Hey MrFox
Hey MrFox
I noticed you live in SLO. Do you happen to be the driver of the S14 that Tucker did an SR swap for? I've only heard about two SR swapped 240's around town. The only other people I see with 240's around here are people that have no clue about what they are driving. I've been wanting to build an S13 for over two years, but I've been going to Cuesta full time and working part time, so I've got no funds.
Hey Jacob, you wouldn't be the Jacob from Cuesta Auto Tech dept right? Were you the guy that drove a red Sentra(i think) a few years back? If so I think we took a few classes together (one of Bill Richmonds night classes IIRC). I'm Ken btw, and drove a old honda accord back then, if that rings a bell (if not, no worries and good to meet ya).
I don't drive a S14 though. I'm funds limited (ie dirt poor) myself, tooling around in a pretty stock S13.
I don't drive a S14 though. I'm funds limited (ie dirt poor) myself, tooling around in a pretty stock S13.
Oh s***! Ken, what's up? How have you been? How are your studies going? Yeah it's me. I'm all finished, about to get an Associate of Science degree. Still dreaming of building a 240, but I'm about to start looking for a job, so it shouldn't be too much longer. Can you believe what happened to the price of clips since that article in SCC came out? I can still get them for pretty cheap. One of the maintainence guys at Cuesta used to own a shop, and has a good relationship with an importer. He told me $1500 for a good red top clip. Alot of people are paying close to $3000 now. I'm considering going RB25. I still have the Sentra, but I'm driving a VW Golf GTI right now.
Do you remember that crazy kid Brent who had one of those old rear wheel drive corrollas? I haven't talked to him in a while. We went rallying out on that gravel road on the edge of Poly, off highway 1, and on our way back the cops blocked us off and he got busted for DUI. The last I heard about him he was going to marry his Japanese girlfriend, and her family was going to buy them a house. If I can get in contact with him, maybe we'll have a good source for JDM parts.
email me sometime: [email protected]
Do you remember that crazy kid Brent who had one of those old rear wheel drive corrollas? I haven't talked to him in a while. We went rallying out on that gravel road on the edge of Poly, off highway 1, and on our way back the cops blocked us off and he got busted for DUI. The last I heard about him he was going to marry his Japanese girlfriend, and her family was going to buy them a house. If I can get in contact with him, maybe we'll have a good source for JDM parts.
email me sometime: [email protected]
After "The Roach" got taken away for DUI (he was under 21), I saw it parked in front of the junk yard on Tank Farm Road, so I grabbed the key to give to him as a souvenir.
I've found more than 100 miles total (maybe even 200 or more) of winding roads around here, both paved and gravel. There's the one road I know Brent showed you that goes from just above Morro Bay to Templeton. That road also connects to another cool road that runs parallel to highway 1 up to Cambria. That road connects to a road that goes to Paso Robles. Theres another road around there that goes towards Nacimiento Lake, and if you keep going, you end up on highway 1 again all the way up by Big Sur. Highway 1 is really tight and windy up there. I could keep going. I haven't even mentioned the Pozo area yet. Hours and hours of driving around here, we're lucky.
I can only push so hard though, my GTI has 165,000+ miles (odometer doesn't work anymore) on stock suspension. Needless to say it can get pretty sloppy sometimes, especially with thier notorious tendency for them to lift the inside rear wheel on fast tight turns and their top heaviness. Those things are a guaranteed roll. If I had the money the first thing I would do is suspension, brakes, and a roll cage. Plus, I'm still learning the finer points of real driving. I feel much more comfortble on paved roads though.
Brent was just a natural. He had that "I don't give a fu(k" skateboarder mentality. If he ever got a decently built car and some formal training, I think he could be a very good racecar driver.
I've found more than 100 miles total (maybe even 200 or more) of winding roads around here, both paved and gravel. There's the one road I know Brent showed you that goes from just above Morro Bay to Templeton. That road also connects to another cool road that runs parallel to highway 1 up to Cambria. That road connects to a road that goes to Paso Robles. Theres another road around there that goes towards Nacimiento Lake, and if you keep going, you end up on highway 1 again all the way up by Big Sur. Highway 1 is really tight and windy up there. I could keep going. I haven't even mentioned the Pozo area yet. Hours and hours of driving around here, we're lucky.
I can only push so hard though, my GTI has 165,000+ miles (odometer doesn't work anymore) on stock suspension. Needless to say it can get pretty sloppy sometimes, especially with thier notorious tendency for them to lift the inside rear wheel on fast tight turns and their top heaviness. Those things are a guaranteed roll. If I had the money the first thing I would do is suspension, brakes, and a roll cage. Plus, I'm still learning the finer points of real driving. I feel much more comfortble on paved roads though.
Brent was just a natural. He had that "I don't give a fu(k" skateboarder mentality. If he ever got a decently built car and some formal training, I think he could be a very good racecar driver.