not off topic.. that was a post in the OTR forums...

 

You might be addicted to racing if:

You think the primary purpose of wings is to PREVENT flight.

You take your helmet along when you go to a car dealership for a test-drive.

When something falls off of your car, you wonder how much weight you just saved.

You sit in your race car in a dark garage and make car noises and shift and practice your heel and toe, while waiting for your motor to get back from the machine shop.

Your wife doesn't understand why you need three sets of tires for your car.

You think the last line of the Star Spangled Banner is: "Gentlemen, start your engines!"

You're registered for wedding gifts with Edelbrock and Griggs.

A neighbor asks if you have any oil, to which you query, "Synthetic or organic?" and they reply, "Corn."

You refer to the corner down the street from your house as "Turn One."

You always late apex the intersection and try to pass a few cars coming out.

You save broken car parts as " mementos".

You've tried synthetic oil and racing gas in your lawn mower.

Instead of pictures in your wallet, you have timeslips.

You would choose a rollbar over air conditioning if it were an option.

You enjoy driving through wet, empty parking lots using the Emergency Brake to turn.

When someone asks where you went to school, you reply, "Skip Barber".

You have racing shops programmed on your speed dialer.

You own five cars and only one of them is street legal.

You've slalomed in a construction zone, and counted your penalty time in the rearview mirror afterwards.

After you tell your wife where you'd like to go on your vacation she answers: "Why, is there a race there?"

 

Do you have to answer "Yes" to all of those? Since I'm not married, the last one doesn't apply to me! Thank goodness I'm not an addict!

 

Even more...

What your care says about you:

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Acura NSX - I

 

Have you had one of these before? Longetivity != reliability. This is one of the shittiest motors in modern time, if you asked me. It might be a relatively solid bottom end, but the top end and electronics (on newer ones) make it a pretty unreliable plant. Unreliable by modern standards, at least. Everyone I have known with one of these has had some sort of electrical problem prior to 100k miles and generally can't get the thing to run 6 days a week after that.

 

Yes, actually my 94 Ford ranger had almost 150K miles on it, running strong... started up every time... Only things that had been replaced on it was the alternator (@75K) and the clutch (@100K) since we had gotten it at about 60K miles... I also had other friends that had the same engine in their ford ranger and mustangs with the same reliability. And I beat on that thing just as hard as I do, if not harder, on my S2K...

The turbo version on the other hand is a little different story... I was going to rebuild one of these and put it in my Ranger (before a dirt hauler truck cut me off doing 30MPH less than the speed limit and pretty much totaled it out)... those, in stock for, with general extra care given for the turbo were also pretty reliable. There are stock 2.3T motors with over 200K running pretty good... however when modified they would quickly become very finikey(sp?).

-Doug

 

Excuse me while I go to the bathroom to Yak...

LeBarron