Don't feel bad about the Harley beating you.... I would put my bike against
any car on the road. The power-to-weight ratio in a motorcycle is so much
higher! I have beat my brothers race-tuned 944 stop light to stop light and
taken many a corvette.
Drop a screaming eagle carb kit into a a stroked 1380cc engine, put a slick
on the back and it will take just about any naturally aspirated car made
(limited only by the riders cajones! LOL )
Preacher
99 5.2L CC 4x4 SLT+
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On Tuesday, May 04, 1999 2:26 AM, Jon Steiger
[SMTP:stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu] wrote:
| 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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