<![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots! - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots! - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> I know it's not the right year or model, but damn if this isn't a great name for a car: [m.assetbar.com]

HankelTransform

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @Murilee Martin: You can find a Citation that hasn't rusted to bits?

Oh yeah; Alameda. Dang I hate the midwest sometimes.

thunder

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @TexanIdiot25: Now that deal sounds pretty good- someone needs to get a Caddy grille for their race car!

Murilee Martin

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @Murilee Martin: Allright then.

The offer is to any LeMons reading, the new CTS grilles and the Escalade grille. Boost your Pimp-points.

Freebies for my dad's work place...

TexanIdiot25

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @SLR_BlowerMania: Exhaust system behind the exhaust manifolds doesn't count against the $500 limit. We went for a 3" single exhaust and a junkyard Flowmaster knockoff with full tailpipe, because the word is that the track is going to be ruthless about enforcing the noise limits.

Murilee Martin

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @TexanIdiot25: @TexanIdiot25: We got the fender vents covered... but might not have time to install them.

Murilee Martin

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @TexanIdiot25: I also have the chrome grille inserts to a new Escalade. Cut those for fender vents.

TexanIdiot25

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> "NINE BUCKS! Thats a steal for a Fiero wing.
OK, Scoop? Yep. Wing? Yep.
Turbo badge? Yep.
Fender vents? No?
Ya gotta have fender vents!
How can ya have any ventin' if ya dint have any fender vents?
And by all means, paint a Swedish flag on the roof.
The $2008 challenge gives points for looks. Likewise, LeMons may add "index points" for coolness. A flag roof is very cool, unless its a British or Confederate flag. Way overdone."

From the Fiero wing post.

I can see about a set of Escalade fendervents. Or if anyone wants the grille of a new CTS (upper and lower) I can send it out if anyone is interested... Well, in a few weeks when I can afford the shipping

TexanIdiot25

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @Murilee Martin: Please, no. Adding a turbo would put a big ol' bullseye on the side of the V8lvo when it comes to crusher voting.

Skydiver

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> That exhaust system looks expensive...

SLR_BlowerMania

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @JCWhitless:

While that does sound cool, they do already sell red antifreeze . . . I used to run it in my dirtbike. Secondly, LeMons cars have to run on straight water to avoid making a slippery track when spills occur. Perhaps they'd allow dye in the water?

79TA

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @dculberson: Driveshaft would most likely be the front half from a Ford, rear half from a Volvo.

I don't recall whether the U-joints would work out size-wise on its own or not ... because they might.

narf

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @P161911: A T-5 lining up behind a Ford engine with the shifter in place nothing ... these T-5 shifters line up through the hole even behind the stock Volvo redblocks.

FWIW, I run Motorcraft FL-1A filters on my Volvos too.

narf

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> You need to call it the 284 now. 8 cylinders for the win!

HIDGolf

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> This car is evil. Not evil in the Disney wicked step-mom kind of way, but evil in the enjoys the smell of dried blood on a shirt collar and entrails on the ceiling evil.

Seriously, you need to dye the anti-freeze bright, blood red, so if this thing chucks its guts, we want high speed shots of red mist wafting on the track, like a mouse thrown into a turbine.

JCWhitless

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> Obviously, the Hoon Gods, and Evel himself, have smoothed the path for their favored sons. I anticipate this power plant will produce Major Tire Damage.

DoctorNineTenths

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @TexanIdiot25: A.D.D. to the rescue, heavy duty (big) turbos of diesels!

TexanIdiot25

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @TexanIdiot25: As in, both the super/turbocharger on the same engine.

TexanIdiot25

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @Murilee Martin: Just remember the intake is on the ass end. I was thinking about shoving one onto my V6 Firebird, but their just too close to the cowl it seems on the 3rd gen.

Doesn't VW have a supercharged AND turbo charged motor?

TexanIdiot25

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @RoninianHoon: OK, we'll bring a spare (used) clutch disc.

Murilee Martin

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @P161911: I'm really tempted by the idea of a supercharged 3800-powered Fiero as a personal Hell Project. Or, better still, a supercharged 3800 in a Citation!

Murilee Martin

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @diskreet:~What he said Murilee Martin...?

RoninianHoon

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @diskreet: It's the clutch that came with the trans. Plenty of meat left!

