falcon_master
Well-known member
Hey everyone long time since last post. Been quite busy. Hoping to get back to my old bird sometime soon. But I heard some stuff that’s really got me creeped out. I absolutely love my old bird (my dodge friend calls it a piece of shit and it can’t do off-road I disagree well found out later). But I heard in a crash I will probably get impaled by the steering column and the fuel tank has a bad chance of rupturing in the rear and igniting, these are big concerns to me, while I don’t expect it to be super safe I don’t want to be a human kabob on a steering column from a crash or to be char broiled from a rear end collision. Any advice on how safe these birds are. Thanks. Now to the real topic my 144 is kinda being a picky girl right now. She runs great at startup and idle but really lugs and hesitates once you get past like 1/4 throttle range or when you hammer it while in 3rd gear, it just grunts a lot but doesn’t really move the car much faster and kinda starts coughing any ideas? And how capable are these on un paved roads, cars beat up already I want to try some light duty trails with it way I see it its a very light vehicle with good torque and low gears and decent ground clearance, people used to go to campsites in these things why can’t I off-road it a bit. Thanks guys
Jarod
Jarod