I sure as hell don't go around free revving motors. Ever. I'll drive like a jerk on public roads now and again, but only in places you've never heard of miles away from anyone to endanger. Mostly my Mazda is a fun toy that I drive a couple thousand miles per year, rarely in anger. I daily-drive a very practical van. I use "daily" loosely; unlike most Americans I don't drive every day in any case.
My first car was a 400 dollar Volvo with 240k miles. Bought it with a friend. Replaced two struts, a balljoint, brakes all around, and a rusted out floorboard to get it to pass inspection. Learned a lot from that. Sold it for more than I put into it.
The idea in its very nature is ass-like. I don't need to assume anything. It might have been funny ten years ago before they started selling fake sounds on eBay. As in, if your idea were original I might have laughed.
Ten grand? Bought the car (93 MX6 LS 2.5l V6) from a guy who didn't care to fix what was wrong with it. Needed a window motor, a nut for a wiper, and a redo of a lousy windshield replacement job. Did this all myself except for the professional reinstall of the windshield after I took it out and fixed the incipient paint issues it had caused. Spent a total of 150 bucks on parts and labor. Bought the car for 800 dollars.
At that point it was a clean daily driver with leather, A/C, etc. I wanted a project, so I built an ECU for a couple hundred bucks, bought a fuel pump, sourced and modified injectors from a u-pull, bought Chinese hotpipes which I cleaned up, cut and welded a modified crossmember, layed out and installed an eBay intercooler and cold pipe setup, built a new wiring harness from Radio Shack parts, etc, etc, etc. Receipts indicate the forced induction project has consumed about 2000 dollars, much of which is in the turbo itself which I can resell on eBay for more or less what I paid for it. I've spent hundreds of hours on the project, and it can only be considered a good investment as a learning experience and a recreational pursuit.
There is literally no chance in hell that I'm going to dump ten grand into a mass produced car to make it look shiny and sound cool. Later in life I'm sure I'll dump more than that into old British sports cars for my own enjoyment. I'd really like an XK in my living room someday. I got over showing off for others sometime around your age.
You should get involved in your local club racing. Autocrossing is a great much fun and you don't need an expensive or fast car to have fun.
Well, yeah. I've buried the tach in fifth gear once or twice, only in carefully chosen circumstances with literally no one around to hurt but myself. Not without risk, but then again nothing in life is. As a general rule, I drive the thing pretty darned legally and gingerly. I did put a lot of work into it, and I'm not so young and dumb that I need to prove anything.
Heh, I agree with most of that rant, but I think with experience you'll find that more often than not the idiots that you see upside down in ditches next to snowy roads are the ones in the most capable vehicles. I drive a RWD van in the snow with a set of Graspics. Works great. As you might guess from the name, I drive in snow an awful lot.
Why are you trying to come up with a way to annoy adults with your car then?
Do you want to be in middle-management when you grow up? Thats hilarious...I don't think I've ever heard anyone boast their PowerPoint skills except for in jest when referring to Al Gore and the Greatest PowerPoint Presentation Ever.
Easy champ. I'll be walking out of here with a degree in ME next spring. But hey, there isn't anything wrong with being an art person. Its just not my cup of tea.
To be clear, new ideas that challenge norms are great. Its just that your idea isn't really new and it doesn't do anything very interesting or challenging. No offense meant by that, its just how I see it.
I think if you insist on doing this you should do it right. Take the suggestion to reference the TPS to your LFS throttle. Might be a funny effect in the school parking lot.
OT: heh, talk about a controversial issue. Even as a supporter of common-sense gun laws, it is obvious to me that the alarming prevalence of gun violence in America has little to do with the guns and the gun laws and a lot to do with other aspects of our culture and society. Michael Moore really annoys me, but he addresses this disconnect and some of the issues in his Columbine documentary...something to watch if you find yourself bored.
