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Re: what do you regret doing to your car?
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:14 pm
by DTMAce
Same here. One day or another, I plan to get one for my eventual project...

Re: what do you regret doing to your car?
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 11:21 am
by 90GTZHO
My big regret is pulling my a/c and like Kyle, spending so much money without a plan

I prolly could have had her painted by now if i would have had a plan of attack.
Re: what do you regret doing to your car?
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 11:59 pm
by woody90gtz
90GTZHO wrote:My big regret is pulling my a/c and like Kyle, spending so much money without a plan

I prolly could have had her painted by now if i would have had a plan of attack.
I planned out my 91 as a one-time-build "do it once and do it right" project, but still ended up tearing it apart again a little more than a year after I "finished" it.
The conclusion I've come to is: guys like us are always going to be turning wrenches...no matter what.
Re: what do you regret doing to your car?
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 10:15 pm
by Alxsmt
getting forged pistons made for N/A and gapping the rings for N/A...... biggest mistake ever.
Re: what do you regret doing to your car?
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 11:43 pm
by BerettaLove32
I did some dumb stuff to my Beretta when i was 16. Bought a K&N cone filter that was too big for the car and had some ghetto hookup using heating parts made for your house. Although it actually kinda worked lol. I decided also to cut the stock muffler off with a hand saw and using a series of clamps and wires i "installed" a flowmaster muffler. I tried to turn my kickpanels into some sweet fiberglass kickpanels for bigger speakers and i did a pretty bad job. But i guess you gotta start somewhere. lol. I just regret dropping so much money into my first Beretta which had pretty high miles on it.
Re: what do you regret doing to your car?
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 12:51 am
by weba
I would do _Everything_ different with my cars, if I could go back in time.
But I don't really regret things done. Okay maybe that one hooning night at the parking lot was stupid, or that dual exhaust tip on the base, that I removed in a week, no harm done.
All of these things teach you a lesson. It's called experience.

Re: what do you regret doing to your car?
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 4:34 pm
by Styluss
And there's no experience like wrapping your car around a tree huh Weba??
Re: what do you regret doing to your car?
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:05 am
by weba
No amusement park can provide anything that compares

Re: what do you regret doing to your car?
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:14 pm
by Chad91GTZ
weba wrote:No amusement park can provide anything that compares

Fact.
At points I regret having so many, because none of them are getting finished. I just want ONE to be done. I always snatch up parts at times I think they will be scarce but never end up using for years sometimes. Like rare transmissions and dashes. Did you guys know I have 3 transmissions and 4 complete engines in my garagage? Not in storage, right in my garage. I also have 3 perfect dashes in different colors, one that hangs from seatbelts on the ceiling because of no space, two complete sets of Z04 seats, two and a half complete interiors including carpet for 91+ GTZs, and 3 complete sets of Z04 ground effects, that i simply will never use, but cannot sell... Because "what if I did?" And couldn't find it.
My stroker would be built and done by now if hadn't spent so much money on crap I had to have, but still don't need.
Re: what do you regret doing to your car?
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:46 pm
by DTMAce
Now I know where to go to get car parts... LMAO
Re: what do you regret doing to your car?
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:30 pm
by Thompson128
Installing a cadillac grille

Re: what do you regret doing to your car?
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 6:57 pm
by el_roy1985
Not buying a 92 quasar quad with blue interior before it was crushed... I still have nightmares... Oh, and yellow wheels...
Re: what do you regret doing to your car?
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:49 pm
by berettaboi
i dont really regret much... most things are reversible... if you can find the part. i usually plan and think about things before grabbing the sawzall! lol (for the record, i have never used a sawzall on a car... yet) grinder is my weapon of choice!
i regret not having the money to do things perfectly properly... most as in rust control. i really hate body work, i just do it cause i can, and would beat myself if i paid someone else big bucks to do it...
really, you do what you can...
Re: what do you regret doing to your car?
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:21 am
by Carson21R
ever messing with mine.
Re: what do you regret doing to your car?
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:40 am
by GTZfan
Paying a lot of money and a fortune for shipping for used Dew Strips which looked better than my ones and were supposedly still flexible. They have been getting worse. I should have known...they are as old as all of them!