Kapthowdy Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Hello, We met one of yours this past week at a small car show in Orlando...he (Ian told us about you site, so figured I'd drop by and say hi. Here's a couple pictures of our motors...enjoy. 84.5 GT350 Scion xB 2.3L Turbo Ford Project 89 LX 331 Vortech A short vdeo of the 89 cause its so neat. http://s56.photobucket.com/albums/g162/Sup...iew¤t=video.flv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tezmanian devil Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 welcome dude they all your car's?i'd luv to be able to drive the car's you got out there, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mustang lol whats the weather like out there anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeWee Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Always nice to see new members from across the pond, trust ian, he just cant leave evo for a few weeks either Lovely looking engines there too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yule Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Welcome nice motor. Ian out spreading the word about eh? didn't hink i'd seen him about for a lil while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kapthowdy Posted June 27, 2007 Author Share Posted June 27, 2007 My wife and I met Ian and his fiance last Thursday at a small Scion meet. We invited them out to a big Scion Exposed meet on Saturday, but they couldnt make it. Seemed like a very cool couple. Even though I didnt have any Fords with me he was down with my wifes Nitroused Scion xB and we chatted for about an hour. When you're a car guy you cant seem to keep away for long. These are just my toys...I also daily drive an 05 F150 FX4 and my wife has a cool little Scion xB (wife likes Toyotas ). We also have a couple Polaris quads to play with in the mud. Everybody says we miss out by not having kids, but it just leaves more toys for me! The weather is a balmy 98 degrees, BTW...perfect for convertables. It's hot out, but now is the time of year for all the heavy street action...I invite anyone coming in for vacation to drop me a line, and maybe we can get together. I'll show yall a bunch of street driven 5-900hp cars running for big money and outrunning the law! Cant wait to go through yalls site and check out your cool rides. I had a Merkur when I was a kid and a couple Turbo Coupes, too. I may be a smallblock guy now, but I have roots in the old 2.3T. Thanks for the welcome, Shawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yule Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Everybody says we miss out by not having kids, but it just leaves more toys for me!Me & my long term girlfriend have decided we don't want kids also, would rather have money for fast cars & hols We met ian and his fiance last month at the classic ford meet along with stoo and his missus, all very nice & friendy folk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kapthowdy Posted June 27, 2007 Author Share Posted June 27, 2007 Been looking through the site a little...at first I thought your Escorts were like ours, but they are much cooler than the crap we have. I had an 89 Escort GT 2.0 that was horrible. Looked like ass and ran a consistant 16.5 quarter mile time. Your cars look very grown up compared to ours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yule Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 I still like the american escorts but prefer the european ones, yours come with bigger engines than ours though. What price do you pay on fuel over there at the mo? it's back up to 97p per litre round our way, suppose that would work out to around 10$ per gallon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kapthowdy Posted June 27, 2007 Author Share Posted June 27, 2007 I still like the american escorts but prefer the european ones, yours come with bigger engines than ours though. What price do you pay on fuel over there at the mo? it's back up to 97p per litre round our way, suppose that would work out to around 10$ per gallon! Ouch...10 bones a gallon would be really painful here. All us hicks would grab our shotguns and overthrow the goverment. Last month it was up to about $3 a gallon, this past week it dropped back down to about $2.80. Nikki's Scion gets about 30mpg, but my F150 gets about 12 and both my Mustangs get less than 10mpg. I think we're headed for lean times, though. I doubt it'll get near $10 a gallon anytime soon, but we were pretty shocked last year when it went to $3.25. Just a month before it rose to that level it was $2.00-$2.20. They have a system here for big hikes in fuel prices...they shock us with insane prices for about a month or two, then they drop it back to normal for a few months, then hike it again just below the insane price a few months before. This last time it was at $3 noone even blinked. Happens every couple years. Ford has big plans for diesel and direct injection turbos and na here in the near future. Most everyone else is going hybrid. We'll have to wait and see which pays off. Everybody here wants 40mpg and 300hp...we're very unrealistic. Personally I'm looking forward to my new 09 diesel 4.5L F-150. Our tuners will have it at 400hp before it's even in mass production. Also just figured out that when the forum says show us your motors, you guys mean cars, not engines 89 with the F150 behind it... 84.5 heads cam intake forged 347 200hp Ny-Trex plate system 05 Scion xB PE300 Centrifugal blower/ exhaust before, now it's gutted, tinned, mini tubbed, and awaiting a 2.3T and T5 trans. Burned up in our house fire last year. Nikki's 06 Scion xB RS 3.