Where Would We Be??????

[husker741]

Originally Posted by kalamitykode

Now I'm saving for a carbon fiber hood

Don't waste your money. Looks stupid and doesn't do much, if anything.

[kalamitykode]

Originally Posted by ashtray

How much weight savings (?) is the carbon fiber hood over the stock aluminum one? See, it's movies like this that have people spending money to "improve" their car without knowing if they're making it better or worse.

I don't like it for the weight savings, I'm very aware that the stock hood is extremely light anyway. I just love the way carbon fiber looks. Call it "rice" or whatever, but it looks good to me so I plan on doing it.

[kalamitykode]

Thanks for the assumptions, though, guys.

[ashtray]

Originally Posted by kalamitykode

I don't like it for the weight savings, I'm very aware that the stock hood is extremely light anyway. I just love the way carbon fiber looks. Call it "rice" or whatever, but it looks good to me so I plan on doing it.

Car on fiber if left unpainted will not last long in the elements. Also, aftermarket hoods tend to have fitment issues and require work to get them to sit on right. If the design shape is different (vent holes, etc), you'll be screwing up the wind tunnel tested aerodynamics of the car. The carbon fiber hood might also weigh more than the stock aluminum one.

If you just want a black hood, get it wrapped.

THIS is the problem with F&F, case in point.

Is your car even paid off? If so and you want to improve on things and modify, then spend the money in places where it will improve the car, and not be "race inspired cosmetics". Might as well throw a roll cage made of PVC piping* in the back seat too bc you think it would look cool.

*patent pending!

[SirBrass]

Originally Posted by Raven 6

If we had never seen any of the Fast and Furious Trilogy?

Me, maybe still driving my old pickup.

Where I am right now. I've only seen the latest F&F movie.

[tahdizzle]

Originally Posted by ashtray

How exactly was it ok? "Danger to manifold" warning on laptop, then passenger floor panel falls out? (Uh, where exactly is his engine located?) The warning itself was comical (data loggers don't do that...) but the resulting damage was side (and car floor) splitting. "Granny shifting, not double clutching like you're supposed to" - wow, didn't realize they were driving big rigs. So, everyone else double clutched the 3 shifts it would have taken to do a 1/4 mile run?

Oh that's right, it's 15 shifts - and doesn't matter if you have an auto or manual. Seems you short shift the next gear so you can downshift again when someone starts to pass you. Didn't realize they were so concerned about mpg during their drag race.

And nitrous does NOT make everything go blurry UNLESS it was being sprayed inside the car's interior instead of the engine. (Actually that WOULD have been a funny scene: everyone in their cars, shifting 20,000 times, the world around them all blurry, sounds of engines hitting redline - then pan out: cars are all still sitting at the starting line, not moving - people inside baked on nitrous, shifting like crazy and yelling "Monica!". Hahaha)

Note the 1/4 mile race between Dom and Brian lasted far more time than the 10 seconds it should have too.

The comment about the pair of engines fetching a premium the week before Race Wars has been quoted in reference to any car part in joking. And of course the "too soon junior" meme.

It's just endless garbage. Luckily in the second movie, they tried to fix some of that by the "pizza drink" comment and how Brian's cover would be blown if someone didn't know a pizza from an engine - so either EVERYONE in the first movie was undercover FBI, or the general scene people wouldn't know a pizza from a piston either. :p

It was okay as far as entertainment value. Very few things were acurate in the movie :P

Most of the cars in the movie were 14 second cars :p

[tahdizzle]

The only reason why I watched that movie was because I was in the scene back then with my '95 200sx SE-R.

I cried when he said they were putting sr20s in hondas. :'(

[kalamitykode]

Originally Posted by ashtray

Car on fiber if left unpainted will not last long in the elements. Also, aftermarket hoods tend to have fitment issues and require work to get them to sit on right. If the design shape is different (vent holes, etc), you'll be screwing up the wind tunnel tested aerodynamics of the car. The carbon fiber hood might also weigh more than the stock aluminum one.

If you just want a black hood, get it wrapped.

THIS is the problem with F&F, case in point.

Is your car even paid off? If so and you want to improve on things and modify, then spend the money in places where it will improve the car, and not be "race inspired cosmetics". Might as well throw a roll cage made of PVC piping* in the back seat too bc you think it would look cool.

*patent pending!

Did I sign up for a lesson somewhere without realizing it? Someone please take my name off the class list.

[Andrew025]

Originally Posted by kalamitykode

Did I sign up for a lesson somewhere without realizing it? Someone please take my name off the class list.

You can't drop required classes here.

[kalamitykode]

Originally Posted by Andrew025

You can't drop required classes here.

Then I'll take my F.

[Raven 6]

EASY everyone. This is just a question, no need to go throat grabbing.
If you've never seen any of the movies, cool, stupid me being at an extended age foolishly thought maybe they inspired many of you to get into these cars, fixing up, making them everything you may have wanted in a ride. I never expect anyone to go out stealing VCR's, radios etc. to pay for your tuning habit, lol, or even steel a 100 million so you can move to any island you want to set your park break on. Like I said, if you don't like the movies, move on, I don't mind if you don't comment.

[Turbowned]

I'd probably have a Camaro exactly like this one and still hate imports, haha

[Raven 6]

Originally Posted by Turbowned

I'd probably have a Camaro exactly like this one and still hate imports, haha

Nice ride. I dated a girl once that had a 83 Berlinetta (probably spelled that one wrong). Love the Camero.

[Odd]

I loved cars since I was a kid playing in a sandbox.
My mom said I always had a toy car in my hand.

The original Fast and the Furious soundtrack and movie just made me really want a Supra.