The car thread

[Matt Dillon]

The original Integra Type R set a lap record at the Nurburgring.

https://fastestlaps.com/tests/7n64p5c7t3jo

V-TEC Yo!

Mmhmm, and it sounded like a half a million angry mosquitos!

They like to add the extra mosquitos mufflers around here. Stock isn't mosquito-ish enough.

 

[McRocket]

If they don't sound something like this?
I am not really interested.

The first car - the 300C SRT8 - in particular.

 

[RB 60]

If they don't sound something like this?
I am not really interested.

The first car - the 300C SRT8 - in particular.

Sound? You want sound, stand 4 feet from one of these

 

[Matt Dillon]

Sound? You want sound, stand 4 feet from one of these

Dude, his leg is right on the exhaust manifold.

 

[RB 60]

Dude, his leg is right on the exhaust manifold.

Trust me, it's not right on it. You cannot stand directly in front of the exhaust. The nitro would knock you out.

 

[Matt Dillon]

This thread is OK for highlighting all the new technology n stuff, but how many of these will be produced and available at all?

 

[RB 60]

This thread is OK for highlighting all the new technology n stuff, but how many of these will be produced and available at all?

Yes. They are limited (to the rich) and out of most people's price range.

When it comes to supercars (none of which I can afford) it's the Second Gen. Ford GT.

 

[Eagle_Eye]

^ How many of these are you going to buy?

Nice but awfully hard to get ones 4 wheeler to the track. lol

 

[RB 60]

Nice but awfully hard to get ones 4 wheeler to the track. lol

It's the 4-wheeler that hauls it to the track

 

[McRocket]

Sound? You want sound, stand 4 feet from one of these

It's not the volume...it's the quality of the sound.
This is too much.

I was at a drag meet once and it was just INSANELY loud.
FAR, too loud for my taste.

 

[RB 60]

It's not the volume...it's the quality of the sound.

At nearly 12,000 HP, the quality is there. No other internal combustion engine compares.

 

[McRocket]

At nearly 12,000 HP, the quality is there. No other internal combustion engine compares.

Naaa...not for me.
Like I said...I was at a drag meet and it was just ridiculously loud.

Same with old, Formula One engines (before hybrids).
I went to several races and they were just too loud.

To me?
I like low revving, normally aspired-engines.

But each to his/her own.

 

[Legion]

This thread is OK for highlighting all the new technology n stuff, but how many of these will be produced and available at all?

All of them, AFAIK.

Maybe even the Spéirling. One example is extant, at any rate.

 

[Legion]

The Koenigsegg Gemera Is a 1700-HP Hybrid With a Camless Three-Cylinder

• 2.0-liter twin-turbo three-cylinder
• 600 horsepower
• 442 lb-ft of torque
• It combines with a hybrid system for an astonishing 1700 horsepower and 2581 lb-ft of torque
• 0-62 mph in 1.9 seconds
• All-wheel drive

Each tiny electric motor makes 335 HP and 443 LB-FT of torque. Dubbed the Quark, each motor weighs just 63 pounds.


https://www.koenigsegg.com/gemera/

 

[RB 60]

Does this count?

• Rolls-Royce Orpheus turbojet engine
• Afterburner from a Jaguar fighter's Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour turbofan
• 2,500 pounds of thrust without the afterburner or 5,500 pounds of thrust with it lit
• 0- 272 mph in six seconds
• 314 mph

Uh, no. It's not an internal combustion engine.

BTW, a funnycar runs over 330 MPH.

 

[Legion]

Uh, no. It's not an internal combustion engine.

Dammit!

 

[Legion]

"I want an E-type Eagle Lightweight GT. I want one so much that it keeps me awake at night." ~ JEREMY CLARKSON













https://www.eaglegb.com/

 

[Legion]

Resto-mods

https://www.sports-purpose.com/cars-for-sale/1965-porsche-911-2-0-swb-race-car

 

[Legion]

Looks old, but is it?

https://www.alfaholics.com/our-cars/completed-builds/gta-r-300-carbon-build-023

 

[Matt Dillon]

I heard you like the sound of cars that sound like skeeters.

That's it! That is the sound!