Help defend the SVX give me ideas...

[WGJ]

Originally Posted by Beav

Why waste your time? You do know what is said about arguing with an idiot, don't you?

My man Beav has said it sufficient and well...let's move on to more worthwhile pursuits.
WGJ

[subi-crosser]

Originally Posted by NikFu S.

I went dead even with a z28 somwhere once not too recently.

Last year just before the oct auto-x at cumberland, My sister passed away from breast cancer. At the time my legacy had the engine on the workbench and the 91 wagon had the struts and exhaust off. In her honor, I bought a BOX STOCK outback limited wagon (97), and since I was pre registered, I went X-ing When the outback pulled up to the gate. a Chinese guy said "BUT that's a family car", I SMOKED 3 corvettes, a porsche, some mustangs, and a miatta, audi etc. It was the break I needed from the weeks events. If a stock wagon runs like that, why can't a car geared toward the motorsports be made to run well? TUNE-UP!!!
Also, I really enjoy the 80 watt cd, heated mirrors, seats, etc etc etc that comes with the AWD and 27 MPG. It ain't no drag racer, but it has a 4 star crash rating! and it eats NEONS alive!
Jerry
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[NapaBavarian]

Originally Posted by Dengue

that was the most retarded thread I think I have ever seen... next we should compare the svx to maybe a dodge dakota....or perhaps a dump truck....


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I have towed an SVX with my dump truck

[NapaBavarian]

Originally Posted by tomssvx

I know I burned an 88 z28 by over 2 seconds at the track. But I had over 100lbs worth of bodies in the trunk s i guess he wins

Tom

I have an '87 Trans Am GTA, I believe it was the fastest F-body of the time, equal to the camaro Z28, those were fairly slow with only arround 200hp, but 300# torque as I recall... Newer cars are fastar

[TomsSVX]

When I destroyed my trans, my father towed me with the chevy 1500 he owns..

Tom

[NikFu S.]

When my water pump seized I got towed by the Grand Cherokee.

Ahh memories.

[EddieSVX]

Originally Posted by odepaj

The SVX is an H-6, and the top speed is said to be around 170mph (for '92 models anyway). There is a picture somewhere of a german SVX doing around 260kph (or 172mph) I dont think there is much of a difference performance-wise between our models and the European models either (I could be wrong though).


dustin

At 3500 lbs, with 230 HP, and a CD of .29... There is no way the SVX can do 170 MPH given its stock gear ratios.

Maybe downhill?

I say 148 to 155 MPH at sea level.

Yes, downhill at about a 4% average grade, with race gas I'd been running for 2 months at the time.

Of course, anything more than 160 is guesswork.

Should be noted that my speed sensor #2 went out shortly after that run, and my rotors warped from trying to slow the thing, and the front end was starting to get VERY light. I'd say I'll use a camera next time, but a. it was stupid to attempt at the time and b. it'd be even more stupid to attempt again.

That and I need a new tranny now, and the siliconed hole in my windshield probably adds .001 to the CD.

In defense of the svx...

Took mine to San Diego to see an old friend...before i left did usual..changed oil in engine...drained and filled tranny...made sure spare had air...bought a couple new cd's...and hit the road with the new alum rad. Being Irish i don't think I crusied at much less than 75-90 mph all the way and back...around 2500 miles. My unit has 160k on it...I saw lots of fords chevys and dodges broke down on side of road...new ones. My little wonder got there and back like it was having fun...now this car might not be an earth shaking piece of engineering...but it took care of me...too bad the new ones aforementioned didn't do the same... .....happy trails

[down under]

Clocked on friends radar [off duty cop] and on my GPS bog standard 1993 AWD 156 MPH 98 octane fuel mind you the car expired 2 days [COOLANT LEAK] later but average speed for 940 mile trip 120mph and fuel consumption 27 gal per 100 miles with climate control on and 86F out side temp why would you want anything else? Mate was with me in V8 Monaro GMH he used 38 gal per 100 trying to keep with me MMMMMM!!!!!!!!!

[Budfreak]

Originally Posted by NapaBavarian

I have an '87 Trans Am GTA, I believe it was the fastest F-body of the time, equal to the camaro Z28, those were fairly slow with only arround 200hp, but 300# torque as I recall... Newer cars are fastar

i too had an 87 trans am gta that i got rid of for my svx. it would have kicked the holy hell out my svx from start to finish. my svx is no slow poke but if my gta would have ever gone door to door with a v6 firebird (like my svx) i would have escorted it to the junk yard.i haven't seen an svx that can do 13.3 sec. quarter miles without even removing the valve covers. and as far as winter driving goes, i drove it through 4 winters in a row and never got stuck one single time. don't get me wrong guys, the svx is definitely in a class of it's own and i love it to death BUT, i'll never get it to run like my gta did.but maybe i'll be a little closer next week when the NOS goes on.

BTW, just to stop an arguement before it starts, the gta was not stock at all but it had nothing but bolt on and little tricks i learned here and there. NO internal mods.350 L98 with 700 r4

[b3lha]

Originally Posted by EddieSVX

At 3500 lbs, with 230 HP, and a CD of .29... There is no way the SVX can do 170 MPH given its stock gear ratios.

Maybe downhill?

I say 148 to 155 MPH at sea level.

Non-USA models have a different transmission and a 3.7 diff ratio, which probably makes some small difference to the performance.

[Radar]

Originally Posted by b3lha

Non-USA models have a different transmission and a 3.7 diff ratio, which probably makes some small difference to the performance.

It makes a difference. On a cool sunday morning I had mine up to the end of the scale of the speedometer, that is approx. 270 km/h, or 170 m/h with 6000 rpm.

Subaru states a top-speed of 240 km/h, which is 150 m/h, for the German Version. If I did reach the top-speed of 150 m/h it means a mistake of the speedometer of 7%. This seems to me very realistic at high speeds.

I wanted to have mine tested, but they don't do it at the local ADAC (that's our AAA) for 4WD.

However, 240 km/h is not a relaxing travel speed any more

[mikecg]

Sinse when is a 92 SVX 8G more??? I havnt even seen one for $8000 asking! I paid 8 for my 94 2 years ago, but it also only had 20K miles. I'd say a decent 92 will run you between 4 and 6 at the most. Also are the times for the camaro for a manual or an auto tranny? The SVX is a hell of a lot faster with a manual.

[benebob]

Originally Posted by EddieSVX

At 3500 lbs, with 230 HP, and a CD of .29... There is no way the SVX can do 170 MPH given its stock gear ratios.

Maybe downhill?

I say 148 to 155 MPH at sea level.

Correction, 3750 (at least that was the weight we got for a wet 92 with all the correct stuff in it.