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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Roundeye on June 10, 2009, 04:34:11 PM
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Man, love em or hate em, you gotta respect Subarus and people who know how to drive them.
I miss my WRX :cry
You may or may not have seen this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs-jAImScms (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs-jAImScms)
....but here is a new one! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ7R_buZPSo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ7R_buZPSo)
:rock
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One word, one syllable, 4 letters. JEEP
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Drifting + Jeep = Rollover.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3sQ7X2V8E
Mr Block is quite the driver. I'd love to have that Subaru.
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No I can't drift in mine. I associate subaru with strictly off roading. That and getting groceries. Love rally races either way. Its the cameramen that gets hit all the time I feel bad for. They really need to invest in deer stands for those close up shots.
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No I can't drift in mine. I associate subaru with strictly off roading. That and getting groceries.
You left out embarassing 2 wheel drive cars. The world is not 1/4 mile long, its not all paved and it is not all straight.
I looooooooooooooooooooove Jeeps too! I had a '03 TJ and a '87 XJ. I really miss my TJ. I'm currently looking for another one. Nothing like having the top down and doors off. :aok
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That sure is some nice driving...
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Is it just me or is the engine horribly unresponsive in the second one? Sounds like it spends much over half the time either hitting the rev limiter or coughing.
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I have a 2006 tj 65th Ann ed. 4inch teeraflex long arm lift with belly up plate. Snorkel, syekit, and a lot of extras. I had it a week before hitting the trail. My wif has a 4door 07 with dick cepeck crushers on a sahara. It looks mean without the top on. Mine is under repair right now. Tcase seal and rear driveshaft are messed up. Neither are mall crawlers. Want to lift the 07 but then it won't fit under the garage door when its time to turn wrenches. Mine barely fits.
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Hes gotta have RPMs tacked to pull some of the longer slides off... Car would pull out of the slide if the RPMs fell too low. Hes got the needle bouncin most of the time.
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One word, one syllable, 4 letters. JEEP
Beat me to it.
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Audi is better for rally race
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It's a rally car. The turbo/supercharger setup is made to keep things spooled almost permanently.
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Audi is better for rally race
:rofl Nice flamebait.
The last time Audi won any kind of WRC championship was 1984. That was only because THE MAN Stig Blomqvist was behind the wheel. He later saw the light and switched to driving and winning in..............Subaru WRXs.
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Beat me to it.
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Again with the Jeep :lol I love Jeeps too, but Subarus and Jeeps are two completely different worlds. Trying to run a WRC course in a Jeep would end in disaster and embarrassment. About as quickly as it would if you tried to rock crawl with a Subaru WRX.
Both awsome vehicles, but purpose-built.
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Ahh, finally a place to post my first bumper sticker:
"It's a Subaru thing, just ask me. We're not stuck up like those OTHER guys!"
<Taking cover now>
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Drifting + Jeep = Rollover.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3sQ7X2V8E
Mr Block is quite the driver. I'd love to have that Subaru.
i've drifted in 2nd gear. but yeah she step out in the rain.
Ahh Rally racing now those guys a Crazy. but I like drifting too. Travis Pastrana always wrecks his pretty Subaru. :D
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Nothing like getting the tail out there to wind around a corner in something with a high COG, did that a few times. Love watching the dakkar rally though. Will it be cancelled this year? I have no problems with people who off-road even on a quad. They are fellow off-roaders to me. I'd pull any of them out of a ditch or lend tools if they needed them. It's the stop light, parade float, fart can muffler having ricers i'd love to climb right over at the intersection. Wow, the look on some face pierced little street punk kid as the back window pops while the bfg mud terrains eat the glitter paint job from tail to nose. I can dream can't I? There was a saran wrap incident I got into but i'm feeling much better now.
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Jeep Drifting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9il-ni-Bkbc&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9il-ni-Bkbc&feature=related)
Those Arabic folk are pretty crazy with car stunts.
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Jeep Drifting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9il-ni-Bkbc&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9il-ni-Bkbc&feature=related)
Unfortunately for the Jeepers, that is a Nissan my friend.
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Again with the Jeep :lol I love Jeeps too, but Subarus and Jeeps are two completely different worlds. Trying to run a WRC course in a Jeep would end in disaster and embarrassment. About as quickly as it would if you tried to rock crawl with a Subaru WRX.
Both awsome vehicles, but purpose-built.
Rally Cars = single purpose built
Jeeps (especially older ones) = multi purpose. hence the original GP (General Purpose) moniker for the military which phonetically wound up as (you guessed it)............ Jeep
Your analogy stymies me. You are telling me that a Jeep could not make it through a WRC course? Perhaps not at rally car speed , but nonetheless, it could cross the finish line. Not nearly as embarrassing as it would be trying to crawl, ford, or climb any terrain that would require an off-road vehicle with any clearance in a Subaru.
