Top 10 dumbest things I've done to my car

2000xp8 · Mar 9, 2011

RacEoHolic330 said:
Dumbest thing I've ever done was put a remote start on my 5-speed car without a neutral safety. Yep, you guess it. Forgot I left it in reverse to remove my stereo. Hit the little button, heard tires screeching and then a loud boom. I walked outside to find my Mustang parked halfway inside my shed.

Ya, that's pretty dumb alright.
Could be the worst i've seen so far, lol.

lancec2c30 · Mar 9, 2011

LarsD said:
Guess it is a good thing I changed my mind about a turbo then. I was going to do that late last year, but then went with a stroker instead.

Did you ever get your headers and get it back together?

281pony said:
sucks bro.. you are doing a vortech and h/c/i setup now right?

Yes, and yes. Car is running with a trick flow H/C/I. Just working some minor bugs out out now.

NIKwoaC · Mar 9, 2011

281pony said:
perhaps you could set up an alternate office space in the hatch area for clients?

Haha, not a bad idea.

2000xp8 said:
One day i need to pick up a tv for a friend (tube, back a few years),
Friggin thing wouldn't fit in my explorer because of the stereo, but fit in the back of my mustang with seat delete, lol. I had the room in the explorer, but it was too big to go in through the side door.

Haha nice. I mountain bike, and one time I'm pulling into the trail parking area, and I spot this beautiful orangeish red hatch. Dude gets out, pops the hatch open, and pulls out a completely assembled mountain bike. Blew my mind. He was gone by the time I parked and got out of my car, so I never got to talk to him. I'm not sure if it was a new purchase for him or if he just realized he was an idiot for driving such a clean car down that dirt/gravel path, but I never saw that car again.

citmov · Mar 9, 2011

Yup, another agreed for keeping the a/c. Mine still works...why would I pull it? That's more work for me

S&B · Mar 10, 2011

very good thread, I my self have done most of those dumb things, exept nitros i always knew that was for honest drag racers only.
Btw if you need rear seatbelts I have a set of grey one's from an 89

This thread really should be called Diff. stages of owning a mustang, or Life in genral.

CarMichael Angelo · Mar 10, 2011

Other things i consider dumb, are converting Efi cars to carbs, and removing the power steering.
I considered the PS delete, then drove a car without it in a parking lot.

I guess I'm supposed to read that and not think that I'm considered not just "dumb", but slobbering stupid since I have done both.
Time will tell, maybe I'll post a thread that'll include them later as "dumb" ideas.
Right now, they're perfect solutions to my problem.

As far as REALLY stupid.....I'll cop to the single-handidly stupidest stuff EVER done to a mustang.

It's 1976...CB radios are a HUGE fad. I had one in my 69 mach1. The really ugly part.... I had a 8' whip antenna bolted to the quarter panel w/ an american flag tied to the top......I was 18. It still makes me shudder to think that I did that to my car.

The same time ( about 1 month later)... same car. The antenna is gone after my car guy friends shame me into removing it, and I sink to a new low,...I get 1/8" pinstripe tape, and put it on EVERY body line that car had....

What the hell was I thinking.

My only defense was that this was an era that 60's gasser style straight front ends made a comeback on street driven 55-57 chevys. Car Craft magazine had Vans on the cover, w/ coverage of outrageously gaudy paint jobs (read...done while on acid) on cars that were labeled as "street Freaks."

notice the CB antenna on dudes trunk.

I must've had some sort of mental infection or something.

I'm all better now.

Ozz · Mar 10, 2011

RacEoHolic330 said:
Dumbest thing I've ever done was put a remote start on my 5-speed car without a neutral safety. Yep, you guess it. Forgot I left it in reverse to remove my stereo. Hit the little button, heard tires screeching and then a loud boom. I walked outside to find my Mustang parked halfway inside my shed.

Where was that thread?

stykthyn · Mar 10, 2011

epic!

