It starts loooooong before you ever get your hands on your first car - Porsches & Camaros infested my brain from about the 3rd grade on and I have vague memories of vehicular attraction before that.

Plug the HP & weight into a 1/4 mile calculator and you'll see that it's not that far off from where it should be. 110 horses just doesn't do very much in a 3300 lbs car.

Infinte torque at zero RPMs is still zero HP. HP (or KW in the case of electric motors) is the measure of how fast a motor can throw a car down a dragstrip, not torque.

Modern 5 & 6-speed transmissions are usually 1:1 in fourth gear and then 5th and/or 6th are overdrive gears. with ratios ranging from maybe 0.85:1 to as steep as 0.5:1 depending on (more or less) engine size & vehicle weight. Some 6-speeds are 1:1 in fifth gear with only 6th being overdriven.

That is the most 1970's futuristc 80's thing I've ever seen.

The 951 got dual airbags in '87 - the first car to get them standard! Other variants had them as options too.

Nobody's not selling cars in California. This has been happening since the beginning of CAFE - CAFE sets some new threshold for the future that the industry screams it can't meet and everyone speculates that some major manufacturer(s) will pull out of California. Then technology improves and they make some advances…

For gods sake, turn off the radio and roll down the windows.

I think he did. There's less than 10% difference in HP between the two cars - not enough to catch up to that big a head start in distance and velocity, let alone blow by him like he was standing still at the end.

There seems to be a hole in the Internet where nerdy detailed information about early fuel injection systems should be. Apparently it's like Hilborn injection but different.

Now I need to know more about Algon fuel injection.

That doesn't sound right. A US spec 1984 928S was only making like 224 HP. Euro spec 928S'es were cranking out over 300HP, which was pretty awesome, but they also didn't meet emissions and in either spec it was a top of the line supercar engine with exotic engineering by one of the top engineering firms in the world,…

OHV cam-in-block pushrod motor is the "modern" design. DOHC engines go back to the early twentieth century. Oldsmobile's 1949 OHV design was a breakthrough that combined the breathing efficiency of the OHC engine's overhead valves with the compactness of a flathead motor.

Master Carlton.

I want one of those giant inflatable gorillas. I'd put it on top of my house. Just because.

I had a '91 Daytona, a n/a 2.5L. It was a pretty good cruiser - handled pretty well, rode nicely, could've used more power, looked pretty good until the clearcoat fell off, and the hatch was very useful. Better sports coupe ergonomics for the driver than its contemporary Mustangs or F-bodies. Would've liked to have…

Yes, sort of. The idea is to minimize pumping losses while keeping RPMs as low as possible. In general, about 3/4 throttle and shift as early as practical without lugging.

I work at a rather large southeastern university:

I also don't care about your fantasy baseball/football teams either and which player is currently killing you and who you just deactivated that went off and would've scored 100 million fantasy points for you had he not been on your bench and which owner in your league is in cahoots with another and making totally…

I like Ford's Autumn Orange. One year only option for '97 Mustangs. I'm not usually a big fan of orange, but this one is stunning in person - really shows off the curves of the SN95's shape.