Skangermobiles

Con_316

I reckon this guy/girl (god i hopin its a girl because that colour.... well it doesnt exactly give off very manly vibes does it?) who owns/ owned the corsa is nuts. There's no point in bothering to spend thousands of a heap of sh1te like a corsa just because you think you'll get cheap insurance. It'll ony stay cheap if the eejit driving it doesnt declare the mods.
Most people driving little weedy cars like this with thousands spent on mods dont actually have insurance because they havent declared the mods. They're fooling themselves.
Anyway, most of them are in fact slower than standard because of the extra weight of the bus sized exhaust, the ridiculous bodykit and massive wheels (which actually ruin the already poor handling and feck up the gearing too because the rolling radius is too big to compensate for by using low profile tyres) and the little Sh1tboxes tend to have standard engines. I'm not totally against standard engines it just that the extra weight sloes standard car down.

You can make a standard fiesta 1.1 as quick as 0r quicker than many 1.4s in real terms by fitting a decent suspension kit, decent wheels and tyres (15" max for sake of handling), Giving the engine a going over autograss style with a skimmed ported and polished head and a k+n filter . Strip out the back seats, fit buckets in front, add a xr2i or rst bodykit. and you've got a great fun little car that will feel a bit like a hot rod or auto test car.
Its surprisingly vheap to do most of this.

5500

Con_316 wrote:

I reckon this guy/girl (god i hopin its a girl because that colour.... well it doesnt exactly give off very manly vibes does it?) who owns/ owned the corsa is nuts. There's no point in bothering to spend thousands of a heap of sh1te like a corsa just because you think you'll get cheap insurance. It'll ony stay cheap if the eejit driving it doesnt declare the mods.
Most people driving little weedy cars like this with thousands spent on mods dont actually have insurance because they havent declared the mods. They're fooling themselves.
Anyway, most of them are in fact slower than standard because of the extra weight of the bus sized exhaust, the ridiculous bodykit and massive wheels (which actually ruin the already poor handling and feck up the gearing too because the rolling radius is too big to compensate for by using low profile tyres) and the little Sh1tboxes tend to have standard engines. I'm not totally against standard engines it just that the extra weight sloes standard car down.

You can make a standard fiesta 1.1 as quick as 0r quicker than many 1.4s in real terms by fitting a decent suspension kit, decent wheels and tyres (15" max for sake of handling), Giving the engine a going over autograss style with a skimmed ported and polished head and a k+n filter . Strip out the back seats, fit buckets in front, add a xr2i or rst bodykit. and you've got a great fun little car that will feel a bit like a hot rod or auto test car.
Its surprisingly vheap to do most of this.

Wheras you like fiestas(which lots of people would consider a trainee hairdresser or nuns car) the owner obviously liked his/her corsa and the colour.

Tbh if you offered the above fiesta or the corsa i know which one id be taking and it wouldnt be the one driving to the salon.

Saying most people with cars like that dont declare there mods is abit of a big generalisation,especially on a car with that amount of work gone into it your hardly gonna say when asked the value by insurance "eh 2'000 euro".

Con_316

Im not a big fan of fiestas, they're just marginally better than corsas and i was just making a point that with a small car you can make it fun and a lot quicker without the use of horrible minty looking paint, 20 inch wheels and an exhaust that could swallow up a fu*kin cat!.
People seem very quick to assume that just baceuse some1 makes a point about somthing then they are totall for it rather than , as i was doing, simply making a point and i happened to pick a fiesta to use as the base for my point.
I would not be surprised if about about 100 people freak out now and send me hatemail but: I HATE CIVICS, THEYRE BORING NOW! EVERY SKANGER EITHER HAS 1 OR DREAMS TO HAVE ONE, THEY ARE PURE SKANGER MOBILES and there are too many of them around.

Now if you want to talk about proper cars , forget most front wheel drive sh*te and start talkin BMW, mitsubishi starion (now there's a hardcore sideways machine), MKI and MKII escorts and maybe a cossie or a Capri V6 (for some retro cruisin). Thos are some cars that are actually decent to drive and easy to make extremely fast.
But That's not the point of this thread so if every civic driver or front wheel drve fetishist in the country wants a go at me then please do but start a different thread and we can talk about my obvious "hairdresser " fiesta fetish too.

5500

As i said before the owner wouldnt have done the work to start off with if they didnt like the car,regardless of what make/model of car it is if someone is willing to spend 20k plus on there car then so be it,obviously you'l get people who wont like it but sure your not building a car for anyone else to drive or for there taste.

t5pwr

Con_316 wrote:

...I HATE CIVICS, THEYRE BORING NOW! EVERY SKANGER EITHER HAS 1 OR DREAMS TO HAVE ONE, THEY ARE PURE SKANGER MOBILES and there are too many of them around...

