Most Ghetto Rigged thing youve done/found on your car

[DaBombDiggidy]

personally done - used radio wire to keep an exhaust up on my civic

found - 2 quaters in my turbo xs BOV with one washer ontop

not mine, but... i LOL'ed
http://www.massiveunderstatement.com/photos/ghetto-car-lock.jpg

[teh DIRT]

quarters in those bovs is legit.

found: staples in a headliner to keep it up.

[CleanNeon98]

In my first car, I found shotgun shells (un-fired) in the spare tire compartment

thats about it...

[DaBombDiggidy]

shot gun shells is funny but were talking getto rigging. i know wev all done it once or twice.

[ThatsTheTruth]

ZIPTIES, for everything from holding my bumper up to being my replacement exhaust hangers haha

[Eclipse GSX 61]

I ziptied my battery down for like a month lol.

[CleanNeon98]

I had my MBC ziptied to my intercooler piping for like 2 months
I have my HID ballasts ziptied in place to this day

[Erik]

ziptied my cold air intake back into place after my ziptie bracket broke lol.
i found a fork being used as a ground connector for an electrical system as well. Both cases where in my pontiac sunbird.

[JST2KWIK]

Well this is ghetto rigging to the MAX: I went offroading in my mom's Nissan Murano, destroyed this plastic protector that is supposed to protect the gas tank (yeah safe, I know), and the pin holding the left side to the car was MIA. Luckily, there was a lip stick tube on the ground so I backed over it and wedged the broken pieces into the hole (insert "that's what she said" here) in order to hold it up. Needless to say, it actually lasted long enough for my mom not to notice until the next day!

[TROLL]

I've had a piece of electrical tape wrapped around one spot on my IC piping on the Subaru for a long time because it rubs the hood and I dont want it to look beat. I need to shave the hood slightly but just havent done it.

On the Supra I found 24 holes drilled through the trans tunnel on the passenger side... I have no idea why but I was furious when I found them. They're all sealed up properly now though.

[Erik]

I've had a piece of electrical tape wrapped around one spot on my IC piping on the Subaru for a long time because it rubs the hood and I dont want it to look beat. I need to shave the hood slightly but just havent done it.

On the Supra I found 24 holes drilled through the trans tunnel on the passenger side... I have no idea why but I was furious when I found them. They're all sealed up properly now though.

like pin holes? or are we talking like an 1/8th of an inch? thats one hell of a find.

[DaBombDiggidy]

http://www.myteespot.com/images/Images_d/d_7166.jpg

^musta got to it

[james_ls]

Zip-Tie Bumpers.

All of them.

Current.

[james_ls]

On the Supra I found 24 holes drilled through the trans tunnel on the passenger side... I have no idea why but I was furious when I found them. They're all sealed up properly now though.

What the hell?

[TROLL]

this shows some but not all... i had a light underneath so they'd light up... after a lot of cleaning and prep we sealed them with seam sealer and then fresh undercoating so it wont be an issue now, but seriously, wtf?

http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k353/btroll/Supra/081408/DSC_0038.jpg?t=1218857457

here's what it looks like from the inside now...
http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k353/btroll/Supra/102708/300_6378.jpg?t=1225957381

[SvicksTc]

^ what the hell ive never seen anything like that before what the hell was the reasoning there

[james_ls]

Bryan, you should call the previous owner; I'd really like to know WHAT the hell 24 friggin pinholes like that are doing...

[EKLIPZGSX97]

What the hell?

maybe the car has/had a water leaking problem and that was drainage? either that or ghetto heat from the motor/trans??

DONE- Installing an EBC on my buddy's SRT4, i wrapped electrical tape over the end of a vacuum t and zip tied it there until the next day when he could get proper vacuum caps:lol:

FOUND- nothing super ghetto other than zip tied bumpers, boost controllers, normal ****..

SEEN- I worked as a mechanic in an area that was heavily populated with back yard mechanics. So I've seen everything from exhaust held up with coat hangers, to dryer vent used as a flex section:eek:

[Tires2theSky]

When i bought my supra, there was all kinds of things rigged up with the car. Mostly in the engine bay: There was a random plumbing valve on one of the hoses coming off the turbo, homemade boost controller. The wiring for the True Twin Mod was horrible, im surprised it never shorted out. And lets just say when they repainted the car, they did not tape things off as well as they should have and there was overspray in the fender wells, on the sidemount and radiator as well. All has since been corrected.

