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WaterH said:
All the young girls with big boobs have to ask a million questions about the car. Well, actually they aren’t young and they don’t have big boobs. In fact, most are not female, but the part about the questions is right.
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I drove some very cool muscle cars to my daughter's high school tennis matches and no one batted an eye.

I drove my '74 Mini to a match and I was flooded with high school girls flipping out over the car.

I wanted a Mini when I was in high school. Who knew they were chick magnets?
 
[486] said:
runs poorly on waste oil

I'd probably be money ahead with gas motors, but... I dunno man. It makes the same sorta sense as digging your basement out rather than building new.
which is to say, as with everything I do, it makes sense only in an overly-analyzed retarded way

like my time preference is skewed overly long
the initial investment will likely never pay off, but by golly I'm gonna do the stupids
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100% get that.

Contemplating a garage rebuild, I keep having to reign in dumb ideas like a bunker under the slab, or using these instead of 2x6s:

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"Finished the conventional way > perfect" has been a hard lesson for me. Someday I may get it.
 
subybaja said:
Serious question- why TDI? Is mileage really that important? Rolling coal? Using the other pump to be weird?

If you're in Italy driving a 1.1l go-kart getting 97mpg i get it, but I don't really understand the US craze for tiny diesels.
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My little beetle with a tune on it was fun to drive. Great torque for a little motor. If you set the cruise control at 75, it would get 53mpg. I went from just outside KC to New Orleans on 1 tank of fuel. Plus I ran all my WMO through it. Loved the motor, hated the car......
 
subybaja said:
Doubles the complexity of just pouring a slab, added expense, requires an excavator, etc.

Not a bad idea as such, it just pushed the whole thing farther down the road.
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My buddy poured the walk in closet in their master bedroom , walls and ceiling, and their closet door is industrial metal door with a thin wood veneer in a metal frame with a thin wood veneer .

Make a nice safe room .
 
[486] said:
that'd probably work out pretty okay, especially if it's got something like 2.73s in the rear
people have welded the center diff in passat longitudinal trannies then used them as RWD, but the rear output is a little weak being that it is only really designed for about half the output torque

save some money and use a v6 or 1.8t tranny, not a tdi one
I forget what the difference in ratio spread is like, the final drive ratio on the 1.8t one is gonna be DEEEEP but it doesn't matter if you're gonna be only using the rear output
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Most folks that do a tdi swap use a 151 Toyota or t5 ford or something I think
 
WaterH said:
You wouldn’t have link to a build thread on the Fiero?

Are you saying new Beetles have TDIs in them? That’s what’s in yours? Where are you located?
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About 10% of the beetles has TDIs
Not sure how many had manuals , I think it was about 50/50 manuals and automatics

We’ve had two of them , a 2000 and a 2001 , both with the five speed manual .
Mrs Roundhouse doesn’t like driving automatics .

I’m a little north of Atlanta
 
[486] said:
doubles? hahahahahahahahahahahaha
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Yeah, you kinda got fucked in that regard.

If you're already digging an 8ft perimeter wall because basement then the difference between normal floor and bunker is much smaller.
 
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1994 Toyota Land Cruiser HZJ73 diesel for sale by owner - Jacksonville, FL - craigslist

1994 Toyota Land Cruiser 70 Series HZJ73. This Cruiser has Toyota’s million mile 1HZ 4.2 inline 6 diesel, automatic transmission and FACTORY front and rear lockers. new 3 inch lift with parabolic...
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1994 Toyota Land Cruiser 70 Series HZJ73. This Cruiser has Toyota’s million mile 1HZ 4.2 inline 6 diesel, automatic transmission and FACTORY front and rear lockers. new 3 inch lift with parabolic springs, new Rancho adjustable shocks and brand new BFG AT’s, brand new ARB front and rear bumpers, brand new HD 24 volt Come Up winch and 24 volt ARB air compressor, brand new Frontrunner roof rack and ARB awning.

This vehicle is absolutely mint. It has 173k miles, is in absolutely stunning condition and is in much better shape than similar Land Cruisers with a quarter of the mileage. This vehicle was restored by the infamous Flex Dream in Japan. This Land Cruiser drives and handles absolutely superbly, looks amazing and EVERYTHING works exactly as it should. The transmission shifts smoothly and the AC is ice cold. There is zero hidden rust. There are no oil leaks and does not burn any oil. All this vehicle needs is a new driver. I am only selling due to divorce. The interior is mint and I just installed $1,100 custom seat covers to protect the original seats along with ceramic tint all around to keep the Florida heat out.
 
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