Author Topic: Opinion on Mustang GTs? (Read 4248 times)

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #120 on:** May 14, 2003, 09:28:27 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
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Looks like someone should be riding that road on a cafe racer that says "Raaaaaaaaineeeeeerrrrr Beeeerrr"

MrCoffee · « **Reply #121 on:** May 14, 2003, 09:42:08 PM »

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Originally posted by AKIron
Ya got it backwards Dowding, I fixed it for ya.

Nice ergonomic design.

Emptygun26 · « **Reply #122 on:** May 14, 2003, 11:31:57 PM »

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Originally posted by Vipermann
I'd love to race Rip, easygun, and rc51. Not saying I'd win but I'm sure it would be fun.

My car doesn't have a V8 though....in fact I don't have any cylinders

Cool, you would take me off the line, and in the turns, but on the straights, you would be mine. Growing up I worked for Downing Atlanta Racing in Atlanta. We had 3 and 4 rotor Mazda Kuzu Can-Am cars. We also had a few RX-7s we ran. When Mazda Speed shut down in the early 90s, we made some of the preformance parts are selfs. We ran a 97 RX-7 in the Rolex 24 in Daytona in 98 placed first in our class.
Before I left to join the Army, I had worked my way up as a test driver. We also had a few programs where we suped up BMW Z3s, adding super chargers to the 4 cly motor, which gave us more HP than the 6 cyl and better fuel econmy. We also did a pkg set up for Mazda Maitas, and while there not fast, I dont know many cars that can beat one in the turns. We had a 320HP MX5 that could blow most other cars off the road.

hyena426 · « **Reply #123 on:** May 15, 2003, 01:23:59 AM »

i seen some mazda rotory's built up too 450 horses,,but they were locktite motors at that point,,and main seals allways blows out,,,plus one more bad thing about the rotary is it pulls crude motor oil from the block to burn on the rotors like a 2 stroke motor bike,,thats why they can get so many rpms,,but very destructible by the time you build them up that far and cost you a ton! he charged atleast 20,000!! for 400 horses,,,,good fast little cars,,just not dependible,,,for your dollar,,its impossible to beat a v8,,,heck some sites are tearing out rotor motors in 80's and 90's mazda's and sticking in ford 302's and runing stock 12 sec,,and only loosing about 200 pounds

madza is ford now,,plenty of cheap conversion kits,,just flip over the main cross member and the hole motor fits under the hood,,you can build safely too 500 horses and keep your price about 10,000,,lol,,and a mazda with a 500 horse v8 is unbeatible,,car still light<~~my cousin is going to do it,,just to have a cheap muscle car,,that will blow the doors of a dodge viper!!,,hehehe

BUG_EAF322 · « **Reply #124 on:** May 15, 2003, 04:45:13 AM »

What Saurdaukar said, Porsche is the best withouth doubt.

Not only roadhugging and stylefull these cars are engineered on reliability and endurance.

all others are just ugly and piece of **** compared to the 911 model.

Vipermann · « **Reply #125 on:** May 15, 2003, 07:12:40 AM »

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Originally posted by hyena426
i seen some mazda rotory's built up too 450 horses,,but they were locktite motors at that point,,and main seals allways blows out,,,plus one more bad thing about the rotary is it pulls crude motor oil from the block to burn on the rotors like a 2 stroke motor bike,,thats why they can get so many rpms,,but very destructible by the time you build them up that far and cost you a ton! he charged atleast 20,000!! for 400 horses,,,,good fast little cars,,just not dependible,,,for your dollar,,its impossible to beat a v8,,,heck some sites are tearing out rotor motors in 80's and 90's mazda's and sticking in ford 302's and runing stock 12 sec,,and only loosing about 200 pounds

I know people are pulling them and putting in V8's and it sickens me. Nothing worse than walking up to someone to talk about their RX-7 to find out they bastardized the car with pistons and cams.

As far as reliable, rotaries are extremely reliable, you just need to take care of them. I'm only around 70HP off 450 and mine is a daily driver.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #126 on:** May 15, 2003, 07:16:27 AM »

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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Looks like someone should be riding that road on a cafe racer that says "Raaaaaaaaineeeeeerrrrr Beeeerrr"

You either remember the post, or the commercial...which is it?

Furball · « **Reply #127 on:** May 15, 2003, 08:13:24 AM »

Anyone have 20mb space on a website i can upload a video clip to?

Nice clip of a TVR Cerbera annihilating a Viper (+ many more) in a race.

Vipermann · « **Reply #128 on:** May 15, 2003, 08:15:30 AM »

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Originally posted by Furball
Anyone have 20mb space on a website i can upload a video clip to?

Nice clip of a TVR Cerbera annihilating a Viper (+ many more) in a race.

send it to me and I'll host it for ya. jgruber@jblong.com

Furball · « **Reply #129 on:** May 15, 2003, 08:21:39 AM »

thankyou! im downloading it at the moment, i have a few more too if u want em!

Also when u yanks say track, do you mean: -

"Track"

or Track

lazs2 · « **Reply #130 on:** May 15, 2003, 08:29:33 AM »

furball... I have no doubt that some tvr driver somewhere can anialate some viper driver. I can show you clips of subarus beating SS camaro's and honda civics beating cobras in the 1/4 mile... that doesn't mean honda civic are faster than cobras. The only test I ever seen of a tvr was in some brit version of autoweek and it was pulling like .87 on the skidpad which is not even in the same league as a viper much less the 1 g c5 vette... maybe they do it different over there but... I want to see a side by side test of one against a vette... even a "regular" vette

As for V8 conversions... why not? cheap HP and.... torque.. torque is what you feel when driving torque is why the old 427 Cobra was so mind blowing... 450 hp with 300 lbs torque at 5000 rpm is not the same thing as 450 hp and 650 lbs of torque at 2500 all the way to 6000. you can build a 500 hp small block v8 for 3 grand or buy one allready done for around 5 grand. Alluminum heads, manifolds, water pumps radiators etc are common now the weight is low on V8 converted cars. My healey is an extreme example but my V8 and muncie 4 speed weigh 40 lbs less than the stock healey 4 banger and bizzare overdrive original drivetrain.
lazs

Vipermann · « **Reply #131 on:** May 15, 2003, 08:31:35 AM »

send em all. I'll host em for anyone that wants to see em.

As for the tracks, they are both tracks but the second one would be much more fun

lazs2 · « **Reply #132 on:** May 15, 2003, 08:32:52 AM »

furball.. do you realy believe that we don't have any race tracks other than circle tracks? No wonder you figured some cobbled up tvr was gonna impress us.
lazs

Furball · « **Reply #133 on:** May 15, 2003, 08:36:26 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
furball.. do you realy believe that we don't have any race tracks other than circle tracks? No wonder you figured some cobbled up tvr was gonna impress us.
lazs

no laz, i was simply asking what track u meant

lazs2 · « **Reply #134 on:** May 15, 2003, 08:38:50 AM »

How bout .... it wouldn't matter.
lazs