[TROLL]

Wait, I got another one from the Supra... coming up as soon as I find the photo. It was a real hack in some ways, but other things were done well. I think he took it to a shop for some stuff early on when he had $$$ and then later did some stuff himself which was a mistake.

edit:

wiring inside the front fenders, above the tire. no fender liners, and wiring was chewed through pretty bad. looks like he tried to 'fix' it... hahaha. wtfff.
dude asked if i'd give him a ride once it was all fixed up... but i really dont think he deserves one after i see how he treated my baby...

http://bryantroll.com/other/supra/1221/images/IMG_0616.jpg

http://bryantroll.com/other/supra/1221/images/IMG_0617.jpg

It does give me an excuse to relocate the fuse box without guilt that I'm hacking up otherwise perfect wiring though :)

[blkZ06]

I cut a soda can long ways and wrapped it around my exhaust with some hose clamps to fix an exhaust leak on my first car

The hood on my Viper was held on by 6 different nuts, some of the studs on the hood were re threaded to make the mismatched nuts work

[Eclipse GSX 61]

Well you know you got the time to take as long as you want with that Supra considering you have other cars. I'm stoked to see the final product because you obviously haven't spared much. I want to see this bad boy in person when it is done.

[TROLL]

Yeah the wiring has all been repaired as well... doesnt look anything like that any more. Fred basically cut that entire section out and redid it from scratch. Not its secured very tightly against the top of the inside of the fender and I have new fender liners to go in there. I dont have any photos of the finished wiring at this point though, but I'll have to remember to take some.

[Munky]

Guy I worked with bought an 92 Mustang LX with a 5.0 in it and when he picked it up the guy begged him not to drive it away. Wouldn't say why just said the brakes acted up from time to time and knew we had a nice distance to travel. Fast forward about 40 mins later we're on the highway and I see my buddy opening it up for the first time. Coming up on a blind corner and I see brake lights but cars not slowing down. Fast forward about 2 minutes later and the car finally comes to a stop after hitting the guardrail at about 85 mph and then almost being t-boned by a semi. Come to find out the @sshat had worn down the brake pads so much that instead of replacing them he put layers of sand paper over them basically relying on the back brakes to stop the car!!! NO LIE...my friends still in the process of suing his ass. No wonder he wouldn't let him take it outside of his development for the test drive.

[lownslow95]

I have my HID ballasts ziptied in place to this day

Thats how mine are, and they still work. :thumbup: A friend of mine went to home depot, bought some of that dryer ducting stuff, and put a cheap ass apc air filter on his integra and said that was his cold air intake.:bigeek:

[lownslow95]

I cut a soda can long ways and wrapped it around my exhaust with some hose clamps to fix an exhaust leak on my first car

I've got you beat. I used some heating duct to fix my exhaust on my integra, massive amounts of jbwed, and some other **** I had laying around. Needless to say, it didn't pass inspection. I wanted to see the look on this guys face when he fixed it.:o

[DPancoast]

My Hella Horns are ziptied in place lol

[Elliott18t]

my intake is zipptied in place so it can't move. its underneath so you can't see it and my pcv is electrical taped at the moment :mad:

[bl@ckvr4]

Most ghetto thing I have EVER done is use fire to remove a frozen and burst coolant line on a 300ZX....yeah....intentional fire in the engine bay FTW.

[Z31Fanatic]

^ what the hell ive never seen anything like that before what the hell was the reasoning there
weight savings :lol::lol:

[fear_no_evo]

i cracked my trany on my 89 prelude and jbweled it shut o my wipers stoped working on out way back from ny 1 time and we used our shoe laces to pull them back and froth on the njtp till we got home o and my home cai made from pvc then theres this guy in whitehall with a tibaron he made a backyard turbo kit and used pvc for his ic pipes

[DropTopChevy]

Thats how mine are, and they still work. :thumbup: A friend of mine went to home depot, bought some of that dryer ducting stuff, and put a cheap ass apc air filter on his integra and said that was his cold air intake.:bigeek:

Or how about the wiring job that I saw on your HID's. :rotfl:

[poisonivory]

i've never really done anything ghetto, because I've never had anything that required rigging.

