What Car Do You Own?

[FragTek]

@Andy: Good lookin' ride mate. The only thing I hate about those damn things is that Chevy totally F*ed up by not offering manual trannies in the new Monty's.

[ZX7891]

@Andy: Good lookin' ride mate. The only thing I hate about those damn things is that Chevy totally F*ed up by not offering manual trannies in the new Monty's.

at least they're consistent, the old ones only had autos too

[95blackz26]

specs?

99 Pontiac grand am gt
05 3400
larger exhaust ports on the 04+ 3400's
Ported UIM with 65mm Tbody
2 1/2 random technology downipe and cat
2 1/2 SLP cat back with a flowmaster 80
mild pcm tune
corvette calipers on front with impala rotors when the pads arrive.
she ran 15.2 in the 1/4 last week.
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[FragTek]

at least they're consistent, the old ones only had autos too

Agreed, but you seriously can't have "fun" driving an auto. Such a boring experience, if you can even call it an experience . I have more fun driving my 5spd Civic than my dad's M3 w/ the 6spd clutchless manual.

[Mr. Manka]

Agreed, but you seriously can't have "fun" driving an auto. Such a boring experience, if you can even call it an experience . I have more fun driving my 5spd Civic than my dad's M3 w/ the 6spd clutchless manual.

You my friend, Have never Driven a Stalled auto. Its a totally different experience. Drive a strip car with a 4000+ stall and a Huge cam, and tell me that it isnt a blast.

[TadehI]

2006 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS. 5.3L V-8 with 303 HP.

God thats pathetic, A friend of mine has a 2.4L I4 that makes 300WHP so it makes close to 320HP at the crank. Thats crossing into the HP/liter of a Ferrari or a Porsche GT3.

[Pinnacle]

99 Pontiac grand am gt
05 3400
larger exhaust ports on the 04+ 3400's
Ported UIM with 65mm Tbody
2 1/2 random technology downipe and cat
2 1/2 SLP cat back with a flowmaster 80
mild pcm tune
corvette calipers on front with impala rotors when the pads arrive.
she ran 15.2 in the 1/4 last week.
<a href="http://img524.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stripxv8.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/552/stripxv8.th.jpg" border="0" /></a>

Are you on any forums? GrandamGT?

Im also thinking of doing the corvette caliper conv on m 02 GT
How much did it set you back was it difficult?

thx

[Mr. Manka]

God thats pathetic, A friend of mine has a 2.4L I4 that makes 300WHP so it makes close to 320HP at the crank. Thats crossing into the HP/liter of a Ferrari or a Porsche GT3.

HP per Liter is Ricer Math
Go back to school

[trance565]

You my friend, Have never Driven a Stalled auto. Its a totally different experience. Drive a strip car with a 4000+ stall and a Huge cam, and tell me that it isnt a blast.

lol, try driving it daily lol reving to 4k before it shifts every gear isnt good on the milage

[trance565]

God thats pathetic, A friend of mine has a 2.4L I4 that makes 300WHP so it makes close to 320HP at the crank. Thats crossing into the HP/liter of a Ferrari or a Porsche GT3.

A) it's not stock
B) hp/liter means nothing if you ahve no tq.
C) a boosted v8 > boosted i4

[FragTek]

You my friend, Have never Driven a Stalled auto. Its a totally different experience. Drive a strip car with a 4000+ stall and a Huge cam, and tell me that it isnt a blast.

Ok you're bringing strip cars in to it now though... The cars we're talking about are not strip cars, we're talkin' about your average vehicle here. I'm sure a strip car with a high stall tc is fun as all get out, but I don't think that's what you would be driving on a daily basis. Day-in / day-out driving manual tranny FTW IMO.

[95blackz26]

Are you on any forums? GrandamGT?

Im also thinking of doing the corvette caliper conv on m 02 GT
How much did it set you back was it difficult?

thx

yep im on there too diff name on there geldartb.
i scored the calipers cheap on ebay all four for 130 including the brackets.
my brake pads i needed to complete it just came this morning so all i need to do is pick up some brake fluid.
rotors were 35 a piece
calipers from ebay all four 130 shipped
pads 25 for the front raybesto pads from ebay.

