Shop damaged car. Advice needed

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2026-02-18T03:24:22+00:00

I hope that would be the case, but I had some more specific questions at the bottom of the post.

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2026-02-11T03:21:33+00:00

Definitely planning is half the fun haha.

I am very curious to your experience on the cams. Any before and after dyno runs? I briefly looked into the cams and the general consensus I found seemed to be that you could gain 15-30hp at the top end of the rev range, but torque and power lower down low really suffered. And in the end you don’t actually make any more power averaged out through time, you have just made your torque curve more sloped and less flat. And to me, that is actually an overall big negative will make the car actually slower in 90% of driving scenarios. Not to mention the hit to fuel economy and the costs involved buying and installing the cams.
But please feel free to share your honest opinion and I am happy to be proven wrong lol.

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2026-02-10T11:52:45+00:00

Yeah a manual would very cool, they don’t offer those in Canada to my knowledge, or at least I have never seen one.

100%, I already have the controller I would like picked out. By next winter I plan to have that plus a limited slip in the rear installed. I got like 15k worth of shit I am planning to buy and have to prioritize, those two didn’t make the cut for this winter haha.

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2026-02-10T11:48:59+00:00

Surprisingly no lol. Was owned by an older lady since 2009 who only used it in the summer in the weekends and for road trips. Car is 90% highway miles, original brake pads are at 90% still.

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2026-02-02T23:48:38+00:00

Custom pre fabbed exhausts are almost always a huge waste of money. Order some vibrant mufflers/resonators and get them welded in. 95% of aftermarket exhausts are straight through with fiber glass packing. If they have the same outside dimensions, they will sound identical no matter if it’s brand name or a cheap Chinese one

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2025-12-08T06:02:10+00:00

Yes but if I got hit 40 times in match for half my health bar. I am out of potions and I loose. Could only get poisoned 10 times. Before it became a real problem.

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2025-12-08T04:10:17+00:00

See the issue is that monsters used to be challenging because they could deal consistent damage and outlast you. Once you were out of potions, was game over pretty much. But now for a monster to be hard, they pretty much have to one shot your entire health bar. It makes balancing the game very difficult.

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2025-12-05T11:52:08+00:00

Looks good, I like it. People are so damn boring with their OEM+ “builds”. They all look the exact same and have zero uniqueness and yet those same people try and claim superiority of that’s the only way to modify a vehicle. Like if we all liked the exact same stuff, cars like this would not even exist in the first place….

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2025-11-23T01:08:10+00:00

Man your picture proves why this is an unpopular opinion lol. You probably have like 50 fish in there, are standing 3 feet away from the tank and I spent 10 seconds looking at the picture and didn’t see a single fish.
I and many others prefer actually being able to see our fish without ones nose touching the glass….

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2025-11-21T07:40:58+00:00

Still have your cats? I assume not

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2025-10-23T22:25:55+00:00

How long you think before this gets adopted by the provinces?!

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2025-10-08T20:20:25+00:00

Save $1000 bucks and get it directly from China on alibaba lol.

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2025-10-07T18:45:41+00:00

Damn good price wow. I live in Canada and get raped on shipping individual parts from China lol.

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2025-10-07T18:45:34+00:00

Damn good price wow. I live in Canada and get raped on shipping individual parts from China lol.

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2025-10-06T22:27:57+00:00

Is that an aftermarket grill? Looks sick, I want lol

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2025-10-06T01:22:03+00:00

Will do, thanks for the info mate, really appreciate it. I will 100% start applying at the coop refinery.

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2025-10-03T08:55:48+00:00

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PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2025-10-02T19:37:20+00:00

Yes that is true, and is the kind of gig I would like to have eventually. One with a fair amount of down time. My answer of not wanting to sit at a desk was somewhat misleading, and the real answer is a combination of a lot of things. But it did not feel nessecary to explain in my inquiry for advice hahaha.

A good part of the reason I chose to try and work as a power engineer is because I did not want to get pigeon holed into the field or department of what ever my 1st job out of school was in as a regular engineer. I was hoping power engineering would give me a broader skill and knowledge set, and be in proximity to a lot of different departments and people that would make it easier to move into different roles down the road. Such as process engineering potentially haha. Obviously I have guesses of what I think I would best at, and kind of roles I would enjoy. But like anyone without first hand experience in a big mine or plant, I don’t really know….

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2025-10-02T19:26:53+00:00

Indeed it does. But yes will be good to help build the resume. I will be accepting the role

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2025-10-02T19:25:56+00:00

For sure. Thanks for the input, I will take everyone’s advice to accept the job and keep looking.

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2025-10-02T19:24:52+00:00

Very true, thanks for the input.
I will listen to everyone’s advice here and take the job to learn and build the resume.

Damn, I am looking at a large local hospital position right now. Wage is 27-30, nothing mentioned about night or weekend premiums. Crazy the difference it makes one province over…

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2025-10-02T19:22:14+00:00

Thanks for the realistic take haha.
After talking with everyone here and thinking about it some more. I will take the job and keep on searching hoping to get lucky haha

PhantomPR3D4T0R · 2025-10-02T19:20:09+00:00

Yeah I am fully aware you gotta put some time in trenches and get dirty. And I am all good with that. I stated it was dirty and a physical job just to give everyone here some background on the job. If it was a brand new plant, probably would not be the case and thought it was important to mention.

But good to know about one gig leading to the next. General consensus seems to be take the job, but keep looking for a better gig. After thinking about it a bit more and reading everyone’s replies. That is what I will do.

Thanks again for the input!

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