Brad's Garage, It's not easy being Green

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1995 Miata (A PKG). this is my diamond in the rough sub 2k Miata :dill: Fun car is fun.
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Cowasiki versys 300x ABS
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Track bike. A CRF100 sumo'ed out. It has a bbr 120 kit, rebuild bomb proof rear wheel, high flow oil pump, a takegawa rear shock, and soon will have rebuild forks & bbr rear spring. #trackdaybro #trackjunkie
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insano mini bike with 12 hp and gobs of low end torque (will also be FS)

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Drift trike aka adult big wheel aka insane fun but :waxer:
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Wife mobile 2010 acura MDX with tech package we bought used.
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past insane vehicles:
"the green car"
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the nc700x
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the supermoto i should have never bought and i wish people would have talked me out of
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BIMMER aka the FNCYMX5 aka german miata. honorable mention to best buds in pic
Definitely the worst car purchase decision from a financial perspective. And that's saying a lot. Great car, just expensive, epic depreciation.
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solo shot when clean
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This is gone now. Served me well for 6 years, I beat the hell is car and it took it well for the most part. It will be missed, but onto other things. Probably not my last VW but I need a break for a decade or so.
:turboyaris:
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:turboyaris: tow vehicle

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16v swapped mk1 cabriolet with 4k trans, cam, full exhaust. the thing hauled when it ran. Good cheap car.
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I had a mustang once. 2013, GT, preformace pack with the 3.73 torsen and brembros
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I had a NA miata with a supercharger among other things
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I had a focus with a turbo 2 frame sizes too big
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I tried to build a kit car, this was before the green car. The turbo focus was the donor. I was prob. 75% the way done, but the green car presented itself and was supposed to be 'done' and I realized around that time I like driving alot more than wrenching.
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s13 race car for 24 hours of lemons
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Gromage. went full retard down the mod path with this and seemed to only make it worse.
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kit cars

#1 https://www.locostusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6705
miata action there too
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#2 https://www.locostusa.com/forums/viewto ... 41&t=13187
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not so insane, but the namesake car I had for like 12 years, 01 golf tdi with the ALH. Tuned, VW eibach springs.
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Race van owned for ~18 months. Held value well and combined with the previous acura helped us get out of the red with the BMW Z4
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you use to be so much cooler.
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and you forgot your god damn namesake car. :derp:
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Sweet gayrage. :like:
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dubshow wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2017 3:30 pm you use to be so much cooler.
You used to have more cars that ran.
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SixSpeeder wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2017 3:35 pm Sweet gayrage. :like:
Thanks! :like:
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How many :turboyaris: are left on DFD?
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dubshow wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2017 3:30 pm and you forgot your god damn namesake car. :derp:
:dat:

The lack of MKIV TDI is disturbing.
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Gberg2119 wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2017 3:43 pm How many :turboyaris: are left on DFD?
There's a simple way to answer that question.

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Big Brain Bradley wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2017 3:41 pm
dubshow wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2017 3:30 pm you use to be so much cooler.
You used to have more cars that ran.
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Melon wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2017 3:44 pm
dubshow wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2017 3:30 pm and you forgot your god damn namesake car. :derp:
:dat:

The lack of MKIV TDI is disturbing.
Fine, added. Cant find a worth a crap pic with this shit internet doe
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I thought this would be pics of your garage.

How was the big scooter? It seemed capable enough on the dagron.
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troyguitar wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2017 3:59 pm I thought this would be pics of your garage.

How was the big scooter? It seemed capable enough on the dagron.
it was great. really great.
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:impressive:
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Crazy range of vehicles ! Why did the 13 rustang get sold ?
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maxtdi wrote: Fri Mar 03, 2017 11:16 am Crazy range of vehicles ! Why did the 13 rustang get sold ?
great car, terrible DD. I couldn't have the kind of fun I wanted to have in it around town everyday
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Loaded up my shit, nothing fell off. Got the bike running easily enough, and after running some non ethonal gas through it its running like a top again.

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little bit of racing
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lots of general fucking around. I forgot how much fun that stupid thing is.

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Next up I need to fix the fuel issues. Basically, i need a higher tank. and will put in a fuel shut off.
After that... I was loosing out bad cause my clutch is less than ideal for my fat ass. I guess its time to upgrade to something better....

Hopefully will get more pics later, had some other friends there with a camera.
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I've seen your GTI multiple times and always still picture it being white... :mindblown:

Solid car resume. :impressive:
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others can attest, the minibike AINT SLO, but some of these guys had FAST bikes.
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Build sheet:
ARC rod (0.010" over)
ARC flywheel
timing key (4 degrees?)
Performance cam
upgraded valve springs
Header
22mm chinese mikuni knockoff.

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this is right after i ate shit and flipped the drift trike.
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It was a :fuckyeah: day
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Looks like fun. :like:
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I've tried to ride a minibike twice and holy fuck was it scary. I quit quickly before hurting myself.
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troyguitar wrote: Tue Mar 07, 2017 3:31 pm I've tried to ride a minibike twice and holy fuck was it scary. I quit quickly before hurting myself.
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Somehow I never got to the "I'm invincible" teenager stage in life - the minibike attempts were at like age 13 and 15 and I almost immediately went :nope: and got off those things. I take more risks now than I did back then, dat being old enough to sort of know what you're doing and still young enough to do it...
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