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I felt like a rally driver going through 12" of snow today

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toph99

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in the crown vic 🙂 I crashed at my friend's house after a night of drinking and we woke up to find we had a foot of snow covering anything. I am SO glad i have self-leveling air suspension or else i would have never gotten out of his driveway with 4 of us in the car(and thank god for 27" tall snow tires and traction strips) Driving on the freeway with a car that wants to pull right in lots of snow is NOT fun. Going around the neighbourhoods was interesting though, i just had to gun it and try to keep my momentum through the snow drifts. Of course this means i need to get the car in the air tomorrow and make sure nothing got damaged
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It was an experience though, especially because i got beached on a drift and had to dig for an hour to get out. I think the first thing i need to do this spring is put a limited slip diff in, having an open diff in this weather is nuts :|
 
Originally posted by: toph99
in the crown vic 🙂 I crashed at my friend's house after a night of drinking and we woke up to find we had a foot of snow covering anything. I am SO glad i have self-leveling air suspension or else i would have never gotten out of his driveway with 4 of us in the car(and thank god for 27" tall snow tires and traction strips) Driving on the freeway with a car that wants to pull right in lots of snow is NOT fun. Going around the neighbourhoods was interesting though, i just had to gun it and try to keep my momentum through the snow drifts. Of course this means i need to get the car in the air tomorrow and make sure nothing got damaged
rolleye.gif
It was an experience though, especially because i got beached on a drift and had to dig for an hour to get out. I think the first thing i need to do this spring is put a limited slip diff in, having an open diff in this weather is nuts :|
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I still like my e-brake for taking corners.
 
Originally posted by: TrueBlueLS
Originally posted by: toph99
in the crown vic 🙂 I crashed at my friend's house after a night of drinking and we woke up to find we had a foot of snow covering anything. I am SO glad i have self-leveling air suspension or else i would have never gotten out of his driveway with 4 of us in the car(and thank god for 27" tall snow tires and traction strips) Driving on the freeway with a car that wants to pull right in lots of snow is NOT fun. Going around the neighbourhoods was interesting though, i just had to gun it and try to keep my momentum through the snow drifts. Of course this means i need to get the car in the air tomorrow and make sure nothing got damaged
rolleye.gif
It was an experience though, especially because i got beached on a drift and had to dig for an hour to get out. I think the first thing i need to do this spring is put a limited slip diff in, having an open diff in this weather is nuts :|
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I still like my e-brake for taking corners.
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bah..who needs e-brake when you can throttle steer in a RWD car. I loved going thru my block or in parking lots in the 240SX...so easy and fun. You don't even have to go fast..and if you start to understeer, just give it some gas to bring the rear end out so u can rotate away from the curb..hehe.

Oh man..I love RWD! 😀 I'm a believer!
 
heck yeah... i went to blockbuster in a 96 buick century... it was fun

there were 5 other cars in the parking lot and three of them were Ford Focuses (or rather, Focii) hehe
 
I love it too. The snow was so deep (again) last night that I plugged the front end of the car up with snow and I couldn't even see cause my headlights were covered.. snow was going right up over my windshield and over the car.. i had to have the wipers on high, and it wasn't even snowing anymore!! it was just brutally deep!!! so much fun!! 😀
 
Originally posted by: mAdD INDIAN
Originally posted by: TrueBlueLS
Originally posted by: toph99
in the crown vic 🙂 I crashed at my friend's house after a night of drinking and we woke up to find we had a foot of snow covering anything. I am SO glad i have self-leveling air suspension or else i would have never gotten out of his driveway with 4 of us in the car(and thank god for 27" tall snow tires and traction strips) Driving on the freeway with a car that wants to pull right in lots of snow is NOT fun. Going around the neighbourhoods was interesting though, i just had to gun it and try to keep my momentum through the snow drifts. Of course this means i need to get the car in the air tomorrow and make sure nothing got damaged
rolleye.gif
It was an experience though, especially because i got beached on a drift and had to dig for an hour to get out. I think the first thing i need to do this spring is put a limited slip diff in, having an open diff in this weather is nuts :|
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I still like my e-brake for taking corners.
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bah..who needs e-brake when you can throttle steer in a RWD car. I loved going thru my block or in parking lots in the 240SX...so easy and fun. You don't even have to go fast..and if you start to understeer, just give it some gas to bring the rear end out so u can rotate away from the curb..hehe.

