Neat IBM 5150 Case Mod

kminogue sent in a case mod that definitely is different then the ones we've been seeing lately. Instead of tricking out something ultra modern w/ lights and windows, this guy modded an IBM 5150, yes, thats right, it's the original PC, back for a new generation. The color scheme is a little disturbing, but the end results are pretty sweet. To say nothing of the nostalgia I feel when I see that case. Update: 08/27 03:00 AM GMT by T : citroidSD wrote to say: "I put up a mirror at another stronger server."

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Re:In car talk, this would be called a "Sleeper".

[Denial of Service]

Dude, not to belittle your accomplishment, but any car can be reasonably fast in a straight line. Show me a Chevette that can out-corner a 93 Prelude and I'll bow at your feet.

OT: A Challenge re: Sleepers

[BigBlockMopar]

but any car can be reasonably fast in a straight line. Show me a Chevette that can out-corner a 93 Prelude and I'll bow at your feet.

Who cares?

Most of Saturday night confrontation is stoplight to stoplight. That's straight line, baby.

Do you want a pissing contest between a Chevette with more than double the displacement of your silly little Honda? A rear-wheel-drive setup which is far better for handling and cornering?

Gimme two hours, I'll swap the front and rear shocks from drag shocks to a better rate for rally racing. Your only advantage with the Honda will be your independent rear suspension.

But, like every front wheel drive car, you won't be able to fishtail around corners.

That Chevette also has Fiero brake rotors and calipers on the front, Ford Crown Victoria full-size station wagon drums on the back, a roll-cage front to back, and I cut the dashboard in half to save six pounds. Six. The interior is a steel can with a driver's seat. That's it. And I personally bored that motor 0.030" over, shaved the heads to bring the compression ratio to 9.3:1, and ported and polished the intake and ports. The carb is a 600 CFM Carter ThermoQuad with a cool-can on the fuel line and a phenolic spacer to keep the float bowl from getting warm.

I'm a computer geek, but I'm also an old-school gear-head. I built the motor in my car. At this point, it's basically a NASCAR motor with two cylinders missing. You probably took yours to be "tuned" at a "speed shop" that deals in emasculated 4-bangers.

If you're like most Prelude owners I know, you've added 300lbs in stereo equipment, tinted the windows, put on $1,200 rims, and a big "Powered By Honda" sticker. (The "Powered By Honda" sticker might be impressive if you'd earned the right to put it on a Tercel.)

You're outclassed.

As a final warning, I grew up in Ottawa, Canada. Prime snowbelt. Lemme tell you, you learn quickly why cops and racecars *aren't* front wheel drive. And I've raced in several classes at both Luskville Dragway and Capital City Speedway.

Wanna go?

Care to race for pink slips?

Still so sure, buddy-boy?

I'd look forward to driving around with the crushed remains of a Prelude as the winter ballast in the back of my daily-driver 1976 Dodge Ram.