Come backs for people who get made fun of for driving a "ricer"
08-15-02 | 12:32 PM
#51
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Comparing a rotary to a LS1 is like comparing apples to oranges. Giving an engine gobs of displacement without doing too much else is considered primitive to me. Then you start comparing chevy engine prices to Mazda engine prices. Anything that has to do with a small block chevy is incredibly cheap compared to other engine parts.
All I'm trying to say is that large V8s are NOT living up to their full potental. And as long as they just keep making them big they wont have to.
All I'm trying to say is that large V8s are NOT living up to their full potental. And as long as they just keep making them big they wont have to.
08-15-02 | 01:57 PM
#55
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From: It's a midwest thing.
Originally posted by Vroomaster
you are right. apples & oranges.
You could attempt to make an even playing field by either comparing a 5.0 V8 vs. a 5.0 rotary, or a 5.0 V8 vs. 8-rotor rotary.
No Comparison.
Nuff said.
you are right. apples & oranges.
You could attempt to make an even playing field by either comparing a 5.0 V8 vs. a 5.0 rotary, or a 5.0 V8 vs. 8-rotor rotary.
No Comparison.
Nuff said.
08-15-02 | 06:52 PM
#64
Dudes! The original question was does anyone have any good lines to use? He didn't ask is an LS-1 better or worse than a rotary. We can argue this all day long. The LS-1 is a great engine but so is the rotary. It depends on what you are trying to do.
My response is this: Ask those guys if they can pick up their engine by themselves and then say you can. I've picked mine up alone before although it is pretty damn heavy and it wasn't more than a few inches. Lets see someone pick up a V-8 at all. Don't even go into how certain Indy race V-8s only weigh 200 lbs. We aren't talking about them.
F*cked Over Rebuilt Dodge
Poor Old Ni&&er Thinks Its A Cadillac
Can't think of any others.
My response is this: Ask those guys if they can pick up their engine by themselves and then say you can. I've picked mine up alone before although it is pretty damn heavy and it wasn't more than a few inches. Lets see someone pick up a V-8 at all. Don't even go into how certain Indy race V-8s only weigh 200 lbs. We aren't talking about them.
F*cked Over Rebuilt Dodge
Poor Old Ni&&er Thinks Its A Cadillac
Can't think of any others.
08-15-02 | 08:10 PM
#66
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From: Guelph, Ontario
Originally posted by dre_2ooo
Hey! Since when is a Ford, Chebby, or Dodge DOMESTIC in CANADA?
Hey! Since when is a Ford, Chebby, or Dodge DOMESTIC in CANADA?
08-15-02 | 08:23 PM
#67
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From: Birmingham, AL
Originally posted by dre_2ooo
Hey! Since when is a Ford, Chebby, or Dodge DOMESTIC in CANADA?
Hey! Since when is a Ford, Chebby, or Dodge DOMESTIC in CANADA?
08-15-02 | 09:05 PM
#69
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From: BC, Canada
Originally posted by Felix Wankel
Why don't you look inside the door of a Crown Victoria, or a 4th generation F body, and see where its built...
Why don't you look inside the door of a Crown Victoria, or a 4th generation F body, and see where its built...
Ford Lightening, outta ontario.
08-18-02 | 02:42 PM
#71
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The problem I've got with domestics is that they are so under tuned. The Chevy Z06 engine should be making HUGE amounts of HP. If US car makers made engines the way Japan does then a 5 lieter engine should be making 550 HP from the factory. The S2000, the highest HP/lieter car on the market, makes 110 HP/lieter. It's all about efficency.
IMO why have a 300 HP big block 5 lieter V8 when I can have a 2 lieter that makes 220 HP?
There is only one word that I can use to describe the problem, unfortuantly it is in German.
The word is "Geschmacksache."
It means "it's a matter of taste" and a matter of taste is what it boils down to.
IMO why have a 300 HP big block 5 lieter V8 when I can have a 2 lieter that makes 220 HP?
There is only one word that I can use to describe the problem, unfortuantly it is in German.
The word is "Geschmacksache."
It means "it's a matter of taste" and a matter of taste is what it boils down to.
08-18-02 | 02:58 PM
#72
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From: BC, Canada
Originally posted by jabbadeznuts
The problem I've got with domestics is that they are so under tuned. The Chevy Z06 engine should be making HUGE amounts of HP. If US car makers made engines the way Japan does then a 5 lieter engine should be making 550 HP from the factory. The S2000, the highest HP/lieter car on the market, makes 110 HP/lieter. It's all about efficency.
IMO why have a 300 HP big block 5 lieter V8 when I can have a 2 lieter that makes 220 HP?
The problem I've got with domestics is that they are so under tuned. The Chevy Z06 engine should be making HUGE amounts of HP. If US car makers made engines the way Japan does then a 5 lieter engine should be making 550 HP from the factory. The S2000, the highest HP/lieter car on the market, makes 110 HP/lieter. It's all about efficency.
IMO why have a 300 HP big block 5 lieter V8 when I can have a 2 lieter that makes 220 HP?
S2000 makes 240 hp, btw.
In the 70's, Austin Healeys came from the factory with race cams, and made 240 hp/ 2 liter motor, and the RX-8 makes 192 hp/liter. Their motor isn't all that spectacular, considering a BRITISH sports car accomplished their power output in the 70's, not to mention the austin will make more torque.
