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Merkweers are everywhere...

Posted by matt15fan 
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Matthew Earl
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Merkweers are everywhere...
March 30, 2010 09:43AM
even in the southeast...I think I may purchase this one as a daily driver.

http://knoxville.craigslist.org/cto/1638416556.html
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Re: Merkweers are everywhere...
March 30, 2010 10:03AM
matt15fan Wrote:
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> even in the southeast...I think I may purchase
> this one as a daily driver.
>

You will certainly have more fun, and have a better car and have a better chance at competitive results if you kept the Fucked-us as a daily driver and just added suspension and an intercooler to an Xratty as a rally car.

At least with an Xratty you have more than enough BHP and torque to move the car well, the basis for a stronger motor, and the ability to affordably swap in an alternate gearbox, alternate ratio diff and a LSD for a couple or 3 hundred bucks here and there rather than thousands and thousands.

Suspension costs the same for either (indeed it can nearly interchange), so it becomes a question of EVENTUALLY the cost of better "downstream" driveline costs.
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