Car Enthusiast Club [Now Motorcycle friendly!] - First thread to 150k! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[arnavvr]

41 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

I need a car lift. So naturally I gotta do it in the most ridiculous way possible.  
 

Should I read a bunch of business books, buy a local mechanic shop, make sure it’s running as an efficient business with a good vision, people, and processes in place, and get to use one of the lifts for my own stuffs at certain times for basically no cost/makes me money? 
 

or is do you think the future is too dim for local shops? 

Sounds like a lot of effort/time/risk to be able to occasionally use a lift, I'd probably just see if you can find a mechanic buddy to let you use his in the event you might need one. 

[bcredeur97]

11 hours ago, arnavvr said:

Sounds like a lot of effort/time/risk to be able to occasionally use a lift, I'd probably just see if you can find a mechanic buddy to let you use his in the event you might need one. 

Well yeah, it’s a lot of effort, but if I can get the place to the point where I can run it absentee and the income replaces my job, that’s a win in my book. 
 

but yeah maybe a mechanic shop isn’t the best business to run absentee. There’s a roofing/ac company for sale near here I might look into that lol 

[TVwazhere]

On 6/19/2021 at 9:23 AM, bcredeur97 said:

There’s a roofing/ac company for sale near here I might look into that lol 

*Walks in* "I'd like to buy your company"

"Okay, so what's the plan boss?"

"Fix my car"

"...... what?"

[HanZie82]

https://stewsgarage.com/car-lift-rental/ Not an option?

[Bitter]

On 6/18/2021 at 7:42 PM, bcredeur97 said:

I need a car lift. So naturally I gotta do it in the most ridiculous way possible.  
 

Should I read a bunch of business books, buy a local mechanic shop, make sure it’s running as an efficient business with a good vision, people, and processes in place, and get to use one of the lifts for my own stuffs at certain times for basically no cost/makes me money? 
 

or is do you think the future is too dim for local shops? 

Build barn, install lift.

[bcredeur97]

9 hours ago, HanZie82 said:

https://stewsgarage.com/car-lift-rental/ Not an option?

Yeah let me rent a lift for 4 straight days while I swap my engine 

 

might as well have paid someone to do it for u

[vetali]

7 hours ago, Bitter said:

Build barn, install lift.

Make sure not to make it out of wood.

 

Lifts are getting cheap... even name brand ones. We just got one at the shop for almost 5k. 10k pound rotary lift. We might be adding another because we're so busy. My dad is getting ready to build a shop and the lift would be cheaper than the plywood for the roof right now.

[Bitter]

4 minutes ago, vetali said:

Make sure not to make it out of wood.

 

Lifts are getting cheap... even name brand ones. We just got one at the shop for almost 5k. 10k pound rotary lift. We might be adding another because we're so busy. My dad is getting ready to build a shop and the lift would be cheaper than the plywood for the roof right now.

They sure are! Good name brand safe ones are within reach of everyone now. All I want is a little quick jack style lift that I can slide under my Celica to make doing detail work and tire rotations and some suspension work easier. They look nice.

[vetali]

15 minutes ago, Bitter said:

They sure are! Good name brand safe ones are within reach of everyone now. All I want is a little quick jack style lift that I can slide under my Celica to make doing detail work and tire rotations and some suspension work easier. They look nice.

My dad is getting too old to be doing stuff on the ground anymore. I think he was to get a project car/truck but idk what.

[bcredeur97]

51 minutes ago, vetali said:

My dad is getting too old to be doing stuff on the ground anymore. I think he was to get a project car/truck but idk what.

Anything above 19 is too old for that 

 

but really it makes things so much easier that I feel like I would actually want to do more and take better care of my cars 

[Bitter]

No lube, just raw air hammer power.

 

[8tg]

This has probably already been discussed somewhere in here but the Ford Maverick coming out soon is super interesting to me.

It’s a 4 door hybrid small pickup truck about the size of the old ranger, gets 35mpg and costs $20,000 for a base model, with the hybrid engine.

For comparison a base model Toyota Corolla is $21,000ish

So this is the price of a Corolla but it’s a truck.

