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SlideRuler 09-12-2010 10:44 PM

why have backseats at all if this cage makes it impossible for anyone to sit there? Unless of course, they're for some reason unable to be removed.

http://www.kcclassiccars.com/images/04GTO/int15.jpg

catonakeyboardinspace 09-13-2010 07:37 AM

Note to potential buyer of this: My volvo can burn out just as good as that. I just saved someone 15 grand.

kotomile 09-13-2010 09:46 AM

Professionally built also != gauge pod attached to A pillar with screws left over from some carpentry.

RyanRaduechel 09-13-2010 05:37 PM

lol its also advertised as a manual transmission, its an automatic...

"In this case, the paint's color "Quicksilver" really DOES tell you something more about the car."

gospeed81 09-13-2010 07:29 PM

I like the preheated intercooler piping.

Also, rear mount fail.

And wtf with no wastegate exit pipe? Somebody failed Fluid Dynamics.

dgmorr 09-13-2010 08:09 PM

It's not THAT bad.

kotomile 09-14-2010 02:39 AM


Originally Posted by dgmorr (Post 629300)
It's not THAT bad.

O RLY? Remind me not to let you work on my car. :giggle:

leatherface24 09-14-2010 10:56 AM

so sad...

fmowry 09-14-2010 12:37 PM

Of all the things wrong, I don't see a problem with that. The point of WG dumps is to point the friggin hot exhaust away from parts that can't take the heat. This one is dumping behind the car, just like the exhaust.

Full_Tilt_Boogie 09-14-2010 12:44 PM


Originally Posted by fmowry (Post 629624)
Of all the things wrong, I don't see a problem with that. The point of WG dumps is to point the friggin hot exhaust away from parts that can't take the heat. This one is dumping behind the car, just like the exhaust.

I think his point was that it would actually flow better with some amount of a tube on it. Hence the fluid dynamics comment.

mazpr 09-14-2010 12:58 PM


Originally Posted by hustler (Post 628621)
WTF is up with that?
http://www.kcclassiccars.com/images/04GTO/chassisA.jpg
I like how they wrap the hoses furthest from the turbo, but nothing else.

I've had cars with worm gear clamps on beaded pipes, they fail.

http://www.kcclassiccars.com/images/04GTO/int15.jpg
Why did they leave the back-seat in, and why is the cage unpainted?

http://www.kcclassiccars.com/images/04GTO/int18.jpg
LOL @ load-path (seriously, that's a brain basher)

http://www.kcclassiccars.com/images/04GTO/chassis16.jpg
LOL @ QA1 shocks with bent hardware.

http://www.kcclassiccars.com/images/04GTO/chassis7.jpg
LOL @ airflow to the intercooler.

http://www.kcclassiccars.com/images/04GTO/chassis3.jpg
LOL @ thermocouple 3' downstream

http://www.kcclassiccars.com/images/04GTO/int6.jpg
LOL @ Autozone gauges


Instead of clicking each and every link...

jeff_man 09-14-2010 01:01 PM

i've seen open diff 1.6 miatas do better burn outs

gospeed81 09-14-2010 01:04 PM


Originally Posted by Full_Tilt_Boogie (Post 629631)
I think his point was that it would actually flow better with some amount of a tube on it. Hence the fluid dynamics comment.

If by better you mean with a set flow rate then yes.

I'd worry about fluttering pressure behind that wastegate that may or may not allow 5.7L to overspin the turbos.

EWGs are win, but I'd feel a whole lot better with some pipe behind it to keep constant backpressure behind the plunger.

dgmorr 09-14-2010 01:15 PM


Originally Posted by kotomile (Post 629447)
O RLY? Remind me not to let you work on my car. :giggle:

Maybe the Internets have desensitized me, but I have seen a LOT worse than this.

kotomile 09-14-2010 01:21 PM

Sure, but this is being advertised as some sort of spared-no-expense professionally tuned car, and that's clearly not the case.

I don't think anyone would argue that this is as bad as it gets.


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