Someones 4G63T Powered Civic Project
11-11-2003, 11:19 AM
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Someones 4G63T Powered Civic Project
http://www.keenelandcars.012webpages.com/civic2.htm
someone sent that to me, obviously its just chillin in there with nothing else done. anyway as a Talon owner I found it somewhat amusing
someone sent that to me, obviously its just chillin in there with nothing else done. anyway as a Talon owner I found it somewhat amusing
11-11-2003, 11:50 AM
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Re:Someones 4G63T Powered Civic Project
here is 1 or 100 reasons not to
1 = If you've ever had to explain crankwalk to a mechanic....
2 = If you have a garage full of spare engines, just in case....
3 = If you've tried to bolt your old 14b onto a riding lawnmower....
4 = If you've hit your head on the B-pillar during an AWD launch....
5 = If you have a running tab at the local tranny shop....
6 = If you go rallying in your daily driver....
7 = If your driveway has divets in it cause your car never moves....
8 = If you have a trophy case full of Honda and Mustang emblems...
9 = If you eat "rice" for dinner....
10 = If people recognize your car by the sound of it's lifter tick....
11 = If you drive 5 extra blocks for a gas station that has 1 more octane point.
12 = If you get refused on your tread wear warranty every time you have tried, because of poor alignment.
13 = If you bought half of your performance parts at Home Depot.
14 = If every time you beat up a V8, they tell you that something was wrong with their car.
15 = If you find yourself hanging with bikes out of the hole.
16 = If people ask you what's wrong with your car because it keeps making this noise.
17 = If your freinds get beat in a race and call you immediately after to rematch for them.
18 = You have had to send a tow truck back to the towing garage because you needed a flat-bed.
19 = You always request parts for an Eclipse because the parts stores always lookup the AMC Eagle.
20 = You drop whatever you are doing when the UPS man brings a new part for the car. And then spend the rest of the day installing it.
21 = You only carry a Palm Pilot to log your engine's data.
22 = You change your tires, plugs and fuel curves for the winter.
23 = You know more about the 4G63 engine than some engineers at Mitsubishi.
24 = Your wife/girlfriend wishes your car never exsisted.
25 = Your wife/girlfriend wishes DSMtalk never exsisted....
26 = if you think your dsm should have come with a flatbed/tow truck following you from the factory
27 = If its one of the few imports a big fat farm kid can work on.
28 = If you lose a race and the other guy says "Damn that cars fast!"
29 = your car spends more time being broken than being driven
30 = you dont let people drive your car into the bays because its "quirky"
31 = you spent more fixing it than it cost
32 = your eye automatically catches EVERY dsm that drives by on the highway
33 = your out driving/fixing in the winter more then you EVER wanted to be.
34 = if it's a 2g non spyder, you quickly check to see if it has stock dual pipes. then turn back to see you are swerving off the road
35 = before racing someone, you 90% of the time know their engine, hp, and performance specs. and you usually know if you will win or not
36 = right before u start modding, some damn matainence thing breaks down (i.e. alternator, starter)
37 = u barely have money for fun time (teenagers)
38 = u wake up in the morning look out the window and go "ahhh, what a nice car" / you wake up and see your damn broken car and curse up a storm
39 = you look at riced out civics and roll your eyes
40 = right after you get your paycheck, you get online and spend it all on parts the same day.
41 = Every tire shop/parking garage/car wash/repair shop guy stalls out when he lets out your ACT 2600 clutch.
41 = Every car with an alarm triggers in parking garages as to say "hello".
42 = Your exhaust note is so deep and unique that people expect you to pass by 1/4 mile before you get there.
43 = You wonder where all your money goes.
44 = when you go to fix something minor you ALWAYS expect a major hassle and something else is GOING to go wrong.
45 = dsmtalk.com is the best website to visit. no correction -THE ONLY WEBSITE TO VISIT!-
46 = If your on a diet because you ran out of weight reductions for your car...
47 = If a junk yard to you is an upgrade yard.....
48 = If your car consists of parts from more than 10 other DSMs.....
49 = If you always have to show your car in a garage.....
50 = If you take offense to the word Riceburner.....
51 = If you have a stick in your car, that's job is to prop up the hatch.....
52 = If your pasanger window takes more that five minutes to get all the way up.
53 = If you never put more than a quarter tank of gas in your car.....
54 = If your DSM is the most unreliable car you have ever owned, but still your favorite......
55 = the letters d-s-m-t-a-l-k on your keyboard are so worn off your keys on your keyboard that you can hardly make them out anymore.
56 = The UPS guy comes over for a beer on a regular basis
57 = Your bucket of extra parts pulls 60 bucks on eBay
58 = Paypal.com sends you christmas cards
59 = An average oil change involves fresh oil, new filter and draining the catch can.
60 = The pages of your shop manual have more wear than the tires on your car.
61 = You know the meaning of VFAQ.
62 = Some people would like to go to Europe, you'd like to visit Normal IL.
63 = You get in alot of races because your car "auto-revs" for you.
64 = You've custom fabricated a carbon fiber cup holder
65 = You've almost been strangled to death by the automatic seat belt.
