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In Reply to: RE: The fastest production car in 2017 that is street legal posted by Michael Samra on May 15, 2017 at 05:52:06
So you have $1.2M kicking around for the Venom...? Which as others have noted is not a production car at all.
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Sure.I hide it in a cereal box. My purpose for putting that out there was to show that an old American pushrod V8 can hang with the best of them.We could at least afford the motor in that car if we built it over time. A Ferari,not so much.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
real world driving dynamics. Like this 918 shaving off lap time at the Nurburgring for production cars...
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The electric motor and IC engine may be the thing of the future. You always have the gas engine if electric motors fail which is better than a pure electric.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
The electric motor and IC engine may be the thing of the future.
It is already here - at least at the top of the game.
The Acura NSX is another model that exploits that capability. Along with current F1 cars. :)
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"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
While I'm all over swapping out modern engines into cars that need it (IMO; 60's muscle for example can use engine management upgrades, steering, suspension, etc.), swapping a Ford /GM motor into a Porsche that's already setup and well balanced seems completely useless (and I am not a Porsche guy), just don't understand the advantage/reason.
Poorer handling older model using a high center of gravity motor.
I'll take a factory refined model instead of some yahoo's kit car.
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there are several of these LS and Coyote swaps going on in these Porsches and these aren't kit cars.That Coyote is a little too large but the LS fits nicely.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
and these aren't kit cars.
Of course they are! You buy a kit that is in no way optimized for the chassis.
Ask Jerry Steinfeld how many of his vast collection of Porsches have shoehorned in crate motors. Gas Monkey Garage, yes. :)
I talking about the body and chassis itself. These are not fiberglass body cars. I guess they use the original ZF transmission too.
I would try and save the original engine and build it if you want more power but the LS engines sound fantastic when they roar to life.
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"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
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Sorry, I don't share your enthusiasm for unsupported crate motor swaps.
That's the kit part. Makes for a good video on YouTube though, right?
I personally wouldn't do it unless I was going to race it or if I was going to sell it as a custom. So Ralf,when are going to put your big honking Coyote or LS V8 in your sports car with a big 671 GMC blower on top. LOL. That would be a site and sound for your neighbors. LOL
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
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when are going to put your big honking Coyote or LS V8 in your sports car with a big 671 GMC blower on top. LOL.
Why on earth would anyone do something that stupid?
That only works if you're trying out for a reality TV series. :)
This is what scares most people about pure electric cars.If your battery dies,you are screwed.With the ICE,you are going to get home.I wouldn't trust pure electric for that reason.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
If your battery dies,you are screwed.With the ICE,you are going to get home
Last time I checked, there is a battery required to start your ICE. :)
Yes but you can take a porta battery to jump it. Try that with a sole electric car.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
they're already here and spreading.
The Tesla was the first to offer realistic range AND phenomenal performance. "Ludicrous Mode" anyone?
The reason I think it will have a hard time becoming mainstream is because govts make an awful lot of money from petro dollars.How would we replace that tax revenue? It's probably one of the few things that reliably supports our debt,roads,not to mention middle eastern countries that convert petro to dollars to buy arms from the US.Too many countries depend on that reliable revenue and until that is replicated with something else,I doubt the cars will be mainstream.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
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Electric vehicles are coming along with truly cheap solar power as exponential technologies that cannot be stopped. We will see that in our lifetime.
Road taxes will need to be levied differently.
It's possible but I don't see how.The socialized HC that these countries brag about are funded a lot of by gas taxes. I know Ford is working aggressively on autonomous vehicles as is GM so lets see what happens in a few years.Tanks,jets,and planes all run on fossil fuels and it will have to be a slow process to change.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
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It's possible but I don't see how.
Indeed, most folks don't either.
Watch the two Salim Ismael videos found in my response to Abe's post.
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