- Joined
- Jul 30, 2002
- Location
- Rockville, MD
Decided I should write some of this stuff down....
Our family is the original owners of my 1988 245 dl.
My Mom bought it in 1988 as a car to take her from Altamonte Springs to Disney 2x a day for work.
In 1995, she purchased a 960 and handed the 245 down to my sister. My sister proceeded to drive the crap out of it and crash it 4 times.
The car has new front end sheet metal, new paint in some places....
I cant remember her "kill list" but I know there was one parked Honda civic which was totaled :ROFL::ROFL:
One totaled motorcycle which ran into her front fender.
the others i cant recall...
I received the "beige headed step child" when I turned 16 with my drivers license.
My first mod was a crappy set of Coronas :ROFL::ROFL:, at the time I was dumb. I think I paid 150 for the set? It's hard to say but at the time I knew they were better then the steelies and hub caps...
I then proceeded to buy a stereo system after a year or so of owning it. I bought a Pioneer DEHP-4000, which is a folding face CD player, i still own it to this day...
This powered 2 4" alpine co-axials and 2 6"x9" alpine coaxials that were located in the rear doors.
I wasn't happy with the mediocre sound I was getting from powering my 6x9's from the head unit so after about 6 months I bought a used alpine 50x2 RMS amp to power them.
It sounded great. Nice and clear music and some form of vibration that could almost be called bass.....
The original tint we installed when the car was new went to crap so I proceeded to get the car tinted with 14% all around, the film was Quantex
Then (when I turned 18) I purchased some sub woofers and an amp...
2 audiobahns ALUM-12 (aluminum models) and a power acoustik apache 1400 a 2x700 watt RMS amp. I also added a set of 4" floating components from Audiobahn to give my car 4 4", 2 6"x9", and 2 12" speakers.
At this point I had fulfilled my need to cruise, bump, and be a hooligan.
My car was pimpin fo real!
I began to take an interest in autocrossing after a friend who started autocrossing in a 244 convinced me to take my stock wagon out and start learning how to driver her. I started at a small club in central Florida called the http://www.martinsportscarclub.com/
So to get ready I purchased some Virgos for 300 bucks from a Volvo only junkyard and some Yokohama 304's. The 304's were supposed to be there "ultra high performance rated tire" They were H rated and the biggest pieces of junk I have ever used. After 1 autocross I totally chunked away the sidewalls and the tires were basically trashed.
I went back to Discount Tire and complained that these weren't high performance tires. I was able to trade them in for some Kumho 712 205 50/15 tires. At the time these were new tires and were considered pretty good cheap sport tires. They managed to survive the stock wagons body roll and tendency to plow at the sight of a corner.
At this point autocrossing was in my blood and I couldn't get it out.
I started with some ipd 25/25 mm bars for the wagon,
I also scored some cheap GT upper braces on ebay
They made a decent improvement and helped to control the car some but it was still very sloppy on the "track"
After 4 or 5 months of autocrossing with that setup I purchased an R sport suspension package from SAM. It included the R sport Rally (green label) struts and shocks and Lesoforthes sport springs. I remember getting them dirt cheap too, It was 300 shipped for everything. (Exchange rate was 10sek=1 USD, before Bush ruined the economy)
This was really what did it for the car, the car handled amazingly and was very very fun to drive.
I rocked this suspension for a few years
more updates and pics to come soon....
Our family is the original owners of my 1988 245 dl.
My Mom bought it in 1988 as a car to take her from Altamonte Springs to Disney 2x a day for work.
In 1995, she purchased a 960 and handed the 245 down to my sister. My sister proceeded to drive the crap out of it and crash it 4 times.
The car has new front end sheet metal, new paint in some places....
I cant remember her "kill list" but I know there was one parked Honda civic which was totaled :ROFL::ROFL:
One totaled motorcycle which ran into her front fender.
the others i cant recall...
I received the "beige headed step child" when I turned 16 with my drivers license.
My first mod was a crappy set of Coronas :ROFL::ROFL:, at the time I was dumb. I think I paid 150 for the set? It's hard to say but at the time I knew they were better then the steelies and hub caps...
I then proceeded to buy a stereo system after a year or so of owning it. I bought a Pioneer DEHP-4000, which is a folding face CD player, i still own it to this day...
This powered 2 4" alpine co-axials and 2 6"x9" alpine coaxials that were located in the rear doors.
I wasn't happy with the mediocre sound I was getting from powering my 6x9's from the head unit so after about 6 months I bought a used alpine 50x2 RMS amp to power them.
It sounded great. Nice and clear music and some form of vibration that could almost be called bass.....
The original tint we installed when the car was new went to crap so I proceeded to get the car tinted with 14% all around, the film was Quantex
Then (when I turned 18) I purchased some sub woofers and an amp...
2 audiobahns ALUM-12 (aluminum models) and a power acoustik apache 1400 a 2x700 watt RMS amp. I also added a set of 4" floating components from Audiobahn to give my car 4 4", 2 6"x9", and 2 12" speakers.
At this point I had fulfilled my need to cruise, bump, and be a hooligan.
My car was pimpin fo real!
I began to take an interest in autocrossing after a friend who started autocrossing in a 244 convinced me to take my stock wagon out and start learning how to driver her. I started at a small club in central Florida called the http://www.martinsportscarclub.com/
So to get ready I purchased some Virgos for 300 bucks from a Volvo only junkyard and some Yokohama 304's. The 304's were supposed to be there "ultra high performance rated tire" They were H rated and the biggest pieces of junk I have ever used. After 1 autocross I totally chunked away the sidewalls and the tires were basically trashed.
I went back to Discount Tire and complained that these weren't high performance tires. I was able to trade them in for some Kumho 712 205 50/15 tires. At the time these were new tires and were considered pretty good cheap sport tires. They managed to survive the stock wagons body roll and tendency to plow at the sight of a corner.
At this point autocrossing was in my blood and I couldn't get it out.
I started with some ipd 25/25 mm bars for the wagon,
I also scored some cheap GT upper braces on ebay
They made a decent improvement and helped to control the car some but it was still very sloppy on the "track"
After 4 or 5 months of autocrossing with that setup I purchased an R sport suspension package from SAM. It included the R sport Rally (green label) struts and shocks and Lesoforthes sport springs. I remember getting them dirt cheap too, It was 300 shipped for everything. (Exchange rate was 10sek=1 USD, before Bush ruined the economy)
This was really what did it for the car, the car handled amazingly and was very very fun to drive.
I rocked this suspension for a few years
more updates and pics to come soon....
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