66 = You can launch your oil dip stick 20ft.
67 = You know that your car has a built in toolbox under the hood....
68 = If a honda owner ever looked at you funny when you say "free mods"
69 = You have a bucket full of nuts and bolts and your car seems to run fine and you can't figure out where the heck they go.
70 = you have pieces of 6 different turbos in a box and they are all smoked.
71 = you carry ahydraulic jack with in your car at all times
72 = when being towed you have to lift the front end of the car with your hands so the intercooler clears.
73 = people call your car "valdez" after the oil tanker.
74 = When the flatbed finally comes, you ask the tow guy for a piece of wood to put under your right rear tire (or left, if it's a 2G) so you don't scratch your muffler
75 = If your AWD is equipped with automatic windshield wipers enabling system after every hard launch... (1G)
76 = If everytime you launch, you can't see the damn road all the way through 1st gear (AWD)
77 = Your headliner that's falling off combs your hair every morning (1G)
78 = You hear a different vibration inside your car for different RPM points (1G)
79 = You are afraid to grab your Crank Pulley and check for play (2G 7-bolt)
80 = Modification of #19: You tell the Auto Parts Store and anybody for that matter you have an Eclipse because nobody knows WTF is an Eagle Talon...
81 = you have watched 3 passengers break their glasses on the idiot belts
82 = when people say "is your car running again?" you say "kinda"
83 = every time you work on your car you end up with more bolts than you started with
84 = you have a laptop with a datalogger and manual CD on it in your car at all times
85 = you have ever explained "fuel cut" to a scared female passenger
86 = people that can "drive stick" stall your car out 5 times before they get it out of the driveway
87 = people think you are just revving your car in neutral when in fact it is 1st gear (fwd dsmers)
88 = you have gotten in many arguements on how "your car CAN't be THAT fast". it is a friggin 4 cylinder mitsubishi!!!
89 = you have to explain to a mechanic of 35+ years what "boost creep" is.
90 = if you slam 2nd hard enough your wipers turn on
91 = you buy a k&n filter and call it an "intake"
92 = you thought you blew up your dsm but in fact the dipstick popped out and sprayed oul all over the manifold causing massive smoke
93 = when someone asks you how the car is running you never say "awesome" or "great", just "its running"
94 = you hate the "hump" (1G AWD)
95 = your friend with a 5.0 says "at least my car is reliable"
96 = a normal weekend involves removing your transmission 5 times.
97 = you work all week so you can fix your dsm on weekends
98 = your friends think "phantom knock" is some sort of ghost movie
99 = If you drive your car for 10 minutes, park if for 2 hours, come back out...it only takes 2 minutes to have the heat full blastin again.
100 = You hear non-informed DSM'ers saying that chrysler over-all as a company sucks..and you have to reinform them
1 = If you've ever had to explain crankwalk to a mechanic....
2 = If you have a garage full of spare engines, just in case....
3 = If you've tried to bolt your old 14b onto a riding lawnmower....
4 = If you've hit your head on the B-pillar during an AWD launch....
5 = If you have a running tab at the local tranny shop....
6 = If you go rallying in your daily driver....
7 = If your driveway has divets in it cause your car never moves....
8 = If you have a trophy case full of Honda and Mustang emblems...
9 = If you eat "rice" for dinner....
10 = If people recognize your car by the sound of it's lifter tick....
11 = If you drive 5 extra blocks for a gas station that has 1 more octane point.
12 = If you get refused on your tread wear warranty every time you have tried, because of poor alignment.
13 = If you bought half of your performance parts at Home Depot.
14 = If every time you beat up a V8, they tell you that something was wrong with their car.
15 = If you find yourself hanging with bikes out of the hole.
16 = If people ask you what's wrong with your car because it keeps making this noise.
17 = If your freinds get beat in a race and call you immediately after to rematch for them.
18 = You have had to send a tow truck back to the towing garage because you needed a flat-bed.
19 = You always request parts for an Eclipse because the parts stores always lookup the AMC Eagle.
20 = You drop whatever you are doing when the UPS man brings a new part for the car. And then spend the rest of the day installing it.
21 = You only carry a Palm Pilot to log your engine's data.
22 = You change your tires, plugs and fuel curves for the winter.
23 = You know more about the 4G63 engine than some engineers at Mitsubishi.
24 = Your wife/girlfriend wishes your car never exsisted.
25 = Your wife/girlfriend wishes DSMtalk never exsisted....
26 = if you think your dsm should have come with a flatbed/tow truck following you from the factory
27 = If its one of the few imports a big fat farm kid can work on.
28 = If you lose a race and the other guy says "Damn that cars fast!"
29 = your car spends more time being broken than being driven
30 = you dont let people drive your car into the bays because its "quirky"
31 = you spent more fixing it than it cost
32 = your eye automatically catches EVERY dsm that drives by on the highway
33 = your out driving/fixing in the winter more then you EVER wanted to be.
