Author Topic: made funked and nopoop drive the big ugly car. (Read 3859 times)

nopoop · « **Reply #15 on:** July 27, 2003, 03:37:34 PM »

Nothing else qualifies as "awesome" other than a big block setup to "go".

If you drive or ride in one you will undersand.

It's what comes out of your mouth when your done. Guy let me take out that bright metalic green 427 El Camino "setup" WAY back when I was in high school. Automatic..

Went sideways when it hit second gear.

They seem to raise up when they scream..

All the finess of a sledgehammer

The word fits...

Doesn't apply elsewhere.

You never forget your first ride in a big block.

Built my daughter a 70 Camero, 383 stroker, 202's, headers, 3" exhaust, 411 posi, 4 speed..

It scoots, but it' aint no sledgehammer..that and Cameros are for girls..

funkedup · « **Reply #16 on:** July 27, 2003, 03:40:38 PM »

PS Thanks Hooligan for the door prize. I hope you were able to reaffirm your heterosexuality after that movie.

nopoop · « **Reply #17 on:** July 27, 2003, 03:58:44 PM »

I MISSED THE MOVIE ?????????????

Dowding · « **Reply #18 on:** July 27, 2003, 04:04:26 PM »

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Dowding... when anyone is bragging on their acceleration and 1/4 times... the rest is irrelevant.

Hardly... it depends on what speed range you're talking about. 0-60 or 50-70 would be far more applicable to RL, for instance and I'm pretty sure the gap isn't so large between your big engined cars and the turbo charged types.

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"Let's see how it does on the track"... the last battle cry of the riceboy coughing on a big block's tire smoke as the big block pulls away.

Hardly, times two... I never said anything about a track - I'm talking about varying road surface, camber etc - common around my way. Using the steering wheel is great fun.

Both big engined cars and your turbo cars have their relative merits. Depends on what gets your goat, I suppose.

Mini D · « **Reply #19 on:** July 27, 2003, 04:07:09 PM »

Dowding,

Nice rhetoric from someone who's used to making those very excuses. The big block does make a difference. Maybe some day you can visit lazs and find out for yourself.

MiniD

Dowding · « **Reply #20 on:** July 27, 2003, 04:12:25 PM »

lol excuses for what?

lazs2 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 27, 2003, 04:14:58 PM »

dowding... if you are talking about england then.... I would rather be in funkeds car. I drove 1200 miles in england and asside from everyone else driving on the wrong side of the road.... it sucks for a big car there... the roads aren't wide enough for even small cars and they are very rough... the weather sucks and the subaru woud be ten times better in the wet... The elky will go sideways at 70 if the road is wet and you are dumb enough to kick in the secondaries but...

in the good ol USA... where one of our lanes equal 2 of yours plus your 6" "shoulders"... the elky would do ok.

It has been set up to handle at the expense of straight line performance (no, really guys).. the susspension is all bilstein and Hotchkiss components. In the U.S.A. especially in California... we have a lot of tight turns and uphill sweepers. uPHILL means that you are turning while going uphill... the elky does pretty good going uphill and turning..
lazs

Furball · « **Reply #22 on:** July 27, 2003, 04:22:02 PM »

they all suck compared to this : -

nopoop · « **Reply #23 on:** July 27, 2003, 04:24:05 PM »

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Originally posted by Dowding
I'm talking about varying road surface, camber etc

Jeez Dowding, were not talking camber, road surface, tire composition, temperture, current atmospheric barometric pressure, suspension adjustments according to road conditions...

We're talking about sledgehammers..

The size of the car payment, the ease and comfort in which it negotiates curves is of no matter. It's along the lines of the "rice" argument versus a Harley.

You need to experience a balls to the wall big block.

Until you do, you won't understand.

lazs2 · « **Reply #24 on:** July 27, 2003, 04:30:52 PM »

furball... I'm sure you are right. in the movie "italian job" those little cars were much faster than anything I could ever build.

hey poopie... think I could make dowding cry?

lazs

nopoop · « **Reply #25 on:** July 27, 2003, 04:31:05 PM »

Very nice furball. Have a friend with a Cooper S. Was leaving the local R/C field last week and there had to be twenty of them pulling into the Resturant on the corner. They were "done"

Two or three Beemer Coopers were with them. Beemers looked sad..

But that's to be expected.

Dowding · « **Reply #26 on:** July 27, 2003, 04:35:31 PM »

And you need to experience going 70 mph round a very small roundabout followed by acceleration to 140 mph in half a mile in a 360 bhp Mitsubishi Evo VII. Then having to brake to 0 at the entrance to the next roundabout to avoid the car already on it. Until you've done that you also won't understand.

Laz - I agree and to paraphrase what I said earlier - it's all about horses for courses.

Dowding · « **Reply #27 on:** July 27, 2003, 04:37:07 PM »

Make me cry? lol

Mini D · « **Reply #28 on:** July 27, 2003, 04:39:55 PM »

**** you poopers.

Dowding,

Here's a few more to add to your collection:

- Yeah, but they get real ****ty gas mileage.
- Big Blocks aren't practical.
- Who needs all that horsepower anyways?

Basically, trying to establish that anything less will hold its own against it is pretty foolish. Think of them as the killer whales of the automotive industry. They're simply at the top of their food chain.

Me... I drive a mini. I just don't go around trying to compare it to all the cars out there that will simply kick its bellybutton in most aspects. But then, I'll be the first to admit I wasn't looking for an ass-kicker when I bought the car. I was looking for fun, stylish and good gas mileage. My car will out perform Laz's El Camino in precisely 2 categories. You get my car out on any track vs most big blocks and, just like most other euro/japanese cars, the big block will simply drive right over the top of me. You're only hope is that you could make up the time while he refuels.

MiniD

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #29 on:** July 27, 2003, 04:41:51 PM »

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Originally posted by Dowding
And you need to experience going 70 mph round a very small roundabout followed by acceleration to 140 mph in half a mile in a 360 bhp Mitsubishi Evo VII. Then having to brake to 0 at the entrance to the next roundabout to avoid the car already on it. Until you've done that you also won't understand.

Back off guys, Dowding once got a ride in a fast car.