Ghetto Rigged

[Dgardi]

What's the most OR last ghetto rigged thing you've done to your car?

I've made a few plugs out of old hose and bottle caps. I've also got my radiator fan zip tied.

I'm sure someone's got me beat. lol.

[Decker]

duct tape on my power steering pressure line and zip tied front bumper.

[NISMODUDE1988]

i have taken card board tubing and wrapped duct tape around it and connected 4 pieces togather so it makes the tubing hard and a K&N filter and put the K&N sticker on the tape it works but i have 12 pound test fishing string holding it up from falling in my fan this was done on my Ford Ranger Xlt

[NISMODUDE1988]

duct tape on my power steering pressure line and zip tied front bumper.

does ur power steering leak too??? mine does and everone i know that has a 240 does too

[Decker]

^ haha. awesome

yeah. I bought a napa pressure line. putting it in tomorrow. I have to fill the tank every morning.

[CodyW]

i once had to zip tie my entire fuel rail down. moderately unsafe, but it did the job.

aside from that, my front bumper is permanently zip tied on, one of my corner lights is duct taped in, and one of my rear fenders has been reshaped with a board and a hammer due to a certain run in with a wall, just to name a few things.

[Dominic49]

I beat everyone.....

[1800DialKyle]

I beat everyone.....

LOL :lmfao:

For my car i can not think of anything that is rigged. But i just got the car so we will see what comes.:goodjob:

[JDM Steve]

i always delete those kinda mods LOL

[Casey]

I beat everyone.....

=D
u win...
lol i dont RIG anything
but on my 5 series... i used dog electric fence aluminum wire to hold my intake hose on =D
and duct taped and ziptied my radiator cuz the clips broke >< plastic.....

[sofo259]

my cold air intake was ziptied on after i ripped the rad. shroud off cause the fan was hitting it..

one of my pulleys bit into a MAF wire so its duct taped out of the way now..

i try not to ghetto engineer stuff on my car lol

[Casey]

my cold air intake was ziptied on after i ripped the rad. shroud off cause the fan was hitting it..

one of my pulleys bit into a MAF wire so its duct taped out of the way now..

i try not to ghetto engineer stuff on my car lol

lmao
my radiator in my bmw fell into the clutch fan at 5000 rpm
you can picture what happened after that....

[Cash]

When I did my swap we only had 3 days to pull the ka out of my s14, pull the sr out of my sileighty, and then drop the sr into my s14, so needless to say we were in a bit of a rush. Because of this my my engine bay is the cleanest you've ever seen. We had to make do with whatever we could find at times.

I have a few of those white plastic t's on my vacuum and boost lines where i just needed a straight connector, so I just stuck screws in the extra side. Also i have this bright home depot orange hose for one of my vacuum that my friends call the "caution tape" everytime I pop my hood.

The most recent ghetto rig is my navan grill I got from Jarco. The mounting holes and stuff were broken so I just ziptied it on.

[flip]

What's the most OR last ghetto rigged thing you've done to your car?

I've made a few plugs out of old hose and bottle caps. I've also got my radiator fan zip tied.

I'm sure someone's got me beat. lol.

Haha, my radiator fan is zip tied too lol. :)

Great thread!!

[santacruz77]

hmm my coolant catch can is a mountain due bottle, old exaust was clothes hanger held up, idk i havnt done much to mine thats gettoh but my friend damn haha my brother beats everyone, all zip tied or jb welded hahahah

[~The_Duke~]

Dominic speaks the truth, I don't think there is anything in his car that isn't ghetto rigged some where or has been ghetto rigged at one point or another.

Lets see here, I have the dubbed 'ghetto sim' to fix my SES light from coming on after deleting the cat in my header. This is a sparkplug anti-fouler drilled out that masks the O2 sensor from reading all the dirty stuff. Therefore making it seem like the 1st cat is still in the header.

Then when my normal O2 bung plug fell out I used a spark plug anti-fouler filled with JB weld to plug the whole until I could find a proper 18mm 1.25 pitch bolt thingy to plug it with.

New addition. Ghetto rubbing protection in the form of rubber tubbing cut down one side to form a guard against CAI tube rubbing against the fender well hole.

If you count my exhaust is being held up partial with some sort of electric dog fence or something we found in kyle's garage.

[Casey]

Dominic speaks the truth, I don't think there is anything in his car that isn't ghetto rigged some where or has been ghetto rigged at one point or another.

Lets see here, I have the dubbed 'ghetto sim' to fix my SES light from coming on after deleting the cat in my header. This is a sparkplug anti-fouler drilled out that masks the O2 sensor from reading all the dirty stuff. Therefore making it seem like the 1st cat is still in the header.

Then when my normal O2 bung plug fell out I used a spark plug anti-fouler filled with JB weld to plug the whole until I could find a proper 18mm 1.25 pitch bolt thingy to plug it with.

New addition. Ghetto rubbing protection in the form of rubber tubbing cut down one side to form a guard against CAI tube rubbing against the fender well hole.

If you count my exhaust is being held up partial with some sort of electric dog fence or something we found in kyle's garage.

yes dude
the electric dog fence wire is the best shizzz.... second to duct tape of course

[4cefed240sx]

When I rebuilt my Zenki after that bitch ran me off the road, my front and rear bumpers were ziptied on, head lights were ziptied to the support, I took the third brake light out of the trunk lid and had a zip tie connected to the trunk latch sticking out of the hole (pull this to open trunk).

before:

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t237/4cefed240sx/Littleback.jpg

After:

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t237/4cefed240sx/240003.jpg

I think I got er-body beat

If you look close enough you can see the zip tie collection:
-trunk hole
-holding the bumper on
-on each side of the tail light garish

[Casey]

dannng impressive work with teh zip ties
dude you just needed a rear trunk... hammer the body back into place and a rear bumper... and ure as good as new =D

[4cefed240sx]

^^^^ Yeah I wished.......it was a little more complicated than that, the rear quarters were folded up a little where the trunk lid meets the quarter on the top. But I ended up selling it for a pretty good deal :goodjob:

[wantboost]

lets see i needed a hole cut for my front mount (for an sr) but didnt have the right tool. the problem was i had already taken out the side mount and did not feel like putting it back on. so i took my jig-saw and cut the plastic cold pipe so it was straight. and i twisted the hot pipe so it connected directly to the coldpipe bypassing the intercooler. it looked really shitty lol but it worked. i will post some pics if i can find them

[4cefed240sx]

^^^ is that safe? I dont know that I have ever heard of anyone doing that, maybe due to my ignorance.

[Dominic49]

dashboard (made out of MDF) and guage cluster ziptied to my interrior... HID ballasts ziptied to engine bay... exhaust held on by coat hanger... etc.. etc..


I dont call it ghetto rigging... I call it custom fabrication...

[Lone_Wolf]

does anybody else agree that a welded diff is ghetto?

[down_shift]

does anybody else agree that a welded diff is ghetto?

cheap and gets the job done...kinda.

[Casey]

yeah i think im going to go welded till i can afford a good diff.
it is, however, sorta ghetto
you cant see it tho... lol

[frosty_spl]

back in the day I had a JDM front on my EF civic hatch.

One of the corner lights i had twist-tied on. like what you tie a bag of bread with. hah.

[Andy C]

hmmm

[Cameron.]

really andy...

[super240sx71]

Way to be a smartass

[Andy C]

why just have one thread?

bring all of them back from the dead!

mod please merge all of them