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Posted by Tranceporter on Nov-24-2005 01:10:

quote:
Originally posted by Playa24_7
possible 2009 chevy camaro concept?





just as possible..

same as the Pontiac Solstice from years ago... it was just a concept, there was such an interest by people, so they made it.


Posted by Mandrick_v on Nov-24-2005 03:18:

quote:
Originally posted by Playa24_7
possible 2009 chevy camaro concept?





Now this is some sweet looking stuff and I wish Chevy would release their SS









I love American Concepts


Posted by VERTiG0 on Nov-24-2005 03:44:

Those of you saying this new CHALLENGER (not Charger) looks like a sedan need to give your heads a shake and look at the classic Challengers. Very, VERY close to the old design, this new one is.

Manuals always getting better fuel economy? Not true anymore. Many new economy cars, when mated to their respective slushbox, get superior economy to the manual version. Such an example is the 2006 Honda Civic, whereby both the traditional automatic and the CVT both outperform the manual gearbox when it comes to sipping gasoline.

Finally, that 2009 Camaro concept was made by a design student a few years ago. Not a snowball's chance in hell of it coming out.


Posted by orangejuice on Nov-24-2005 05:01:

either way i shat my pants when i saw those pics. i would kill to get behind the wheel of one of those


Posted by VERTiG0 on Nov-24-2005 05:04:

quote:
Originally posted by orangejuice
either way i shat my pants when i saw those pics. i would kill to get behind the wheel of one of those


That's the spirit!


Posted by techead on Nov-24-2005 06:14:

I have heard rumours however that there is a camaro in the pipeline , only no news as to when
tiull then I will keep my trusty f body


Posted by VERTiG0 on Nov-24-2005 06:16:

Speaking of the next-generation Camaro, which GM has confirmed will be coming in the next few years... It'll be yet again a cultural icon for GM. Everybody knows the Camaro. It represents AMERICA. When you see one or the word "Camaro" you think AMERICA.

It's because that image is coded into our DNA, and the only thing that can bring it to the surface is the sight and sound of a Camaro with a V8.

Every one of us secretly knows that when the apocalypse comes, it's going to include: 1) The Excalibur, 2) a Camaro, 3) Dale Earnheart, 4) Slash, 5) quite possibly the 1985 Chicago Bears ripping out of the hood of the previously mentioned Camaro with a robotic arm and the even more previously mentioned Excalibur in-hand. It is unclear if the person or entire football team bursting out of the Camaro is going to have the severed head of Yanni, a double neck guitar, or a six pack of Budweiser in his/their left arm(s). It's still up to debate within the scientific community. I'm guessing it'll be all five.

Then the Camaro explodes into a million screaming, flaming skulls that are wearing medieval court jester hats and shooting snakes that are also screaming and shooting out fire and lighting from their eyes and mouths. The entire time this is happening some hair-metal dude is just fucking ripping it up on the double bass and Dave Mustaine is ripping his guitar so hard that the strings melt and turn into lava that kills 10 million unicorns being ridden by even smaller unicorns.

Fucking Camaros man, I tell ya.


Posted by malek on Nov-24-2005 06:18:

Mustang means America, Camaro means shit


Posted by *~LiSa-LoO~* on Nov-24-2005 06:20:

I like the pretty colours


Posted by VERTiG0 on Nov-24-2005 06:24:

quote:
Originally posted by malek
Mustang means America, Camaro means shit


Well I do prefer Mopar.

'70 Superbird please, painted Plum Crazy/In Violet Metallic (aka. Statutory Grape), or Sassy Grass Green.


This one happens to be Tor Red.



Posted by malek on Nov-24-2005 06:27:

quote:
Originally posted by VERTiG0
Well I do prefer Mopar.

'70 Superbird please, painted Plum Crazy/In Violet Metallic (aka. Statutory Grape), or Sassy Grass Green.


This one happens to be




like the batmobile?


Posted by Stingray on Nov-24-2005 07:13:

quote:
Originally posted by Superstring
I call this one. Care to provide some test benchmarks?

