What do you call a car that looks like it goes fast but is really not?

I failed to beat a new Audi A4 2.0T in my 944. Dead even up to about 90mph.
Makes me sad to think that I cannot even beat a little A4. At least I get good gas mileage.

Beats looking like a serial killer....

I just have one of those faces. I am actually a nice guy.
Actually the face is just about opposite of who am.

I guess I did not do much of a transition between thoughts.
She likes me but we are both trying to take it slow as we are both kind of shy when it comes to relationships.

Welcome to the United States of America where you get shot and killed by a cop that thought your Pepsi can was a gun.

I have many stories of bad and good things done by police that have happened around me in the last few years. The good actions that Police do outweigh the bad but the bad always get more attention. Unfortunately we do not live in a perfect world, there is corruption and abuse of power everywhere we look.

Not as bad as riding a bicycle with a tire that says Dieyoung on it!

Idiot me picked up on another motorcycle, now I have 6!
Bought a 1979 Kawasaki KZ650SR with a locked up engine. Paid $100

(not actual picture of the bike)

New jacket to go with the new helmet.

Quote from NotAnIllusion :

Video evidence required.

But it would ruin the camera

Quote from aroX123 :

you cant fit a bike in the kitchen.

Oh yes you can, it just looks better in the living room

I love my '89 944. I have driven a 944 turbo as well but for a daily driver I am glad I got the N/A. It's the 1989 so it has the 11:1 compression 2.7L engine and with my personal touch with the computer it has way more low end torque than the turbo and I get average 27 miles per gallon. 250,000 miles and still going strong.

I think it is fair to call the older 944's "soft slobs". I have driven a few 1983-1985 cars and they have some seriously gooey suspension.

Edit: I almost wrecked mine yesterday after some old blind and virtually deaf guy pulled out in front of me and didn't even accelerate while I was doing the 50mph speed limit. I was all sorts of sideways after nailing the brakes going over railroad tracks.

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I think I have completely ruined myself within the LFS community after this thread.

Quote from 1303s_vortech :

Malcom McDowell's family member?

I don't know what to say about that.

Shoei RF1000 helmet. My head stopped growing so I thought I would spend some money on a good helmet. Not sure what to think about the design but it was on sale.

Creepy because mine just started doing that yesterday.

Someone said war?

Quote from Klutch :

you have the facial expression of a serial killer

You have no idea how many people I have heard that from. It just makes it worse if I try to smile, it looks like I am planning on killing everyone but doing it with a smile!

Quote from Rappa Z :

It's not the facial expression it's the fact that the arms have nowhere to go.

You just gave me an idea. Where's my camera....

I don't care what a girl looks like, I refuse to be around idiots. I like girls that have some brains behind them, good common sense, and some decent morals. Oh, and NO fat chicks.

Quote from Nathan_French_14 :

I look like a drug dealer

I apparently look like a serial killer most of the time.

Back on topic:
Had lots of fun with my VW but this is probably the last time I will take pictures of it before it is gone to a new owner.

Quote from Velociround :

After three inevitable picture threads, my mouse wheel doesn't work anymore.

My computer told me to f*** off and it quit showing pictures in threads, all I get is links to click on now.

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The only thing I would be worried about is the fuel. If it has been sitting for that long then it is probably not very good and the injectors may be gummy for a while. Might not even run with what's in it, I have had some 5 year old fuel that was great at putting out fires.

Injectors will probably make noise and I would highly recommend changing the oil before trying to start it. You don't want to suck up all the crap that has settled to the bottom of the pan over the years. Oh yeah and make sure nothing has made a nest in the intake

I still don't understand the whole thing of painting your rims some ugly color. What is wrong with keeping them neutral?

I had to paint my rims and I personally like the metallic silver. Keeps it clean and it does not attract any more attention to the already bright red car.
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Quote from Yuri Laszlo :

Why would women have cars?

One of my sisters has three cars, the other sister has two, and my mom has two. Holy crap I do work on all of them! I even built an engine on one of them.

Quote from Scrabby :

Open diffs are driftable, just most people don't know how to handle them. I've drifted enough open diffed cars at our driftschool. Lol even a Dodge RAM SRT-10 last time....

Hahaha! I have you beaten! I have had this sucker sideways many times. Good old 6.5 Turbo diesel.
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I have never had problems with open diffs going sideways and pushing very hard on twisties. It is not preferable but I am not spending $2000 on a LSD.

Quote from Klutch :

Sliding an open diff is dangerous as hell, way too unpredictable

have seen many close calls on the street because of it haha

Dangerous? Unpredictable? The only word that I see fitting is "ANNOYING!" Half the time it just won't go sideways and the other half you get it going and then ALL the power transfers to the wheel with NO traction and you look like an idiot.
That and if you keep the power on when the car straightens, the power does transfer back to the other wheel and it wiggles around a bit.

It is far worse to have a centrifugal locking differential. Get half way through the turn while one wheel is just spinning hopelessly then the flyweight kicks out and the diff locks and suddenly you are on full opposite lock and the passenger is freaking out.

Quote from theirishnoob :

elaborate. Every vw i see is broken, even for sale fro mthe dealer, every single one has a fault.


for a first car, honda's can't be broken ( hence their popularity with... " tuners " as no matter how much they ruin it, the engine stays strong )

Ahh yes, the Honda... Makers of the worlds best valvetrain. Designed to break valves and wipe cams. If the engine DOES manage to last, the rest of the car falls apart before the engine dies. Oh and I have never seen a flimsier suspension setup in my life, first pothole and it bends.

Oh yeah, the only thing wrong with my VW is the goddam Chinese fuses keep corroding and the Chinese light bulbs fall apart and short out causing the CHINESE fuse to blow.

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DHL.... Yeah that went well the last time I shipped with them.
Quote me $79.87, I sign for "ground" shipping ($79.87) then I get the bill a month later for somewhere around $450. I call up, scare about three customer service agents before getting the manager to agree to change it to what I was quoted and to send me a new invoice... A month later I get a call from collections for the $450 (my phone was in about 30 pieces at the end of that call).
The next year and a half I was getting phone calls from that company but the idiots had my last name spelled wrong so they could not do anything but harass me.
All seemed to have gone away when DHL stopped offering domestic shipping (U.S.). So in the end I shipped a transmission without paying DHL a dime and the buyer never complained so he did not pay either.