34 = if it's a 2g non spyder, you quickly check to see if it has stock dual pipes. then turn back to see you are swerving off the road
35 = before racing someone, you 90% of the time know their engine, hp, and performance specs. and you usually know if you will win or not
36 = right before u start modding, some damn matainence thing breaks down (i.e. alternator, starter)
37 = u barely have money for fun time (teenagers)
38 = u wake up in the morning look out the window and go "ahhh, what a nice car" / you wake up and see your damn broken car and curse up a storm
39 = you look at riced out civics and roll your eyes
40 = right after you get your paycheck, you get online and spend it all on parts the same day.
41 = Every tire shop/parking garage/car wash/repair shop guy stalls out when he lets out your ACT 2600 clutch.
41 = Every car with an alarm triggers in parking garages as to say "hello".
42 = Your exhaust note is so deep and unique that people expect you to pass by 1/4 mile before you get there.
43 = You wonder where all your money goes.
44 = when you go to fix something minor you ALWAYS expect a major hassle and something else is GOING to go wrong.
45 = dsmtalk.com is the best website to visit. no correction -THE ONLY WEBSITE TO VISIT!-
46 = If your on a diet because you ran out of weight reductions for your car...
47 = If a junk yard to you is an upgrade yard.....
48 = If your car consists of parts from more than 10 other DSMs.....
49 = If you always have to show your car in a garage.....
50 = If you take offense to the word Riceburner.....
51 = If you have a stick in your car, that's job is to prop up the hatch.....
52 = If your pasanger window takes more that five minutes to get all the way up.
53 = If you never put more than a quarter tank of gas in your car.....
54 = If your DSM is the most unreliable car you have ever owned, but still your favorite......
55 = the letters d-s-m-t-a-l-k on your keyboard are so worn off your keys on your keyboard that you can hardly make them out anymore.
56 = The UPS guy comes over for a beer on a regular basis
57 = Your bucket of extra parts pulls 60 bucks on eBay
58 = Paypal.com sends you christmas cards
59 = An average oil change involves fresh oil, new filter and draining the catch can.
60 = The pages of your shop manual have more wear than the tires on your car.
61 = You know the meaning of VFAQ.
62 = Some people would like to go to Europe, you'd like to visit Normal IL.
63 = You get in alot of races because your car "auto-revs" for you.
64 = You've custom fabricated a carbon fiber cup holder
65 = You've almost been strangled to death by the automatic seat belt.
66 = You can launch your oil dip stick 20ft.
67 = You know that your car has a built in toolbox under the hood....
68 = If a honda owner ever looked at you funny when you say "free mods"
69 = You have a bucket full of nuts and bolts and your car seems to run fine and you can't figure out where the heck they go.
70 = you have pieces of 6 different turbos in a box and they are all smoked.
71 = you carry ahydraulic jack with in your car at all times
72 = when being towed you have to lift the front end of the car with your hands so the intercooler clears.
73 = people call your car "valdez" after the oil tanker.
74 = When the flatbed finally comes, you ask the tow guy for a piece of wood to put under your right rear tire (or left, if it's a 2G) so you don't scratch your muffler
75 = If your AWD is equipped with automatic windshield wipers enabling system after every hard launch... (1G)
76 = If everytime you launch, you can't see the damn road all the way through 1st gear (AWD)
77 = Your headliner that's falling off combs your hair every morning (1G)
78 = You hear a different vibration inside your car for different RPM points (1G)
79 = You are afraid to grab your Crank Pulley and check for play (2G 7-bolt)
80 = Modification of #19: You tell the Auto Parts Store and anybody for that matter you have an Eclipse because nobody knows WTF is an Eagle Talon...
81 = you have watched 3 passengers break their glasses on the idiot belts
82 = when people say "is your car running again?" you say "kinda"
83 = every time you work on your car you end up with more bolts than you started with
84 = you have a laptop with a datalogger and manual CD on it in your car at all times
85 = you have ever explained "fuel cut" to a scared female passenger
86 = people that can "drive stick" stall your car out 5 times before they get it out of the driveway
87 = people think you are just revving your car in neutral when in fact it is 1st gear (fwd dsmers)
88 = you have gotten in many arguements on how "your car CAN't be THAT fast". it is a friggin 4 cylinder mitsubishi!!!
89 = you have to explain to a mechanic of 35+ years what "boost creep" is.
90 = if you slam 2nd hard enough your wipers turn on
91 = you buy a k&n filter and call it an "intake"
92 = you thought you blew up your dsm but in fact the dipstick popped out and sprayed oul all over the manifold causing massive smoke
93 = when someone asks you how the car is running you never say "awesome" or "great", just "its running"
94 = you hate the "hump" (1G AWD)
95 = your friend with a 5.0 says "at least my car is reliable"
96 = a normal weekend involves removing your transmission 5 times.
97 = you work all week so you can fix your dsm on weekends
98 = your friends think "phantom knock" is some sort of ghost movie
99 = If you drive your car for 10 minutes, park if for 2 hours, come back out...it only takes 2 minutes to have the heat full blastin again.
100 = You hear non-informed DSM'ers saying that chrysler over-all as a company sucks..and you have to reinform them
i know they suck but its all in how you take care of it too, dont you think?!?
