falcon3624

When I say they look like eggs I am probably making them sound better than they are. Sorry dude, but ya'll got raped on the automobile industry.

falcon3624

I was checking out the Honda Accord they sell in the UK and I thought this was interesting. The UK Accord runs the quarter mile in 16.3 seconds while the US Accord runs the quarter mile in 14.3 seconds. The UK Accord with the biggest engine is pushing 155hp while the US Accord is pushing around 260hp on 93 octane.

Don't you just love living in the US. More power!!!!

sk12879

Only if you're driving a Honda Accord. We usually get the shaft on the powerful Japanese cars and end up with things that people want to pretend are fast.

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William

I'm dropping in a little late on this conversation. I'm not up on the newer import road racing scene, I'm a late 60's very early 70's MOPAR head. Give me a ground pounding 69-70 Super Bee/Coronet RT/ Road Runner or Super Bird with a 440 6-pack or a 426 Hemi baby!! The 69 Super Bee 440 6-pack with TorqueFlight automatic transmission weighed in at 3,790 lbs and could still pull 0-60mph in 6.6 seconds and cover the quarter in 13.65 seconds at 105.14 mph straight off the showroom floor. And it's quite easy to get more out of it with after market parts. If you got one of these with a Hemi, it came with beefed up front torsion bars and they increased the number of rear leaf springs from 4 1/2 to 6 on the left and 6 1/2 on the right to prevent torque steer. If you floored a Hemi with the regular suspension, it would jump to the right an entire lane.

I kick myself for selling my 78 Dodge Lil Red Express Truck. They only made 2100 of them that year and it was the fastest American production vehicle for that year. My not sound that good considering the year, but it was a lot heavier than the Corvette, Mustangs, and Trans Am,Cameros etc... It came with the 360 4bbl Police Interceptor, with twin snorkels pumping fresh air down the 4bbl. They classified it as a heavy duty truck to get around having to put on all of the pollution control hardware.

"Because of its 6100-pound GVWR, the LRT didn’t have to be equipped with catalytic converters in 1978 or run on unleaded gas. The LRT had the most obnoxious mufflers possible, and the exhaust thunder exited right behind the driver’s and passenger’s ears through a pair of glorious stacks protected by stainless-steel heat shields. Step on the gas, open the huge ThermoQuad secondaries, and the result was enough racket to spook every moose in Canada. In fact, the LRT did not meet some some local noise standards. One magazine test recorded a deafening 94 decibels of interior noise at 110 mph."

I went ahead and put Direct Connection Purple racing cam and lifters, headers, braided hose, chrome covers etc. Anyway, I looked around a few years ago, good ones were going for $15-$20 thousand....Doh!

I drove an Acura 3.2CL Type S Coupe the other day. It's got some go to it. I was cruising down I-95 at about 80mph and hit the gas. It shot up to 135mph in a flash. The speedometer says 160mph. I'll have to take it out again and see if I can peg it.

William (not the TKD one)

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