Adeeb's Cheese Adventures
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2021 12:40 am
Figured I'd make a post here to share the chronicles of the cars in my (family's) driveway, considering I'm basically in charge of taking care of all of them. We don't have a garage
because it used to be a model home. We basically have a garage door that opens up to small storage space, and a door to a room where the garage would be. First and foremost, my car, the one and only
I love this thing. I took ownership of it from RLWake last Friday. I suck at driving it because it's my first
car and the last time I drove stick was years ago on my dad's shitbox Chevy Aveo. I can't wait til I'm completely comfortable with driving it. Currently I'm scared of breaking it so taking things real easy. Friday night on the way home from Ace Cafe I almost money shifted but clutched back in 
and it's been driving fine since so I think I'm good? I hope so. Been driving it mostly slow and keeping an eye on my shifting technique to make sure that doesn't happen again because that scared the shit out of me.
Here's a pic of it at the Ace next to my buddy's Mk6 TDI Sportwagen, borrowing my little bro's Rotiform LAS-Rs
while his Golf gets a turbo swap. I plan on keeping this car forever. Or as close to that as possible. Today I felt a bit more comfortable with it, and this being my first RWD car, got the rear end loose a little bit in first gear a few times pulling away from lights where I was making a turn.
Still keeping traction control on for now though. Don't trust myself with it off yet. Nor do I think I ever will outside of an empty parking lot or warehouse lot. Can't wait till I'm fully comfortable driving the car so I can really enjoy it. But so far I already can't stop smiling every minute I drive the thing. I try to find excuses to go drive it.
Next up, my younger brother's (Akeeb) MK7 Golf:
Meet the mexican turbo yaris' slower brother, the standard Golf with the 1.8TSI. Stancy daily, with some performance stuff. At the state it was in the pic above, ECU
is Reflect Stage 2, Milltek catless Golf R downpipe into GTI catback. Kinda jank 
but it sounds and performs very well, with cheap used parts. Faster than a stock mex turbo yaris but 
if it counts as one then. Suspension is Raceland cheapo coilovers, likely to be replaced with bags at some point. However, it's currently in this state:
As previously mentioned, it's in the process of getting a turbo swap to an IS20 (the turbo out of a mexican turbo yaris), a thicc intercooler, and getting wrapped (we're doing all of it ourselves). Intercooler went in yesterday, today we got to almost getting the original turbo out until we got stuck on not having any triple square bits (really VW??
). Amazon One-Day-ed those bits, but tomorrow is gonna be a wrap day since we're stalled on the mechanical front until those come in. Goal is to get the car running again by end of week, wrapping can wait a little. And lastly, the parents' cars, a 2017 Acura MDX and a 2011 Toyota Sienna:
The MDX on a roadtrip down to Miami, pic taken minutes after cruising up the A1A flexing the torque vectoring AWD in the esses
MDX is mom's car that really was my dad's choice. Honestly kinda cool for what it is
. That J35 V6 has a good note, exhaust is surprisingly loud for factory "boring car". SH-AWD paired with the 9 speed's gearing is like magic. That thing corners and accelerates in ways no SUV of this class has reason to. I enjoy it on the occasions that I get to drive it. No serious hooning but it pulls nice on the highway. That roadtrip normally takes 4hrs to get back with parents driving, I did it in 3 in this 
but Toyota, don't really have a good pic of this one but it's nothing impressiveThe Sienna was the previous family hauler and restaurant supply "truck" (we run a restaurant and use it to haul supplies from the supply store to the restaurant), but after getting the MDX it's basically only used for supply runs and as a spare vehicle. It's kinda beat up, with a massive dent on the passenger side sliding door from my dad scraping a parking bollard at the airport's parking garage. It's like a beater minus the falling apart part. The engine mounts are on their way out,
. So yeah, there's that. Gonna be posting more
pics and Golf progress here. Probably won't post much about the other two unless something catastropic or otherwise interesting happens to them.
sir!
to be learning a skill you'll never forget. I haven't driven 
a bit better. 
sounds like you're going it right.
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