I feel like if Ford can make enough of them they definitely have a potentially super popular product on their hands. 
On top of that it’s a whole new sort of look, it looks kinda strange, but it doesn’t share a lot of the same modern pickup truck design elements you see now, like being super tall and having an aggressive flat front facia. It looks very neutral and that’s appealing to many people.

It comes in mostly neutral colors except for 3, a darkish red, yellow orange and a brighter blue.

The interior looks roomy and simple, it has a touchscreen console like all cars do now but the hvac controls are still all analog, the dash only has a small display, there’s not a whole lot going on in there.

Seems nice, they really committed to the economy truck idea, hell the base model only comes with steel rims, you don’t even get hubcaps.

It comes with a sheet of measurements for wooden boards to put in the bed in specific spots to make braces.

Everything Ford shows it doing isn’t like “watch this gargantuan fucker pull 80,000 pounds of RAW AMERICAN STEEL UP A FUCKING MOUNTAIN”, it’s more like “if you open the gate on the back you can fit a few bikes in there”

the engine bay is a mess which may be a concern, I imagine getting to anything in this rats nest would be a pain

“look, it can barely hold these plywood sheets, but it does work sorta”

they know exactly who they’re selling to and I think it’s gonna work out great for them

[AlwaysFSX]

It's definitely a neat vehicle for the most part.

[bcredeur97]

great for city people that's for sure. I'd be happy to own one, do wish the interior was a little nicer though or if they had an option for that. 

[Bitter]

Single cab long bed I'm sure is coming later. Perfect fleet truck!

[warmmilk]

On 6/21/2021 at 5:36 PM, bcredeur97 said:

Yeah let me rent a lift for 4 straight days while I swap my engine 

 

might as well have paid someone to do it for u

learned this lesson the hard way... I rented a lift at one of these places to install coilovers and a panhard bar back when I had my mustang, ended up paying more than I would have paying a shop to do the install.  places like this are only good if you have something to do that a lift makes it a quick job over jack stands, like hour or less.  otherwise you're better off either struggling with jack stands or just paying someone to do the whole thing.

 

ps. you're swapping your engine?

[bcredeur97]

2 hours ago, warmmilk said:

learned this lesson the hard way... I rented a lift at one of these places to install coilovers and a panhard bar back when I had my mustang, ended up paying more than I would have paying a shop to do the install.  places like this are only good if you have something to do that a lift makes it a quick job over jack stands, like hour or less.  otherwise you're better off either struggling with jack stands or just paying someone to do the whole thing.

 

ps. you're swapping your engine?

Well hi there, long time no see

 

no, unfortunately I’m too boring to swap my engine lol 

[warmmilk]

24 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

Well hi there, long time no see

 

no, unfortunately I’m too boring to swap my engine lol 

haha, yeah its been a while, I lurk here sometimes

 

lol.. me too

[bcredeur97]

3 hours ago, Eviljuche said:

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Really thinking about buying this rotten abomination as my first car - meet the Oka, a small city car edition of Lada, to put it shortly. This one is even cheaper than $300, even if I buy all the new parts for replacements. I've learned a thing or two about the car mechanics back in the school days, and I had a motorcycle since the age of twelve, so if I will really buy this one, wish me luck in fixing all the crap in it, and in dealing with the rust

Lada’s are the stereotypical cheap car to me. Lol

 

either that or a Yugo 

[Bitter]

Sounds like a fun car for an engine swap.

[Bitter]

Bent ball joint and wallowed out steering knuckle.

 

Inflated radiator.

[chaozbandit]

 

[chaozbandit]

1 hour ago, Cvet76 said:

I used to watch their videos regularly, but the titles of their videos have become so exhaustively stupid...almost every single one of them is "How fast is it 0-60?" "The Tesla killer?" "The best car ever?"
Mat is an ok host, I guess, but some of the irrelevant titles for some of the cars are just idiotic. I just can't bring myself to watching them anymore

/rant

I watch it for DC/RBR, because they always do crazy stuff with the RB7 and are generally game for anything!
 

 

[flibberdipper]

Behold the awful sticker I really need to remove!

[bcredeur97]

1 hour ago, flibberdipper said:

Behold the awful sticker I really need to remove!

-snip-

use a razor blade, maybe some window cleaner along with it