Besides, where would you mount a winch on a Subaru? :D
(Also, the Subaru would look silly without doors) :devil
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Js_BYaU80w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Js_BYaU80w)
weeeeee :D
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(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h113/rcmtdriver/IMG_6990.jpg)
Can't do this in a rally car so neener :D
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I find it rather funny that Jeepers automatically figure that everyone would WANT to do that in the first place.
I'd rather have my rice burner (and the skill to use it; most important part. Nor just be the retard at the stoplights) on solid pavement or loose gravel any day over dragging myself through a mudpit.
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Drifting + Jeep = Rollover.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3sQ7X2V8E
Mr Block is quite the driver. I'd love to have that Subaru.
I was drifting a Grand Cherokee SRT8 on the Road America Course at the last Camp Jeep. Took the corners at 90 (very good drifting) and hit 140 on the final straight. My buddy was in front of me doing the same thing.
But on a WRC course, the Jeep is not conducive and needs no explanation.
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Audi is better for rally race
Um, please. The Kiddie pool is over there. ------->
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I was drifting a Grand Cherokee SRT8 on the Road America Course at the last Camp Jeep. Took the corners at 90 (very good drifting) and hit 140 on the final straight. My buddy was in front of me doing the same thing.
But on a WRC course, the Jeep is not conducive and needs no explanation.
Just curious.. Stock suspension setup? Tires? Asphalt conditions?
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I find it rather funny that Jeepers automatically figure that everyone would WANT to do that in the first place.
I'd rather have my rice burner (and the skill to use it; most important part. Nor just be the retard at the stoplights) on solid pavement or loose gravel any day over dragging myself through a mudpit.
4WD does not = automatic skill. Ask the many folks with a "4x4" that I've yanked out of snowbanks around here in the winter, or out of a mud pit in the NJ pine barrens.
The jeep is for going wherever I want to go, regardless of terrain. It may not be the fastest means of getting there, but I WILL undoubtedly get there.
If I want to go fast, I use the appropriate tools............ :devil
(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff107/tymekeepyr/69gto.jpg)
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I find it rather funny that Jeepers automatically figure that everyone would WANT to do that in the first place.
I'd rather have my rice burner (and the skill to use it; most important part. Nor just be the retard at the stoplights) on solid pavement or loose gravel any day over dragging myself through a mudpit.
I went to the MacNeil Rally School in NH back in 96. Never lost the skills and having them now matters not if I'm off road in my 95 Grand Cherokee or in the wife's Sable or my Milan. It's also the reason I want a Mustang GT next year and the wife is cringing at the thought, although my 7 year old son has vetoed her. My 83 CJ7 would take most cars off the light and maxed at 70mph. It had front and rear Detroit Lockers with 4.27 gears, was lifted with 33" BFGoodrich Mud Terrains and a 1972 304. I traded it for my 95 ZJ and miss it every day.
Unfortunately, most people associate "jeepers" as "a bunch of rednecks who tear through the trails while throwing beer cans out of the window." It's a shame that it is true, as I've heard it too many times to count and represents the 1% of the wheeling Community that is despised by the majority of us.
I've never been a fan of AWD. It's either 2wd or 4wd, no in-betweens with me. I'm the one passing people on snowy roads, while they're doing grossly exaggerated slow speeds. I know my abilities and limitations, what to do, what not to do, etc. Obviously, as I get older and the skills deteriorate, so will this.
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Just curious.. Stock suspension setup? Tires? Asphalt conditions?
Stock SRT8 (20" wheel model) and Asphalt. But it was not easy to drift, by any stretch of the means. My wife was in the back seat and a Volunteer was in "shotgun". He was almost pissing himself laughing as I was doing it. My wife was rolling her eyes and unimpressed.
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Stock SRT8 (20" wheel model) and Asphalt. But it was not easy to drift, by any stretch of the means. My wife was in the back seat and a Volunteer was in "shotgun". He was almost pissing himself laughing as I was doing it. My wife was rolling her eyes and unimpressed.
Your wife and my wife must know each other :rofl
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4WD does not = automatic skill. Ask the many folks with a "4x4" that I've yanked out of snowbanks around here in the winter, or out of a mud pit in the NJ pine barrens.
The jeep is for going wherever I want to go, regardless of terrain. It may not be the fastest means of getting there, but I WILL undoubtedly get there.
If I want to go fast, I use the appropriate tools............ :devil
(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff107/tymekeepyr/69gto.jpg)
"Getting there" is the easy part, it's trying not to break anything to drive it home (I don't trailer my watermelon and never will), that is the challenge.
