By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

How to make a fool of yourself in front of your rich buddies…

Lamborghini Diablo Fail.

By Ben Schaffer

The Real JDM

During my past trip to Japan I had dinner with one of my friends who is a famous aero parts designer. In the course of the evening’s conversation on design he schooled me on something that I should have known but never did…and it blew my mind!

Did you all know that the Lamborghini Diablo uses Z32 300ZX (Fairlady Z) headlights? I consider myself to be a bit of a car nerd and I had no idea of this fascinating fact, which looking back is quite an embarrassment because I should know things like this!!!

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By David Belau

dartslantsix

So, I decided to do a little weekend project on the Slant Six. My dad picked up a 2bbl manifold and carburetor known as the “Super Six” package. I spent a couple nights rebuilding the carb and painting the manifold. After that I was ready to install it and fire up the car. It’s the kind of project that should only take a couple hours.

But the Gilligan complex overtook my car. What should have been a three hour tour turned into a never ending project from hell. I gingerly removed all the nuts holding the intake on and when I got to the last one, it gingerly broke off. That’s right, I broke off a stud down inside the head. At this moment, little horns grew out of my head and my eyes burned red. My voice dropped into a lower range than is humanly possible as a guttural growl emitted from my throat. My wife popped her head into the garage when she heard the noise, but she retreated when she smelled the burning sulfur and saw the savage beast under the hood of the Dart.

So tell me, have any of your projects not gone as planned? A full write up on my Super Six conversion, complete with colorful adjectives, is coming soon.

Some of you may actually like this car. There’s nothing wrong with liking it, so feel free to still have your say in the comments section. I, however, do not like this car at all, so I’m offering it up to the haters in this latest installment of Hater Fodder.

This picture was taken from the same crazy exotic car meet as yesterday’s post. I can tell the owner put a lot of money into this car, which to me is all the more a shame that it came out so tasteless and gaudy. Anyway, if I offended anyone, I’m sorry, but I think this car looks terrible in this picture.

PS: To me, the only excuse for this car is if it was tuned like this five or more years ago (if that’s the case then it gets a “get out of hater fodder free” pass from me). These parts are the same shock value, blocky, chunky and poorly integrated design that mostly represented the late 1990s of the US spocom scene. I wonder if Wings West made these one-off parts for this Diablo…