Posted by Professor Chaos A smart would be good. You can just push it between 2 bushes to hide it.

I drove one and was pretty dissapointed. The Smart Roadster is pretty cool though.

I'd rather have a Volkswagen TDI if I was buying a car for the mileage... not much more expensive, close to the same gas mileage, and you get a real car.

Same here, a TDI is better.
And I wish more people would look into biodiesel than fuel cells, hybrids, and ethanol. We can produce it here from natural resources, whereas oil is funding the theocracies of the middle east, and ethanol would come from places like Brazil. Biodiesel is pretty clean too.

Hybrids are a JOKE, don't get me started on those. Overrated.

Posted by bandi Behold, the Punymog! click to view click to view

I finally drove it... it's pretty fun, climbs anything.

Get some pictures of it in action!!!

Posted by bandi I drove one and was pretty dissapointed. The Smart Roadster is pretty cool though. I'd rather have a Volkswagen TDI if I was buying a car for the mileage... not much more expensive, close to the same gas mileage, and you get a real car.

Yeah, I agree, but as I said, for ue, its great cause you can hide it just about ANYWHERE.

So, not trying to ressurect an old thread, but I think I'm going to put my car skills to good use.


After much discussion I think my guys and I have come up with the perfect UE vehicle.

Now, if we consider it on the actual URBAN part, here's what we come up with..

Something roomy, confortable, and able to carry 5 or 6 people and gear without being crampped.
Also, something that blends in, and is able to be outfitted with some toys for the drive, and to help with locating and exploring....

So, we came up with this...

We're taking my minivan(Mercury Villager), and outtfiting is with GPS, onboard computer, a full multimedia sysem, HAM and CB radios, and some other things.

Think about it, it blends in like nothing else. It's roomy, comforable, AND it gets 30mpg. So when we want ot jump the interstate to check out other cities, we're golden.

Roadwolf had a Chevy Venture converted into something like that. it was pretty neat.

Had police style strobes and a siren, too.

i was talking with impreza the other day we think this would be that was to go.
it's big so you call fit all the gear you want in it, it's good for long trips and most of all you can park it anywhere you want and no one will ask any questions.

you can get them for about 5 grand on ebay.

I think I may grab one of those for my next hotrod project. Dress it up police style but throw in a supercharger, cams, and some other goodies.

Posted by Rover Rob I think I may grab one of those for my next hotrod project. Dress it up police style but throw in a supercharger, cams, and some other goodies.

That would be sick. I'd like to see the police interceptors try and catch you with their old albeit supercharged interceptors...

i test drove a 91 vickie police pack back in 96 still painted in police colors WOW. Cop tires, cop engine cop suspension! all that and we are on a mission from God

Posted by Rover Rob I think I may grab one of those for my next hotrod project. Dress it up police style but throw in a supercharger, cams, and some other goodies.

you want the goods, you find a Caprice.
LT1 350 V8... 150+mph... handling straight out of the Corvette playbook. Makes that Police Interceptor look silly.

Samurai

Meh, the LT1 is a wrist pin throwing pain in the buttocks. The 4.6 mod may not have the initial balls, but takes better to mod. That, and I have access to a DOHC Cobra engine that happens to fit quite nicely..

That, and the cops here all run Vics, so I would blend right in.

Posted by Sinister Crayon That would be sick. I'd like to see the police interceptors try and catch you with their old albeit supercharged interceptors...

The squads aren't supercharged. At least not in the US. The only real difference between the regular Vic and the PI are the tires, exhaust, and the ECM is flashed so it doesn't shut the car off at 105 or whatever the stock vics run.

Posted by Rover Rob Meh, the LT1 is a wrist pin throwing pain in the buttocks. The 4.6 mod may not have the initial balls, but takes better to mod. That, and I have access to a DOHC Cobra engine that happens to fit quite nicely.. That, and the cops here all run Vics, so I would blend right in.

Are you nuts? I've never heard of an LT1 hammering wrist pins, or anything else in the bottom end, even after 150,000+ miles. I do know that the waterpumps were a tad bit on the weak side because they couldn't take the RPM's the LT1 could spin.

No, after working on and seeing what 4.6's with some miles on them are like, no thanks...

Samurai

Posted by Rover Rob The squads aren't supercharged. At least not in the US. The only real difference between the regular Vic and the PI are the tires, exhaust, and the ECM is flashed so it doesn't shut the car off at 105 or whatever the stock vics run.

I know, he was planning on supercharging one...

Posted by Sinister Crayon I know, he was planning on supercharging one...

Kenny Bell makes an outstanding kit for the 4.6L and 5.4L... Also, you can find a Mercury Marauder fairly cheap. Those were nearly nailed to the showroom floors when they came out a couple of years ago. Basically it's a Mercury Grand Marquis with all the stuff from the Police Interceptor Crown Vickie... (Kind of like an Impala SS was to the Caprice)

Samurai

I've done a bunch of LT1 rebuilds due to wrist pin failure. They also eat oil pumps, just like the Vortecs.




Keene Bell makes a badass kit. I was thinking of a Vortec for mine for economical reasons though.

I'd get the Marauder, but I can get a used squad CHEAP. I may pick up a Marauder for myself anyways though, and leave it stock.

Posted by Rover Rob I've done a bunch of LT1 rebuilds due to wrist pin failure. They also eat oil pumps, just like the Vortecs. Keene Bell makes a badass kit. I was thinking of a Vortec for mine for economical reasons though. I'd get the Marauder, but I can get a used squad CHEAP. I may pick up a Marauder for myself anyways though, and leave it stock.

Rob where are you from?
I've had the older 4.3L (non-Vortec) chew oil pumps and #4 rod bearing (like the Gen 1 2.8L's) but never had a Vortec lunch one. Serious, many of the guys I race with have LT1's with over 100,000 miles on them, beating them down the 1/4 mile...

I'm not being a dick, i've just never seen it up here.

Samurai

SW Wisconsin. We did so many Vortec oil pumps I was almost sick of looking at cars. For some reason, around here they seem to crap out right around 120k.

The LT1 troubles we've been seeing seems to be the wrist pin actually cracking and causing a nasty tick. It sounds like serious piston slap. We've done a bunch, and there are aftermarket alternatives that cure this, but they are such a pain in the arse to work on in general that I pretty much ruled out anything with that engine.

Now, start talking LS series engines and I'm all ears! I LOVE the LSx. Potent, efficient, VERY capable.

I'm actually taking my non-GM driving arse to a Pontiac dealership to talk about an '06 GTO M6.