Hot Rods Is your car fast?

Who cares?

 

someone on here has a signature that reads something like :

"in the world of fast cars you get cheap, safe and fast. you only get to pick 2 though so choose wisely"

 

Fast is relative, but 69fury, you seem to think there is a specific number where anything below it is fast and anything above it is slow.

How much horsepower do I need to go fast?

 

This is why I bought some of both....I have my 27 dodge roadster with a 69 dodge 383 BB and my 90 foxbody mustang coupe with a 32v 4.6...If i want to go fast I drive the mustang....If i want to look good I'll take the roadster...

 

Bingo.

 

I suspect that your "10 second car" is actually a 13 second car that has never seen a 1/4 mile strip. My hunch is basically validated by the fact that you seem to honestly believe that you can build a 10 second car for "not much more money" than a 12 second car.

BTW the drag racing we discuss here is of the vintage variety and the majority of us dont care what you can do with a 2010 Camaro.

 

I like my .50 cal Flintlock...............havent shot a cartridge rifle in 16 years...............just sayin........

 

69fury, why the hell are you even on this board? You just don't get it do you?

Doc.

 

Anyone with a signature, "I pulled your Honda so hard I thought you powershifted reverse" sure has all of the respect I'm able to give. Goodness, Batman, have you ever encountered anyone so badass? I sure intend to give you a wide berth if I ever encounter you. My wife might be a different matter as she used to have a 10 second grocery getter. You might be safe though as she usually gives guys with "small penis syndrom" a 3 second head start. Ever had your ass handed to you by a GURL that prefers to row a 4 spd and doesn't consider an automatic car a race car?
BTW, has it ever occured to you that you just might be on the wrong board? I'm still waiting for you to post anything that has any traditional content. Hope this gives you something to thump your chest about..........at least I tried, since it appears your mommy never gave you a hug.

Frank

 

Oh man...I knew I was gonna get drug into this one...

Fast is relative, of course, but for "our kind of cars" the drive it to the HAMB Drags test is still a pretty good one. It is EASY to talk about how fast you are gonna go, but to actually get it done is much more difficult.

Drive to the Drags this August and I'll spot you a carlength.

-Abone.

 

pretty sure i agreed with a great many things that were said here- even realized some new points i hadn't thought of before.

Why the hell are you posting in my thread if you obviously didn't keep up on the contents of it?

I understand that style and charisma of a hotrod is very important to people.

Hopefully you (Doc) are tolerant enough of other people's opinions to understand that some people like their hotrods to be faster than everyday normal people cars.


rick

 

At the shootout at Bonneville this week there were four cars over 400 mph. Kinda makes this whole thread totally irrelevant.

 

And again you totally miss the point of this board!

Doc.

 

um.... I posted that i agreed with other people's opinions, learned some things from people that have more experience than myself, stated my own opinion that i wanted my gasser to have respectable performance, and asked for tolerance regarding having my own opinion.

I haven't missed the point of this board, i've missed the point of you.

rick

 

MY car is a real gasser,except for disk brakes it is all pre 65, striaght axle leaf spring rear with old school traction masters. The big block chyrsler makes 535 hp it has some modern parts,the cam,alum heads electronic ingnition. It has a 4.10 gear and 3000 rpm stall built 727 trans. I drive it as much as possible.It is nasty, noisy and hot.Is it fast ,you bet it is. I don't think your average maxima has any hope stop light to stop lite.Now in the town I live thier is a black o9 mustang with supercharger I am sure he would beat me . I have 12,000. $ in my ride the mustang cost 80,ooo.

 

pissing contest anyone?

 

Hell,now we"re all just normal people,what the hell is that supposed to mean.This board is for guys with just plain raw hp,whether its an 85 hp flathead or a 450 sb,or a six banger ,no place for Hondas,Nissans,Nitrous,computer chips in cars,when are you going to get it?

 

My car is damn slow, but fast enough for me.

11s on the street in a hamb friendly car? It must happen, but not often, not cheap, and not much of a daily driver.

Times have changed, but the hamb has not. It still takes what it took 50 years ago to go fast.

who cares about fast late models, snore zzz
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How does one close this?

 

And to think all this time i thought at the strip or on the street it was how QUICK your car was and at Bonneville it was how FAST your car is.

 

Bugatti Veyron. FASTER than an F1 car. $850k, pretty cheap for only 1000 bhp..

 

I've heard something similar, but it was fast, cheap, reliable, only two can ever apply.

Personally I'd rather have reliable over all else, money in my pocket second...fast doesn't do me much good if it only gets me halfway to my destination and it also doesn't do me much good if I can't afford to go anywhere because of it.

 

No!

 

Yep; It's embarrassing to see all this yapping and posturing.
jeeeeeeeeeeeezz.



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What I'm after is not so much being true to a specific era as eliminating technologies with which I have a problem. The nature of micro-electronics in particular is that it is easy to control in use but well nigh impossible to control in manufacture; it is extremely reliable in the short term but its durability is absolutely finite; it is easy enough to replace but impossible to fix; it can survive only so long in the absence of its original manufacturer. Even given fairly sophisticated metallurgy mechanical technologies do not have this nature.

The upshot has to do with personal philosophy. The micro-electronic artefact - never mind the code living on it - can only be owned as a fungible asset or a (temporary) usufruct but never as a personal possession. And the car it's attached to might be fast but it can never really be mine.

That's why the plan with the Morris includes a Subaru EJ25 with all the mechanical cleverness I can get, but all the native electronics summarily dumped. I'll want 2" SUs and a mechanical distributor with a mechanical advance curve, and nothing more elaborate than a whopping great power transistor, that is a blind lump of semiconductor, in the ignition system. But as for the niceties of how all that mechanical "crudity" is shaped, and which causes it to outperform its antecedents, I'd want artistry.

 

The OP question.
Son, that's for me to know and you to pay to find out, and hey how are your brakes? I don't want you rollin up into me after.

 

Fast is relative. I want to go really fast but they grounded the Concord.

 

I agree.........

 

agreed