Any other gearheads here??

[Spinedoc]

I'm a big car guy, and have owned and driven multiple cars. Currently, I have...

'14 Ford Escape Titanium (Daily Driver)
'98 Porsche Boxster
'89 Porsche 911 Turbo

I have owned previously....

'77 Trans Am-Smokey and the Bandit version
'79 Corvette
'68 Camaro Z28
'88 IROC-Z Camaro

Looking at buying a '94 Ferrari 348 Spyder....

Mike

 

[Bill Mattocks]

Not anymore. Had two 69 Dodge Chargers once upon a time.

 

[Dirty Dog]

I've been accused of being a gearhead on occasion...
Here's a sample...

'98 Dodge Ram 1500 - 408 stroker, 6" lift, 37 IROKs, ARB front locker, Detroit rear, MileMarker 12,000lb hydraulic winch, etc. Invited to Four Wheeler Magazines' Real Truck Challenge. Drove 1500 miles there, competed, drove 1500 miles home. Only truck there not on a trailer. Finished 14th out of 20. Top 10 were all tiny rigs.



'89 Jeep Wrangler. Chevy 383 stroker. Holley EFI. TH350, Atlas 4 speed TC, Full width D44 front, 12 bolt rear with 5.13:1 gears and detroits. 6" monoleaf suspension lift, 3" body lift. Entire driveline mounted above the lower edge of the frame. The entire undercarriage was a sheet of 3/8" plate, notched for the drive shaft. Poison Spider Stinger front bumper and rollcage. MileMarker 12,000 electric winch. 40" bias play IROKs with Staun internal beadlocks. High Steer conversion. Hydraulic steer conversion. Etc. There are only 3 trails in Colorado that are rated 10/10. Ran all three of them.



'95 Trans Am convertible. Forged 383 stroker with ATI Procharger making 12lbs of boost at the manifold - 576 HP at the wheels. 4L65E trans. Strange 12-bolt rear. Hotchkiss and Koni suspension. SCAT/ProCar seats and 5-point harnesses. 4-point rollbar. Best 1/4 mile in "drive to work" trim, 11.2x @ 12x.



Current toy. '99 Corvette coupe. LS1 yanked, replaced with LS3 with worked heads (larger valves, hand ported, double beehive springs, trunion bearings upgraded), a slightly lumpy "blower" cam, and a Vortec V3 SI making 9lbs of boost. Fuel system upgrades. LS7 clutch. 708 HP/605 ft-lb at the wheels. Have not had it to the track yet, but in "drive to work" trim, using an iPhone app that uses the accelerometers, with no track prep (VHT burnout, etc) she's pulled a 10.68@136. At 6000+ feet. I believe that at sea level, on a prepped track with drag radials and the suspension adjusted for drag rather than road racing, this car is capable of mid- to low 9 second passes in the low 140 range. Dyno sheet attached, because there's always at least one skeptic. The red lines are the original mostly-stock LS1. The blue lines are the current mostly not-stock LS3.

Edit: Wrong dyno sheet attached.

 

[Jenna]

'89 Porsche 911 Turbo

Last of the air cooled right?

 

[Spinedoc]

Last of the air cooled right?

Nah, '97 was the last of the air cooled 911's...the 993 series. In 1998 the 996 series debuted (with the 986 Boxster starting one year earlier in 1997).

 

[Steve]

In my youth, I was a big aircooled VW guy. Never had a Porsche, but I did have several beetles, including a 67 with a 2100cc engine and other modifications. I also had a stock, original 74 karmann ghia, which was a beauty. Bought it in 1994 from the original owner with under 70k miles, and everything on it worked, including the wiper fluid connected to the spare tire for pressure.

I wouldn't say I'm a gearhead, but you don't own old VWs and not work on them. You're always fixing, changing or adjusting something.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Well, I can only say what I sue to have...use to be a mechanic, had a lot of cars over the years......and I have no pictures I can post here,

this is a partial list
74 CJ5
75 Chevy Blazer
76 GMC K2500 4x4 (350 with a 4 bolt main and 4bbl carb...basically hit the gas and watch the gas gauge head towards empty)

and the last vehicle of my gearhead days was a
94 Jeep Cherokee Sport that looked exactly like this...just with side bars and better tires and rims

Today...nothin'

Always wanted a 1950s Porsche speedster....

And this may not be a "Gearhead" type car but of all the cars I had, this one, and again what I had looked exactly like this, this one was my favorite of the cars

1970 Buick Le Sabre, with big block 350

 

[Dirty Dog]

In my youth, I was a big aircooled VW guy. Never had a Porsche, but I did have several beetles, including a 67 with a 2100cc engine and other modifications. I also had a stock, original 74 karmann ghia, which was a beauty. Bought it in 1994 from the original owner with under 70k miles, and everything on it worked, including the wiper fluid connected to the spare tire for pressure.

I wouldn't say I'm a gearhead, but you don't own old VWs and not work on them. You're always fixing, changing or adjusting something.

Well, isn't a Porsche 911 just a sort of squashed VW bug anyway?

 

[oftheherd1]

In my youth, I was a big aircooled VW guy. Never had a Porsche, but I did have several beetles, including a 67 with a 2100cc engine and other modifications. I also had a stock, original 74 karmann ghia, which was a beauty. Bought it in 1994 from the original owner with under 70k miles, and everything on it worked, including the wiper fluid connected to the spare tire for pressure.

I wouldn't say I'm a gearhead, but you don't own old VWs and not work on them. You're always fixing, changing or adjusting something.

I bought a VW Camper in1972, and kept it for 17 years. It became a hobby about the last 10 years.

It was what got me started on working on my own cars (up to a point). It had the 911 engine as I recall. Also twin carbs which would go out of sync so easy. Learned to sync them too, until I got tired of it and put on a Holly Carb. That was nice.

But never really was a gearhead. I had other interests that were more interesting to me.

@ Xue Sheng I had an 89 Le Sabre, 6 cyl. I really liked that car. Especially when my kids were in high school. It was a tank! A guy rear-ended the Le Sabre. Some almost invisible marks on the rear bumper, his front end destroyed. I was shocked when they discontinued it.