General vehicle thread

[MrPrena]

Suzuki X-90 Redbull!

[ray1970]

I?ve never met Irving?s wife but I bet she?d look good in a Samurai.

[Irving]

My uncle has a Chevy Tracker, which is basically a Samuri, but I think it'd be too small. Plus he wants too much for it.

My wife likes to drive a manual, and most of the Suzuki SX4s and many of the Toyota Matrix I'm finding are manuals.

[ray1970]

Nice. Good to see a woman that can handle a stick.

[Gman]

Wait. Wut?

[Irving]

The Trooper has more flex than the Amigo did without sway bars, which is just one of the few reasons I decided to switch to the Trooper.



It'll tuck the 32's without rubbing, and I'm going to put 33's on. Plan is a 1" body lift (sitting in the garage in the box) that would fit 35's without cutting, but I'm not going to go that big with IFS and without upgrading axles all around (zero gear options currently).


Things got western once the neighbor got involved.


Finally got the alignment done. Only took me three tries. Pretty tired of taking the front end apart at this point. Next is body lift, which I'm considering cutting in half. I only want it to make room for the sliders so I don't have to cut the body seam. I won't complain about the extra room in the wheel wells though. Then clutch and low gears in the transfer case. All that stuff (including steel for sliders) is sitting in my garage just waiting. That's the immediate future anyway.

[Irving]

Not sure if this has been posted before but it's fairly interesting:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2...703/index.html

I started reading that, and what jumped out at me was that it seems like the lady kind of abandoned her kids to go traveling.

[Erni]

What happened with the alignment?

[CS1983]

Nice. Good to see a woman that can handle a stick.

My wife taught me to drive a stick. I'd had never to, but my car was totaled in a parking lot by a drunk driver and the only vehicle we had was her 95 Accord manual trans. Learned in about 20 minutes on country roads. I think having ridden motorcycles all my life helped with the concept.

[ray1970]

When I was learning to drive my dad insisted that I learned on a stick shift. I guess he figured if I could drive a stick then an automatic should be pretty easy. I learned on a 1977 Datsun B210. I think five of my first seven vehicles were manual transmissions. I could easily and happily drive a stick shift every day but honestly I am glad automatics exist because I guess I?m just lazy that way.