Surprise!
Brought it to get my rental car for my day trip to Atlanta (business trip).
Like the wheels?
Check the super custom center caps (remember the vinyl stickers I used in my printer for Tunakids bike? Same stuff)
New total (assuming that four wheels and tires of a different diameter count fully to the budget):
New budget ($2 worth of skateboard tape used):
$962.30
New "real" (including tools and drinks and such) budget
$1075.51
I can't recall if I counted the lawn mower battery, terminals, and J bolts or not. It's sitting on the stock battery tray that's been cut and bent a few times.
One big thing remaining. Full throttle is not full pedal travel.
Let me explain. If you mat it, you get something like 75% throttle opening. The throttle blade actually overcenters. So, 75% pedal travel is 100% throttle.
I don't remember taking off any sort of stop, but it sure looks like one was here.
Any suggestions? It's weird to drive this way.
Wooo! Fancy wheels! What coke dealer did you score those off of? 
volvoclearinghouse wrote: Wooo! Fancy wheels! What coke dealer did you score those off of?
Ahh, Craigslist, the classiest place on the interwebz.
Any guesses as to which car they came off of?
New budget (battery, J bolts, termals):
$1002.30
New "real" (including tools and drinks and such) budget
$1115.51
Oh, the idle speed issue was a misplaced vacuum line, swapped from the intake manifold to the EGR valve.
Still needs an alignment.
So I am going to end up spending money on this thing to make it a better driver, which is going to inch past the $1008 budget. I guess it's too bad I can't make it down to the Challenge this year. Oh well, It will just be a really really really slow $2016 car.
MINI Cooper wheels
DeadSkunk wrote: MINI Cooper wheels
You got it. Not even the lighter ones. Used tires, obviously. He wanted my 14" steelies to swap so he could roll around his parts car. I thought the centercap things were clever, but I did have to buy lugnuts.
Oops, lugnuts:
New budget (battery, J bolts, termals):
$1020.30
New "real" (including tools and drinks and such) budget
$1133.51
Sell some trinkets from teh car to GRM members for $2.00 and boom under 1008 budget!
wvumtnbkr wrote: Sell some trinkets from teh car to GRM members for $2.00 and boom under 1008 budget!
Before then it will probably get wipers, a radio, maybe some new seats, and dampers. The dampers are performance benefit, but the rest is not, and as this is not really a Challenge build, I'm not going to strip the car of stuff just to enter under $1008.
I will try and make some trinkets out of the pistons, though.
When you getting home?
Mad_Ratel wrote: When you getting home?
Yesterday afternoon.
It's at work with me today.
Nice try, though!
Boo!.
I was racking my brain trying to figure out a way to mess with you.
Mad_Ratel wrote: Boo!. I was racking my brain trying to figure out a way to mess with you.
It would be easy, go to the airport at night, go into the lot, put a sturdy floorjack beneath the crossmember, drag it a few rows down, drop the jack and leave.
Yeah, don't do that.
I did something similar to a roomate in college. Moved it halfway down the parking lot. It was hilarious to everyone but him. We even managed to convince him he had an early case of dementia.
Tuna, glad to see this thing getting some miles on it.
The valve cover is begging for a rattle can job.
Glad it's on the road!
tuna55 wrote:Mad_Ratel wrote: Boo!. I was racking my brain trying to figure out a way to mess with you.It would be easy, go to the airport at night, go into the lot, put a sturdy floorjack beneath the crossmember, drag it a few rows down, drop the jack and leave. Yeah, don't do that.
I was pondering the possibility of the cops leaving me alone long enough to plastidip it black or something...
In reply to Mad_Ratel:
OK that would be funny.
So it drove to work again today. It has the weird throttle angle issue, a slight step on the throttle as you step in (which makes slipping the clutch a bit clumsy), and no A/C. Other than that it's just an old car. It needs suspension stuff to be better, but everything works. Power mirrors work, power windows work, cruise control works, wipers work, pop up headlights work, everything but the radio and clock.
Neat.
Working power windows in a car that predates the internet always amaze me. Every time I press the buttons in the 300TD to lower the windows, I feel a little bit of joy as they actually work as commanded.
Kids these days, they will never know such joy.
volvoclearinghouse wrote: Working power windows in a car that predates the internet always amaze me. Every time I press the buttons in the 300TD to lower the windows, I feel a little bit of joy as they actually work as commanded. Kids these days, they will never know such joy.
No kidding!
I was driving home with McCall and he went next to me on the passenger side and flagged at me. I thought "I can't roll down that window, it's way over there, pfft!" and then noticed that it had power windows, and then found out that they worked. Amazing!
volvoclearinghouse wrote: Working power windows in a car that predates the internet always amaze me. Every time I press the buttons in the 300TD to lower the windows, I feel a little bit of joy as they actually work as commanded. Kids these days, they will never know such joy.
Hey now my 78 Mercury had working windows, even the back tailgate window (wagon) worked when the mood was right :)
But yes there was a joyful feeling about those old things still functioning.
Toe is essentially as close to zero as I can get with a tape measure, but it still is super dead on center and pulls weirdly when you're off center. I am going to try giving it a good dose of caster.
It also needs a basket full of suspension bushings.
So if I drive normally, everything is great. If I mat it into the upper end of the rev range, I can get the EGR CEL to blink on that goes away if I restart. Ideas?
In reply to tuna55:
I had the same steering feel issue on my 300TD. It turned out to be toed IN too much. Double check that toe- bounce the suspension a few times, recheck. Possibly it's going toe-in dynamically, due to bad bushings or tie rods or something?
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