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[vervepipes]

well, about 4 years ago, i was fed up with my 88 toyota tercell, so i thought i would do something as an experiment. i wanted to empty the windshield washer fluid, fill the container with some yet unknown highly flamable fluid, and run a line to the carb, to give a quick shot of power at my finger's command. thinking abouth that, i knew nothing about mechanics at the time and i'm glad i never did that to my poor tercell which is still alive in the hands of my sister today.

anybody else ever have a hairbrained idea they're glad they never tested? or did try and wish they hadn't

[zakats]

I've had some outlandish ideasn none that I can recall right now though. It would be pretty hard to top that though.
--zak--

[I3ackfire]

I think that I can safely say, that nothing to that extent has ever went through my head to do to my car...

I have made other stupid decisions (non-car related) that I wish not to express right at the moment...

[Gumby]

Ehh notthing really car related but a few things none car related i wish i never did

[C8V6C]

Almost did neon....

*shudder

[pwr_crx]

my idea was to fill the wiper res. with water and put both the nozzles behind the radiator, then when im running hot i can spray the rad and lose temperature from evaporation. i still dont know if this will or will not work.

Oh ya, i had the idea of hooking the washer nozzles up to the inside of my fenders so they would spray onto my tires. That way i could fill the res. with bleach and to huge smoky burnouts.

[cbstdscott]

I bought a '66 Mustang.... With a inline six cylinder engine. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

I bought a '68 Triumph Spitfire. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

I bought a '82 VW Cabriolet. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

I bought a '02 Toyota Camry. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

I sold a '89 Civic LX. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

I sold a '91 Accord LX. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

I never tried to do anything really stupid to any of my cars...... But adding a JATO rocket might be fun.

Scott

[85c-rex]

I haven't done anything too harebrained (other that having a stereo worth more than my car) but one of my friends with a 3g civic, started off really well. He put on a custom 2.5" inch exhaust on it, and some alloys off an 86 prelude. Then he failed...miserably. He put underbody neon on it, green underbody neon, on a red car...looked like a radioactive christmas tree. he was drilling holes for the neon, drilled through a fuel line, and caught his car on fire. Just to prove he is a bastard child, he rattle canned it silver, but on an obnoxious body kit, and a fart cannon, and is running it in the import demolition derby in town on friday. He was trying to buy my car to run in it . I have since stopped talking to him.

[Omega Mugen]

my idea was to fill the wiper res. with water and put both the nozzles behind the radiator, then when im running hot i can spray the rad and lose temperature from evaporation. i still dont know if this will or will not work.

There is a kit for this. I saw it on Jesse Jame's Monster Garage, the Mt. McKinley episode.

[Rampage]

My actual first car was an 86 Chevrolet Cavalier Fastback. I had the intention of fixing it up and doing a manual swap, and I am glad I never did, because that car never would have been as good as my car is now, and my car isn't even that good!

Ugh, domestic handling.

Cheers,
Mark

[Omega Mugen]

If you want idiot ideas, look around the board. There have been a whole lot of them lately.

[crxls]

idiotic idea #1 bought a 87 cavalier
idiotic idea #2 put an altenator in it
idiotic idea #3 actually drove it... with pride (i was 16)
idiotic idea #4 concitered replacing transmission when "D" blew out
idiotic idea #5 concitered replacing again when "R" blew out
good idea it got hit by a truck (his insurance payed me $1500)
good idea totaled it 2 more times (for fun, wanted something else)
good idea sold car for $20

idiotic idea #6 bought a 89 sunbird
idiotic idea #7 drove it for 13 months
good idea junked it

idiotic idea #8 bought a 89 escort
idiotic idea #9 drove it for 2 weeks
good idea bought a friend the parts to fix it so his daughter could drive it
just so he would take it off my hands

good idea moved on to honda's best move ever

[nivek2002]

Oh ya, i had the idea of hooking the washer nozzles up to the inside of my fenders so they would spray onto my tires. That way i could fill the res. with bleach and to huge smoky burnouts.

Im so looking into that for cooling off my tires at autoX in pre-grid ...

[Aren D.]

I once mounted a fire extusher on my a pillier and it was empty

[87Si]

Ihaven't done anything stupid with the cars.. but I have two non-car related:

1. I was five. Thought I could beat a car accross the street. I didn't. Man, that was pathetic of me! Did some nice flips.. landed in some grass. 3 days in the hospital, a bruised kidney.. and I was outta there.

2. I was 10. Lot's of bees in my friends back yard. We were swatting away with a baseball bat and a tennis racket. Noticed they all seemed to be traveling the same directions. Followed one to the side of the house, saw it dive to the ground and crawl in a small hole that went through 2 pieces of cardboard. Friend says "what's that". I say (I'm so tuff) "Only one way to find out". I got stung about 18-25 times. In the side yard, in the house, in the front yard.. as I ran home. Mostly on the head, back, hands...

Now that's pathetic..