Not mine, but a buddy of mine has a twin-turbo Bonneville. Anything much over 400hp requires a 4t80e swap, which is accomplished with some transistors and threading a couple holes.
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Add forced induction and a bit of luxury...
That’s amazing. Now I want a Cayman.
They’re using the wrong car.
So you’re assuming that because someone opted for RWD over AWD they’ll be forward-thinking enough to put snow tires on it for winter? Why wouldn’t someone with an AWD muscle car do the same and have an American AWD rallyboat?
literally seconds were spend in Sketchup. Seconds, I tell you.
Yes, I fear The Grand Tour is appealing more to the Jersey-Shore watching audience than the How It’s Made audience now. Pity. Probably a smart financial decision, but much like Google abandoning the hacker-friendly cheap Nexus line for the overpriced “lifestyle” Pixel line of phones, it sucks that they’re alienating…
“that’s all this show is” No it isn’t. It’s an entertainment program. As such, there are standards for entertainment, comedy, etc. that The Grand Tour is utterly failing at meeting so far. So far the whole series feels phoned-in, like the producers watched a highlight reel of Top Gear and said “those gags are funny,…
That escalated.
Money owed on a Buick Century? My first thought was buy-here-pay-here purchase, but then there wouldn’t be a bank involved. Huh.
I love these cars simply because they’re such fantastic engine swap candidates. Good condition shell with a blown rotary (imagine that) for $2k, then whatever engine (coughLScough) goes in and you have a powertrain worthy of that chassis. Yes.
A modern S10 ZR5? Sweeeeet.
Chevy Traverse. Equinox. Most modern midsized crossovers. Honda Accord Crosstour.
It looks like a less reliable Buick Park Avenue. 30mpg out of a pushrod 3.8 liter V6 with a twin-scroll supercharger tossed on it and detuned to 240hp/260lb-ft of torque for reliability, though many cars dynod higher than that at the wheels so there is likely some typical Buick understatement in the factory numbers.…
Everyone bitches about the Northstar but this was a Cadillac first, sports car second. The Northstar was a smoother, more refined engine than the push-rod LS and still had fewer issues than some equivalent engines from European manufacturers. The first revision (pre-2004) Northstar was, yeah, a nightmare past 100k,…
At least we agree mod motors are rubbish, but haven driven several SHOs, a couple AWD Charger R/Ts, and an AWD 300c, the Taurus may be faster as per the numbers but it felt downright boring compared to the way the Chryslers put down the power. Especially with the all wheel drive keeping you from just roasting tires…
What does any of this have to do with the Taurus being a good (or bad) car? Wow, it’s faster than a Tahoe or Charger. Cool. So are some glaciers. But that’s just one metric and even then one that is irrelevant for most of the reasons people buy full sized American sedans.
Yeah. And the NB is basically just an NA with more crash-safety stuffage and updated looks/amenities.
Eh, honestly the ‘02 Miata did pretty good in the overlap and t-bone crash tests.