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Trailers are for sissies.
OTOH, with a 4.56 rear end, the farthest I will go is Maple Grove, or Englishtown, NJ. Highway cruising is not a strong point of that car, these days.
Been toying with adding overdrive, but I'm afraid I'll have to be dead before I get rid of the Muncie Rock Crusher.
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Also interesting that everyone locked into my "skill" side comment as if I'd just insulted the whole pack of people.
What I meant was that if I had the choice of being a retard with glittery paint and the biggest piece of steel I can find sticking out of the hood revving at a grandma in a Volvo, or just a guy in an everyday car, I'd be the latter. However, if I gained the skills to actually USE one of the high-performance ricers, I'd be in it in a minute.
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Also interesting that everyone locked into my "skill" side comment as if I'd just insulted the whole pack of people.
What I meant was that if I had the choice of being a retard with glittery paint and the biggest piece of steel I can find sticking out of the hood revving at a grandma in a Volvo, or just a guy in an everyday car, I'd be the latter. However, if I gained the skills to actually USE one of the high-performance ricers, I'd be in it in a minute.
I know you meant and was supporting your comment. Don't be so defensive.
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Trailers are for sissies.
OTOH, with a 4.56 rear end, the farthest I will go is Maple Grove, or Englishtown, NJ. Highway cruising is not a strong point of that car, these days.
Been toying with adding overdrive, but I'm afraid I'll have to be dead before I get rid of the Muncie Rock Crusher.
Should be ordering my new water pump (going to an all-aluminum, high flow one and the current one works) I'll be looking at this upgrade http://rustysoffroad.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=rustys&Product_Code=RK-LT10-ZJ&Category_Code=sus_zj_kit (http://rustysoffroad.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=rustys&Product_Code=RK-LT10-ZJ&Category_Code=sus_zj_kit) for my ZJ. I blew the radiator last year and can now focus on it. But I figured while I'm replacing the Radiator, might as well gut the entire cooling system and redo it. T stat, hoses, the works.
Call up junkyards and try to find an NV4500. My buddy still has one in his garage and was going to drop it in his YJ with a CJ body. Until he shipped it to Belgium when he sold it last year.
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I know you meant and was supporting your comment. Don't be so defensive.
What he said.
Don't get me wrong. I would jump in one and drive it like I stole it if offered the chance.
It's just that I have seen too many tards with Jeeps, "4x4's" (mostly H3's), and imports with a fart can strapped to the back, get stuck, crash into something, or grenade their ride in some fashion due to the lack of skill. Having the equipment doesn't exactly translate into having the skill to drive it.
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Rally Cars = single purpose built
Jeeps (especially older ones) = multi purpose. hence the original GP (General Purpose) moniker for the military which phonetically wound up as (you guessed it)............ Jeep
Your analogy stymies me. You are telling me that a Jeep could not make it through a WRC course? Perhaps not at rally car speed , but nonetheless, it could cross the finish line. Not nearly as embarrassing as it would be trying to crawl, ford, or climb any terrain that would require an off-road vehicle with any clearance in a Subaru.
Besides, where would you mount a winch on a Subaru? :D
(Also, the Subaru would look silly without doors) :devil
You seem to be reading too far into my posts. Where did I say that a Jeep could not make it through a WRC course? I look but cannot find that or any reference thereto. I said trying to RUN a WRC course would end in disaster and embarrassment. I did not say crawl or drive. RUN. Attempting to corner at any competitive speed in a Jeep would not go as planned (if you try this please record it for youtube).
BTW You are talking to a Jeeper from way back. I've owned and loved Jeeps for years and am looking for another one now.
As for the winch and door reference: look up some Ozified Subarus. You may be surprised.
I just find it wierd that anyone would throw a Jeep reference into a post about Gymkhana.
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Didn't mean to thumb my nose at you guys with my picture. Any vehicle purpose built that leaves the pavement is a fellow off-roader to me. I'm NOT the redneck tearing up the trails and tossing beer cans. Usually the group of us that goes out will trail into the area and set up the camp, mark it on the gps and hit the trails until we hit half a tank of fuel. That means we go back to camp or to the gas station for fuel and coffee. Alot of us are in daily drivers so no trailers. Get back to camp and eat. Hang out for a bit and hit the trails again. We are taking more pictures of animals and the area almost as much as going over obstacles. This is going on for a weekend at a time. We have alot of rules that keep us from messing up the area as well as getting hurt. The "hey ya'll watch this" idea is not part of our idea to have fun. We pack out more than we pack in as far as trash and leave no foot print. Saw the episode of top gear where the guy goes to finland to learn to use a rally car. Saw how they teach kids how to drive in that country. I wish they did that in the states. Took alot of time to learn rock crawling and obstacles. Still learning since the terrain constantly changes. The reason I commented about jeeps in the first place here with jeep stuff is because I see rally car racing, baja 500, and off road running as having the same sense of getting outside and off pavement but using a different vehicle to have the fun.
