aNAlUBé, a tribute profile Options

[akamiami]

In the vein of what xian and gsx are doing, I'm whoring a thread of my own to sing the praises of my UNBREAKABLE DSM!!!! It's like bruce willis on unbreakable. absolutely nothing phases this monster, not 7k rev launches, crazy quick downshifts, curbs, 89 octane fuel, bad language, conventional oil, leaded diesel fuel....NOTHING! MWA HA HA!


Right now I'm welding in a roll cage. There is a pic on my garage profile.

Also, the speed glass is installed and is sooo sweet. The rear window is already scratched to hell and it's like having tint but not the type of tint that blocks any of the sun, just the effect of it where you can't see out the rear view window very well because it makes it seem like you've got cataracts and everything is blurry and indistinguishable. I guess next time I'll try saran wrap since I've never seen that stuff scratch or crack and it's very flexible.

The speed holes and custom license plate are rather fancy and I think add style to the ride that was lacking. Now it's a venerable show car, and as soon as the faux fur steering wheel cover and neon dash trim kit arrive, I'll go pimp the car show scene like I do the local junior highs. That's right all you pre-teen honeys out there. I'm 24 and I've got a drivers license. Wanna ride to the orthodontist to get your braces tightened? No problem, I'm all 'bout that shi-at.

[akamiami]

aNAlUBé hasn't exactly been acting in character lately as the car has been sitting outside of my condo for about a month on 4 slashed tires. As some know, the car was vandalized, along with my dd (which was made not once but twice a lady at the ham-handed attempts of criminals), and the insurance company has been slow to respond. Basically, the car was raped pretty severely and about 3K worth of electrical components (it's not stereo equipment, so take a wild guess) were removed along with random items like boost gauge, battery, some wiring peices, and an ass-load of tools. As a parting farewell, the motherless f*&@s also slashed the tires on the car, ruining my best attempts to put over 100K on a single set of kumhos. Not even the sanctity of the bodywork was recognized as the immaculate hood of the silver steed also fell prey to the greedy pryings of the unpriveledged.

I had planned on putting a alarm in the car once it was running and tinting the rear windows, but I never really thought it was at risk sitting out in front of my apartment looking as ugly as it does. It's not exactly as if I live in the heart of the city surrounded by crack-rock smoking baby-smotherers with pawnshop fencing houses of ill-repute on every corner. Rather it's the suburbs, where atms and starbucks abound and, apparently, the inner-city delinquent thieves come to play. To quote Travolta from Pulp Friction, 'nothing is more chicken-s*&^ that f#$%ing with another man's car'.

But the lube refuses to give up the ghost and though I have lost much of the motivation for getting the car running due to an abundant number of un-related personal projects, I can say with complete certainty that I will not relent and the car will see many miles of ass-pounding this year in one form or another. Neither heaven nor hell will prevent the homer-sexual nightmare that is a grey-hatch, named after the sodomistic carnage from which it was conceived, from returning to the streets in a vengeful rage of traction induced performance.

For the first time since 2001 the car will have new tires, so perhaps now the car will be able to run with the pack. The gameplan this year is to focus on what the car was built to do, corner with high levels of grip, and gain speed through the ability to stop faster, and remain catnip to the ladies. Reliability, and solid engineering will be the goals.

So basically, to sum things up, hp and acceleration are not major concerns.