Teenagers, and why they should be euthanized (vent)

[duffer]

Forgot to mention I have the dohc. :smack: :smack:

[Dog80]

What makes you think that your car is as fast as a CTR?

[Dog80]

This car is slower than yours too. It has only 165 hp
http://www.caterham.co.uk/showroom/sevens/roadsport.htm

And this. Only 189 hp.
http://www.lotuscars.co.uk/template.cfm?name=Lotus_Elise_111R

You can beat the shit out of them with your Sabre! :wally

[Dog80]

But this can blow your doors off! It has 460 hp
http://www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk/content/media_library/unitedkingdom/mpc_unitedkingdom/trucks/products/newactroscv714.object-Single-MEDIA.pdf?download=true (Warning! PDF)

[Nametag]

Teenagers, and why they should be euthanized (vent)

Hey, waitaminute! Aren’t teenagers youthenized already?

[Skywatcher]

@Tower Dweller

I had a “muscle car” calendar for awhile - none of the cars in there were familly cars with big-block V8s in them - they were all sporty-looking cars. My understanding of a muscle car has always been a smallish American car with an engine waaaaay too big for it. As opposed to European sports cars which were all about tight handling and above-average horsepower, American muscle cars were about raw, burn-the-crap-our-of-your-tires drag-racing power.

So, in that context, I would still consider the Mustang (the older ones, up until early 90’s) a muscle car. I had the '92 straight up LX model - 4 cylinders. If you opened up the insanely long hood (I found it was faster to walk around the back or the car), there was 6 to 8 inches of clearance around the engine. This was because you could get the 5.0 litre, 8 cylinder engine in the exact same body.

The proper term for a Mustang (or a Cougar, Camero, Firebird, Javelin, etc.) is and always has been “Pony Car”. Most of these can also be considered Muscle Cars but are generally not referred to as such.

Musclecarclub.com’s Guide to Muscle Cars

[Kricket]

Cool!
I drive a mini-van and when I first got it, it had some pick up and go. Not a lot I don’t think, but enough that my husband was suprised. I’m not good at sites, but it’s a 96 Mazda MPV. Maybe Dog80 can find it for me since he seems to have a hot finger for car sites right now.
Anyway and this is a slight hijack…
I am a bit goofy for those of you who don’t know me, and I am always seeing things on the road on other cars that I come home and tell my husband I want.
So far I haven’t gotten my curb feelers, fuzzy dice, fringe, shag on my dash board, or neon lights (tires, under, or inside). He is such a party pooper! He won’t even let me paint it all day-glow like a VW Micro bus! Nor can I do the Partritch/Daddy daycare treatment to it.
So, after reading this thread I now feel the urge to get a bumble bee thing, a Type-R sticker, and some nifty chrome stuff! (he’s very used to my technical terms)
Think he’ll go for that?

[Estilicon]

Well don’t try street racing in Argentina. That “activity” used to be tolerated by the police, after all kids were just having fun… in 2001 a prepared honda civic crash from behind another car killing a teacher and her one year old child.
Last year the idiot instead of being setenced to the traditional comunity service was charged with intentional murder and thus he got I belive 12 years.
All people who participates in this kind of things should be euthanized, including the op.-

[Estilicon]

@Mr. Blue Sky

A similar thing happened to me last summer. I was approaching an intersection where the light was red. There was a Mustang sitting at the light. I was slowing slow preparing to stop, when the light turned green. I zipped past the Mustang (well, if 25mph can be considered zipping) and the owner of the Mustang apparently took this as a challenge and opened his car up and sailed past me while he and his passenger stuck out their toungues and flashed the “Ozzy” salute and nodded their heads.

This would have been impressive had I not been driving a 94 Escort station wagon.

I forgot, this made laugh a lot.

[Dog80]

@Kricket

Cool!
I drive a mini-van and when I first got it, it had some pick up and go. Not a lot I don’t think, but enough that my husband was suprised. I’m not good at sites, but it’s a 96 Mazda MPV. Maybe Dog80 can find it for me since he seems to have a hot finger for car sites right now.

I don’t know a lot about Mazda cars, but the only fast-ish MPV I can think of is the Mazda Demio. I believe there have been some extreme versions in Japan, featuring more than 150 hp and 4 wheel drive.

Some pics (various versions):
http://www.part.cz/images/auto-moto/test11_mazda_demio_04v.jpg
http://www.lavender.org/~mouri/bitmap/demio.jpg
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/motoring/roadtests/images/demio1.jpg
http://forum.nifty.com/fcar/impre/demio/openning.jpg
http://www.dinside.no/dh_bilde/3072.jpg

[Colophon]

Got rice? This is what you need

@Dog80

I don’t know a lot about Mazda cars, but the only fast-ish MPV I can think of is the Mazda Demio.

No no no! I got given a Demio as a courtesy car while my car (RX-8, 0-60 in 6.4 seconds, as we’re waving dicks ) was in the garage. It looked like a greenhouse on wheels, and handled like, well, a greenhouse on wheels. Sack o’shite.

[Nametag]

The '96 MPV came with a 151-hp V6 engine in all models.

Here’s one: http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/635653

[Lazlo]

Mustangs? Hondas? Pppfft. Real men drive these.

[Skywatcher]

So that’s a car, Mick?

[asterion]

@Lazlo

Mustangs? Hondas? Pppfft. Real men drive these.

I want it.
Can I get it as a wagon?

[Dog80]

@Lazlo

Mustangs? Hondas? Pppfft. Real men drive these.

Pffffttt. Real men drive hachi-rokus!

[Mr.Blue_Sky]

@asterion

I want it.
Can I get it as a wagon?

Yes

Don’t like Subarus?

How about the same car as a Saab?

[laigle]

@lee

I had a 1996 Saturn SC2 and now have a 2003 Satun SC2, automatics for chicago commuting… Both of those accelerate well and go as fast as I care to drive on public streets and highways. Four cylinder and decent gas mileage don’t always mean a putt putt engine.

Tell me, does that silly mod that makes the ricers sound like a bumble bee do anything but make noise?

So many posts, so little time. So I’ll just merrily ignore the ones I don’t care about.

In theory, a free flowing exhaust provides less back pressure, and thus leads to more power. However, most of the back pressure in a street car comes in at the catalytic converter, so in reality a big muffler doesn’t do much. You might pick up ten or twenty horse, but mostly it’s just an annoying way to fake having a bigger engine.

Track racers will modify their cars by simply running pipe straight from the engine to the sides, resulting in ungodly noise levels and a real (though still moderate) increase in power. This is presumably where people started getting the idea, along with the basic caveman “LOUD GOOD!” meme.

[andros]

Whaaaah? You mean the dual six-inch tips aren’t really making my Saturn wagon go faster? I wuz robbed!

[Kricket]

@Nametag

The '96 MPV came with a 151-hp V6 engine in all models.

Here’s one: CarDomain.com - Under Maintenance

Ack, and now I am so embarassed because hubby just came in and said I drive a 93 MPV. :o
I would think it would be the same size engine though, and I know they have changed the interiors and doors a bit on the new ones.
Still no word from him on the new modifications I want.
I did find a cool picture of my kind of van that someone won an award for the sound system they installed. It was pretty cool.
I was suprised when I got my van to find it has six speakers in it. Which I blew two of them in the first month of owning. Before I got the van I had never owned a vehicle with more than three speakers so to me six was way cool.