- Selling my s13 in 2004 for $2500 to some 19 year old, who then sold it to some 15 year old without a license who drove it around any way.
- Buying a pacesetter exhaust just because it looked like the OEM unit that i broke in half.
- Buying kazama tie rod ends, which wore out in less than 6 months, which were then replaced with s14 oem outers with tein inners.
- Stripping my cyl. 1 spark plug thread, rigging the to-be-replaced old spark plug back in somehow, instead of helacoiling it.
- Using a torque wrench that I forgot I dropped in the past to tighten a front subframe to chassis bolt.. causing an overtightened bolt.
- Not getting front camber bolts for stock suspension and still grip racing anyway, which caused the outside shoulders on the front tires to wear out quicker than the rest of the tire tread.
- Accidently overtightening one rear S14 VLSD diff cover nut (not the cover to pumpkin nut, but the cover stud nut that goes through the subframe).
- Buying 4 sets of tires to grip race with instead of buying less tires and spending the saved money on coilovers, and grip racing less often.
(woulda saved gas money and maintenance costs).
- Listening to a friend who said to use locktite on the engine block coolant drain plug after flushing my cooling system and installing a new thermostat and radiator.
- Not getting off my ass and jb welding a microscopic hole on the bottom of my radiator that leaked 2-3 drops of coolant a day and got air into the cooling system, forcing me to bleed the air out every week from the radiator cap.
- using some random assed dual electric fans from the junkyard wired with thick gauge wiring to a switch in on the center console instead of keeping the stock clutch fan..
my dad wired it, did a good job. but it ended up killing one battery and one alternator in the long run.
- Stripping ALL the interior behind the front seats.
- Buying a SOHC hatch for $1600 that caused major headaches for 3 years.. instead of waiting 2 weeks longer for some other seller to finish preparing his car for smog for me.
$2000 for a clean assed near-problem-less black DOHC hatch.
That's all I can think of for now.
I'm an idiot
