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how many mods can you remember seeing that were from parts not intended for automotive use?

when i had my first car, i stole this kid's intake. obviously it would not fit, so i went to home depot and picked up flexable hosing (for dryers or whatever) to make an intake with the filte, im sure it didn't do anything hahaha.

the best is when the same kid i stole the intake from had a 93 prelude. he pluged one of the vaccum hoses with a golf tee so that all of the valves would be open constantly, or something. end result was a supposed 1hp difference(he read online) and bumpy idle.

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the best mod i had was on my old sentra i used four donut wheels as regular wheels. rims yo.

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air compressor air/water seperator as a catch can :P

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I like how Random-strike would use beer cans for catch cans :P

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and heat sheilds too

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Is there any other way???

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made a cai for my tbi 4.3 s10
filled all 4 mounts on my crx with 3m poly

im sure theres more

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Bilge pump as a turbo, probably my best mod yet

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I don't remember having any parts on my car that were not intended for automotive use, except for the shiftlight that used to be an in-use light add-on for a DORO telephone. Oh yeah, and the heat exchanger for my chargecooler used to be a refrigeration evaporator.
However most of the ---- on the car is home made or made fit somehow.
Homemade exhaust manifold, 8 injector setup on intake manifold, homemade ECU based on megasquirt and customised software, exhaust, driveshaft adapters, oil filter relocation adapter, air tank. The wheels have been modified, different offset and wider profile.
Fitted a Porsche 911 fuel pump.
The drivetrain is mostly out of a Toyota pickup truck, but the transmission is stock.

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WTF do you drive?

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The intake in my brother's car is made out of aluminium dryer pipe, hockey tape, half of a speaker port and hose clamps. Oh, and an adapter to fit the TB.

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hmt engine mounts, I thought everyone on here rocked these ;)
catch can out of a soup can, and sprinkler system drain valve
duct tape on last years winter beater(79 k5) as the battery hold down
intake on buddies saturn made out of whatever we found in my tool box, I think it was two peices from two different stock intakes, a few couplers and an extra cone filter I had actually worked pretty good.
e85 for octane boost, I know its automotive but its not meant for my car, 85% ethanol 97octane and cheaper than regular gas ;)
Homemade backseat brace did'nt do ---- made it out of a steel rod and welded it in, that was a bad idea
I know theres more I'll have to go look at my car

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dryer vents/tubing as intake piping.

zip ties as screws.

t-shirt as seat cover.

bandage gauze to fix a torn axle boot.

more, but I don't feel like thinking too hard :P

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thats what is currently holding my intercooler and bumper on right now, as well as keeping oil lines and other things in place.

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All hail our king, zip ties. ;D

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if you fuckers would quit whoring out my bandwidth I could post some of my pictures. I cant even open the pics on the server to save them to put on another server. ::)

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Suzuki Vitara (sidekick/tracker/escudo) modified offroad truck. 35" tall and 12.5" wide tires. This is a snow driving setup where the power of a turbocharged engine is very useful unlike the rock crawling setups where it's all about the torque at 500rpm. When I get onto a glacier it's usually just flat out for as long as the coolant temperatures allow it. It is very hard on the engine to drive in snow, even though the ambient air is cold the speeds involved are usually not so great (60-70mph max) and therefore cooling is limited.

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any vids of your suzuki, thats sounds pretty sick, I'd like to see a vid or pictures, do you run the stock engine in it?

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Stock 1.6 engine with shaved pistons, slightly ported head and ARP head studs.
I don't have any videos of it like it is today, the only video I have is 2 and a half years old, from when the modifications were starting. I don't drive the car that often these days as it's stored at my parents house in Iceland, and I'm thousands of miles away. I go there to abuse it every couple of months or so.
My estimate is that it makes about 200hp and 200 ft-lb torque, this engine is not a big revver but it seems to love humiliating clutches. I've gone through 2 clutches so far with poor results.
Car weighs about 3000lbs and the tires weigh over 80lbs each. Final drive ratio is 5.71:1 so it does manage to get off the line fairly quick.
It might do a 14 second quarter mile if I'd test it on standard tires, should be in mid 15's on the offroad tires. Will probably get a chance to test that next summer. I did a 15.8 quarter and 10.0 1/8 last summer (2004) but a lot has changed since then. (fixed the misfire
It's relatively fast for a modified offroader, the only offroad trucks that come close are the ones with modified street smallblocks and even those aren't very lucky when up on the glaciers in 5000ft elevation, that's where nothing beats a turbo.
Everything in this truck is done as cheap as possible as I was in school with more time than income when building it.

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bad ass