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Eric
I am looking for a car that is under 5k that is a 1995 or newer. I'm looking for a car that has good speed stock, but can also be easily upgraded to make it faster. I don't really want anything like a civic or integra, but something still reliable. Let me know! Thanks.
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* Audi UrS4 (92-~95) turbo awd 5cyl w/ 227hp
* 1991 Audi 200 20-valve turbo 217hp (awd 5cyl)
* mid 90s BMW 540i 282hp V8
* mid 90s Acura Legend with Series-II 3.2L and 6spd manual - not too moddable
* 97+ Buick Regal GS model (240hp/280tq from 3.8L supercharged V6)
* 95+ Nissan Maxima with 5-speed manual (Award winning 190hp VQ-series V6) moddable
* Buick Roadmaster with the LT1 V8 (heavy but surprising with 260hp and around 330tq) moddable
* 93+ Camaro Z28 with LT1 -- very moddable obviously, but insurance $$, decent mpg w/ T56 6spd
* mid 90s Caprice 9c1 package (police) with 260hp Lt1 -- moddable, but ~odd cop car look
* Fox body 5.0 Mustang. ~85-93 years 205-225hp very moddable of course, insurance $$
* 89-95 Taurus SHO, 5spd preferable, older SHOs were quickest 0-60 ~6.5 seconds
* Mazda RX7 turbo, pre-93 RX7 turbo w/ 200hp turbo rotary
* Mercedes 420E (heavier luxury sedan, but quick and rock solid)
* Oldsmobile 88 LSS with the L67 supercharged V6 (240hp/280tq) sleeper luxo sedan
* Dodge Spirit R/T model only, rare but has 227hp from Lotus-designed 2.2L DOHC turbo 4.
* Dodge Daytona R/T w/ same engine has Spirit R/T -- both fast cars, Spirit is more sleeperish
* Toyota Supra MK3 turbo - 232hp 5spd, very moddable but heavy car
* Toyota Celica All Trac with 2.0 turbo 190-200hp, AWD and moddable.
* 1990+ Toyota MR2 Turbo, same engine has Celica All Trac but MR setup and LSD differential.
* 1990-era Saab 900 SPG, not too quick, but moddable (notorious transmission problems though)
* Saab 9000 with 2.3 Turbo engine, ideally the Aero model with highest horsepower, 5spd.
* Volvo 850 T5, 222+hp, very moddable but all automatics
* Volvo V70, updated 850, but offers a 5spd manual in turbo models. Not sure if you can find for under $5000 though, but check.
* Volkswagen Corrado VR6, awesome handling (rivals Prelude vtec for handling)
* ~1991 Isuzu Impulse RS model only, AWD with 160hp turbo 4, Lotus designed suspension, very rare car.
Just a few of the many cars out there that can be fast as hell with little mods here n there. If you want a fast stock luxury car for cheap, look into the Cadillac Eldorado ECT or Seville STS model because they have the 300hp version of the 4.6 Northstar engine and do 0-60 in well under 7 seconds. Also the Porsche 944 turbo could be a great car for you, but it may be hard to find one under 5k in decent condition (worth the search though) and are known to be one of the best handling Porsches ever made.
what do religious people think about food storage and being self reliant?
falisrm
do you think food storage is a biblical concept? is it taught or encouraged in your church or is it a false and dumb idea to follow?
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I'm LDS (Mormon), but I'm a convert. My desire for food storage goes back to the days of my very earliest childhood, decades before I joined the LDS Church.
I grew up with stores about my Great Grandmother & Great Grandfather who lived near Chicago. They were the first of my family to come to the U.S.A., from Poland. My Great Grandfather worked in the coal mines.
My Great Grandmother ran the farm, and took care of the 8 children their marriage produced. During a two year miner striker, my forefathers ate, and ate well. They had protein from chickens, rabbits, dairy for the cows, and eggs from chickens. They even had a beef to slaughter ever year. They grew all their fruits and vegetables. They only went to grocery stores for items like sugar. Everything else they raised, harvested and preserved themselves.
When the Great Depression rolled around the other miners were showing up with a boiled potato in their lunch box. My Great Grandfather had chicken....every single day. Imagine doing a hard physical job like working in a mine having eaten a boiled potato, or having eaten chicken...! My Great Grandfather ate so much chicken during the Great Depression, he refused to eat chicken when the economy got better.
Since I was a six year old girl, I have known I was going to live on a farm, and do things the natural way. Now that I'm an adult in my 40's, I live on a permaculture farm, where we grow 90% of the food we eat. That includes the livestock we butcher, dairy goats for milk, and chickens for eggs, as well as our ever growing orchard. We even planted 12,000 native trees on our farm, to become our future wood lot, as we do most of our heating with wood.
We FIRMLY believe in being as self sufficient and as prepared as possible. Our pantry currently contains a bit over two years food storage, for three adults. By that, I mean enough food to supply us with a wholesome 5000 calorie a day diet for over two years, should we ever find we need it. So reality is we have more like a four year food storage under current good conditions
Our food storage stems not from the teachings of the LDS Church. It stems from the very history of my family. So after 9/11 happened, and my mother didn't have a sale in real estate for over 9 months, we were able to take all the money we had (just her and I at the time), and apply it to mortgage, gas for the car, phone and the power bill. We purchased virtually no groceries for a year, until money picked up for her. After I married, my horse broke my husband's hand. As the main wage earner, he was down for three months, and in reality more like five months. Yet we ate well, and the money we had was applied to mortgage, power, gas, and phones.
Now all three of us have pooled our resources on one farm. This means the mortgage will be paid off decades earlier. The trees to be our future heat source have been planted. We have taken care of the filtering of our own water, instead of depending on the state to do so (the water in most of our county is contaminated by decades use of chemicals on berry fields).
Hubby is about to start on an addition to this home, which will include solar power, and a composting toilet.
We looked at all of our bills. There are only two we cannot produce ourselves. That is phone and internet. We have to pay for those two luxury service. Everything else, mortgage, water, garbage, food, heat, power, sewer, even fuel for our vehicles is currently, or will be produced by ourselves/our farm.
Being completely independent also means you REALLY are a citizen of this country (U.S.A.) and absolutely free to vote however you want. Since we are not depending on the Government to provide services for us...well that means we are not dependent. The Government/politicians actually hate people like us. It's desperately difficult for them to find a carrot to dangle out to get our vote. They also have to actually do their job, since we pay attention, and we vote.
You cannot promise to lower the price of fuel for us (can you beat .69 cent a gallon?). You cannot offer to add onto the power grid (we'll be completely off grid in a few years). You cannot promise new pipes for clean water (we already took car of the problem for ourselves, and have no interest in paying $15,000 to hook up to their "clean water.").
Food storage is a good thing. It allows families to be independent and care for themselves should a crisis hit them. Do you know what the usual reasons for falling back on food storage are? It's not the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
It's death of a main wage earner, long term illness in the family (like cancer), job loss, job slow down, divorce, bad weather (hurricane, snow storm, ect).
I wonder if there is a single person reading this who has not had at least one of those crisis situations hit their family? I bet they didn't have food storage to fall back on!
~Garnet
Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years
Over 2 years food storage in our pantry.
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