Sanrith Descartes
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What vehicle do you drive?
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Hekotat
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I remember a girl used to give out heated grips like they were candy!
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Lambourne
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Nice looking thing, very 80s. Always loved that 80s futurism stuff. Had an 84 Corvette once and the geeky dash was half the reason I bought it.
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Hekotat
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The Pulsar NX had a sick futurism dash, I really miss that kind of styling. I miss indiglo gauges too.
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It'll come back, kids these days love 80s retro shit for some reason
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kazjim
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Took it for a ride this morning, and the Rocket iii is now ready for registration - and it's a fucking beast!
Better power to weight than my brothers C4 Corvette, and right up there with an Aventador . . (0.65hp/kg)
Rocket iii Start, Test, and Ride - YouTube
Better power to weight than my brothers C4 Corvette, and right up there with an Aventador . . (0.65hp/kg)
Rocket iii Start, Test, and Ride - YouTube
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Burns
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To be fair, pretty much every car, that was not made in the 80s, has better power to weight ratio than a C4. The fucking environmental laws of the 80s destroyed horsepower production for a good 10 or so years there.
I loved my F-Body Trans Am GTA to death, but that car was slooooow...for a sports car. It had the same engine as the the C4, that put out a whopping 170 HP.
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kazjim
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Well, I drive a Golf GTi, and it's pretty quick, but the C4 (1989?) definitely moves . . . Unsure if it's tweaked or not.
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'87 Trans Am had a sexy dash but I still think the '88 Buick Regal is my favorite of those "retro" style instrument panels.
Burns
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I always thought it was the lighter weight that made the C4 faster, but after reading around a bit more on it, the 88/89 vette got much more HP out of almost the exact same powertrain due to various upgrades they gave the Vette. The F-Bodys (Firebird/Camaro) had cast iron heads whereas the Vette had aluminum heads (which was huge), a different cam/manifold/exhaust, and a better tune, which lead to an extra ~70-80 more HP (240-250 total HP) (at least according to factory specs).
For as shitty as the 80's laws were on it, the L98 (small block 350TPI) is a somewhat popular engine (since it was used in the C4, Camaro, and Firebird) and a lot of people have messed with them in terms of mods too. So your brother could be getting even more out of it.
I was mostly making a joke about how fucked over vehicles were by the emission laws, but more seriously, the C4 got upgraded in 1992 with the LT1 engine, which put out more HP (300) and was a better powertrain. The C4 ran from 1984 to 1996, so your brother could have a C4 that wasn't as handicapped by the 80s.
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Lambourne
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Yea the 84 I had was pretty good off the line but it ran out of steam pretty quick. Moved to an LT1 car later on and it was a huge difference, had some actual top end so you could wind it up more. Then moved to an LS1 car and that's probably one of my top 3 engines in the 30-odd cars I've owned. Just does everything right.
State of the car makes a huge difference too, they're all old cars and who knows what's been done with them. I did a serious tune-up on the 84 (completely resealed everything from the block up, changed the timing chain, restored fuel pressure to spec, rebuilt the injectors etc) and it got like 50 hp back. Went from slow to at least decent.
State of the car makes a huge difference too, they're all old cars and who knows what's been done with them. I did a serious tune-up on the 84 (completely resealed everything from the block up, changed the timing chain, restored fuel pressure to spec, rebuilt the injectors etc) and it got like 50 hp back. Went from slow to at least decent.
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kazjim
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Well, he lives in Western Australia, so it's probably an ex-US Military member's car.
Also: WA has some of the most lenient emissions laws in Australia, so . . .. . I"m assuming it's 'had some work'
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Lambourne
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89 had better aluminium heads already (84 and early TPI cars had bad flowing iron heads), just a cam and a tune will do a lot. Corvette or not, it's still just a small block chevy, mod options are plentiful.