My set up:
2006 tj 65th anniversary edition I-6 automatic
4" teraflex longarm lift
ARB snorkel
4:56 gears 33" bf goodrich mud terrains
SYE transfer case kit
Belly up skid plate
Quick front end disconnects
Mile marker 9500lb winch
Stock axles
Truespeed detector
A bunch of stuff like neoprene seat covers, fire extinguisher, overhead console, cb, etc.
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Didn't mean to thumb my nose at you guys with my picture. Any vehicle purpose built that leaves the pavement is a fellow off-roader to me. I'm NOT the redneck tearing up the trails and tossing beer cans. Usually the group of us that goes out will trail into the area and set up the camp, mark it on the gps and hit the trails until we hit half a tank of fuel. That means we go back to camp or to the gas station for fuel and coffee. Alot of us are in daily drivers so no trailers. Get back to camp and eat. Hang out for a bit and hit the trails again. We are taking more pictures of animals and the area almost as much as going over obstacles. This is going on for a weekend at a time. We have alot of rules that keep us from messing up the area as well as getting hurt. The "hey ya'll watch this" idea is not part of our idea to have fun. We pack out more than we pack in as far as trash and leave no foot print. Saw the episode of top gear where the guy goes to finland to learn to use a rally car. Saw how they teach kids how to drive in that country. I wish they did that in the states. Took alot of time to learn rock crawling and obstacles. Still learning since the terrain constantly changes. The reason I commented about jeeps in the first place here with jeep stuff is because I see rally car racing, baja 500, and off road running as having the same sense of getting outside and off pavement but using a different vehicle to have the fun.
My set up:
2006 tj 65th anniversary edition I-6 automatic
4" teraflex longarm lift
ARB snorkel
4:56 gears 33" bf goodrich mud terrains
SYE transfer case kit
Belly up skid plate
Quick front end disconnects
Mile marker 9500lb winch
Stock axles
Truespeed detector
A bunch of stuff like neoprene seat covers, fire extinguisher, overhead console, cb, etc.
You flip the top of the snorkel around when driving on the freeway?
No offense swung my james. I used to sit on the Board of the Great Lakes Four Wheel Drive Association and we promote Safe and Legal Wheeling. My club alone maintains almost 60 miles of trail, two time a year.
I have a lifted ZJ. 3.5", 31" Trexxus M/T's. I overkill on tools and am looking to get a HAM license later on this year, so I can use the repeater up north.
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Quick front end disconnects
What kind? I like the JKS Quicker Discos. Worth every penny. You do not have to be perfectly level to disco/install. Ever forgot to hook em back up before driving on hwy? You'll only do it once. :eek:
You are very lucky to have somewhere to ride. Every place around here got shut down because of idiots doing donuts, mowing trees down, digging up mudholes and throwing trash all over. No respect :mad:. Now we have nowhere to ride :furious
I sold the following rides because of nowhere to enjoy them:
1987 XJ 4", discos, 31" TSL Super Swampers.
2003 TJ 3", discos, 31" MTs, tube bumpers, Warn rock sliders.
1987 Subaru GL Wagon dual range 4WD (yes true 50/50 split 4WD, not AWD) 4" Ozified lift, 27" TSL Super Swampers.
(http://dahfww.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pkLk8HRCMJFr-YUipmuw7BVMFklsXPMqJ0YHQ5IEacSDQ2n5i0FatEtVmFI9RkW6RtB0wq8QsVGvPKWxUjnXedNswHUJlHjRY/WagSwamp%20018.jpg)
I'm in the market for a stock TJ again. Gonna leave it stock because there is no use to modify for off road with nowhere to go. I miss the no top no doors driving :aok.
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I leave the snorkel facing forward all the time. In winter I disconnect it due to ice clogging up the drain holes and not letting water flow the right way when it rains. I use teraflex discos. I've had to drive home discord from losing a pin. Wow that sucks. Used to ride in Florida at the ocala national forest. That was the spot!
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What kind? I like the JKS Quicker Discos. Worth every penny. You do not have to be perfectly level to disco/install. Ever forgot to hook em back up before driving on hwy? You'll only do it once. :eek:
Nah, we love driving a vehicle that feels like a half-full can of soup . :noid
:rofl
(you are correct, you will only forget once) :D
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ken block ftw :rock