I agree

Con_316

T5PWR I'm glad some1 else hal the balls to speak out against the evils of the civic. Very nice engines, horrible , boring scoby cars!
Is it T5PWR as in volvo T5 engine? If so Hell Yeah! volvos are cool. But theyre F*ckin expensive to repair! Gearboxes can cost 2grand for a 97 1.8 V40 estate! and te centre caps of the alloys cost 23.50 for a 3inch plastic circle with a volvo badge! A spurious front bumper cost me €660. Still, they'r good cars and the turbos are bloody fast

darraghrogan

Saddler wrote:

OK folks, theres nothing wrong with modifying your car and making it look good but the clowns who drive around in absolute sh1tboxes, do you think they actually realise they are driving around in skangermobiles or are they too sknagery to notice? Discuss....

Perfect example\on cbg....



Is this clown having a laugh? 14K?? lmao

Have you sold it yet?

michaelanthony

unkel wrote:

But then his insurance quote would be a bit high

Or even buy a bog standard 1.0 Micra, pay for all the running costs for 5 years, including insurance, petrol and tax while building up a full NCB and having enough left over for an M3 and insurance...

You'd be an old fart by then

t5pwr

Con_316 wrote:

T5PWR I'm glad some1 else hal the balls to speak out against the evils of the civic. Very nice engines, horrible , boring scoby cars!
Is it T5PWR as in volvo T5 engine? If so Hell Yeah! volvos are cool. But theyre F*ckin expensive to repair! Gearboxes can cost 2grand for a 97 1.8 V40 estate! and te centre caps of the alloys cost 23.50 for a 3inch plastic circle with a volvo badge! A spurious front bumper cost me €660. Still, they'r good cars and the turbos are bloody fast

Yep it's a Volvo T5. Good car alright and surprisingly fast. I haven't had to change much on it as it's well taken care of but I know parts can be expensive. It will be 11 years old in a few weeks, but I still love it...

Can buy the centre caps for the alloys on ebay for cheaper

layke

Ah Volvo, "they're boxy but they're good".

Personally I think, like mercs, that they are a bit if an old man car.
Can't deny that they are a wondeful performance wise overall.

Not everyone who is a skanger owns a civic, check out jspeed.net and be amazed. The reason so many people own them is because they are (last model) sporty, reliable & probably the fastest 1.4 on the road.

Con_316

t5pwr wrote:

Yep it's a Volvo T5. Good car alright and surprisingly fast. I haven't had to change much on it as it's well taken care of but I know parts can be expensive. It will be 11 years old in a few weeks, but I still love it...

Can buy the centre caps for the alloys on ebay for cheaper

Ebay would be good if i had a credit card but i dont think it's a good idea to have one because im very disorganised.

Con_316

layke wrote:

Ah Volvo, "they're boxy but they're good".

Personally I think, like mercs, that they are a bit if an old man car.
Can't deny that they are a wondeful performance wise overall.

They are very boxy (most of them) and very good. almost everyone thinks theyre old mans cars but you should drive a turbo one because theyre mental. You can scare the absolute sh1t out of people with one. I knw one guy with a t5 turbo estate i think it's an 850-R it has 260bhp and its ex uk police and still has the flashing headlights. mad fun because it' dark green and looks totally standard but will happily tear off past most "boy racer" style cars who will be expecting an easy time of passing out "a boring old volvo". Unfortunately i sold my S40 t-4. i regret it now.

micosavo

lol, best laugh I've had in ages reading these posts.

I like nothing better than slowing down in my car when I know there is a muppet-mobile behind me. Dry a really old huge merc, takes up most of the road...it's really slow and heavy...I love it

Con_316

micosavo wrote:

lol, best laugh I've had in ages reading these posts.

I like nothing better than slowing down in my car when I know there is a muppet-mobile behind me. Dry a really old huge merc, takes up most of the road...it's really slow and heavy...I love it

The concept of that is quite funny but did you ever think it could be kind of dangerous, last year, i was driving home and i came up behind a big volkswagen van, a LT35 or something and soon after that a Lancer overtook me and went in behind the van quite close and tha van did just what you talked about, slowed down and moved out a bit to take up the road. whenever the lancer went to try overtake, the idiot driving the van blocked him. The lad in the lancer became increasingly erratic in his driving style and eventually overtook up a blind hill and actually clipped the front wing of the van with his car causing the van to go onto the grass verge. Luckily the driver stopped his van safely but it was so sudden i could have hit the van if i'd been a bit tired and not concentrating.
Think about that if you go to hold someone back, all you need is one crazy driver who coul potentially get you killed as well as himself

Sizzler

I passed 2 spanners in a "Modified" 00 punto today, Im guessing the guy easily spent a few grand on it, but yet it A)Looked kak and Most importantly...its a ****ing punto !!!

And the fact he had L plates on it certainly didnt do his street cred any good