RWD Monte, very interesting, wish I had money and shop to do it!!
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 12,605
From: Mentor, Ohio
That video has shown up before on MCF. I believe that guy is a member of MCF (he goes through long times of being inactive), but don't quote me. I know we have a member that has done a full RWD conversion, but he does not share much about what he did (this created a few annoyed posts from people that admired the car).
I recall at one point hearing that video was a situation that the tires were near done anyways, so the driver decided to have fun and finish the tires off before getting new ones and getting it on video. Personally, I don't feel it was safe to do those stunts with so many people around, take that safety issue out, I think it's neat seeing a 6th gen Monte do silly stuff I could do with an F-Body lol
I find it funny we've seen people in stock RWD cars (like F-bodies) do equally silly stuff and I don't think those guys get the negative comments I've seen in this thread. I guess it's a difference of "it came that way" vs "effort was done to make it this way". Don't get me wrong, I think the conversion to RWD is cool and I think it would be even better to see more picks and information about it (not to repeat it, just to learn what some one did.
I recall at one point hearing that video was a situation that the tires were near done anyways, so the driver decided to have fun and finish the tires off before getting new ones and getting it on video. Personally, I don't feel it was safe to do those stunts with so many people around, take that safety issue out, I think it's neat seeing a 6th gen Monte do silly stuff I could do with an F-Body lol
I find it funny we've seen people in stock RWD cars (like F-bodies) do equally silly stuff and I don't think those guys get the negative comments I've seen in this thread. I guess it's a difference of "it came that way" vs "effort was done to make it this way". Don't get me wrong, I think the conversion to RWD is cool and I think it would be even better to see more picks and information about it (not to repeat it, just to learn what some one did.
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 1,746
That video has shown up before on MCF. I believe that guy is a member of MCF (he goes through long times of being inactive), but don't quote me. I know we have a member that has done a full RWD conversion, but he does not share much about what he did (this created a few annoyed posts from people that admired the car).
Here's his post on it a while back:
As for buddy that said pathetically trying to do donuts.. Your right.. But, I was having transmission problems back then.. I dont put all the particulars on the internet.. Arizona TPI had shafted me on a computer so i had to manually ground the solenoids to achieve 1st gear.. I had dropped the wire at 1 point.
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You can also see where some people began to think he's faking owning the car. The thread is locked though since it turned nasty towards the end.
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 1,910
From: nj
ive spoken to him before, he owns the car or did at the time. he also had quite a few pics of it. he messaged me quite a while back, but i myself go through months of inactivity so i havent talked to him in a while. we discussed me sending mine out there to convert it(obviously a fantasy and unnecessary.)