Murilee Martin

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @joshman: As an engineer, they were probably lazy and jsut copied whatever else was around. Also know as following a standard. All this 30 years before Ford and Volvo officially were joined.

Murilee, don't forget that there are lots of GM 3800 SUPERcharges at the junkyard too. Everybody does turbos.

P161911

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> So... how did you work the drive shaft out?

dculberson

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> 24 hours spent racing on a manual box sounds great, except for the kind of clutch that must have ended up in this $500 race car. Are you going to be putting in a new clutch after 2 hours or does it look like it will last?

diskreet

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @narf: Hmmm... forced induction... plenty of turbochargers in the junkyard!

Murilee Martin

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @trs1: Dana 30, which were typically used for the front diffs on the Jeeps. Should be alright here, unless some forced induction gets added into the equation; at least you don't have a rear subframe to worry about ... the 7-series are apt to turn into a pretzel when a lot of torque is applied.

Is a lincoln locker in the plans too?

narf

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> I love it when stuff just fits together like an engineer designed it that way. Maybe one did? Whenever I create something and have time to improve it, I make it do stuff I want it to do in addition to the requirements. I too am glad you went with a manual.

joshman

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @TexanIdiot25: Yeah, that's pretty much what I was thinking.

wookie1901

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> Don't forget folks the pre-event fun starts this SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!

"The Last-Thrash Bash, Sunday 4 May '08 at LeMons Headquarters (5675 Horton Street, Suite C, Emeryville CA 94608), from 10-5. BYOB, BYO lawn chairs, BYO crappy car, BYO B.O., etc. Teams are invited to come wrench on their heaps at the Bash and get free advice from our welding, tech, and fab experts on-site. (Free advice that's worth more or less what they paid for it.) Two arguably lucky winners--for "Least Likely to Be Ready by Race Day" and "Most Improved Since Breakfast"--will end the day with a ten-lap bonus, redeemable if and when their ill-prepared pile ever reaches the grid."

vwminispeedster

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> Doesn't look any worse than the rubber boot that came stock in my '85 Rx-7

Dave7

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> It's all just so beautiful. (Sniff) You guys are the best.

milo_carrera

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> Is this the coolest car on the planet? Make my t-shirt a medium, please.

PatFromGundo

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> If this whole Jalopnik thing doesn't work out, you could go ahead hand start your own 5.0 brick conversion company.

Mad_Science

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @wookie1901:

TexanIdiot25

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> You guys won't have any trouble with that rear-end: it's a Dana 30 or 40 or something and is basically what you'd get in a stock Jeep Wrangler.

tяs

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> Somehow I knew this car would have a straight shift... it just wouldn't be right without one... and seeing this brings a tear of joy and affirmation to my eye.

Go kick those $500 slushbox posers back to the junkyard!

WilliamG.

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> Kudos. Manuals are where it's at.

Euromobile

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @nyoh-ohio: Thanks for the offer, but we think the inner-tube boot looks cool.

Murilee Martin

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> Awesome-o 4000! Just need some cardboard and you're all set.

Mfatik

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @nyoh-ohio: make that free, i would be proud to have a part of my car on this, although you cant have the hurst 4 speed

nyoh-ohio

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @Murilee Martin: if you guys want ill send you my mr gasket shift boot and plate-on-the-bottom-thing for the cost of shipping

nyoh-ohio

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @TexanIdiot25: We have an entire parts car. If we blow up the spare rear end, we'll send a crew to the junkyard.

Murilee Martin

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @nyoh-ohio:

In the Spirit of LeMons, and of this car, an 8-ball shifter is both free, and wholly apropriate.

Feds

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> Good, just checking. I will let the lack of skull shift knob go if you are planning to paint a giant one on the hood.

wookie1901

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> @wookie1901: There will be skulls.

Murilee Martin

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> I'm curios to see if the rear end will survive... Ya'll going to stock up on diffs and driveshaft bits?

PS: The TSX ads are really annoying

TexanIdiot25

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> This car should be in the JFG instead of the El Camino.

harumph

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> What? No chrome skull shift knob? Will that put you over budget?

wookie1901

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> you need to polish your knob

nyoh-ohio

]]> <![CDATA[Real $500 Race Cars Have Manual Transmissions... And Inner-Tube Shifter Boots!]]> Can't wait to kick the competition's collective teeth up through their metaphorical ass.

ViergangFuchs

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