...I have a lime green Hyundai Accent (hatchback) and his name is Gizmo!! I wuvv him, we go everywhere together. Great gas mileage =)))
i think you're thinking of Gary, IN....that place is still a mess even with armed security. Seymour is half-way between Indy & Louisville. in the last six months of being there at night at least twice a week, i haven't even seen anyone wandering around, much less been woken up from my nap...but then if i'm still there at 03:30, i running behind and i need to be woken up.
05 Kawasaki ZX10r 0-60 2.9 1/4 9.4 seats 2 very uncomfortably and destroys your gas mileage. Sticks to the road like its screwed in, and is remarkably flickable. Can be picked up for about 6 grand used. (*)(*)(*)(*) an Evo.
You forgot: It's practical 2-3 months a year in this area, and then only in good weather. It's an excellent way to end up getting fire-hosed off the pavement. I'll stick to something enclosed & weathertight, with actual safety equipment! But I think I need to put together a 9 second car now.
Good luck doing it for less than 7 grand. I am a firm believer in the right tool for the job. If I want to go fast, I use the right tool. Going fast is not for the highway in the US. So I use a bike and a track. Transporting clean things in any weather I use a Nissan Pathfinder. Transporting dirty things in any weather I use a Dodge Ram or a Chevy Suburban. General commuting I use a Volvo.
I drive a 06' Chevy 2500 crew cab with a 6.6L Duramax Turbo diesel. My wife drives a 92 Honda accord, the thing runs like a champ still. I also have 91' 3/4 ton GMC, which I use to haul hay.
Why thank ya kindly.I have 2 sport cruisers { M-109,Honda Rune } both of which comfortably allow my feet to touch the ground { 27 in. seat height } which sure beat the sport bikes forward seat lean and 30+ in. seat height.Sport bikes are no sport once you hit 40 and don't have time to worry about lean angle. I was very close to getting the New Ducati Diavel which has a really tight angle for sitting.With a 162 h.p. and 94 lb. torque at around 450 lb. it has one of the fastest 0-60 times around.I feel in love with the bike, which has unquestionably the most gorgeous wheels/tires of any production bike.It's engine purrs along with the famed 90 degree L-twin grunt.Engine as stressed member like the Triumph Rocket which is also extremely fast. Ducati claims a 0-60 mph of 2.6 sec. for it's now famed Diavel. My dealer says it's one of the fastest 1-2nd gear times of any motorcycle. I bought my M109 from his place and he sells a lot of Busa's.
Gary is bad also. If I'm on 80, I'll either stay at our terminal in Ottawa, or else at the T/A at Morris. Gary is a cesspool, without a doubt. I've been awakened by the lot lizards at Seymour, down the highway at Memphis where the Love's is, and also at the Fishhook in Indy. Maybe I just hit a bad spell, but it seemed that every time I'd stop somewhere on 65 between Indy and Louisville, that I'd get woken up by a lizard wanting to know if I wanted any company. So now I try to avoid stopping on that particular section if I possibly can. BTW - What do you think of the new HOS? Looks like they didn't screw it up too badly IMHO.
Like most, I love Ducati. I had a race prepped 916 for a while. Nothing sexier. Maintenance on race ducs is a full time job, and very expensive as hobbies go. I am a sport bike guy. I don't ride them for comfort... that is for sure. Once I started racing, cars stopped mattering to me except when its snowing. My use of 4 wheel vehicles is strictly utilitarian.
you know, it might just be that you look like you'd be willing to pay? (j/k) they will put GM out of business....along with everyone else that has a JIT production model. bare metal parts shouldn't be staged in trailers, and that's the only way i see being able to maintain parts flow with a mandatory 30min break after after 7 hours.
I had a white one, a blue one with white stripes, another blue one, a black one, and a green one. Also I had a kind of rust orange one many years ago, and a faded white on. You know the type wher if you put your hand on it would leave a mark and your hand would turn white.
I have a 1999 Jeep Wrangler,which I love,and a 2003 Suzuki DRZ250 plated for the street. Almost like having a 2 wheeled Jeep!
I could probably put together a 10-second car for seven grand. Heck, I linked to a YouTube video of a 10-second car that I doubt the owner has more than $4K in!