I do have a good one though. Back in like 97' when my cousin Kate first got her license, she borrowed her mom's Nissan Altima to go to the movies. Well she pulled a little too far and ran the front bumper over the parking bumpstop. She tried to back up and ripped it clear off...no cracking or anything, just pulled it off. She was so scared to get in trouble, that she had her friends super glue it back on...yes, super glue. My aunt and my mom used to car pool to work since we lived on the same street then. Well, the next day, or maybe the following, her mom and my mom get in the car to go to work, start driving off and the bumper falls off in the middle of the street. Talk about hilarious..haha

[Elliott18t]

...my wipers stoped working on out way back from ny 1 time and we used our shoe laces to pull them back and froth on the njtp till we got home ....


ahaahhaha wow

[lawdogg]

A tennis ball used to hold my stock Y-pipe onto my throttle body.

[upperguy]

I've got a great one, back when I had my 20th AE GTI and was driving it on the 05 AKARally... The turbo backed out the nuts on the manifold(turbo-manifold not manifold-head) and it melted a portion of the brake booster line and I almost lost brakes completely. We were in the middle of nowhere so I bought a sir-marks-alot perm market and hollowed it out, wrapped it in duct tape and used it to replace the section. Worked like a charm til I could replace it.

[Scapegoat]

whoever rewired my truck ghetto rigged it to hell and back...

personally, i've ghetto rigged one car... my 86 laser turbo. The gromit that holds the shifter cables in place must've broke as it suddenly was no longer there... I used some wire, some being an understatement, to secure the cables in place so they didn't move when shifting. and by wires, i mean the channel that they run through... it would move whenever shifting, which resulted in the car trans not shifting because the cable itself wouldn't move...

[lownslow95]

Or how about the wiring job that I saw on your HID's. :rotfl:

you should look at it now...it doesn't look all that bad.

[redline]

Not my car but it was my fix that got us home.

My and my freind were stranded when his throttle cable snapped, thinking quickly i gutted his speaker wire and made a jumper to the carb. He drove the car like this for 2 years and sold it with the speaker wire still tied on:lol:

[3rdGenMr2Girl]

when my boyfriend got his second mr2 some **** was held together with golf tees???

[DaBombDiggidy]

thottle cable x2 i had totally forgot i did that during feb with snow on the ground lol

[ItsStetch]

Haha I was with my friend just after getting his first car, about a week or so after him driving it he noticed it seemed noisey inside coming from the under carriage like maybe there was a hole or something well we climb underneath to look and see 3 half inch drilled into the floor on the driver and passenger side. He calls up the previous owner right away and ask's what was going on. He explained that the sun roof leaked and so did the front windshield when it rained and that the holes where to drain out the water that got inside the car. lol

[namdoogwerdna]

I can't wait until PoorMan'sR comes in here and tells stories about his old teg.


Personally I haven't ghetto rigged anything serious on my car but I could have run my subwoofer wires better.

[Got Insulin?]

All the wiring in my car, including the classic, "I hate to solder, so **** it, I'll JB WELD this together....." Horrible. Yeah, uncovered wires, stuff cut out of my wiring harness, all fixed now, (knock on wood) and My IC pipes touched under the couplers and were also Jb Welded, how, or why, is beyond me, but they were.

I've ziptied/ghettorigged everything in emergencies: Applejuice overflow bottle, Ductaped hoses...ect. My best friends old beater Dakota was the perfect example of my "last case scenerio" handywork, he just never felt like fixing it after that particular "last minute." lol

My best though, is the panties that I have on top of my battery to keep it from grounding off my hood because my battery tie-down was all bent up and rusty (????), so one day after getting my battery light on when I took my sister back to West Chester, I was like, I need something to put inbetween the two and she was like, "Here, we found these in the dryer." Case closed. I periodically forget they are there and I die a little inside when I open my hood.
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n116/tjedi1/mail-1.jpg

[Scapegoat]

All the wiring in my car, including the classic, "I hate to solder, so **** it, I'll JB WELD this together....." Horrible. Yeah, uncovered wires, stuff cut out of my wiring harness, all fixed now, (knock on wood) and My IC pipes touched under the couplers and were also Jb Welded, how, or why, is beyond me, but they were.

I've ziptied/ghettorigged everything in emergencies: Applejuice overflow bottle, Ductaped hoses...ect. My best friends old beater Dakota was the perfect example of my "last case scenerio" handywork, he just never felt like fixing it after that particular "last minute." lol

My best though, is the panties that I have on top of my battery to keep it from grounding off my hood because my battery tie-down was all bent up and rusty (????), so one day after getting my battery light on when I took my sister back to West Chester, I was like, I need something to put inbetween the two and she was like, "Here, we found these in the dryer." Case closed. I periodically forget they are there and I die a little inside when I open my hood.
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n116/tjedi1/mail-1.jpg

you've got your sister's panties under the hood of your car?

