The wheels on my Saab are 1/2 the weight of the stock wheels, they serve a purpose, and I need a larger wheel and tire for the power it puts out. The hood is long gone, sold it, and put the Viggen spoiler on the back, which nobody here even noticed. And really, changing around a car is not ricing a car out, putting a giant wing on a toyota corrola, now that's rice. My suspension and brakes are awesome and they're not for looks! This car handles like a dream, it's one of the most comfortable, and fun cars I've ever driven, which is why I've invested all the time, money, blood and sweat getting it into the shape it's in. Nothing about it is rice, the exhaust is from "Saab", Saab sport, how can that be rice. Other than that, exterior wise, I smoked out all the markers.
It has the stock hood, no biggie, you just missed what I'd posted. I got the "ricey" hood second hand for extremely cheap, I dunno, I had the car a long time, things get boring, I tried something new, and I hated it, it was on the car not even two months, and I sold it and got the Viggen wing, oh and the Viggen intercooler too. The wheels IMO are nice, they're cheap, but they work, I spent too much on the cars at that point to spend another two grand on another set of wheels, I keep a strict budget for my hobbies, I have a family. This coming summer perhaps I'll grab the BBS wheels I want. Anyways the tires cost more than the wheels did hah. If I keep it, I'm putting BBS's.
Oh, and the front end sits 1/2 inch higher on both the Saab and my GTI, it's a must where I live, and very common, for a number of reasons. Also I drive them in the winter, the Cobra stays in the garage, there's one reason. So rather than plow through the snow, I adjusted the height and dampers, very perfectly so that the cars still handle great. Good eyes tho, to spot that. Summer time I drop the cars real nice and set the dampers a full 4 turns, man oh man the GTI feels like it pulls well over 1g in the corners, good think I got the recaro's with the lateral support lol.
Anyways I'm considering buying a Saab Viggen, so I may sell my Saab, anyone interested can PM or whatever, I'm in the NYC area. Rebuilt engine, stage 3 turbo, over 300BHP, tranny is pretty solid, new high quality tranny mounts, very expensive and fully adjustable suspension, brembo's all around, Z rated tires, presently running 18.5psi because it needs a bigger fuel pump to get the full potential out of the big turbo I've installed. Honestly far too many modds to mention, but it's the most luxorious model you could get besides a viggen. All digital climate control, heated seats, black leather in mint cond. Factory stereo with 800 watt Kenwood amp and two rockford 10" subs. Very nice custom boost, fuel pressure, oil and water temp guages, boost and fuel are on lumbar. You can race virtually any car without even downshifting from 5th gear, that's how nasty it is, I want 6,500 firm, 127,000, engine rebuillt at 121. Turbo kit installed at...I think 123k. Reaches full boost at 2600rpm. Brakes are strong enough to toss u thru the windshield, no joke.
Sry for long post.
Those old Skodas are famous of being very horrid to drive, very unreliable and so dangerous that you have to have a suicidal personality to enjoy it. Tho in a way I couldn't resist one.
I had a S110L as my first car, biggest problem was the lack of steering with less than 1/2 tank of gas whilst driving up hill. Only cost me a dozen beers so couldn't expect much
I gotta Viggen intercooler, Viggen turbo (rebuilt), manual boost controller, black leather seats, like new, and a custom made sound system, dual amps go under the seats, custom box I made, only around 800 watts but more than enough for a hatch. A set of 18" black wheels, the one's from my pic(Scroll up a bit to see, tires come with them), all for sale, if interested PM. Your car is same year, engine, etc etc. Do you have the automatic climate control, fully digital, or the other kind with the knobs, manual like setup? Ahh I have the all digital, sooo much nicer looking, makes the car look 5 years ahead of its time. Oh I also have boost and fuel pressure guages for your lumbar. Heh, I gots lots of stuff. The turbo and intercooler would surprise the hell out of you power wise. I was able to run 15.5 psi on the stock fuel system, any higher and the ecu would cut it out, throw ya into the steering wheel lol. You'd have to buy a new computer to run much higher boost, unless you use the good intercooler and drive in cold weather. Anything over 65-70* and it will cut out everytime at 15.5. The intercooler alone plus a nice downpipe will help build boost faster and stronger, and delete some lag.
Wow! After Shotglass posted in his "pick me a car" thread, I took a look at MR2s around here. They are either $10k or they have half a million miles on them.
Though there is a nice 15 year old 38k mile car for :eye-poppi $20,500!
Most are $10k though and have at least 160k on the clock. To get down to $5k, they are over 200k and that's not fun coming from someone who deals with 160-200k on a regular basis.
i will have a a70 supra soon just gotta find one in good condition and for a good price.
i will be turning it into a track car some time down the road.