c’mon man, you can get ABS, traction control and modern fuel injection with drive by wire throttle and multiple modes for both TC and throttle response on bikes in the $8-9K range right now. Hardly high end.

Hell, I just got a bike (a V-Strom 650) with fuel injection and ABS for $5k brand new. Both are relatively…

They sure look good on the FC RX-7

Judging by the vid, it’s most definitely AWD.

The RWD car was recently sold on eBay for some ridiculous sum.

In qualifying trim, around 5.5 bar/80 psi. This was lowered to around 3.6 bar/52 psi in race trim for reliability.

I’m quite sure that the 1400hp version used in F1 was 1.5 liters, not 2.0.

I live in San Diego. I’ve never had a day where I got in my car in the morning and thought to myself, “Ya know, I wish my ass was warmer!”

NO.

The tires on a top fuel car will only see 300+ speeds for a couple of seconds at most and will only last a mile (4 runs). The problem lies in sustaining that kind of speed for a couple of miles or so.

Unless I’m looking at the picture wrong, I don’t really see lag being a factor. The turbine side is practically sitting on the exhaust ports and the compressor side has a really, really short pipe to the intake plenum (the pink boxes on top). I’m assuming the plenums must have air/water heat exchangers for…

Those USDM 240Z’s though...wash the dust off and they’re almost pristine, southern California time capsules. I found it odd that they both had Nissan dealer plates, so I looked a little closer...they seem to be a pair of the 240Z’s that Nissan completely restored back in the late ‘90's.

Nah, I was just kinda drunk when I made that comment, but thanks for your broad generalization. First of all, I never said a damn thing about knowing how to drive in the winter. I’ll full well admit I don’t, I live in SoCal, where there’s no such thing as winter. Nor did I suggest that RWD was somehow superior in the…

That was really my long winded way of agreeing with you while explaining why to the previous poster.

Well, your first mistake was buying a front wheel drive car. Wheelspin under acceleration is common because weight transfers off of the drive wheels as you accelerate. This just gets worse on lower traction surfaces and isn’t helped by the lack of a limited slip differential in most FWD cars.

What compact, naturally aspirated production engines are making 600hp on available pump gas in a car that’s emissions friendly right now? 

Honestly, I think a lot of stock maps are programmed that way, at least with other cars I’ve driven with drive-by-wire throttles. I can understand this for an automatic, where you might want to ramp up the throttle opening quickly to compensate for the slip of the torque converter, but on a manual, it tends to make…

Honestly, it doesn’t look terribly insane from inside. The only “insane” part is how fast the numbers still increase between 200 and 250 or so.

The factory throttle mapping in my 2006 WRX was atrocious, especially in traffic! Also didn’t care for the Cobb Stage1/2 mapping, so I programmed my own map in Accesstuner.

The VQ debuted in 1994 for the ‘95 MY with the VQ30DE in the A32 Maxima. It’s literally over 20 years old, at this point.