the offical "Moved On" thread.
07-13-2011, 11:19 AM
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lol, i wouldve kept it too, if it didnt belong to the university of MA lowell. 
fsae is a collegiate design series competition. although we had a few good days out running with it, id say 98% of the time the car didnt work. problems with megasquirt (totally build-it-yourself, open source ems), engine harness, compression issues, oil pressure problems, and yielding and snapping our quarter inch control arm ball joints, the car ended up being a bigger pain than it was worth. although, the learning experience was priceless
fsae is a collegiate design series competition. although we had a few good days out running with it, id say 98% of the time the car didnt work. problems with megasquirt (totally build-it-yourself, open source ems), engine harness, compression issues, oil pressure problems, and yielding and snapping our quarter inch control arm ball joints, the car ended up being a bigger pain than it was worth. although, the learning experience was priceless
07-13-2011, 11:22 AM
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if anyones interested in fsae, and the UML car, let me know, i was thinking about starting a whole thread about it just to share some info. the car is completely 100% designed, built, and raced by students. i have tons of pics i could post up too
07-13-2011, 12:40 PM
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Sure! Here's the deal. Back in '06 I bought the yellow S. I concurrently owned the S (which i just drove mostly unmodded) and a modded to hell Miata which I beat the piss out of at every opportunity. In '08, I broke the yellow S with 113k or so on it. Thought I nuked a diff, turned out to be an axle. Started going "ya know what? I should get a cheaper car and save some money. Something like 200 bucks a month or so". . . so i started car shopping while i fixed the S.
Went to a dealer, saw the Lotus, threw all my plans out the window. Bought the lotus, traded the S, sold the Miata... whereupon I discovered exactly how fragile my little tupperware track car was. I owed money on it so I didn't wanna track it. Any time something small happened on the street it was REALLY expensive, and after 13,500 in repair bills the summer of '10 in 2 incidents, i decided as much as i loved it it needed to go away for something a little sturdier.
Sold the Lotus January of this year after putting 20k or so miles on it. Couldn't find anything i wanted to replace it with. Test drove a bunch of cars, and narrowed the next car down to one of the following: 330i ZHP, E46 M3, E36 M3. Found an E36, the dude wouldn't budge off 11k. Found a 330i, but hate red cars. Found an E46... ALMOST pulled the trigger, but it was 'eh'. There was this little Valiant on CL though. Decided to check it out, and when i pulled up, all thoughts of M3 were gone. I was like... MINE!
I kinda wanted to see what it'd be like to A: drive something with a V8, B: something low and slow, and C: learn to work on carbs/distributor vehicles, since i've always had EFI cars. I learned a lot. Learned how to hotwire my car, for example! Learned how to adjust carbs, learned how distributors worked... but I was driving the car hard enough to starve the carb in corners, I'd dialed in negative camber up front and i was just driving this car to death and i missed having a convertible.
Started shopping cars that met a very particular criteria; RWD/LSD/Convertible.
... and ended up back in a 2nd S2k.
07-13-2011, 02:56 PM
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On a sunny day open up the trunk and tell me what you see - light bleeding through the tissue thin body - rod throwing corolla base motor check! - 1970's brake booster check! - randomly detaching under panels check!
07-13-2011, 03:40 PM
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ill post my short timeline, only because i dont see anyone else on here driving a truck before there S 
. like a few others said, im pretty young, but i guess im doing well for myself
'99 gmc, my first vehicle (and my tractor before that
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then a formula SAE car for my first year of college
now upraged to my00 ssm. love it. just a tad better handling than my gmc. still keeping the truck for the winter, i think it gets jelous though
well thats my timeline
, planning on an exige as my next one, that is, if i can resist the urge to buy a duramax
. like a few others said, im pretty young, but i guess im doing well for myself'99 gmc, my first vehicle (and my tractor before that
)then a formula SAE car for my first year of college
now upraged to my00 ssm. love it. just a tad better handling than my gmc. still keeping the truck for the winter, i think it gets jelous though
well thats my timeline
, planning on an exige as my next one, that is, if i can resist the urge to buy a duramax
07-13-2011, 05:03 PM
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and if you're wondering what a million dollar sae car looks like, something like this
alright, im done thread-jacking now
