeling body panels suck. I have visited the local dent wizard several times already due to jerkoff drivers in parking lots.
With respects to the Borla you need nopt be disappointed. I though it was a lot of bull when I bought the system but I have always wanted their exhaust on a car of mine. I just love their tone and how they can make even a rotary's pop sound like a rumble. Well anyhow after the install I drove it for about 6 miles on the turnpike by my house. I drove it hard and probably never past 3 gear. Hiugh revs hence hot as **** exhaust tips. Once I came off the pike and parked in my buddies drive way I told my buddy I wanted to test something out and he stood back there as I throttled the **** out of it. Guess what? Instant flames. It really worked but just like the famous producer of the borla flames video says, "perfect conditions a must". Without the hard driving the idling afterwards whiel parked and somebody witnessing I would have never seen them.
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