At 02:46 PM 5/1/99 , you wrote:
>Not all VR-4's are new. Some are as old as 93 I believe. I have taken a
>ride in one and wasn't at all impressed. Alan S.
Must've had some sort of mechanical problem. :-) I had a '91 VR-4 for
a few years which peaked at 300hp; they've got 320hp now (and a six speed!
<drool...> I only had the 5). Anyway, it wasn't a "muscle car" or even a
"sports car"; its a "GT car"... "Refined power" is the best way to think
of it, I guess.
I never dumped the clutch in it ($5,000 Getrag tranny), but it would
still nail your head to the headrest and keep it there for a good long
time! Heh heh heh... I remember one time when I gave a friend a ride
home from work. He had a duffel bag with some books and stuff in it. He
sat in the passenger seat, and had the duffel bag in his lap while I backed
out of the driveway into the street. He decided to put the duffel bag in
the rear seat, so he turned around and had gotten the bag to about
head/shoulder level between the front seats just as I nailed the throttle,
so I wouln't slow down the oncoming traffic behind me. The bag was ripped
out of his hands, hit the seatback of the rear seats, then slid down into
the seat. :-) The engine had a good amount of torque for a turbocharged
car; it wasn't peaky either. Each gear was a nice flat "pull" of power all
the way to the redline.
Unfortunately, I didn't know about the dragstrip when I had it so I
don't know what it ran, but it was an unsurpassed street racer. :-) I
lost count of the number of 5.0 mustangs that I left staring at the
taillights. I only lost once; and that was to a motorcycle. It was a
Harley of some type (yeah, yeah, I know; but its still a motorcycle!) :-)
He got the jump on me, but I got the nose of the VR-4 even with his rear
tire by about 80mph which is when I got out of the throttle because the
road narrowed to 1 lane there.
My Dak is faster than most, but it wouldn't have a prayer against the
VR-4. I traded it in on the Dak, and I've been working to make the truck
just as fast ever since. :-) (I would still have the VR-4 except that it
was about to go out of warranty, and I didn't want to be stuck with the
bill when something broke.) :-(
-Jon-
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