I don't visit other forums really, so I don't know what a high number of daily postings is, but 20 seems high to me anyway. Maybe its because I work as an engineer so I don't have time to troll all day, or at all really. But I'm not sure I've ever posted 20 times in a day while I was working.
But as far as modifications to the car are concerned, yeah we've explored just about everything..... BUT aren't the honda guys saying the same thing about the civic???
I mean how many times can you suggest a b swap, or the same turbo kit that just "bolts on" or the same cat back, I mean, as much as we say its a custom part you can get from Vincent, they say its a bolt on part you can get from greddy.
The technology changes and I bet even the honda guys are a little bored, they just have new members asking the same questions all the time.
We all know this is the best driving car we've ever owned or ridden in for that matter. It corners, dives into the turn, and comes out with direction and purpose. And if you throw it in too hard it will bite you with oversteer like you've never seen before. But it's controlled chaos. Its a driving experience that I haven't found in Mits. 3000gt's , or Nissan Maximas, or Honda Civics, or any other car. It's nimble, it's quick, and we can even make them fast. But the problem here isn't the car, its us. We could build the best 6g to ever exist. We could own a GT4 with all the upgrades, and still....... at some point we are going to buy a different car because the "mod" bug has stopped biting, think Batman (just saying dustin). We are ALWAYS wanting to be on the next big thing, pushing the envelope. It's no fault of the car for being inadequate, it's our problem we'll never be content.
I mean heck, I have a 174k mile kia sportage as my Winter/off road beater, and I'm thinking about putting the Mazda spec cams in the motor for another 40 hp.... WHY?! its an old worn out kia with a hole in the exhaust right off the manifold!
We're looking for something to make us excited, something to make us more interesting, something to give us another reason to go forum troll somewhere else to find the next interesting thing. And the truth is, we'll never find it.
So I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to build the racecar and "have fun". I'm going to finish the RHD car, maybe do some other small things with it, and "have fun" driving it, freaking people out, and maybe taking the car to track day and dominating the N/A 4 cyl class. I'm going to keep driving my 94 dd to work and back until I can't stand it anymore or it can't stand the 32k mile/year abuse I'm giving it. I'm going to sell the Kia eventually, I'm going to repair an old S-10 we had that my mom gave to me before she passed that was my great grandfathers, and I'm going to get out of cars with the exception of my Hobby cars that I'm using for FUN. We need to find something that makes us feel as ALIVE as the celica did. Makes us feel like we're doing something interesting, worthy, important to someone. We shouldn't build cars for the people on the forum, we should build cars for us. We should look for the needle in a haystack, push the limits of our own originality, our own internal engineer, and maybe we can find that same spark, that same feeling of being alive. I'm going back to what started it for me, airplanes. And I'm going to build and fly an ultralight. Going to take to the sky. I'm going to run my house off batteries and wind and sun. I'm going to build guns, I'm going to live life outside of cars, outside of the track, outside of the strip, and certainly outside of this forum.
Coomer probably doesn't even care about having this server up. it probably doens't cost him anything as it's probably a desktop sitting in his parent's basement. I'm not saying we have to ever really "move on from celica's" all together. Why not move on concurrently, beside them, through them, with them, and then when we're ready away from them. Our forum traffic here is merely a function of how many are left on the road. How many are still being bought by the parents of teenagers because they want to get their kid a reliable gas sipper at a Jurassic 28mpg.... How many were new in 94 vs how many were new in 99.
My next car is going to be 40 mpg plus and it's going to be practical. My celica, will always be my fun completely impractical ride. And I intend on loving every minute of it.
This post has been edited by ricochet1490: Mar 22, 2013 - 9:13 PM
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