screw celi's and go with somthing else, who has thought of this idea Options

[Digndoug]

No offence to any one that is in love with there celi.. I mean i like mine, it handles nice after springs an its fun, but its hella slow. ok, i mean its not a 74 bug, but its not fast or eevry really quick. and i was thinking about a swap, but it seams most people here end up spenging close to 9k, i mean if i could do it for 2.. maybe 3 i would. My real question is who here has just thought screw theceli and get a real sports car? and if so, which?.. Im really thinking about getting a a camaro or firebird, cause no really imports have enough real power. eh just all what iv come too after looking and search for info and prices for swaps. its just not happening

[BenMMellor]

Ok I'm probably setting myself up for a flame - but why do you feel the need to go out and buy a massive fuel guzzling beast ?

In the light of the way world oil reserves are being consumed - and the fact that Bush has decided to ignore the rest of the worlds efforts to reduce greenhouse gases under the Kyoto agreement - surely people should attempt to make use of more fuel efficient & cleaner vehicles ?
e.g. Do you really need a massive 4litre Jeep when all you're doing is taking the kids to school and running to the supermarket ?

It may be a stereotypical view of americans but you guys have such cheap fuel that you all go out and have monster v8's etc. Toyota have been working for years to get as much power out of the engines they produce - as have most other Japanese manufacturers. The 7aFE is classed as a 'lean-burn' engine so that it gets a large amount of HP using a moderate amount of fuel.. I get 118BHP as stock in my SR and 174BHP as stock in my GT - both return about 40Mpg.

I will concede however that most of your cars are heavily restricted by the exhaust recirculation setups on your cars.. the real question is do you really need all that power when your speed limits are so low so you'll never really need it ?

I'm not some loony friends of the earth type person - hell I run 2 cars - but I do take an interest in 'future planing'. My old man used to work in the oil business (used to build Rigs for the oil fields in the North Sea, Brazil etc.. ) Even Shell announced this week that they'd over estimated world reserves of oil that were available.

Stick with the Celi mate. If you had to pay the fuel prices we do in the UK you'd be loking for something with a 1.0Ltr engine !

This post has been edited by BenMMellor: Feb 6, 2004 - 5:06 AM