So your concept is....
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So your concept is.... mikeage2
So mikeage2...
If you have an american car and it was slow from the factory and you put a big block V8+(or very high hp small block V8+) on it and really fat tires and it have rear traction it becomes a hot rod. It don really matter the end results (how fast it ends to be, how it handles nothing but to have those things)
So you are modding an slow factory car and made it a hot rod.
If you take a porsche 928, mazda rx7, Datsun 240Z, (or any import rear tracktion vehicle) and put an american V8 it will never be a ***** but a pseudo-Hot Rod (Or some thing like that) and that would be cool no matter how bad the car performance was when it was stock.
If you put a BMW V8 (say from an M5) on a 318 compact, it would become a racer (*change the a for an i) couse is not an american V8+.
If you put a very high performance small engine (say an honda S2000 one) in a front drive car that comes from the factory with a puny engine, it becomes a racer*
What hapends if you manage to install a "big" european engine (say a BMW 12 5.0 from a wrecked 850) in a thirdgen and put a blower or whatever it need to be fast in the 1/4 and put big fat slicks on the back, it would look like a hot rod, but is a racer* to you?
What about a Dodge caravan with a mid mounted big block american v8 with rear tracktion? is that a racer* too?
Dont get me wrong I love the torque of american V8 engines and what they manage to do to a heavy car (very fast acceleration) but power to weight ratio has been king in vehicles from the begining and it always will be. If you have much less weight on a car you can live with less torque, but the combination of european or japanese sport cars with an small block V8 is difficult to resist.
Well sorry for the rant.
And good luck to you the one that started the thread with an image of an imported car dash, and your search to make it unique, and beautifull to your taste. Thats all that matters and thats all that should matter to you.
I would consider having the tack in the center instead of the speed/odometer but that is just me.
If you have an american car and it was slow from the factory and you put a big block V8+(or very high hp small block V8+) on it and really fat tires and it have rear traction it becomes a hot rod. It don really matter the end results (how fast it ends to be, how it handles nothing but to have those things)
So you are modding an slow factory car and made it a hot rod.
If you take a porsche 928, mazda rx7, Datsun 240Z, (or any import rear tracktion vehicle) and put an american V8 it will never be a ***** but a pseudo-Hot Rod (Or some thing like that) and that would be cool no matter how bad the car performance was when it was stock.
If you put a BMW V8 (say from an M5) on a 318 compact, it would become a racer (*change the a for an i) couse is not an american V8+.
If you put a very high performance small engine (say an honda S2000 one) in a front drive car that comes from the factory with a puny engine, it becomes a racer*
What hapends if you manage to install a "big" european engine (say a BMW 12 5.0 from a wrecked 850) in a thirdgen and put a blower or whatever it need to be fast in the 1/4 and put big fat slicks on the back, it would look like a hot rod, but is a racer* to you?
What about a Dodge caravan with a mid mounted big block american v8 with rear tracktion? is that a racer* too?
Dont get me wrong I love the torque of american V8 engines and what they manage to do to a heavy car (very fast acceleration) but power to weight ratio has been king in vehicles from the begining and it always will be. If you have much less weight on a car you can live with less torque, but the combination of european or japanese sport cars with an small block V8 is difficult to resist.
Well sorry for the rant.
And good luck to you the one that started the thread with an image of an imported car dash, and your search to make it unique, and beautifull to your taste. Thats all that matters and thats all that should matter to you.
I would consider having the tack in the center instead of the speed/odometer but that is just me.
Last edited by 92BlAcK_RSLO3; Nov 14, 2002 at 11:03 PM.
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