914 & Electric
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:33 am
Crap, now I miss my bike, JERK. Why you gotta use that avatar. :mrt:Jeff Shyu wrote:someone else from the rennlist did an electric conversion a few years back (hmm.. maybe 10+ years now..), it certainly wasn't because of saving gas at that time. i can't remember the specifics of it, but i do remember that it ran..
i can't imagine the 914 being a good LA-traffic car though. most 901 gear boxes are crap now, and the idea of "coasting" just makes me cringe from remember the crunch of gears as you try to shift it back into a gear from neutral.
You would only have fallen off and ruined your boy-band good looksAaron Goldsmith wrote:
Crap, now I miss my bike, JERK. Why you gotta use that avatar. :mrt:
Oh, I fell off plenty of times. Still pretty as ever.Max Hayter wrote:You would only have fallen off and ruined your boy-band good looksAaron Goldsmith wrote:
Crap, now I miss my bike, JERK. Why you gotta use that avatar. :mrt:
I've heard about Palomar. Many spots at which there's a good chance of your last crash.Jeff Shyu wrote:you'll be happy to know, aaron, that your corner on palomar is still a popular crash spot.
2 weekends ago, some tards from the mazda forum went up there with sti guys in the middle of the night, and crashed his car there
1. tight, technical, mountain road with some decreasing radius turnsBob Beamesderfer wrote:I've heard about Palomar. Many spots at which there's a good chance of your last crash.
My bad; I read Palomar and thought Glendora Mountain Road. I have driven Palomar a few times. We used it when doing a comparo of the Accord Coupe vs. the Altima Coupe. Accord won by a slight margin. Would have been more, but on the third run, which was my turn, the brakes were fading a bit.Jeff Shyu wrote:1. tight, technical, mountain road with some decreasing radius turnsBob Beamesderfer wrote:I've heard about Palomar. Many spots at which there's a good chance of your last crash.
2. close proximity to camp Pendleton
3. early 20's military male with deployment money and no financial responsibilities
add those 3 together, and you have a pretty good recipe for parts car/motorcycle.
No centerline, no guard rail section of GMR + group driving = high probability of bent metal and blood loss. No thanks. The time to go from what my ex-coworker's experience was mid-morning through mid-afternoon on a weekday.Jeff Shyu wrote:yeah.. the speed racers in the mazda forums all want to hit up GMR on weekend nights. I told them that they're nuts and i'm not having any part of it. seeing the way they drive, i have no doubt that they'd be the skid marks i see on sunday morning, where the skid marks ending with a pile of rocks pushed over at the edge, and no cars in sight.
speaking of fading brakes on palomar though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3efUW_hOJtU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Marshall and Aaron will love this blast from the past..
Bob Beamesderfer wrote:Makes me wish I still had my bike, although if I were getting one today I'd like a Ducati. There was an Italian flag painted 750 they made in the late '80s that was way cool.
Haha, yeah.. evo's weren't available in the US at that point if I remember.. Can't remember if "you know who" got caught for that one. Iturns out.. i still have that road memorized. Man we were dumb,Jeff Shyu wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3efUW_hOJtU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Marshall and Aaron will love this blast from the past..
well, the version linked above was the one that surfaced a few months after the original was posted. I still don't know how people got a hold of my vid .. dragging peg?..Aaron Goldsmith wrote:Haha, yeah.. evo's weren't available in the US at that point if I remember.. Can't remember if "you know who" got caught for that one. Iturns out.. i still have that road memorized. Man we were dumb,Jeff Shyu wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3efUW_hOJtU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Marshall and Aaron will love this blast from the past..
Yeah, it had staggered tire sizes from the factory, the front size is the oddball. Back then the brakes were pretty good, not so much today.Earl Merz wrote:Bob Beamesderfer wrote:Makes me wish I still had my bike, although if I were getting one today I'd like a Ducati. There was an Italian flag painted 750 they made in the late '80s that was way cool.
I was looking at one of those today. The one I was looking at was modified by Ferracci. HC pistons, ported heads, cam, flat slide Mikuni Carbs. Yep, I was in love. Guy bought it for $1000. Currently undergoing some changes, the factory tire size is no longer available, so he's upgrading the brakes/wheels for daily duty. I tried, be he wouldn't sell it to me. Those old foam grips are awesome.