What an awesome rant. I hope there are more topics that annoy you soon. Top marks & keep it up!
Cheers, S/ Euan Wotherspoon Assoc. Technical Analyst mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Balkan Sustainment Hungary ******** INTERNET E-MAIL PRIVILEGED INFORMATION FOOTER ******** Privileged/Company Proprietary Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In case, you should destroy this message, and notify the sender at Brown & Root Services Corporation immediately. -----Original Message----- From: Dave M. [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 3:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Impala, ad nauseum OK, this is irritating. Begin rant: 1) Impala is spelled with ONE "L", not two. 2) I agree with the statement "old tech, but NOT low-tech". Those motors are not only indestructible, they can put out insane amounts of HP. Back in 1988, Reeves Callaway took a 350 block from the BowTie catalog, bolted on a couple turbos, chopped up a Holley tunnel ram intake and inserted his own FI system and got 920HP and ~800 lb-ft. Stuffed into a Vette (later dubbed Sledgehammer), it went 255mph and was driven to the test track (TRC?) while getting 17mpg. I'll take that kind of "low-tech" pushrod any day. 3) Solid rear axle? BFD. Looked under your VW's rear end lately? The SS's brakes are awesome, btw. My gripe with the SS is the poor front/rear weight distribution and lack of bucket seats (yuk!). 4) The story about the editor plowing cones is funny- to the point where the observer thought the car sucked. Get real. It's the driver that makes the difference. Thanks for the rebuttal where a *real* driver took 6 people through at near the best time for the day. I race motorcycles as a hobby (road course, not dragstrip), and it's fun watching posers on late-model high-tech superbikes get smoked by some dude on a 5-year old duct-tape special with half the horsepower. I've been on both sides of that scenario. It's 90% rider/driver talent, 10& machinery. 5) The FWD vs. RWD thing always gets me. I grew up in upstate NY, learned to drive in the snow. I can't believe people STILL think FWD is better. I can't remember how many times I plowed my VW into a snowbank because you can't make it oversteer under power. In trouble? Can't brake, it'll make the front slide. Can't gas it, same reason. E-brake? Lame band-aid for the real problem. I like to be able to do something with my rear wheels other than put air in them. Give me RWD at the track anyday. I find it interesting that most (if not all) of Mercedes, BMW, and Porsche's lineup are RWD. And everything Japanese is FWD. Yeah, I knew there was a reason I like German cars... ;-) (end of rant. Nomex suit on- flame away!) Dave M. Sacramento, CA 1990.5 GLI (for sale) 1991 GLI (needs HP) 1981 Dasher (150 miles/qt) 1970 Impala (wish it was '96 SS) 1997 Suzuki GSX-R750 (streetbike turned racebike) AFM #760 _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
