My car is gay and slow...

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Wed May 26, 2010 9:31 pm

Dante was up here the other day and we hung out at Matt's house (Nitehawk) and had a barbeque and shot the shit for a few hours. Dante brought the minivan (Caliber R/T) with him. When we left he followed me out and when we got on the highway he got in the left lane cruising next to me and the road was clear so I tapped the horn 3 times and went. The problem was he downshifted and took off... I floored it and accelerated nice and slow and took a good minute to catch up with him. ATXs are gay and my neon is fucking slow. I need a swap. Now..

Mr Josh Zombie · Post by **Mr Josh Zombie** » Wed May 26, 2010 9:32 pm

Hop to it

Post by **racer12306** » Wed May 26, 2010 9:34 pm

Don't worry, the Caliber R/T, CVT, AWD is as slow as an ATX Neon.

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Wed May 26, 2010 9:36 pm

R/T Caliber was offered in a manual?

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Wed May 26, 2010 9:37 pm

MyNeonSaysHi wrote:R/T Caliber was offered in a manual?

I think he said they were hard to find, but yes. His is I believe. I saw a clutch pedal.

Well I'm working part time as of yesterday.. Same job I quit back in '06 working with my brother's civil engineering firm testing earthwork fill compaction levels outside all day with 100 lbs of radioactive metal.. It's tons of fun. At least now I'll be making more than the $8.25/hr I made back then since I have a degree now (unrelated to the field). I'm hoping to get $12-$13/hr so I'll be saving money until I find a career in my field. I'll also have to start repaying school loans soon. I have some projects to finish up and hopefully within the year I will get SERIOUS about looking for/finding a swap donor. This was always my plan, and it'll be the easiest since I can't run MS here because of inspection/emissions and I don't want to buy an SRT due to the cost of insuring one. Eventually I want to buy a new Challenger R/T and keep this neon.

Cliff's Notes: Fuck you. I'm working on it

Post by **racer12306** » Wed May 26, 2010 9:38 pm

MyNeonSaysHi wrote:R/T Caliber was offered in a manual?

Yes, but if you wanted AWD (The AWD isn't very impressive imo) you had to get the CVT.

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Wed May 26, 2010 9:41 pm

CVT FTL.

I've never trusted my ATX since I got the car either... It hesitates sometimes when it should shift and moves in and out of 1st gear pretty hard I think. Like bump-shift.. Idk, I hate it and I just know with my luck it'll fail on me. I have awful luck with transmissions.

Post by **racer12306** » Wed May 26, 2010 9:46 pm

The CVT isn't that bad. It takes a little getting used to. The autostick makes it a little better.

Mr Josh Zombie · Post by **Mr Josh Zombie** » Wed May 26, 2010 9:49 pm

I like that cliffs notes

I, for one, am happy being slow. After owning a sporty car, and making zero use of said speed, I don't see much point anymore.

glasswars · Post by **glasswars** » Wed May 26, 2010 9:55 pm

DO IT! I was tired of my car being slow, so I did something about it.

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Wed May 26, 2010 10:03 pm

Josh, I'm tired of having SLOW cars. I had a Spirit... old lady car, yet they had a fast R/T... which I did not have. Now I have a neon, and there's a faster SRT... which I don't have. I LOVE how it handles now minus all the fucking potholes EVERYWHERE in this city

Fuck, I think I'mma move back to IN with Adam, their streets averaged nicer than most of our good streets. Anyway, I just want the car to be able to power itself and most of all I want a fucking manual already!

Anth.. I hear that. I was tired of my car (looking) gay, so I worked on that firsts since I could spread it out and afford it. Now that it's getting where I want it and I'm done with school I'm finally going to be able to focus on what I've been wanting to do. GO MOAR FASTER!

Mr Josh Zombie · Post by **Mr Josh Zombie** » Wed May 26, 2010 10:07 pm

Ah yes, seeing a 'better' modeled version is fucking annoying. That's why I flew to Atlanta, GA to get my xB. Every fucking option I wanted, with the price/miles/color. Never going to 'settle for second best' when getting a car again

and you do, indeed, need to get a man pedal.

superdan · Post by **superdan** » Wed May 26, 2010 11:04 pm

you should learn how to drive a MTX first ryan

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Wed May 26, 2010 11:07 pm

superdan wrote:you should learn how to drive a MTX first ryan

If I had one, I would. No one is eager to let me drive theirs so I don't really have a choice.

superdan · Post by **superdan** » Wed May 26, 2010 11:20 pm

practice on my haggard neon

FAC3L3SS · Post by **FAC3L3SS** » Wed May 26, 2010 11:29 pm

Lawl. We didn't go out much, otherwise you coulda driven mines.

lilnicko11 · Post by **lilnicko11** » Thu May 27, 2010 12:37 am

ATX FTL

Haganracing · Post by **Haganracing** » Thu May 27, 2010 12:38 am

Yeah, thats the one thing I hate about my car.. But I will be doing a swap this fall

synviper · Post by **synviper** » Thu May 27, 2010 1:35 am

Just install v-tec, Jet chip stage 2 and tune the NOS and you should be low 9s through the quarter.

Forest Green 2k · Post by **Forest Green 2k** » Thu May 27, 2010 3:07 am

I'm gonna try to get my gay ATX to the 1/8 track near me and post the slip (1/4 mile is too far). I got some repairs to do first though and I'm broke.

dblsg · Post by **dblsg** » Thu May 27, 2010 1:40 pm

superdan wrote:you should learn how to drive a MTX first ryan

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Thu May 27, 2010 2:41 pm

I didn't know your car was an ATX. Whenever you me and dan meet up I'll let you drive big red around.

smiley · Post by **smiley** » Thu May 27, 2010 3:32 pm

ha, im in the same boat with u man, wanna swap it eventually, and no one ever lets drive there mtx

Marcel · Post by **Marcel** » Thu May 27, 2010 4:05 pm

ha! you lazy americans

90% of the cars here are MTX

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Thu May 27, 2010 5:40 pm

Thanks Kyle <333

smiley wrote:ha, im in the same boat with u man, wanna swap it eventually, and no one ever lets drive there mtx

Yeah, I smell ya. Everyone always says, 'oh ya, you can drive mine' but then when the opportunity arises there's always some excuse.

In Adam's defense, he did let e press his clutch in while the car was parked in the driveway.

smiley · Post by **smiley** » Thu May 27, 2010 5:42 pm

of course, just no trust

FAC3L3SS · Post by **FAC3L3SS** » Thu May 27, 2010 8:33 pm

Ah yes. My clutch hasn't been the same since....

....

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So your car is homo?

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Thu May 27, 2010 10:26 pm

sidepipe87 wrote:Thanks Kyle <333

Yeah, I smell ya. Everyone always says, 'oh ya, you can drive mine' but then when the opportunity arises there's always some excuse.

I ain't worried about the stock clutch. I let my brother try to learn and he stalled it like 16 times. Also not too worried about the tires. I'll get the exhaust fixed that way I can stand to drive it to pittsburgh so that we can meet up soon.

Then you can feel a 2.4 lol.

ZeroChad · Post by **ZeroChad** » Thu May 27, 2010 10:33 pm

I wish people would stop using Gay as a derogatory term.

ATX = teh suxor man.

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Thu May 27, 2010 10:41 pm

ZeroChad wrote:I wish people would stop using Gay as a derogatory term.

ATX = teh suxor man.

Does it really bother you?

Not trying to be an ass. I use gay too much to be honest. Like just about everything is gay that I don't like or doesn't go my way.