That was a stock 350z. I got it from a Ford enthusiast website that posts stock 1/4 mile times.
If HP is everything then how do you explain a 190hp Lotus Elise running 12.9 1/4 mile with 0-60 4.4? I really don't think that the Lotus is made to go straight either.
ORIGINAL: HomerSimpson15 If HP is everything then how do you explain a 190hp Lotus Elise running 12.9 1/4 mile with 0-60 4.4? I really don't think that the Lotus is made to go straight either.
Not to be argumentative..........but a 350Z doesn't weigh anywhere near as light as a Lotus Elise. They weigh roughly the same as a New Edge GT.
Hey, don't go ragging on 4cyl engines. 1) the Ford 2.3L turbo was a rather strong performer in the T bird Turbo coupe. 2) For the $8000 price tag, I can build a Mopar 2.2L Hybrid Turbo (2.2L bottom end with Neon 2.4L DOHC head and pull 350-400hp out of it, heck, I could probably build 2 of them). If I stick with the 8 valve head, a super 60 kit will give me a gauranteed 300 hp. In fact, Chrysler dynoed the prototype at 325 hp and 312 ft-lb torque. Japanese engines can make a lot of horsepower, you just have to turn them 9000 rpm, and they have no low end torque. As for ricers, they look real shocked when a lowly K car dusts their fart can equipped Honda or Acura. Ask Archion about a night in Chespeake in a certain 1985 K car. BTW, it has bagged a couple of older Mustang GTs too.
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As far as the night in chesapeake there were these two little ricers, one in an integra and the other a civic, tha acura was done pretty nice and subtle, the civic on the other hand it was a type rs??? wtf, never seen one of those...lol gotta love vynil. anyway i digress.
At the intersection it is a double left turn lane onto volvo from battlefield. The civic is in the left, and the acura is in the right of the two lanes. we are behind the acura. they are sitting there revving each other as my father and I are sitting there trying not to laugh too hard. they take off around the corner and of course the civic falls behind by about half a car, then i goose the lebaron about halfway through the turn lighting the tires, as the acura pulls away from the civic a little I shoot between the two letting the boost climb, we wave bye to them and they try to keep up but give up until the next light when we get the get the fly by from the civic, but not the acura, he was pretty cool about getting spanked. He just motored on like normal.
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If I spent the money on my GT that rice spends on their cars to become as fast as my stock GT; my GT with mods would piss on the dust you're about to eat. Nothing but embarrassments and sh!t comes out of those fart pipes.
Okay, I can't say I condone name calling, but dude, this is a mustang forum, not an Evo forum. Expect that folks here will not be into imports. I've had many front drive cars including two escorts, a probe, a windstar, and a fiesta. Great on gas, but still FWD. Not our cup of tea, really.
but the thing is the REALLY good imports are AWD or RWD. and as for the guy that said something about the "Ricers" spending money to keep up with his stock GT. I could buy a Nissan 240sx and MURDER you easily. RWD is great for drifting.
your just mad (mod for mod) you get at the drag strip
As for RWD great for drifting, its only good cause it allows you to stress the drivetrain and spin the right set of wheels...from what i hear a first year mustang is owning a lot of the import runnin on the drift circuit
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for one if your talking to me about the neons, i'm not an idiot. and for the Mustang owning imports drifting, its the brand new 2005 or so, and its not all it's cracked up to be. The Rockstar Silvia and Mopar Viper are the two best drifters on Forumla D that i've seen. that mustang is good, i'm not gonna deny it, but hes not OWNING the imports. the Redbull GTO is pretty good also. The Silvia, Viper, and GTO would be my favorite.
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EvoVII...get your head out of the fart can you call a performance muffler. American MUSCLE will beat a Jap rice bucket any day. I like the looks of most imports and respect some of them, but when I see some dickhead sign up for a forum dedicated to Mustangs and try to bash us, that's when that little respect I have goes away. Little bitches like you are exactly why us American Muscle fans love to hate ricers!!!
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I think the argument has less to do with POTENTIAL and more to do with REALITY. Sure, a 4-cylinder import has POTENTIAL to produce incredible power with enough modding. But in REALITY, everywhere I've lived, the ricers basically have economy-trim imports (ie base model Civic) with nothing more than a tin can exhaust upgrade, shiny rims, and a lot of stickers. It's really sad and you have to wonder if these guys actually think they are impressing anyone. Maybe only a couple times a year I'll come across an import that is actually modded up to truly perform.
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