About the GT.......Oops...I realized that at work last night. I remembered that that car was called the GT. Cool car...they seriously lamed out on the name of the damn thing though. It's been called that forever though, so it's grandfathered in...
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Alright, let's not start a flame war here.
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Yea...flaming is bad....
j/k
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Yeah the R34 is a wicked car with great potential.
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I, along with the vast majority of people, agree. Only thing about it is that it looks plain as hell...not bad, just plain...tis a damn shame.
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You just posted some stuff that I thought was incorrect.
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I was just saying what the mag did. I would say quoting....I didn't quote it...I can't find the magazine. The info's not exact, but you get my point. I wasn't exaggerating. The magazine has to be in storage in Florida. I apologize.
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What do you consider great gas milage? My truck only gets about 10mpg on the highway, so a stock corvette getting 28mpg seems great to me.
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Well...of course, like anything else, it's all relative. 28 for a V8 performance car is pretty good. 10 is friggin horrible...you might as well buy an H2. My 86 300ZX 2+2 (stock, NA, V6, ~159,000 miles, ooold as hell) on a trip from Kentucky to South Florida got over 30mpg the WHOLE way....goin 80 with the AC on, loaded with stuff. Now THAT'S good.
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Here's a link to the 650hp LPE vette getting 31mpg I can't find the 725hp one but will post it when I find it.
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I just don't understand how a car can get BETTER milage (quite a bit better, at that) after adding forced induction. Just doesn't sound likely.
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That's what's so great about John, he can tune a car so well it'll run single digits on the track, pass emissions, and get 30mpg on the highway.
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I like his work. I'm not a domestic car guy (by any means.......I can count on 2 hands how many domestic cars I like....1 hand how many I'd buy), but I like the vettes and the Ling stuff.
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Most people do care what their car sounds like
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That's what I don't get.......as long as it doesn't sound bad (and a general idea of bad does exist that everyone agrees on), who cares?
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but most people have a difference of opinion on what sounds the best.
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Duh...
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I love the fact that my truck is so loud it'll rattle shit inside your house.
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I fucking hate that. Most annoying thing ever...truck guys (you) and the damned mustang assholes...I swear....I've got a bag of powdered sugar with all your gas tank's names on it. I know I sound hostile, but that drives me up the damned wall. Same thing with Harleys (in particular).
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IMHO, I think that both a Corvette or a Viper would be a better platform for peromance. I'm not saying that an R34 couldn't be turned into a supercar, I'd just rather do it with a Viper or Corvette.
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It'd be easier to do with the R34....or even a Supra for that matter. I've heard of both of these cars running 9's on street tires with just bolt ons.......stock top and bottom ends.....AND they're daily drivers with good gas milage and reliablity. I've also seen 300ZX's do that. Check out the rides on
www.sgpracing.com. I don't think you need more then 6 cylinders. 8-10 is just too many....too many moving parts, generally worse milage....just unnecessary. There are exceptions to everything though.