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Old 03-13-2009, 08:25 AM
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When you show up to the track with a motor swapped bad boy version, it'll like blow women cloths off or something, right? torsion aside, the power to weight if one did get a big motor, has got to be ridiculous. I'd personally want to drop a 20B TT Wankel in that glorified golf cart, the ACCELERATION would BONKERS!!
Why would you need a motor swap. Just challenge any drag dinosaur to a 1/4 mile race... In reverse that is. It is probably one of the 20 or so fastest cars in reverse in the world as with a 2 stroke you can run the engine in both directions so you just need to bump start it backwards and you got 1 speed forward, 4 back
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Why would you need a motor swap. Just challenge any drag dinosaur to a 1/4 mile race... In reverse that is. It is probably one of the 20 or so fastest cars in reverse in the world as with a 2 stroke you can run the engine in both directions so you just need to bump start it backwards and you got 1 speed forward, 4 back
I did not know that... I assumed that due to its age, it was carb, and above all slow. So many of the "greatest" muscle cars of the mid 20th were really underpowered by today's standards. I figured technology could do it better.
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Old 03-13-2009, 05:31 PM
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I did not know that... I assumed that due to its age, it was carb, and above all slow. So many of the "greatest" muscle cars of the mid 20th were really underpowered by today's standards. I figured technology could do it better.
Oh its slow for sure by modern standars (60 in about 25 seconds) but if you get that motor running in reverse and run in reverse you can take the pinks of any stock transmissioned muscle car made today or 50 years ago. Don't challenge a Saab Smoker though. You'll be sucking oil driving behind it!
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