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i just got beater with a heater

badhoopty

badhoopty

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i just bought this, now i can keep the transam in the garage where it belongs.

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/car/435497986.html

"thumbsup"

i've been wanting one for quite awhile, and this is the first that has popped up in my area that already had some work done to it. all the other ones i looked at in the same price-range were either stock and beat/rusty or lifted and didnt run.

i talked the guy down some, its a little rusty in the wheelwells and floorboards, and it drives like any lifted jeep or sammy i suppose, squirly. but man i'm stoked. imo its just about the perfect city car and i wont have any problem parking it on the street.
 
it aint like i'll be wheeling that much in DOWNTOWN CHICAGO anyway.

its like, REALLY flat here. ;-)
 
Looks great, but put the stock spsrings and shackles back on and it will be alot better wheeler and less prone to flops. :)
 
Mikekx65 said:
Like i'm going to listen to a 12 yr old who can't spell. Them things are known for rolling over. Especially with a lift and big tires.
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They are still quite capable with a few mods like the spring over, lockers, and 31s or 33s...but with 33s you'll be popping ring and pinions sooner or later on the real rock crawling.
 
Natedog said:
They are still quite capable with a few mods like the spring over, lockers, and 31s or 33s...but with 33s you'll be popping ring and pinions sooner or later on the real rock crawling.
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If you read above he said it was going to be used as a daily driver, Meaning pavement. When off road and taking a corner fast it will most likely just "slide", take a corner too fast on pavement....it's not going to slide it will just roll over.
 
Mikekx65 said:
If you read above he said it was going to be used as a daily driver, Meaning pavement. When off road and taking a corner fast it will most likely just "slide", take a corner too fast on pavement....it's not going to slide it will just roll over.
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i'll just lube my tires before i drive.
 
Mikekx65 said:
Like i'm going to listen to a 12 yr old who can't spell. Them things are known for rolling over. Especially with a lift and big tires.
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Mikekx65 said:
If you read above he said it was going to be used as a daily driver, Meaning pavement. When off road and taking a corner fast it will most likely just "slide", take a corner too fast on pavement....it's not going to slide it will just roll over.
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It all depends on the driver. I had an '87 Samurai with 3" lift and 32" tires and never once rolled it... I was 17 and did tones of stupid stuff. Now I have a 97 TJ with 3.5" and 32"s and have yet to roll that. The only reason you hear about these rollovers is because of unexperienced drivers doing things that they used to in their Honda, now in a vehicle with a higher center of gravity. Don't blame the vehicle for a roll over, its always the driver.
 
2JSC said:
It all depends on the driver. I had an '87 Samurai with 3" lift and 32" tires and never once rolled it...
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Yea, but admit it.................you put it on two tires once or twice.

My second vehicle was a '86 Sami, only slightly modded, and I know in my teen stupidity (i.e. doing doughnuts), that thing hopped on only two tires a couple of times. But to be honest, if I couldn't make it roll then, odds are I couldn't have made it roll voluntarily.

For onroad driving, two tips: 1) learn to draft behind big rigs on the interstate...........they hate it, but in mine, it was the only way I could get over 72mph on flat ground. 2) stopping distance, at least in mine, was HORRIBLE, especially in rain. I have only been in two accidents in my life, and both were because I couldn't stop my Sami quick enough (once my fault, once not). Just leave yourself a little more distance than you would in a car.
 
Robb said:
Yea, but admit it.................you put it on two tires once or twice.
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Only once, and I was leaving a paved road onto a dirt road a little too fast. I may have driven it faster than I should have a lot of the times, but never anything stupid enough to get it up on 2 wheels on pavement.
 
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The only sammy I've seen that i really liked

was back in NY 2wd with a 3000gt twin turbo drive train stuffed in it

Lowered 3 inches it ran low 11's with a 50 shot of juice

That lil bastard had a few mustang drivers ticked off
 
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