Topic: Who else uses their race car as a DD?
Just curious if anyone else built an honest to god $500 race car and then continued to use it as a DD haha? I picked this 2VZ powered lexus up out of a field in TN for $300 not running. It sat there for 4 years and some field mice had chewed through the fuel pump wiring on top of the tank. I cut an access panel through the floor instead of having to drop the tank, fixed the wiring, put some fresh gas in and it fired right up. An oil change, waterized coolant, tires, brakes, and new stock sized exhaust and thats it. Left all the power windows, glass, heater, wipers, and lights intact in hopes of keeping it as cheap transportation after. We ran the south fall race this year and made I think 86 laps with a sad best of 1:10 not pushing it too hard. I expected the crap 2VZ to throw a rod bearing or blow a headgasket but it performed flawlessly for 3 hours in the 90 degree weather. The 170k mile clutch finally disentegrated at lap 86. To change the clutch you have to drop the entire subframe and we didn't bring enough tools/engine hoist to do it, especially not in the grass, and we didn't have another clutch disc. Ya were a bunch of noobs hah. The car lives on and gets alot of laughs on my way to work everyday with its 8-bit penis graphics and sharpie instructions all over it. On a side note if I had known I could bring a JDM VVT-i 1JZ single turbo swapped mk3 supra with an intercooler the size of my hood I would have lol. I've built 14 of those cars and when I saw it in the tech lane I wanted to call BS on the guy so bad but it wasn't my place to do so. I would have claimed that shit so fast and sold it the next week for 5 grand.