for those that don't know me... i'm a car guy... a gear head... a grease monkey... whatever you want to call me... i managed to slide myself out of it for a while... i got my project car sold (2 seater sports car + 2 kids don't go to well together)... and moved on to paintball for a year... and then to motorcycles... well the motorcycle got sold a few months ago... and the paintball thing died when i moved to the area a year ago... so now here I am sitting seeing all the kewl cars i could tinker with... a fellow church member had a SWEET T-bucket (model T based car with a big ol engine in it) for cheap... or cheap S10's abound... any idea how easy it is to toss a v8 into one of them? ;-)... move to today... my neon while it doesn't appear to be much is actualy a very special model... originaly when they put it out you could only get them if you had a SCCA racing licence specificly to race for a SCCA racing series... stiffer springs, stiffer sway bars, different gearing, agressivly tuned ECU (computer) and all these other things that mean absolutly nothing to you if you don't know cars ;-)... anyway it's in need of some work... it's served as the pizza delivery car for the last 3 years very faithfully... but i need to do some maintnace work to it... in doing so i'm checking out the neon forum... and somehow i come across a few guys who've done turbo swaps... it's a STUPIDLY easy mod on these cars... and cheap... well cheap is a relative term... but with less then $1000 (and many hrs of personal labor) it would sicken some people at how quickly it would run ;-)... alas... i relise... i can't afford that... and i don't have the time... and God's got far more important things for us to be doing with $1000... like working on being debt free... hopefuly in about 2 years when we owe no man any money the car will still be crying to be boosted... or something like that ;-)
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