SteedaGT9150 · Mar 10, 2011

Ozz said:
Where was that thread?

It was years ago IIRC, I think he was still attending PSU at the time. I could be wrong though...

Bull4life · Mar 10, 2011

When I was in high school I bought my first 5.0 (White 89 lx hatch 5 spd). I was a caught up in, who has the fastest car in the parking lot. We would go drag race on back roads, so I removed the front sway bar for more traction. The car drove like a 76 caddy in turns. I eventually ripped a torque box out as well. I'm more into Fox bodies that are pretty fast, but handle great.

The most expensive stupid thing I have ever done to that poor 89 was drive it with a lot of lifter chatter. I again was racing the night before and broke the oil pump drive shaft in two ( didn't know at the time). I woke up and drove it to school and heard the chatter get louder. Drove it all the way home thinking it was a bad lifter. Did I mention, I was 17 and was new to working on cars? Anyway I called my mech and he asked me to look at the oil pressure gage. No oil pressure . I had to buy a used short block. Lesson learned. I was amazed the car drove that long without seizing. Prob 10 miles.

NIKwoaC · Mar 10, 2011

Straight axle gassers and V8 vans are still cool, IMO.

But yea, shag carpet and those metal flake paint jobs will forever be hideous.

CarMichael Angelo · Mar 10, 2011

NikwoaC said:
Straight axle gassers and V8 vans are still cool, IMO.

But yea, shag carpet and those metal flake paint jobs will forever be hideous.

You think the 57 that I posted a pic of is cool??????

If you like that thing, I got a 8' CB whip antenna w/ the spring loaded base I'll give you....used one month. It's mega cool.

I like the Gassers as well, I just think they belong in the 60's and on the strip.
Vans suck,....... even w/ 10 cylinders.

NIKwoaC · Mar 10, 2011

madmike1157 said:
You think the 57 that I posted a pic of is cool??????

If you like that thing, I got a 8' CB whip antenna w/ the spring loaded base I'll give you....used one month. It's mega cool.

I like the Gassers as well, I just think they belong in the 60's and on the strip.
Vans suck,....... even w/ 10 cylinders.

That one you posted is a little too blingy for my taste, but I wouldn't say it's awful. I prefer the retro-styled altered wheelbase cars. Those are cool.

... And THIS is a cool van:

Something like that would make a really cool parts hauler or shop vehicle.

RacEoHolic330 · Mar 10, 2011

SteedaGT9150 said:
It was years ago IIRC, I think he was still attending PSU at the time. I could be wrong though...

It was a couple years ago. Back in 06 I think. I'll try to dig it up.

CarMichael Angelo · Mar 10, 2011

NikwoaC said:
That one you posted is a little too blingy for my taste, but I wouldn't say it's awful. I prefer the retro-styled altered wheelbase cars. Those are cool.

... And THIS is a cool van:

Something like that would make a really cool parts hauler or shop vehicle.

Yes, I agree. That is a very cool van. I was talking about the "Brothel-on-wheels" love mobiles of the 70's

kinda like this stupid crap.

But seriously, why anybody would want to push a brick down a quarter mile is beyond me.

NIKwoaC · Mar 10, 2011

madmike1157 said:

Hahaha, yea, I agree with that. There is so much 1970s FAIL going on in that picture!

CarMichael Angelo · Mar 10, 2011

NikwoaC said:
Hahaha, yea, I agree with that. There is so much 1970s FAIL going on in that picture!

My mach 1 would've gotten groans and eye rolls as well, had I any pictures to post of it. It was hideous w/ all of the pinstripe tape all over it.

That "modification" only lasted one summer.

Fortunately for me, I grew out of my stupid phase.

LarsD · Mar 10, 2011

That chick ain't fail.

RacEoHolic330 · Mar 10, 2011

LarsD said:
That chick ain't fail.

+1! I'd PIITB

NIKwoaC · Mar 10, 2011

I bet she's got fuzzy armpits.

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