[jjm4life]

so your sisters panties are always under your hood...? insert jokes here

edit: scapegoat beat me to it

i have plenty of zipties on vac lines. and my mini battery kit looks really ghetto. thats about all i can think of

[mg23]

the guy who i bought my car off of decided to wire up some alpine speakers and kenwood amp but had no clue what the hell he was doing. I went to install an alpine headunit and saw the mess of wires behind my dash :eek: then i noticed wires running under my carpet and when i pulled them up, there was burn marks under my carpet because the wires were cut and just burning my carpet... needless to say im glad my car didnt catch on fire.

[Got Insulin?]

"Here, we found these in the dryer."

:eek:

They aren't hers, haha. Her roommates and her found them in the dryer when they moved into their appt at WCU.

[Scapegoat]

that's still nasty... did you guys get herpes on your hands?

[Got Insulin?]

that's still nasty... did you guys get herpes on your hands?

Nah, man, no glove, no love...er, gloves.

[ThePrimerSuspect]

once had this car for inspection where the guy had a pretty good slice in his side wall, so he used bondo and sprayed it black lol. but i think i might win for this one.................while we're on the subject of zip ties, i pulled an engine using zip ties......................twice:eek:

[SovXietday]

while we're on the subject of zip ties, i pulled an engine using zip ties......................twice:eek:

LOL, wow, you sir are brave.

Working at Circuit City, I get to see all ****ing sorts of strange ass **** that people think they can do with wires. It's awesome.

The other day, Mexican guy came in with his wife. The guy couldn't really speak much english, and his wife was having a hard time translating what he meant so that I could understand. I sat in the car while he pointed at the middle of the dashboard and said "lights and speakers." I was all sorts of confused. Finally the dude popped his hood and I figured it out, he had installed his amp turnon wire on the headlight circuit. So yes, when you flicked the headlights on, his subwoofer worked, when you turned them off, it turned off. Fricken hilarious, I played with it for like 5 minutes laughing my ass off.

I've seen more "rat's nests" than you could possibly imagine. Basically just masses of untaped unsoldered wire thrown about everywhere.

Mechanically my CRX was a nightmare. The guys before me had ebay coilovers dropped all the way down on stock shocks, so naturally all 4 shocks were completely blown when I got them. Only one side of the car had working brakes, the passenger front brake was seized and the rear brake was metal on metal. The exhaust had been welded so that it sat up against the gas tank. Stripped/missing bolts EVERYWHERE. Nothing soldered. Blah.

The only real ghetto thing I have is on my Civic. On the back of my IM I have a tiny little vacuum port that I was having a hell of a time keeping plugs on because it's so small and there is no lip on the end of it. Finally after losing all of my plugs, I took a piece of hose, rammed a screw into it, and filled the piece of hose with superglue and stuck it on. Hasn't come off since. :-p

[DaBombDiggidy]

the headlights thing should be a DIY mod on here HA

just remembered i had to cap a vacuum line before and couldn't find anything that fit so i took a luke skywalker toy from a kid next door, ripped the head off and stuck it in... lets just say the force was with it, i forgot about it and it worked for over a year

[boostedmr2]

when my boyfriend got his second mr2 some **** was held together with golf tees???

yes the previous owner plugged a vacuum line with a golf tee, very interesting choice of a plug haha

[zaneithan]

i had my sard r2d2 blow off valve welded to the hotpipe since they dont use a flange and apparently there is a spot on it that swivels, causing a pretty big boost leak, so to this day its zip tied to keep from leaking, and for a mounting bracket on my greddy intake plenum we used washers that were cut

[namdoogwerdna]

LOL, wow, you sir are brave.

Working at Circuit City, I get to see all ****ing sorts of strange ass **** that people think they can do with wires. It's awesome.


**** Circuit City man. I fix so many piss-poor Circuit City/Best Buy/Tweeter wiring jobs I've lost count. It has to be in the hundreds though.

[TurboTagTeam]

My battery is not held down....at all

I have a rag preventing my battery ground from contacting my core support

I used zip ties to partially hold my bumper up


that is all

[SvicksTc]

Zipped Tied MBC, and used 3m double sided tape to keep my a pilar gauge pod in place because i didnt want to drill holes through my stock A pillar....

On my first car when i first starting modding my first stero install was shooty haha

[omgjacki]

My battery support was apparently loose because there was cardboard wedged in there to hold the battery in place.

