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Post by the light works on Apr 29, 2014 14:01:31 GMT
further specialty classes:
Tuner: an economy car with a "turbo" muffler, and at least one body panel painted over with primer or replaced with an aftermarket panel. low rider: a car with the suspension broken on purpose. sleeper: a car that looks like grandpa's grocery getter, but has no trouble embarrassing the punks in their tuners.
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Post by c64 on Apr 29, 2014 14:42:07 GMT
So that makes my car a grandpa's grocery getting sleeper station wagon!?
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Post by ironhold on Apr 29, 2014 22:07:51 GMT
My 1990 Buick Skylark would count as a "sleeper".
It's not much in the power department, but that could be due to the assorted issues with the engine.
However, it has surprisingly good handling for what was an "economy" car way back when, such that I can take winding country roads and S-curves like I was driving a proper touring coupe. In contrast, your average tuner can only hope to fish-tail through such turns unless the driver is sensible enough to use the brakes or "gutter" it.
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Post by c64 on Apr 30, 2014 11:50:50 GMT
My 1990 Buick Skylark would count as a "sleeper". It's not much in the power department, but that could be due to the assorted issues with the engine. However, it has surprisingly good handling for what was an "economy" car way back when, such that I can take winding country roads and S-curves like I was driving a proper touring coupe. In contrast, your average tuner can only hope to fish-tail through such turns unless the driver is sensible enough to use the brakes or "gutter" it. Just like my 35i. The engine and gearbox have their center of gravity right between the front wheels and the rest of the car has not much weight at all. Combined with a very long wheelbase, an intense negative offset steering and a very complex chassis, it's perfect to drive fast in tight situations. Also the "no design" body has an unusual low CD value allowing you to reach 180 kph with only 90 HP. It takes a long time to reach this speed, but once you have reached it, there are not much reasons to slow down. With my engine mods, my car can run into the rev limiter at 225 kph so you can chase expensive supercars. It's sad that they stopped making such cars in favor to expensive design and electronic gadgets put onto a cheap and fragile chassis using a body with unnecessarily high CW. With a car like the 35i, you simply don't belief in speed bumps and pot holes - which is especially funny if a "lowrider" tailgates you. What I really miss in any other car I have driven is that the 35i recovers from drifting almost fully automatically. So if you keep your speed half-reasonable, it's very unlikely to crash, even on snow. And if you like strong engines, VW had invented the VR6 to fit into the very short engine bay of the 35i. Because it is so increddible compact, this engine will fit into any car! For example, the "famous" East German made car which used technology which became obsolete in the west in the early 60s! The car body is made out of recycled plastic and cotton fabric. Switch the 26 hp, 2-stroke, 2-piston engine with a VR6…
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Post by the light works on Apr 30, 2014 14:10:19 GMT
My brother does miss his VR-6 Corrado. not sure he misses only getting 20 MPG in a car that barely weighed 2000 pounds.
but a sleeper is more something that performs above stock - without giving any clues.
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Post by c64 on Apr 30, 2014 14:42:37 GMT
My brother does miss his VR-6 Corrado. not sure he misses only getting 20 MPG in a car that barely weighed 2000 pounds. but a sleeper is more something that performs above stock - without giving any clues. Like this: (at ~4:00) I had a true "sleeper". Just like my every day car but red. And we all know that red cars are faster! And it had the famous 5-cylinder 2.14 liter engine used by Audi to win touring car races and 24h races. The front of the car disintegrated trying to find out its top speed. I've never rebuilt it since while it is great fun, it's also highly expensive and time consuming.
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Post by GTCGreg on Apr 30, 2014 14:55:03 GMT
The front of the car disintegrated trying to find out its top speed. I would think that must have been it's top speed.
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Post by c64 on Apr 30, 2014 15:09:25 GMT
The front of the car disintegrated trying to find out its top speed. I would think that must have been it's top speed. At least the greatest speed that thing ever reached. There are known VR6 conversions which reached this kind of speed so it wasn't really the car's fault. I think I had damaged something important fitting that way too large engine into the short engine bay. The straight 5 is a lot longer than the VR6 so the car wasn't wide enough to fit this engine.
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Post by the light works on Apr 30, 2014 15:21:56 GMT
My brother does miss his VR-6 Corrado. not sure he misses only getting 20 MPG in a car that barely weighed 2000 pounds. but a sleeper is more something that performs above stock - without giving any clues. Like this: (at ~4:00) I had a true "sleeper". Just like my every day car but red. And we all know that red cars are faster! And it had the famous 5-cylinder 2.14 liter engine used by Audi to win touring car races and 24h races. The front of the car disintegrated trying to find out its top speed. I've never rebuilt it since while it is great fun, it's also highly expensive and time consuming. yep, like that. I never found the top speed of my Acura - I backed out at 120MPH. (realizing that if something DID get in front of me, due to it being dark when I did it, I would hit it almost before I saw it.) the theoretical top speed of my Jeep is 100 MPH (max revs) but the chassis rating is 75 MPH. I've pushed it up to 90 doing a fast overtake on a motorhome before. at that speed, stepping off the throttle automatically shifts you one lane to the right from bump steer.
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Post by GTCGreg on Apr 30, 2014 15:52:27 GMT
That's what I love about me Jeep. All the high speed thrills at half the MPH.
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Post by the light works on Apr 30, 2014 15:57:47 GMT
That's what I love about me Jeep. All the high speed thrills at half the MPH. James May does make a good point about light cars with skinny tires. you can have a lot of fun with a lot less velocity.
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Post by c64 on Apr 30, 2014 18:17:09 GMT
That's what I love about me Jeep. All the high speed thrills at half the MPH. Or get one of these, less everything!
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