After being the p***enger in a v6 hybrid, i'm here to tell ya that these thing fly!!! If i could work out a way to transpant a traditional styled rod onto the ch***is and drive train i would!! When you sit at the lights all quite like and the light goes green and you leave everything in sight for dead its quite a rush. Don't get me wrong i love my rod with its SBF and noise but i just enjoy it. More power to the kid. Tell me that if it wansn't a 4 1/2 inch chopped model a coupe in bare metal and running a full bonnet that it wouldn't look cool. I was told when i first got into rodding, that if it looked like one and ran like one it was one. But thats just my opinion.
nothing obviously new or "out of the box" except maybe the fibergl*** package it's in. at***ude? yes it has at***ude, and style given time it will develope a sole too. hell in twenty years it may even look like your sacred ****py rat rod by future standards. more power to him.
This thread seems to be edging towards the topic of "what is traditional?" I usually sit on the fence and watch those posts but I thought I'd respond this time. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but "traditional" in a loose sense on this board means, building a car that resembles a rod or custom built in the style of a car that was built in the 40's - 60's. On the other hand, when those car were being built, they were hardly "traditional" by any means, they were new, the were different, the owners and builders didn't care what other people thought, they did what they thought was "cool". That is traditional to me,, the state of mind when building a car, the at***ude of building something and letting the middle finger fly to the people that look down on your creation because it's not built with the right parts or they style they would have done. Now I'm not here to beat a drum and make a point,, I know what this board is about traditional rods and customs, and that is primarily what I come here for, I don't come here when I want to talk about my 11 second turbo all wheel drive mitsubishi because it's not the place, but it does kind of bum me out when someone posts something a little different, especially when it's as innovative as what was posted in this thread and it get slammed by a few guys, because whether you like it or not that guy is more "traditional" in his terms of thinking than half the guys here, you just don't like it because he's giving you the proverbial middle finger as he silently rolls by you on the highway..
I don't consider myself a hippie, but lets get real for a minute. We are all going to have to roll with what the future brings. The reality of life is that a gallon of gas is always going up, and "the man" is up everyones *** more everyday. Changing the way we think about fast cars will be a reality. As a country and as a planet, there needs to be people doing something besides small block chevys to go fast. Personally, I belive that biodiesel is the future. It has all the plusses of diesel, and it can be produced locally. When I think about producing something myself, verses buying from somewhere else, I always choose to produce it myself. The same should hold true with fuel. I know this is a trad message board, but some of you guys are trad like dinosuars (right into extinction).
What would you call those rides that Luke Skywalker and Han Solo were souping up in Star Wars, Hot Rods of the future?. Don't get me wrong, I hope there will always be 'traditional hot rods' around, and I would rather be driving them. But the future is changing and the EPA police are at the door. Sooner or later they will win because they have the majority of the money backing them. The only rods left will be the outlaws, and thats only if there is any gasoline to run them on. If hot rods evolve into some kind of alternative energy machines, hot rodders will most likely find some way of modifying them to the old hot rod philosophy of making them faster, louder and scarier, Like Luke and Han. My 2 cents
In one of the more recent ready made magazines (issue #24) they just talked about how to set up your own bio-deisel tank and everything. I thought it was really good article on the pluses and minuses as well and great instructions of how to put it all together if you decided to go that route. In case anyone was curious or interested.
I don't think that going green should have to mean that you'll forever loose what everyone loves about hot rods today the noise, the power etc I think that as hybrid technology progresses we'll be able to have the best of both worlds. Its just going to take time and people who are willing and/or crazy enough to want to try things out to get there. It might not be for everyone but if the .5 % of people who want to combine those two worlds can do it and do then more power to them.
Hmm, a hybrid car does´nt mean you have to get rid of the flatty or what you got, just combine it with an electricmotor! I like them best the good old way, but its interresting to read and think about different sollutions!
i hate hippies, but think that *lowering* our overall dependancy on middle eastern oil is important (why feed our enemies w/ money?)-- therefore, im all for hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles on m*** produced cars. let everyone get them and i'd be fine. besides, for most people the only purpose of a car is to get from point A to point B. that said, i plan on continuing to drive my gas burning old cars as daily drivers -scott noteboom
Funny, I was just talking to my Mom-in law about alt fuels. They're about to ban bio-diesel in all the major markets in Texas (mostly counties on the I-35 corridor-get it?) Reason being is that a by-product of biodiesel exhaust is...wait for it...Nitrous Oxide! The people who make biodiesel were given over a year to figure out a way to reduce the level of NOx is the emissions and they didn't, so now it's getting banned. Seems to me that you could have set-up a scavenger system to pull the NOx from the exhaust to be reused at a later time?
Just drive past a rave... Damn techno hippies love the nitrous, charge a buck a **** (on the tailpipe that is) and make money whilst saving the Earth... Nitrous is hippy crack.
Man, nitrous is CAR crack-never saw a car that didn't wig out when it hit the bottle! In the words of Frank Booth: "Daddy's coming home...Don't you f#ckin' look at me."
Its not NOS, it is NOX. It is the same thing they used to put a kit on your car in the 60's to fix.(at least in Cal)
Couldn't you use the same kit on a diesel? As far as I can tell, Nitrous Oxide (NOx) is what goes into a NOS (Nitrous Oxide System)-I corrected my error above-sorry.
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