truck and trailer, or turbo build?
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truck and trailer, or turbo build?
Lets say you have $8k to blow out your *** on something. You have a daily driver that is a piece of **** vw that rarely runs, and you have a maita that gets some track time.
Do you go with a v6 4-door nissan frontier and a shitty aluminum trailer to pull the track car around, or spend $4500 on making the miata fast?
When you live in a hotel for work, you have alot of time to ponder this ****.
Do you go with a v6 4-door nissan frontier and a shitty aluminum trailer to pull the track car around, or spend $4500 on making the miata fast?
When you live in a hotel for work, you have alot of time to ponder this ****.
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if you get a truck, watch craigslist for a cheap trailer. every once in a while, you can find one for only a few hundred dollars. you could also just rent a dolly from u-haul when/if you need to. IIRC it's $20/day.
If it were my choice, I'd get a truck, a trailer, and the turbo kit. I'd wait for a deal to pop up on the truck and trailer though.
If it were my choice, I'd get a truck, a trailer, and the turbo kit. I'd wait for a deal to pop up on the truck and trailer though.
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Other cars that have worked well for short tows- Rodeo V6, Jeep Cheorkee and Grand Cherokee (used my double axle steel trailer with the Jeeps). I also used a shortbed 92 F150 with the big inline 6 to tow my Miata around the southeast with the dubl axle steel and it worked great with a $75 trailer brake setup. Slowed a little on hills, but also got 15mpg towing.
I'd definitely consider the compromise when buying a town vehicle that's also going to serve as a DD. What's it going to do the most? Buying a big V8 truck to tow with once a month, is going to hurt if you're driving it daily at 12mpg.
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I ran cars for a wholesaler for 3 summers. In my experience when towing with a blown xterra, I was fine to pull 6000lb with trailer brakes. (I obviously prefer the turbo diesel / 3 car hauler).