I love the sound looks and performance of a Ducati.Give me one, a red one please, they are the Ferrari of motorcycles. If Harley went out of business and I couldn't buy old ones I would buy Ducati or BMW as my first choice ride. The BMW RR is the fastest production motorcycle in the world, excluding mega dollar tuner bikes etc. However the new Kaw 1400 ninja will be more powerful if the engineers do not dumb down the electronics. That said, top speed or max hp isn't my main thing. To me a bike is like a woman, I like women that make me feel good, and Harleys and European V-Twins or1-8s make me feel orgasmic.I love to walk out side on a crisp fall morning and hit the starter to be rewarded with that sound smells and the feel of an vintage V Twin. I very rarely could use 200 mph or near 200 hp on the street. Give me a 90 (if light enough) to 160 horse European or American bike and the blue ridge parkway and I will be happy. It also helps now that harleys can be built to over 200 reliable hp**, if that is what turns your crank~ *CBR1000 RR: Fastest Production Motorcycle | Motorcycle News www.ultimatemotorcycling.com/.../cbr1000-worlds-fastest-productio... Oct 4, 2011 – 2011-cbr1000-worlds-fastest-production-motorcycle.jpg Bonneville Speed ... holds the title as the world's fastest production 1000cc motorcycle **(excerpt) V-Twin Magazine "Power, Jody Perewitz is the Fastest Woman on a V-Twin ... street prior to the race and has laid claim to being “the world fastest street legal Harley-Davidson”. ... The engine boasts 224 Horsepower at the rear wheel. .... by Vince Norton, made a 202+ mph pass..." www.tmanperformance.com/heads.htm Rev A
That would be pushing it, but yeah a junkyard 460 and a C-4 slush box, a kaufman header kit/ motor mount kit to shoehorn the 460 smogie puffer carbed ford engine in without hassle, nitrous, a old fox body coupe mustang a loose (remove the sway bar etc) front end and sticky tires, that would be my recipe for 10sec for around 7k. If there were room on the budget for a set of swap meet heads and cam, a shift kit and more nitrous the 9s would be possible... maybe the high nines. Rev A
I went through the entire thread again, and cannot find this link. Show me a car, motor, mod parts, and labor for less than 7g that will get you into sub 10. Bike is bone stock turn key sub 10. I am not interested in what you "think" things cost. Show me.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXTnCsHWbQ"]Turbo 4.9 Ford Maverick - YouTube[/ame] It's about as simple as a 10-second car gets...junkyard 300 inline six (unrebuilt with over 100,000 miles), used turbo from an old dump truck, stock suspension except for clamped rear leaves & drag shocks. It pulls the front wheels about 6" off the ground on drag radials. I could do it for $7K...toughest thing to find with that budget would actually be a non-rusted Maverick. A quick eBay search only found one viable Mav...it was a V8 (a factory six would be easier to swap in a 300) and would eat half the budget (asking $4K). Of course, there are other ways...easiest might be a Chevy II, a 1982-92 Camaro, a Fox Mustang, or an S10 or mini Blazer with a turbochgarged 5.3 LS motor under the hood. A base-model S10 or an early Nova barely top 2500lbs, making one into a rocket isn't too hard.
In theory. In practice it gets expensive. Yes... you need a car to start with. You need wheels. You need a tranny that will hold up. You need a different rear. You need a cage. You need tires. You need the bits and bobs. You need that turbo. You need somebody who knows what they are doing to tune it. There is something magic about 10. Getting underneath it takes a lot of ingenuity, and hardware, in a car. You can theorize all you want. I said show me. Thanks for the link.
That Maverick is just under 11 seconds as well. 9 is a much harder number... and it had stock block piston and rods... nobody mentioned the heads/cams/ I will up your budget to 10k.
No, you didn't pay attention: the appeal of the Maverick is what you DON'T need. Wheels are easy: 15x8" Ford truck/van steelies, about $25 each at any junkyard. Trans is as simple as a stock-rebuilt C6, $5-600 or so. The Mav's stock rear will hold up (many had a factory 9", even the 8" will hold up with an automatic transmission). Turbo is $200 or so at a truck junkyard (the Mav in the video has one off an International DT466, very common)...alternately, there are many cheap turbos available new on eBay. The Mav's front tires are 14" cheapies from any tire place (about $80 each locally, $60 from Tire Rack), rears (BFG Drag Radials) are only about $200 each. I have a 10-second car...I have more than $7K in it, but not that much more. $11K, maybe? Much of that is because I wanted a NICE car. Had I left the wasted paint, ratty body, and torn-up interior, I'd certainly have less than $7K in it. (I probably put close to $3500 into painting it.) I run mid-10's (best was 10.48 at 133) and it would probably have been cheaper to make it faster. (Some was sacrificed for streetability and my preference to use a 4-speed.)
