found my old car, A YEAR LATER!!
 

last july my red spec-v was reposessed. my wife and i were in a nasty divorce and she had been funneling my car payments out of my bank account. i didnt know until i woke up and my car was gone.
fast forward to yesterday. a friend of mine called me and told me he found my spec at a car lot across town. so we went to look, and sure enough its mine. and i still have the keys to it. then a stupid thought crossed my mind, you know what im talking about. i tell the guy at the car lot that it used to be my car. he says"good, then maybe you can tell me why it wont rev over 2200 rpm's" i say i dont know. (MAF going out in a spec is very common, but i dont tell him that). i ask him how much and he said $3500. he said he got it at a auction in atlanta and that the guy who sold it had spent $2200 at a nissan dealership to try and get it fixed.
so i ask him if i can tinker with it and he hands me the keys and tells me to go for it. i take the maf from my other spec and put it in and it still runs like ----. so i call it a day and go home.
today i go back and look around, and the safc II i had was not removed, but the harness had been cut. and since the safc just intercepts, and alters the maf reading, and it not being there, but still wired to the ecu, the ecu wasnt getting the maf reading. i rewire the ecu and it runs perfect. i drove it for a while and took it back, and the whole time this guy hasnt even came out of the office. so i take the ecu back out, rewire the safc harness and make it run like ---- again.
i will get my car back, soon. i wasnt gonna fix their problem just so they could up the price. if i cant get it, then i will tell them i can and will fix it, for a modest sum.
what luck is that? i lost it a year ago. it only has 6,000 more miles on it than it did. it was auctioned once 80 miles from my house, then auctioned again 150 miles away, just to end up in my backyard for 3500 ------- dollars. anyone wanna loan me $$$

Re: found my old car, A YEAR LATER!!
 

SO what was the point of this post, to ask for money :3.

Re: found my old car, A YEAR LATER!!
 

after the other HMT charity case, these are gonna be popping up all over...

Re: found my old car, A YEAR LATER!!
 

i was ------- playing!! ----. im getting my car back. im working a few angles, but he already made the offer to trade for my white 02 spec. which i will do if i cant get the $3500.

Re: found my old car, A YEAR LATER!!
 

are those cars already that cheap? depreciation like a mofo

Re: found my old car, A YEAR LATER!!
 

I just had some OC and Type R action.Im ------ pumped.

Re: found my old car, A YEAR LATER!!
 

----, I'd offer the guy 2 grand.

Or charge him $800 to "fix" it.

Either way the dumb ass that removed the AFC and did nothen with the wireing did you a favor.

Re: found my old car, A YEAR LATER!!
 

---- that is what I would do. ---- your old car. Just tell him you will fix it for a flat rate. Get the money up front cash so you can tell him to ---- off as he watched you unplug the AFC.

Re: found my old car, A YEAR LATER!!
 

Thats because those cars a steamy piles of ----. My buddy has one that is 100% stock and its on the 4th motor. ------- trash cans.

Re: found my old car, A YEAR LATER!!
 

your friend is a dummass. the only problem they have is the cat convertor blowing up. get a ------- header for $100 and you will have no issues. trust me, i have owned 4.
and the kbb on it is 8,690. 3500 is a steal. how is 8690 depriciated when i bought it for 8400 two years ago? in reality i could pull 7500 from it easy.

Re: found my old car, A YEAR LATER!!
 

Why do that when you can buy it, fix it and turn it around in an hour for 3-4k more than you bought it for?

Re: found my old car, A YEAR LATER!!
 

UNFORTUNATELY, our cars do deppreciate like a mafucker. I've looked online, and a SRT-4 of the same year model sometimes with HIGHER mileage will still fetch 2 or 3k more dollars than our cars. As far as them being a pos, I'd have to disagree. The cars did come FROM THE FACTORY with some problems, the stock manifold has a catalyst built into it that has been known to break up and be sucked in to the engine, and the screws which keep the butterfly valves in the intake manifold have been known to come aloose and get sucked into the engine, once again causing damage. Those are easy fixes, though. ANYBODY with half a brain can AND WILL get rid of that shitty manifold. And those screws can be reinstalled with locktite or you can remove the screws and butterflies if you're going the boosted route. I like the front end of the 02-03 cars better, but those cars have a few more problems than what ppl experience with the 04-06 models. Personally, I'd fix the car for the guys to make a lil bread, but if you already have another Spec as it is, I wouldn't even bother. I got about $3500-$4K in my turbo setup. If you're gonna spend that kinda bread on a Spec, you might as well boost the one you already have.

Re: found my old car, A YEAR LATER!!
 

well, i fucked up. i still havent mailed in my title to have it changed over, so i cant carmax it. so what i did, i took up the dealer's offer to trade straight up. to him it seems like a dream come true. but in reality, i am ------- him. my white one is an 02 with 96,000 miles, it has been wrecked (before i got it) and the moron who did the body work sucked. my old red one is an 03 with 80,000 miles, and is in flawless condition. my white one kbb'd for 6100, and the red one is 8690.
im gonna try to get him to give me some boot on the trade, but im not gonna sweat it for real. im getting a hell of a deal for real.

Re: found my old car, A YEAR LATER!!
 

You ever seen a picture of the rods on them? They make D15 look manly.

Re: found my old car, A YEAR LATER!!
 

yes i have actually slung one through a block. but they do the job, for now. thats what aftermarket is for. i will change the rods and pistons when i boost it. dont worry, its about to get good.
i got a spare qr25 that i am gonna do my own experimenting with a sqr