OK, so I'm driving the wife's car after being told it was making funny noises. Can't find anything wrong with the car to be honest. Its a 2000 Accent with 190k miles. It's going to make noises. Like wind noises, road noises, engine thrash.... the normal stuff.
So sitting in traffic, dealing with 'rons that think 1" of snow on the ground must mean the apocolypse is near.... I start thinking "this car would be a lot more fun is it had some better springs and new struts on it." So I mentally thrash the idea of $400 worth of new springs/struts on this 11 year old, nearly 200k mile car. Then I realize that the 185/60R14 Fuzion HRi's just aren't going to be able to turn this beast with a good suspension under it and realize that it uses the same bolt pattern and offset as the miata/EF civic. So a set of Kosei's and some 225/45R15 Hankook RS3's would HAVE to be in order. I mean.... what's a suspension without tires right?
So as I'm rolling forward in first gear I realized that with a great suspension and fantastic tires... what am I going to do with those when you only have 92hp at teh crank? I mena, the 0-60 time could be measured out accurately in fractions of a minute rather than seconds. Then I remember that Beta Swapping this car (2.0 Beta engine out of the 2001-2003 Elantra, 140hp) is literally a bolt in affair. So I could almost double the power, have better gearing and have a killer suspension and awesome tires on this little pile of crap....for under $2k. But then I'd need a seat.....
Someone please talk me out of it. I already have a project C4 that's not getting done... help me banish these thoughts with a good dose of reality!
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