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You guys need to lighten up on him.
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seriously, have you ever heard someone sound more HELL-BENT and WHISKEY BOUND on doing something - ANYTHING - to his car and doing it NOW. the guy's a lost cause. it's more fun to mock him than to take him seriously only to be disappointed when he does what he is hell-bent on doing anyway: turning his commuter car into an epic RICER FAIL.
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Modding a Passat is not some frivolous waste of time pursuit. He has a 1.8T engine. With nothing more than an intake, exhaust and tune he can be putting out about 250 to the crank on pump gas.
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let me stop you right there. 1999 VW Passat. that's a factory 150 horsepower 1.8 liter engine. you're saying that with an intake (meaning a Cold Air Intake), an exhaust (meaning a Header and a Cat-Back), and a computer tune, this guy...this car... can see a 100 horsepower gain. i'm not gonna just
call bull****, so let me put it another way. it sounds...counter-intuitive that 1.8 liter economy engine (economy, meaning it isnt hiding a high flow cylinder head, nor an aggressive camshaft profile - read: it's probably getting all the air flow it really needs) would be WOKEN UP by a factor of 100 HP simply by opening up the air intake and exhaust...and a tune. sounds VERY counter-intuitive.
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this car is not simply some 'econobox' commuter.
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yes, it is simply an econobox commuter. and a perfectly suitable one at that. it's not a bad looking car, and i'm sure it does what it is supposed to do (commute economically) very well. we're not talking about the EURO scene, we're talking RICER here. we're talking about needless, often times counter-productive, counter intuitive modifications, installed in an often unprofessional, shoddy manner, which, judging by his posts, is exactly what
vassaba is intent on doing.
of course it does. but by that logic, so does a Geo Storm or anything else. without accusing anyone in particular of anything in particular, the whole RICE SCENE comes off as TACKING ON AN
OVER-STATED PERFORMANCE LOOK, ONTO A CAR THAT WAS ORIGINALLY BUILT WITH NO PERFORMANCE INTENTIONS. i for one, along with most people of a certain age, simply do not get that. it looks silly. it looks tacky. it sounds like ****. AND GENERALLY SPEAKING, when a Camaro or Mustang pulls up alongside one, they want nothing to do with it...if they're smarter than they look. i'm not talking about a Toyota Supra. i'm not talking about a Mazda RX7, or any other Japanese import that was built with performance intent and heritage. i'm talking about a Geo Storm with a triple decker wing on the back and a mock ram-air hood scoop. and i'm talking about
a VW Passat slammed to the ground, with blue fog lamps glued to the front bumper.
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I didn't recommend a "performance" brake kit. I recommended better quality replacement parts. I didn't recommend a "race" suspension. I recommended a kit that would improve the overall dynamics of the car.
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fine and fine. and i'm simply saying that it's a VW Passat FFS. chances are, a kit that is going to [improve handling] is going to lower the car and/or stiffen the ride. not something a serious person would want to pursue on an economy car.
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I swear some of you can't look past the drag strip when it comes to cars.
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well, i hope that you dont feel that way about me, because it isnt the case. i typically build my cars along
road touring lines, not 1/4 mile sprint optimization. but, when building a car FOR PERFORMANCE, i think it's best to start with a PERFORMANCE CAR. not buy an econbox and try to shoehorn a performance image upon it. i'll admit, sometimes people can get a respectable amount of performance outta these cars, and make them look nice - when done properly, tastefully, and with some forethought. but typically that isnt the case. typically, the process is more like buying a bunch of components that have become the TRAPPINGS of the RICER, like putting on clear tail lights, not because it looks better than the stock ones, but because they CANT
NOT HAVE CLEAR TAIL LIGHTS. that's the vibe i get from
vasseba. even worse are people like this guy in another thread who just bought a V6 Mustang and now wants to bother us about a way to chop it up and put all the components of a Mustang Cobra, thus transformig the car into a Cobra - an endevor that will be more costly than buying a Mustang Cobra. can it be done? anything's possible, but the simplist answer is NO, it cannot.
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