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebsescort Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Hi m8. Welcome Some very nice cars you got there wow, 98degrees. its flooding over here.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escort_Kid Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Woah awesome cars dude, you sound like you really know what your talking about aswell. Im loving that 06 Scion xB RS 3.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kapthowdy Posted June 27, 2007 Author Share Posted June 27, 2007 I bought the black one for my wife as a 5 year anny gift. They had just come out, and I surprised her by taking her to the local Mini dealer for a new Cooper S, but she declined in favor of this ugly little thing. At first I said no way, but then I saw the price...Cooper was $26k and the Scion was $14k. I let her win the argument, then once we had it it kinda grew on me. Now I tune them and make a few parts for them here in Fl. I have a rear mount turbo system mocked up for the new 08 xB and should sell quite a few systems. On the 06 I just spray the Pee out of them. Hers makes 152whp out of a 1.5L with full exhaust and one of my direct port nitrous systems. One of the quicker xBs here. Traction is a huge issue as well as half shafts when we run radials. These cars arent really made to be beat on like we do. The black car was on it's 2nd block at 20k miles and this one is running through them like water. Most of the hooked up xBs here have lots of electronics and air ride...hers is kinda mild to keep it light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScORTED Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 My wife and I met Ian and his fiance last Thursday at a small Scion meet. We invited them out to a big Scion Exposed meet on Saturday, but they couldnt make it. Seemed like a very cool couple. Even though I didnt have any Fords with me he was down with my wifes Nitroused Scion xB and we chatted for about an hour. When you're a car guy you cant seem to keep away for long. These are just my toys...I also daily drive an 05 F150 FX4 and my wife has a cool little Scion xB (wife likes Toyotas ). We also have a couple Polaris quads to play with in the mud. Everybody says we miss out by not having kids, but it just leaves more toys for me! The weather is a balmy 98 degrees, BTW...perfect for convertables. It's hot out, but now is the time of year for all the heavy street action...I invite anyone coming in for vacation to drop me a line, and maybe we can get together. I'll show yall a bunch of street driven 5-900hp cars running for big money and outrunning the law! Cant wait to go through yalls site and check out your cool rides. I had a Merkur when I was a kid and a couple Turbo Coupes, too. I may be a smallblock guy now, but I have roots in the old 2.3T. Thanks for the welcome, Shawn i might have to take you up on that... over there in november, renting me a mustang... going up to some car show in miami too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kapthowdy Posted June 27, 2007 Author Share Posted June 27, 2007 My wife and I met Ian and his fiance last Thursday at a small Scion meet. We invited them out to a big Scion Exposed meet on Saturday, but they couldnt make it. Seemed like a very cool couple. Even though I didnt have any Fords with me he was down with my wifes Nitroused Scion xB and we chatted for about an hour. When you're a car guy you cant seem to keep away for long. These are just my toys...I also daily drive an 05 F150 FX4 and my wife has a cool little Scion xB (wife likes Toyotas ). We also have a couple Polaris quads to play with in the mud. Everybody says we miss out by not having kids, but it just leaves more toys for me! The weather is a balmy 98 degrees, BTW...perfect for convertables. It's hot out, but now is the time of year for all the heavy street action...I invite anyone coming in for vacation to drop me a line, and maybe we can get together. I'll show yall a bunch of street driven 5-900hp cars running for big money and outrunning the law! Cant wait to go through yalls site and check out your cool rides. I had a Merkur when I was a kid and a couple Turbo Coupes, too. I may be a smallblock guy now, but I have roots in the old 2.3T. Thanks for the welcome, Shawn i might have to take you up on that... over there in november, renting me a mustang... going up to some car show in miami too Hopefully you rent from Hertz and get one of the few GT350s they have...otherwise you'll be stuck with a crappy 4.0 with a limiter. Wont rev over 4k rpms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScORTED Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 i imagine it will be a limited 4.0 ... based on the super gay speed limits you have over there i wasn't planning on doing any drag racing or top speed runs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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