anyone from knoxville, tn?

#1 07-08-2005, 11:52 AM

I Have seen a few SVX's Driving around here in Knoxville, before and after I got mine. I haven't gotten close enough to any to determine year or anything. But, I have seen a later model polo green, an emerald green (the earlier green), a burgandy, and a barcelona (I think) red. my friend also spotted an ebony one. Anyone on here?

NapaBavarian · #2 07-08-2005, 11:55 AM

How is it? I need to move somewhere new...

gsodonis · #3 07-09-2005, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Jayahalasi

I Have seen a few SVX's Driving around here in Knoxville, before and after I got mine. I haven't gotten close enough to any to determine year or anything. But, I have seen a later model polo green, an emerald green (the earlier green), a burgandy, and a barcelona (I think) red. my friend also spotted an ebony one. Anyone on here?

I'm the Knoxvillian with the Ebony 92 5-speed with dark tint and 18" Enkeis. I've only seen a few as well but I think that you're the only other Knoxvillian (other than myself) on these boards. I commute to Rockwood and there are at least 4 there in that small hamlet (not inlcuding me). Mini meet time?

huck369 · #4 07-09-2005, 10:28 AM

The Club Secretary lives in Oak Ridge.....

So how's the car doing?

It sure was a quick car with those 4.44's in it....

gsodonis · #5 07-10-2005, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by huck369

The Club Secretary lives in Oak Ridge.....

So how's the car doing?

It sure was a quick car with those 4.44's in it....

The car is doing superb! It's doing even better with an underdriven Motorsport Warehouse pulley, ECU tune v.4 chip and a new high flow cat, sensors and exhaust work.

I only recently figured out that I had 4.44's (from someone posting their RPM at different speeds). What's amazing is that I still get a combined (80% HWY/20% CTY) 24 - 25 MPG.

A friend with whom I work drives a slightly modded WRX (Vishnu stage zero ECU, catless up-pipe & downpipe) and we regularly drive home at the same time. The eastbound highway onramp in Rockwood, TN (to get us home to Knoxville) is a constant radius 'S' curve leading onto a 1 mile, 3-4% uphill grade onto I-40. We can both pull 65 - 70 MPH through the S-bend (posted 30 MPH) and my combination of 4.44's and 5-speed actually help me pull 10 - 20 car lengths at the top of that incline. We figure that he's pulling around 270HP with his setup, so the 13 year old SVX can still run with the young kid on the block. I'd love to put some instrumentation on her to get a real 0-60 and 1/4mile time someday, but the car feels (and drives) a lot faster than 230 stock HP have a right to.

huck369 · #6 07-10-2005, 11:48 AM

Yeah, the 4.44's really wake up the SVX, but I was actually asking Jayahalasi, as I sold him his car, and was wondering how it's doing (it has a 4.44 Auto in it)

gsodonis · #7 07-11-2005, 07:03 AM

Huck, my bad. I did find it odd that you knew so much about my car, but then again, since you invented the 5-speed swap, I assumed you knew many of the existing 5-speed offspring. 4.44's don't just wake up the SVX; they kick it out of bed!