[howielong]

Used a small wire nut to connect two wires together for the ignition circuit in my truck. Still there, just to lazy to solder it together :)

[TGilb2007]

Haven't done anything really THAT ghetto to the cars that I owned.

The first head unit I ever installed, that was a blast. Didn't really secure ANYTHING down. The only reason the HU didn't coming flying out was that I soldered the wires?

Oh..... and the power windows I installed in the Cavalier. Started the install, drilled the rivets out for everything, swapped in the power window motors. Started running my wiring for it. Tapped the ignition wire for the power, and grounded it to the transmission tunnel. The ground came out a couple of times when I shifted too hard too.

Now, the wagon has a wiper that likes to randomly come loose in the snow, and I gotta fix it all the time. Annoying as hell, but I don't wanna locktight it down.

[enigma]

Bah, I was rocking the aquafina coolant catch can(replaced), and PVC cold air intake(still there, home depot racing FTW) since i put the car together.

[omgjacki]

When I was at State College last weekend one of the guys there was using a Dr. Pepper bottle as his coolant tank.

[c0nfl1kt]

I used silicone to try and keep one of my exhaust tips from falling off. I failed.

[jdm free]

ziptied headlights in place on my teg, and most of the wiring was ghetto rigged from when i had m3 side mirrors and halo headlights on it. nothin ghetto rigged on the si, painted the calipers and wheels if u wanna call that ghetto.

[rickeo]

Used Great Stuff foam to fill holes in my firewall after removing my cruise control and wiper spray system. Painted it red so it blends in :mrgreen:


i cracked my trany on my 89 prelude and jbweled it shut o my wipers stoped working on out way back from ny 1 time and we used our shoe laces to pull them back and froth on the njtp till we got home o and my home cai made from pvc then theres this guy in whitehall with a tibaron he made a backyard turbo kit and used pvc for his ic pipes

Dear god, learn how to use punctuation, that was painful to read!

[OPZ]

At one point my my friends old talon, there were zipties, duct tape, and pvc pipe being used to get it running...

[97eclipse]

A pillar gauges lights would dim and turn off if i turned my dash lights all the way up when i got the car. after the motor swap i did the coolant temp sensor connecters wires borke in the connecter. broke the connecter apart and took the two metal piece out and slide wires into them and clamped them shut and connected the other other of the wires to the old wires. still didnt get a new connecter yet bc stockburger chevorlet still didnt send the box's of connecters haha.

[SovXietday]

**** Circuit City man. I fix so many piss-poor Circuit City/Best Buy/Tweeter wiring jobs I've lost count. It has to be in the hundreds though.

As long as you've never fixed one of mine I really can't vouch for anything else lol.

[namdoogwerdna]

Haha well if you are skilled enough to identify wrong **** than I'm guessing I haven't fixed anything of yours. I know a few CC/BB installers that are great at what they do, and some of the others.... just don't cut it haha.

[frosti108]

used nex coilovers on my 240 ...ghetto as ****. but still way better than the stock springs and blown stock shocks. only 240sx i had ever driven that felt like a caddy

[07LX]

Used a shoelace and duct tape to make a main drive belt for my old Subi

[07LX]

Used a shoelace and duct tape to make a main drive belt for my old Subi

[SovXietday]

Haha well if you are skilled enough to identify wrong **** than I'm guessing I haven't fixed anything of yours. I know a few CC/BB installers that are great at what they do, and some of the others.... just don't cut it haha.

Yeah, I've seen a few CC/BB installs that made me go :eek:. We just hire "kids off the street" so to speak, some of them turn out well and some don't. ****ty but whatever.

[GeforceXtreme]

When I installed my 3" exhaust system to replace my stock 2.25" or 2.5" one section of the pipe would hit the floor when flexing to the right. The problem was the rubber hangers that hold the exhaust in place were moving too much causing the pipe to hit. I had no idea what I was going to do to fix this because it wasn't like I could move the pipe this way or that. So walking around in my garage I found like a large thick rubber O-ring and shoved it between the one hanger mount. I couldn't believe it but it stopped the exhaust from flexing over to the right just enough so it didn't hit the floor. Pretty much because I have it jammed in place its not going to fall out so I didn't have to glue or zip tie anything.

[lawdogg]

When I was at State College last weekend one of the guys there was using a Dr. Pepper bottle as his coolant tank.

He's got nothin on my NOS overflow. :-p

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e13/lawdoggvr4/Cars/IMG_3102.jpg

[tdmopar59]

on my old truck i used some thick copper wire to hold up the driver side tailpipe....