The LT1 only weighs 465 pounds. Show me a mass produced car that has a lighter engine making similar power/torque figures.

You seem to be confusing displacement for physical size. The LT1 is a lighter motor than the vast majority of small displacement DOHC turbo motors. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if the 6.2 liter LT1 V8 was lighter than this new 3.0 liter TT H6, it’s lighter than a VR38DETT or an S55B30.

“I’ve had this thing 8 hours and not a problem! Except for that one thing, but that was covered by warranty.”

15 thousand miles?! Slow down, you’re using up all the fancy too fast.

I got stopped by a cool car guy cop. 2 a.m. empty highway. Laser trap. He pulls me over for 137km/hr in a 100. Says he smells alcohol. I say unlikely. He roadside breathalizes me. Blow 0.0. He is now very happy and friendly. We talk fast cars and he talks about his record. A 65 year old guy in a V6 Camry 206km/hr. He…

So you have an imported car of some rarity in the US and rather than make/create/install a cool license plate mount that preserves the clean lines and design of the car you effing use zip ties? Classy.

It’s a great irony that stock supras are as valuable as they are - doubly so for the turbo version.

I love reading posts like this one. In April, I bought a 94 Twin Turbo Supra (auto... for now) for $2500, sold the wheels and body kit, and have been putting it back to the stock car it should be.

Currently $5,000 total into it (including purchase, all parts, and insurance... not gas)

For 19,800 AKA starting bid... I…

I feel bad for him because he’s probably really offended by every offer he has received. I also feel bad for him because he is some rare, undiagnosed form of retarded.

You could “feel” the VTEC in older Hondas. They have worked on it and refined it so much that now you can’t feel it all that much. Anyway, I don’t know any Honda engine where the VTEC would kick in at such low RPMs.

I think the electronic VTEC (or eletronic variable valve timing systems in general) tend to has less of a feel when activated because they arent an “on-off” switch like mechanical VTEC. Kinda like they are always on at some small percentage.

Of course you can feel the timing at work. If it wasn’t working, you would be just sitting there with a dead engine.

But I cannot, even for a second, manage to convince myself that I can ‘feel’ variations in valve timing and duration in an engine going 3000+ RPM. What, exactly, is the driver supposed to be feeling, when the guy asks if he ‘feels that?”

I had a TSX for 9 years, and you could definitely “feel” the VTEC kicking in.... It was the point in the rev range where the power suddenly went from “anemic” to “mildly under-powered” - it was sortof like the world’s slowest turbo lag. Unfortunately it happened at ~7,000 RPM, and the 6-speed was geared so that 7,000…

Sorry, I call horse shit on the vtec thing.

I’ll let it pass. It could be worse.

Absolutely! I always felt the changeover at about 5800 RPM, as well as intake noise getting signficantly louder. Pulled like a mule from that point to the redline (hell, all the way to fuel cutout). I certainly didn’t wind it out like that during my test drives, though, and even after until break-in and first oil…

As much of a joke as it’s become, you can actually tell when the timing profile changes for most VTEC engines. The K20A2 in my RSX Type S made noticeably more power starting at about 5800 RPM.

Not entirely related because it may be a different VTEC system (there are actually a few different VTEC variations), but I can tell when the VTEC switches from the mild cam to the wild cam in my Acura RSX Type S. I don’t really feel it so much as hear it. There is a slight shift in the exhaust note at the crossover…

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