Oh man..I love RWD! 😀 I'm a believer!
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E-brake takes a little more coordination.
 
pfft ebrakes are for wrong-wheel drive cars 😉 280 ft-lbs of torque is more than enough to do a few doughnuts. Drifting around in parking lots is loads of fun, especially when all you need is to tap the gas to send yourself spinning
 
Donuts were for the days my best friend had his 1986 Caprice Classic with a 305 in it. I wish that car didn't get stolen. 🙁 Now it's about drifting for me. I have to practice for autocross this summer. I figure I'll give it a shot.
 
Originally posted by: TrueBlueLS
Donuts were for the days my best friend had his 1986 Caprice Classic with a 305 in it. I wish that car didn't get stolen. 🙁 Now it's about drifting for me. I have to practice for autocross this summer. I figure I'll give it a shot.
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Drifting with FWD? *confused*
 
Originally posted by: TrueBlueLS
Originally posted by: mAdD INDIAN
Originally posted by: TrueBlueLS
Originally posted by: toph99
in the crown vic 🙂 I crashed at my friend's house after a night of drinking and we woke up to find we had a foot of snow covering anything. I am SO glad i have self-leveling air suspension or else i would have never gotten out of his driveway with 4 of us in the car(and thank god for 27" tall snow tires and traction strips) Driving on the freeway with a car that wants to pull right in lots of snow is NOT fun. Going around the neighbourhoods was interesting though, i just had to gun it and try to keep my momentum through the snow drifts. Of course this means i need to get the car in the air tomorrow and make sure nothing got damaged
rolleye.gif
It was an experience though, especially because i got beached on a drift and had to dig for an hour to get out. I think the first thing i need to do this spring is put a limited slip diff in, having an open diff in this weather is nuts :|
Click to expand...

I still like my e-brake for taking corners.
Click to expand...

bah..who needs e-brake when you can throttle steer in a RWD car. I loved going thru my block or in parking lots in the 240SX...so easy and fun. You don't even have to go fast..and if you start to understeer, just give it some gas to bring the rear end out so u can rotate away from the curb..hehe.

Oh man..I love RWD! 😀 I'm a believer!
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E-brake takes a little more coordination.
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Uh no it doesn't. With e-brake you don't have control because once you pull the handle up the wheels lock and then you put it bck down again. There's a slow reaction time if you keep on doing this and it is bad for the e-brake as well (if done repeatedly, whihc you would have to do to mimic RWD).

Trust me, I'm coming form a 91 Corolla that used ot be my winter-rally-parking lot machine, RWD is much more fun and gives you more control since your only a gas pedal away.

 
Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
Originally posted by: Evadman
Ahhh, the 3/4 350 🙂
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huh?
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3/4 350
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um re-read what i said b4 and tell me what you actually saw?

cuz yeah unless my JIMMY reminded you of a mustang you read wrong
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The V6 in your jimmy is a 350 with 2 cylinders chopped off. AKA 3/4's of a 350.

350 is a chevy engine. always was, always is. where the fvck did you pull the mustang refrence out of? your ass?

 
thanks, but damn my tranny in that thing its goin at 74k miles

lets start a donation fund for me to get a new tranny how bout?
 
um re-read what i said b4 and tell me what you actually saw?

cuz yeah unless my JIMMY reminded you of a mustang you read wrong
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Here, lemme explain for people who can not put 2 and 2 together. your JIMMY has a 4.3L v6. This is basicly a 350 v8 minus 2 cyl's. 8-2=6. 6/8 reduces to 3/4. the bore and stroke are identical to the 350. the trans uses the same bolt pattern, yada yada. However the journals are 2.0 instead of 2.1 and the crank is split pin. but it has a ton in common with the 350.

That is why the 4.3L is comonly refered to as a 3/4 350.

 
Originally posted by: Evadman
um re-read what i said b4 and tell me what you actually saw?

cuz yeah unless my JIMMY reminded you of a mustang you read wrong
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Here, lemme explain for people who can not put 2 and 2 together. your JIMMY has a 4.3L v6. This is basicly a 350 v8 minus 2 cyl's. 8-2=6. 6/8 reduces to 3/4. the bore and stroke are identical to the 350. the trans uses the same bolt pattern, yada yada. However the journals are 2.0 instead of 2.1 and the crank is split pin. but it has a ton in common with the 350.

That is why the 4.3L is comonly refered to as a 3/4 350.
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colt beat ya to it
 
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