Yeah well my oil pan is dripping oil bad--garage is a mess, winter is coming and I'm looking forward to a weekend of crawling under it and repairing the leak. If I want a new oil pan-which be a good idea, $125 but then might as well spend $235 and get the deep pan. All together with a new hv oil pump, pick up, summit 10% discount code (2TRKUW) its $350.
Besides I been hot rodding around for 25 years now, its getting old. True my ride can stay with most new stock sport cars on the road and just today with leaky pan I'm out for an hour pushing and shoving my way around, lol. Live in a great area, muti lane roads, little to like no traffic enforcement (people do behave expect for speed) wasn't for that I might have thrown in the towel by now. But I can't get away from the $50 to $100 in gas every week and repair costs.
Heck if I kept track of all the $ I spent this summer I likely could run off to Toronto for a good week--massage parlors-strip bars, "coffee" houses, Toronto has it all.
Got my brother a nice looking, smooth running-no leaks at all 1998 Buick Century for $2,900. Put a couple hundred in it for new wires and plugs, fan belt, wipers, filters. Hes getting well over 20 mpg (yeah its slow but can still go a steady 80 mph on the freeway--after like forever getting up to speed, lol)
Heck that thing would make it to Toronto--and pass through customs unlike my ride which could easily be impounded by the police for safety / emissions and even if it made it there it be a ***** to park in those tight garages plus would eat 3 times as much gas.
Maybe I need a little Dart car but then I wiped out before--I might do it again. His dumb ass car can kick my ride butt in the rain going around a corner pulling out in to traffic--I done it, just floor it and it goes even in the rain.
Its a fun hobby but is it worth the costs, the work, the mess, the harder to park--drive depending on the weather--the BS from some shops. I'm starting to wounder that is all.
