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P-car 6 or SBC 8, for Ury |
Crazyhippy |
Aug 18 2005, 10:53 AM
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Insert witty comment here... Group: Members Posts: 1,659 Joined: 28-July 05 From: Home of the Coyotes, AZ Member No.: 4,493 Region Association: None |
Enough of the little horsepower pissing match, it's time for the fast cars to have their pissing match.
I'll be honest, my loyalty to the P-motor doesn't run very deep. They are WAY to expensive for the HP you get. The ONLY advantage i can see from a performance standpoint is the weight, and i'm not sure it's as big as everyone imagines (guessing less than the weight of a decent passenger). The SBC is easier to work on, builds more HP easily, lasts longer at the same HP level, and sounds better (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/flipa.gif) (subjective i know). You do lose the front trunk, but a 914 is not a practical car to start with, so no biggy (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/boldblue.gif) I understand people wanting to keep the bloodlines true and blah blah blah.. isn't that kinda like in-breeding? please discuss (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/driving-girl.gif) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/driving.gif) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/burnout.gif) |
SirAndy |
Aug 20 2005, 01:54 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,815 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
and that comes from a guy who has this in his signature: "Cindy Sheehan supports terrorism" (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/screwy.gif) yes sir, i take you very, very seriously ... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/rolleyes.gif)
and exactly *where* did you gather this wisdom? the stock 914 brakes are more than adequate for a stock car, which is btw. what they were designed for ...
personal experience? (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/idea.gif) i drove my 914 with a tired old 1.8L for the first 3 1/2 years and it was just as much fun to drive as any other 914. and during that time i had the chance to drive several v8 914s and /6 914s, some of which had gobs of power. i even got pretty good at the AX (which is btw. *not* a race but a performance-driving contest) with my car ... again, i have nothing against v8/v6/flat6/rotary/turbo/whatever conversions. i have a problem with "Mr. Crazyhippy" coming in here claiming that the 914 in stock form is a underpowered, ill-engineered POS that can only be made worthy by putting in a 500HP SBC ... that, my friend, i call (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/bs.gif) |
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