[Nazu]

A) it's not stock
B) hp/liter means nothing if you ahve no tq.
C) a boosted v8 > boosted i4

If you compare a stock japanese and american sports cars the japanese car has much better hp/litre ratio and that means that the engine is much more efficient. I respect more much more those car makers that can make NA straight 4 engines with 200hp than american car makers that make engines that are big but only make like 200 or little more hp.When talking about torque the bigger engines like Nissan's RB26DETT or Toyota's 2JZ-GTE have far more greater tuning potential than those bigger V8 found in Corvetters or similar cars.

[trance565]

If you compare a stock japanese and american sports cars the japanese car has much better hp/litre ratio and that means that the engine is much more efficient. I respect more much more those car makers that can make NA straight 4 engines with 200hp than american car makers that make engines that are big but only make like 200 or little more hp.When talking about torque the bigger engines like Nissan's RB26DETT or Toyota's 2JZ-GTE have far more greater tuning potential than those bigger V8 found in Corvetters or similar cars.

maybe you dont get it. you cant reach 500hp NA without a big motor, which is why all the little jap cars are 250hp or less with their little 4 cylinders.

the only sports car i can think of thats american that makes a "little more than 200hp" would be the older sn95 mustangs. but then i remember that a 4.6 can make alot mroe power, much more easily than a honda.

the 2jz doesnt have more tuning potential than an ls7, lol, thats just downright wrong. for one, you gotta replace the crank pulley at 400whp or else it will shatter, yeah thats great. the ls7 can have a twin turbo put on, and easily reach 1500+whp with the right set up. at far less boost than a supra. and no, the 2jz doesnt have torque.

and if the 2jz is so great, why do all these supras get their asses handed to them buy a 1100whp mustang?


oh yeah, and like we already said, hp/liter means nothing in a race, hp/wieght ratio is what matters. tell me a race where hp/liter wins the race and i'll give you a dollar.

[Nazu]

1400 rwhp can be done with the 2JZ-GTE engine and I think at that point the engine has 'enough' torque. Of course that is with modded internals but I believe that a LS7 with 1500whp needs a 'little' modding too Here's a vid with Ryan Woon's Supra.

[AndyM]

I'd love to see the torque charts of these 50000+ HP 4 cylinders that the fast and furious crowd talks of. I'd hate to have to drive around at 7000 rpm all the time to get decent power. And HP/Litre...who cares? If you build something always on the verge of grenading at high expense just to have big numbers...???

[Nazu]

RB26DETT and 2JZ-GTE are both six cylinder engines and you they have pretty good torque on stock settings. I have read few reviews about the new Civic Typer R which has the 2l I4 200hp engine and many have said that you don't need to rev it hard in normal driving but if you want to get all the power from the engine the naturally you have to rev the engine up to 8000rpm or so.

[trance565]

i like my 6krpm v8's. which even if the supra and wahtnot have tq, you cant feel it cuz the car is so heavy. if it didnt have tq. it would go nowhere.

also, those i4's are very unresponsive to throttle pressure, takes a sec before it does anything, with most v8's you tap the gas for less than half a sec, and you immediatley get alot of response

[D_o_S]

Can We Please Stop Discussing Stuff Here!!!

[NapalmV5]

'07 solar orange 350Z


pic of '01 concept

[LordofDoom]

Well, where's pics of yours!?

It's a damned nice car btw.

[RADCOM]

Peugeot 306 it's the old lady's damn fine car ...spent all my money on PC's

[damstr]

Just got my Evo IX MR begining of last month.

Always makes me laugh when the guys in the new GT mustangs with loud exhausts and that deep V8 rumble pull up next to me and gun it, I do the same and out pull them with my stock car. And I've asked them to go from a dig, and they always decline. AWD is where its at.

I like all cars...except ricers.

[Nazu]

Evo is a nice car. Can't really compare it to the american sport cars

[Pinnacle]

Evo is a nice car. Can't really compere it to the american sport cars