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what if it didn't have a V8? Would that be the opposite of a "sleeper"? What would we call that then a "flaming screemer"?

It won't have the same pull as it would in a Z. Those things are heavy. I wonder if that guy swapped his V12 into the Z and then swapped the Z engine into the jag? Hmmm...

All you need is a VIN plate and a clear title. Money in the bank.

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Concur.

Cool now I can just mow over those spiky bushes I don't like.

Someone in a SRT4 (not the hatch back) was reving his car like a fool next to me at a light and I didn't want to race but I had to get over in his lane and after his assclown act I just had to press the pedal down about 1/2 way and kicked his a** entirely in 1st, got over before I hit 35 and was past his lane and turned left in another lane at a green arrow before he passed me. Why do people hear my exhaust and see my coffe can looking tailpipe and assume I have nothing to show? About the Dodge SRT4? they could have at least given it some sleeker styling I mean when you compair it to the Honda Civic hatchback... it makes the honda look good.

I hate it when people rip out the interior and start working on something and then just stop and let it rust to death. Sweat equity will payoff big here. DONT LET IT RUST TO HELL.

Whay did you make me watch that whole thing thinking there was a punchline when there WAS NO PUNCHLINE!!! I was hoping he'd run into a tree or at least get sideswiped! Now I'll have that stupid song in my head all day, "...when the cops come all I hear is whowhowhoooo..." The only trouble is now his Grandma needs her car back.

My question is, how did he get the hammer on the flight with today's strict carryon policies?

I added my own, so I have to have the clutch pedal depressed at least 1/4" to start it. It's not enough to disengage but at least I have to have my foot on it, and by then I will most likely push it in, that is unless I want to move it with the starter. I never thought about the crankshaft's role in this from the pressure of the throwout bering. I started my old car the same way (clutch in) for 210,000 miles and never had any problem with starting it this way. Replaced the clutch at 80k and cleaned the starter at 120K. Then the engine went from burning 1 qt per 2000 miles to 1 qt per 350. So I got rid of the car. Something to think about.

This is why you double check your steering linkage. Did you see him rolling his steering wheel left with no responce? I am always afraid that'll happen on my truck because it just has solid D-rods and set screws holding the whole steering rack together. I think I'm going to go home and tack weld it now.

I didn't see any front brakes. I'm sure they're on the drawing board.

But you don't know, you may have totaled it on the way to the show, maybe the road actually SAVED you're a**. Personally I'm waiting for a ladder or other big object to rip the transmission bracket out of my car. That'll be really fun.

Jeb's harry backfat!

like a Baboon

because his V8

ate bad acid

The most complicated and least reliable engine ever in the only car ever deemed "unsafe at any speed". I want one! I worked on those Jaguar V12's I was not impressed by the performance however those little XJS jags felt kinda heavy maybe part of the problem. 5.0L V12. Poor performance, poor gas mileage, sounded like a honda, and try to do a head gasket on one then talk to me. What a nightmare. IMO We tended to get head gasket jobs a lot (within 30k of a new car) and they overheated which caused many problems. The cars looked DEAD sexy though. I'l rather prefer a V8 in the XJS. JTR has a kit... Owning a Jaguar, the maintenance cost is so high you end up paying the price of the car every 5 years in repairs. At least this is how it was explained to me by a few customers. Sad lot really, we got to know them personally which should say something for reliability.

Installed a V8

All these articles are coming out (probably based on the same data) which predicts an (up to) 30 foot rise in the ocean level over the next 100 years from polar ice and greenland ice melt. If they would only quote all the data, it would suggest that rain reversal like we saw last year will become more frequent (where the northeast gets nothing and the southwest gets soaked). More "out there" studies: If the north pole did completely melt it's core and lose it's ice cap, (even close to it) the ocean water currents would change dramatically and northern europe and central canqada would on average decrease -20F (-7F would be a mini ice age and devistate agriculture), because of the cold air currents pushing south, the norhteast storms would hit further south and a generally cooler northern wind would dominate the midwest. This is where the confusion of colder winters in the midwest actually contradict global warming. On the pacific side, Washington, BC, and Oregon would become more arid, and the southwest would get more rain on average (northern storms). Although this would not spell a doomsday forcast in the U.S. it would severly criple eastern europe and canada with much cooler temperatures eventually leading to years where spring will not come, snowpacks will build, and over thousands of years snowpacks will be so deep new glaisiers will form and push both north and south starting the next true ice age and won't reverse again until the north pole is coverd once again by glaciers growing from eastern europe and Canada northward. Global warming according to my research (which is admitedly sparce) is not caused by humans and is a natural cycle of warming and cooling over tens of thousands of years. Although we may help it can't be more than 1/4-1 degree F per 100 years maximum. In other words, expect more rain on average in California.

Hey that's my album! I actually posted something someone wanted after only... 18 months! Wow!

and install V8