Race engine for my race svx.

Ricochet · #1 07-19-2008, 09:29 PM

I keep seeing all these threads dealing with people throwing thousands of dollars at their svx with only slight improvements. If you can't get an svx at least into the 12's, wtf is the point of modding one? Go buy a sports car if you want speed, buy an svx if you want year-round comfort. Anyways, good luck with the big expensive build.. have fun with your million dollar 15 second car.

SilverSpear · #2 07-20-2008, 03:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Ricochet

I keep seeing all these threads dealing with people throwing thousands of dollars at their svx with only slight improvements. If you can't get an svx at least into the 12's, wtf is the point of modding one? Go buy a sports car if you want speed, buy an svx if you want year-round comfort. Anyways, good luck with the big expensive build.. have fun with your million dollar 15 second car.

I have a sports car, it is supposed to be one of the good cars around, but I hate it!!
I cannot wait until I reunite again with the SVX three times per year just to enjoy driving it. Why not enjoying more of it with some more punch?

And Brian, I see you each time bashing the SVX, newsflash man, this is an SVX network, most of the guys here are obsessed about their babies, I am one of them. If you are annoyed by the fact that someone might one day be literally blowing one million dollar over the svx just to make it a little faster, you can always leave here and join the Camaro/Chevrolet network...

Ricochet · #3 07-20-2008, 05:05 PM

Not downing the car, I love mine.. I just know it'll never be fast.

btw I'm already on ls1tech.com

Roo · #4 07-22-2008, 02:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Ricochet

Not downing the car, I love mine.. I just know it'll never be fast.

Hmm, I think the STi and WRX drivers I was with last weekend didn't figure I'd be fast either, but I kept up with them...

...besides, fast is an outdated VW marketing campaign.

Stock + short ram intake + RE050A's on STi BBS wheels...

...and my baby handled the twisties like the newer kids...

Dessertrunner · #5 07-23-2008, 06:48 AM

Brian I think you need to understand were a SVX fits into the current race rules. Matt has proven that you can get the weight out of a SVX and I think there are enough motors that are developing higher power so the car can be very competive against the current STI's without speeding the big bucks that they do.
Life is not about copying everyone else its about creating your own space and acheivements. I have just driven my SVX over 9,000 k and about 2,000 k of that was dirt and rock roads and some of thoses dirt roads I sat on 170 kph. The car never missed a beat so before you bag it out tell me what car can do that when it has done 500,000 k and still handles like a dream and gives the comfort that can't be beatten.
Tony

Johnybeas · #6 07-23-2008, 02:22 PM

I think it's funny as hell how people are like oh the svx sucks blah blah buy a diff car if you wanna fast car. K well, the fastest STI out there runs an 8.4... ya there are faster cars out there... some of them are even civics... but it's still mean as ****... getting the quickest quarter mile in the world isn't the point. The SVX is sexy as hell, and **** if we can get it down to a 10 second car... that'd be pimp as hell... but in the mean while we can make it faster and god it feels amazing, roars, and ya, it does have that comfort.... if you aint down with the SVX then why you on here??? I mean.. the SVX isn't slow by any means.. but sure it isn't the fastest car out there, so what??? The people dropping the mad cash are the pioneers that are figuring the **** out so that the rest of us in a few years will reap the benefits and WON'T HAVE TO spend a mil on mods to make her faster. I personally say thanks guys for doin the dirty so we can benefit.

svxistentialist · #7 07-23-2008, 05:12 PM

Amen!!!!!!

lhopp77 · #8 07-23-2008, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Dessertrunner

The car never missed a beat so before you bag it out tell me what car can do that when it has done 500,000 k and still handles like a dream and gives the comfort that can't be beatten.
Tony

Definitely not a shoddily built Camaro.

Lee

longassname · #9 08-08-2008, 02:49 PM

AGREENTREEFROG · #10 07-20-2008, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Ricochet

I keep seeing all these threads dealing with people throwing thousands of dollars at their svx with only slight improvements. If you can't get an svx at least into the 12's, wtf is the point of modding one? Go buy a sports car if you want speed, buy an svx if you want year-round comfort. Anyways, good luck with the big expensive build.. have fun with your million dollar 15 second car.

slight improovements are what wins races

benebob · #11 08-08-2008, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Ricochet

I keep seeing all these threads dealing with people throwing thousands of dollars at their svx with only slight improvements. If you can't get an svx at least into the 12's, wtf is the point of modding one? Go buy a sports car if you want speed, buy an svx if you want year-round comfort. Anyways, good luck with the big expensive build.. have fun with your million dollar 15 second car.

Are you really that dumb? There is a documented stock engined SVX running low 14s right now. FYI, a good 1/4 mile time in the 60s from exotic sports car makers wasn't any better.

I can put an SVX around the track as quickly as most modern vette drivers. If yours is slow, maybe you need to look at the idiot behind the wheel