Thread: Any Speed Junkies / Gear Heads?

Any one into modding cars?

My biggest hobby in my life so far has been the modification of cars and making them fast as I can afford haha. Any one else here have that bug? If so what do you got? What kind of raciing are you into? Drag, autox, roll racing?

My current toy is an 07 BMW 335i with downpipes, dual cone intake system, upgraded clutch, after market JB4 tune with e85 map pushing boost to the max at 18psi. Right now where it sits I should be ~450whp and in a perfect world a high 11 second car..

Since the car is not really a drag car.. I am a fan of roll racing.

For those not familiar with the 335i, its a sedan with a straight six twin turbo engine.

Great shots bro! I always wanted to - but life got in the way.

It's looking like I'll be that grey haired wrinkly old fart in an awesome car blaring music so dated it makes the flowers wither, all the while feeling awesome as kids secretly laugh at me and my family fears I am compensating for my fear of death lol.

If I knew kids would be this expensive... yeah I still would have had em. But they cost me my M!

98 Dodge ram 2500 TURBO Diesel with 200,000+ miles on her!!! 0-60 in 4.5 days

Back in the day was always building and breaking cars My last go around was my stage 3 roush,built specifec as a track car.ran her to death at Laguna seca,Infinion,Thunder hill,also did alot of street racing (not condoned of course
Was a total money pit as all car projects are.
Last dyno numbers we pulled were 440 at the wheels,about 520 ish crank.
Miss that car( but she would have killed me for sure one day.

Good looking Stang.. Love the way Mustang's sound.. 5.0 Foxbodys are my favorite sounding Mustangs if you ask me tho. And yes I have broken many cars in my past as well lol, Blew up my Lexus Is300 a couple times.. that was not cheap. a Toyota Celica twice and a Camry.. and cars are a HUGE money pit.. haha

Man I miss my old firebird!
She was an 88 solid top, white w/ the honey comb mag wheels. My first and only sports car. Small block 305 bored over to just over 306 cubic inches. Twin overhead acorn style EFI; you could set tennis balls in the ports and still have room around the edge. KYB suspension all around. Cooper cobras, K&N filters, w/ custom flowmaster mandrel bent, welded exhaust....no cat, it was fast, loud, but not the prettiest. Never dyno'd couldn't afford it, as I was just in high school. Smoked the piss out of a few ls and lt cameros and transams. Raced it hard, quit after racing on a back road, and almost slid off an embankment into a stream (that's all she wrote for that). Man I really miss that car.

I miss my '87 Ford Tempo AWD

I'm no gearhead but several years ago I had the pleasure in driving around in a vehicle that was seized by DEA from a drug dealer back east. He had brought it into the U.S illegally. It didn't met our air pollution laws and this was back in the 1980s. It was a limited production Porsche. it was a 96?. It had a six with twin turbos and was so fast, well it was like a rocket ship. We had a Mustang GT at the time with a V-8 and it left it past the dust. We had to get rid of it because it cost so much to maintain it was eating up our entire office car repair budget. I don't know what it cost when new but the owner of the local Porsche dealership offered me 75 grand for it and it was well over 10 years old at that time.

I had a 96 Bi turbo,same as above.they had no intercoolers in 96,could not drive them in silicone valley traffic,would toast the oil seals,
Spun a turbo bearing coming down sonora pass, took out the entire engine with chunks of turbo debris,quik car for sure, my roush would blow it's door off tho