Modifying your car? How are petrol prices effecting you

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Gas prices making you think about not modding your engine?

No, I'll still modify my engine
48
70%
Yes, I can't afford to run it at these prices
9
13%
I'm not sure yet.
12
17%
 
Total votes : 69

Postby Adamal » Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:57 pm

HELBND wrote:LOL... thats ok my engine is coming out at the moment too - when the dizzy popped out, the cambelt jumped a tooth or 2 :lol:


That explains something! Me an' Pete passed you going the other way by Taka KFC almost a week ago and I thought your engine was sounding a bit on the rough side!
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Postby HELBND » Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:01 pm

Adamal wrote:
HELBND wrote:LOL... thats ok my engine is coming out at the moment too - when the dizzy popped out, the cambelt jumped a tooth or 2 :lol:


That explains something! Me an' Pete passed you going the other way by Taka KFC almost a week ago and I thought your engine was sounding a bit on the rough side!


yea its running rough as sh*t :lol: its ok its in the shop now, getting a few small things done at the same time. then i just gotta get suspension and possibly some blacktop 2-1 before trackday
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Postby tomo1985 » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:17 pm

Carib cost almost $80 to fill from empty but work pays for that so im burning it up while i can.
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Postby itsamirage » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:33 pm

Im buyin a windom next week so gas prices havent done much for me, 3l V6 will guzzle i think but oh well
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Postby vvega » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:40 pm

costs me 100 a week just to get to work and back a week
i dont really care about gas prices

but in persective its just under half of renting my house

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Postby RS13 » Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:12 pm

johntramp wrote:I imagine a 2K will be up there aswell


Haha, I remember when I bought a 2K 4dr KP60, it came with 3/4 tank of gas.. I didn't have to put anything in it for almost a month!!
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Postby AJz » Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:58 pm

costs me over a hundred to fill the fat b@tch, and thats filling up JUST when the petrol light comes on, so prob another 8 litres still in there.....68lt tank has its disadvantages, meh, like i really pay any attention.

So the answer is no, prices arnt bothering me, mabey later on, but not atm.
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Postby DJ » Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:01 am

Nop, I pay $30 a pop reguardless of the price, it just means I have to do it ever slightly more often now. Im not really modifing my car anyway.

Small fuel tank & light car ftw.
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Postby bubz » Wed May 03, 2006 4:18 am

my gtt takes $88.00 of 98 and only lasts 5 days.still wanna run 3" and even more mods.fuel price doesn't bother me at all.
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