Don't tell me that if I sit in a buick and drive 50Km on a street and 50Km on a highway, it will return better mileage than the same in the 2004 accord.

If you're cooking up specific tests for it to return better mileage, sure.. but in real life, Accord (even with auto tranny and 3.0 240 hp engine) will outdo it.

-Roman


You can call me all you want. OBVIOUSLY if both cars were drivin the same way, the Accord would fare better.
But he drives it like a maniac. I drive mine pure chillin most of the time, while booting it for fun sometimes.

My point was that even a high output V8 can return good milage under normal driving conditions. Sorry for the poor wording.





And Cale, NICE CHOICE my friend. One of my cousins had a Road Runner back when they were new. He got drunk and drove it into a house LOL
Personaly, I'd want a 1969 Corvette Stingray with the 427 L-88 option (alluminum heads and high compression) mated to the Rock Crusher 4-speed. I'm just a bigger fan of the G.M.s back then. But I wont deny the mopars were the fastest out there.

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Look at them purdy side pipes. Factory option too.


Posted by Playa24_7 on Nov-24-2005 12:40:

quote:
Originally posted by VERTiG0
Not a snowball's chance in hell of it coming out.


your coming out


Posted by techead on Nov-24-2005 14:37:

quote:
Originally posted by VERTiG0
Well I do prefer Mopar.

'70 Superbird please, painted Plum Crazy/In Violet Metallic (aka. Statutory Grape), or Sassy Grass Green.
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mmmmm love the high impact color names for the 70's chryslers , lemon twist, limelight, plum crazy panther pink, go mango, hemi orange , and how they had 2 sets of names fot the same colours for plymouth and dodge
totally agree about the superbird , although make mine the daytona please
or a hemi cuda convertible



Posted by Euphorica on Nov-24-2005 15:00:

quote:
Originally posted by Supaphlie
Chyrsler is one of them,

I've got a 96 Camaro Z28 - 5.7L 6spd. i've de-tuned the engine (programming mods) and im pulling 650-700+ kms on a 55 L tank. i drive it normally on premium gas. (although its mainly Highway Kms) i can drive in 6th gear @ 120kph while at 1,500rpm (almost idle) and still have the power there to pass without having to gear down. I only spend apprx $250 on gas a month.


And the advantage Muscle cars have over civic's & other rice rockets you have the power when you need it. i never have to rev my engine over 2000 rpm (for normal driving) everyone i know who has a civic or import has to rev the crap out of the engine to get it going and from stalling out.

Im not putting down compacts in any way. they're fun to drive, a lot better on gas. but i like my "big" cars.

Yes i agree, chrysler has improved a lot and it mainly has to do with mercedes. Chrysler has done better while mercs have gone down. ahaha

as for you LT1 pulling down that much gas mileage all the time. Im not sure i beleive that no matter what kind of tuning you do. (even if you leaned the crap out of it)

civics and rice rockets have power when you need it...you just have to be in the right gear . revving your enigne means jack shit really. most of the rice rockets have shorter gear ratios. so it may take your car 2 secs to get to 2000 rpm in 2nd gear... meanwhile those 2 secs im at 4000 rpm etc.

sure you got more torque(much bigger motor) but dont exagerate the output of the smallr motors. i certainley dont have to rev the crap out my car for it to move. 1000-1500 rev, let the clutch out and off she goes. i could even let the clutch out without any gas and itll still move.
rev to 3000 ish and shift. guys with big motors are always afraid of a few revs like its gonna hurt...or just cause it takes their car a while to get to 4000 rpm they think itll be the same on the smaller engined car...no its called gear ratios!


anyways, both ways of going forward in a car work. the smaller motors get better mileage . its just the way it goes.


id also take most mopars over older gm's... *barf* on old gm's.


