Hi, my name is brian

[smallfoot]

5 trucks around here, 1 mc, and nothing made in this century! Sorry for wandering off topic lowbud!

 

[lowbudget50]

5 trucks around here, 1 mc, and nothing made in this century! Sorry for wandering off topic lowbud!

It's all good, it's all car discussion. That's what we're here for.

 

[offroadrolls]

I must be a different breed. I love the comforts of modern era cars. Don't get me wrong, I like driving old stuff because it is fun but, I don't really want to go anywhere far away in something old, it wears me out. I guess I'm Zsa Zsa Gabor on Green Acres. Heated seats, adaptive cruise control, air suspension and oh man you haven't lived until you experience a heated steering wheel on a cold morning!

 

[lowbudget50]

I must be a different breed. I love the comforts of modern era cars. Don't get me wrong, I like driving old stuff because it is fun but, I don't really want to go anywhere far away in something old, it wears me out. I guess I'm Zsa Zsa Gabor on Green Acres. Heated seats, adaptive cruise control, air suspension and oh man you haven't lived until you experience a heated steering wheel on a cold morning!

Those things are all fine and dandy until they stop working. That's the problem with these newer cars is it's all electronic. They're a different breed. Don't get me wrong my Duramax I own and pull our camp trailer with has a lot of amenities and it is nice. But given the option I would rather freeze my butt off driving my old highboy in the snow then my new traction control ridden truck that thinks it knows how to drive better than I do hahaha

 

[lowbudget50]

Got the new carburetor on the orange truck. Purrs like a old Ford

 

[05snopro440]

Those things are all fine and dandy until they stop working. That's the problem with these newer cars is it's all electronic. They're a different breed. Don't get me wrong my Duramax I own and pull our camp trailer with has a lot of amenities and it is nice. But given the option I would rather freeze my butt off driving my old highboy in the snow then my new traction control ridden truck that thinks it knows how to drive better than I do hahaha

My modern pickup won't do a burnout because the computer has a torque-limiting function. Things on modern cars like heated seats and HVAC are wired in a complex way, as are even headlights and taillights. My wife's daily has the headlights wired through the computer and it varies voltage to the low beam so they can use the low beam for daytime running lights and low beams.

I like when it's power and ground to something and a switch controls one of those. Modern vehicles have become excessively complex. That relates to fuel economy too, because they're way heavier because of the excess systems.

My truck doesn't need to do a burnout, and as long as things wired in a complex way work then it's fine. When they don't work it's a problem, though, and it just means the driver has less control and stuff is harder to fix.

 

[Neto]

Those things are all fine and dandy until they stop working. That's the problem with these newer cars is it's all electronic. They're a different breed. Don't get me wrong my Duramax I own and pull our camp trailer with has a lot of amenities and it is nice. But given the option I would rather freeze my butt off driving my old highboy in the snow then my new traction control ridden truck that thinks it knows how to drive better than I do hahaha

We own two 2019 vehicles, a Ram Classic (4th Gen), and a Honda CR-V. So I am on discussion forums for those vehicles, and almost everything that gets discussed there is a computer related issue. And yeah, it's all very complicated. I've been tempted to make comments on those sites about that everything is working great on mine, just to see something positive there once in awhile.
All of our vehicles except my 46 Plymouth are automatics. I still don't trust them. Every time there's a lurch or a hard shift, I'm thinking, Oh no, the transmission is going to give out. (I DO have to admit that a heated steering wheel would be nice. Don't use the heated seat on the CR-V. It makes me feel like I had a leak down there - that warm feeling.....)

 

[offroadrolls]

Back when I worked on cars for a living, people would ask me what's the best car. My standard answer was to drive or to fix? I think that's what it comes down to. I don't mind all the electronics if I don't feel obligated to fix them when something goes wrong. So, I justify paying the experts to fix the things I can't handle with the money I save fixing the things I can.

 

[Burgerman]

Great discussion. Burnouts are needed on occasion.

 

[lowbudget50]

Well, I've gone off the deep end

So ya'll might remember my Fairlane, well when I bought my bronco I sold the car. The bronco was more of a family project. I regretted it almost immediately!!

Well I bought it back!! 3rd time's a charm!!

 

[05snopro440]

I honestly assumed it was waiting to be worked on. Glad you got it back!

 

[earthman]

Got a pile in my garage now that came back into my life. What are your plans for it Low Bud?

 

[lowbudget50]

I honestly assumed it was waiting to be worked on. Glad you got it back!

Yeah I didn't really tell too many people that I sold it. I have buddies that have been in my shop multiple times and never noticed it was gone

 

[lowbudget50]

Got a pile in my garage now that came back into my life. What are your plans for it Low Bud?

I have an aluminum headed 302 that we built a couple years ago and a world class t5 probably going to get a sniper fuel injection system. I'm going to start with getting the mustang 2 stuff underneath it.
Then I will move on to resut repair and body work

 

[05snopro440]

I have an aluminum headed 302 that we built a couple years ago and a world class t5 probably going to get a sniper fuel injection system. I'm going to start with getting the mustang 2 stuff underneath it.
Then I will move on to resut repair and body work

Do you still have all the parts you bought for it?

 

[lowbudget50]

Do you still have all the parts you bought for it?

When I sold the car I sold it with all the parts. And like I said they have no intentions of building the car. The only reason they wanted it was for the coyote motor. The guys who bought it have more money than they know what to do with so it didn't matter to them that the car just sat out back. So when I bought it I made a deal to buy all the parts back! So I got the mustang 2 all the qa1 stuff for the front and the tires and wheels I bought for it. Those were the only real things that were not bolted to the car already

 

[05snopro440]

When I sold the car I sold it with all the parts. And like I said they have no intentions of building the car. The only reason they wanted it was for the coyote motor. The guys who bought it have more money than they know what to do with so it didn't matter to them that the car just sat out back. So when I bought it I made a deal to buy all the parts back! So I got the mustang 2 all the qa1 stuff for the front and the tires and wheels I bought for it. Those were the only real things that were not bolted to the car already

That's great. It would suck to have to buy the same stuff all over again.

 

[lowbudget50]

That's great. It would suck to have to buy the same stuff all over again.

Yeah I probably wouldn't have done it if I couldn't get everything back. The parts have almost doubled in price! Go figure

 

[Burgerman]

2X on glad you got it back LB

 

[lowbudget50]

2X on glad you got it back LB

Not like I have time to work on it hahahaha