Why Are they so fast?

Carguy393 · #1 02-19-2003, 03:35 PM

Earlier this month I on the way home from college I found myself following a brand new Cougar. Eventuly I pulled up to a stop light next to it. My saturn was at this time completely stock minus a cold air intake.
I shifted at 3,000 in first because I didnt think the cougar was racing. I saw her begin to speed up drastically and I followed by stomping the gas in second. When all was said and done I beat her by about 1 car length. We finally stoped around 100 MPH I found this amazing that my little 96' SC2 had just beat a 6 cylinder that runs 0-60 MPH in 7.5 seconds but after checking out the forums on saturnspeed.com I found that this was not out of the ordinary.

So I was wondering why are the saturns so quick and does anyone know the stock 0-60 times for a 96' SC2?

Carguy393 · #2 03-21-2003, 11:23 AM

Does anyone ever look at any of the saturn forums?

kaoru-tochiro · #3 03-21-2003, 12:01 PM

Maybe the gearing is lower? 0-60 in 7 for a 4 banger is not bad.

Carguy393 · #4 03-21-2003, 06:09 PM

Your Probably Right I know first goes to 25Mph 2nd goes to only 50 Third goes to 70mph 4th Goes to 105 mph and I think it tops out at approx. 130

kaoru-tochiro · #5 03-22-2003, 04:08 AM

You mean that at 3000 rpm youre doing 25 mph?, woah, at 2000 rpm I do 30 mph. You know I drove a Saturn once, 4 door model and it also handled pretty well.

Carguy393 · #6 03-24-2003, 09:19 AM

My Saturn redlines @ 6500 rpm in first gear or 25 miles per hour
I have a manual tranny so I also have five speeds. I can also push my car past redline to at least 7000 rpm but it isint the smartest thing to do.
Sooner or later I will start building my motor so I will probably be able to rev pretty High.
I just recieved my engine block off of ebay so If I get some money I will start buying parts for it.

bdiddy401 · #7 06-25-2003, 05:21 AM

the 0-60 times for the sc2 is 8.4 and the 1/4 mile times are 16.4.the merc times are 0-60 7.7 and 1/4 mile 16.0.you can check it out at http://www.angelfire.com/pa3/ford/pe...1.htm:redface:

Wilson_Shaw · #8 06-26-2003, 10:19 AM

Was the Cougar a manual or an automatic. The Cougar's auto adds a full 1.5 seconds to its 0-60 time, bringing it to just over 9 seconds.

bdiddy401 · #9 06-26-2003, 04:03 PM

im not sure i just wrote what info they gave me but didnt say if it was auto or stick

Carguy393 · #10 06-27-2003, 11:50 AM

I dont know if the cougar was an auto or a stick I just lined up an went.
It was a female driving so It might have been an auto but I am not for sure.

2fast4_ur_ass · #11 07-07-2003, 01:00 AM

Just wiat till (if you want to) add some modds, you think it's fast now, when you add some mods you'll b beating faster cars than the one you did.

BTW- check out www.saturnspot.com

Carguy393 · #12 07-08-2003, 09:27 PM

Sorry guys but my little saturn might be going bye bye tommorrow.

2fast4_ur_ass · #13 07-09-2003, 12:18 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Carguy393
Sorry guys but my little saturn might be going bye bye tommorrow.

Why would you do a thing like that!?!?!?!?!?

Import Guy · #14 08-06-2003, 01:20 AM

good going! saturns suck ass, 5.0's are real cars that really fast. i dont know why all you fags say there so fast, they are slow! get it through your you heads. my girl beat a stick sc that was all moded and her car is an automatic civic and is stock except for a cold air intake. so i dont know why you all keep saying there all sooooooo fast!

99sc1 · #15 08-06-2003, 11:27 AM

yea import guy...thats great, we dont care

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