Posted by VERTiG0 on Nov-24-2005 19:54:

quote:
Originally posted by techead
and how they had 2 sets of names fot the same colours for plymouth and dodge


Mopar�s 1970 model year �High Impact� exterior colors:
(option code - Dodge/Chrysler-Plymouth)

FC7 - Plum Crazy Metallic/In Violet Metallic (nicknamed �Statutory Grape�)
FJ5 - Sublime/Lime Light
FJ6 - Green Go/Sassy Grass Green
EK2 - Go Mango/Vitamin �C� Orange
FM3 - Panther Pink/Moulon Rouge
V2 - Hemi Orange/Tor Red
FY1 - Top Banana/Lemon Twist


Posted by richard raiban on Nov-24-2005 20:12:

sweet ride!


Posted by techead on Nov-24-2005 23:59:

I am trying to find the pic of my old drinking buddies 71 challenger
awsome car 71 R/T convertible 383 with the pistol grip shifter, rally pack rally II rims plum crazy with white interior
he sold it for $10,000 back in the early nineties and considering that the last of the 71 convertible hemis recently went for $4,000,000 I don't even want to think what it could be worth now


Posted by Tranceporter on Nov-30-2005 04:07:

quote:
Originally posted by Euphorica
as for you LT1 pulling down that much gas mileage all the time. Im not sure i beleive that no matter what kind of tuning you do. (even if you leaned the crap out of it)

civics and rice rockets have power when you need it...you just have to be in the right gear . revving your enigne means jack shit really. most of the rice rockets have shorter gear ratios. so it may take your car 2 secs to get to 2000 rpm in 2nd gear... meanwhile those 2 secs im at 4000 rpm etc.

sure you got more torque(much bigger motor) but dont exagerate the output of the smallr motors. i certainley dont have to rev the crap out my car for it to move. 1000-1500 rev, let the clutch out and off she goes. i could even let the clutch out without any gas and itll still move.
rev to 3000 ish and shift. guys with big motors are always afraid of a few revs like its gonna hurt...or just cause it takes their car a while to get to 4000 rpm they think itll be the same on the smaller engined car...no its called gear ratios!

id also take most mopars over older gm's... *barf* on old gm's.


if you picked up on the note that said "mainly hwy Kms" you should have gotten the point. the adjustments i made to the engine involve fuel delivery, engine temp (cooler than OEM) ignition timing curve (for lower RPM's. - Idle speed @ 500) depending on ambient temperature and limited the amount of EGR circulation within the system. - i had taken the car in last Jan '04 for an E-test, and the recordings were the lowest i've ever seen.

my normal mileage before making these changes was approx 450 km's per 55L tank. same driving as i do now.

for the note i made on "revving the crap" I dont mean redlining... the sound of a bogged down engine gasping for life is a sound that i hear too often. and you know what im talking about.

I am aware about gear ratio's - a 4cyl is designed to run at higher RPM's, not only for optimal performance, but due to mechanical fatique because they cant produce suffient torque at low rev's.

Guys with big engines being afraid of a few rev's??? Euphorica you have never truly driven a muscle car have you?? three things.. #1 big engines have loads of torque at low rev's and ass loads more at higher rev's. #2 just because the engine is big doesn't mean it has to be driven hard all the time. #3 - might as well just punch a hole in the gas tank.

I can respect anyone who can get they're hands dirty and tune a car properly - any make, any year. but not those who think they just bold on a few aftermarket parts and they think they're a pro.

take it to the track! bring money!!


Posted by Tranceporter on Dec-02-2005 01:13:

I work for a company that deals with R&D and testing for practically every industry in the world. I've been in projects for GM, Ford, D.Chyrsler, Panoz, Lotus, MG, Crest, Honda, Toyota, Rover, Mercedes, Lexus, VW etc.... and ive tested these for SBR's, durability, enviromental, driveability and performance tests where they get beaten. and to be honest, they're all crap! all mfg's have gotten cheap with building cars, that they're not really worth keeping.

Unless you have alot of cash to burn, just buy a car your happy with that gets you from "A" to "B"

ive seen too many "done up" cars fall apart within months.. I just don't care anymore.


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