[Stealth]

Vipers aren't the fastest car there is you know

[Fineus]

Who cares? Neither are E-Types or Lotus Elises... but they all still have their place.

But if you want a pissing contest on speed - well - I win.





I give you Thrust SSC. The fastest land vehicle in creation. Topping well over Mach 1 and beating its nearest rival without breaking a sweat. And you know what's really amusing? It's British - and I helped to build it.

So, how do you like them apples?

[Drew]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
So, how do you like them apples?

dude, that aint go no apples.


This here, has got some apples
 

EDIT: thats a Ferrari 360 Spider... dam schweet

[Stealth]

you want fast Kalfireth?



and that's not even close to being one of the fastest planes

beat that *****

Anyway but back to cars... there's no such thing as the "fastest car"... all cars have different aspects and different potentials... if i could have any "realistic" (i.e. not something like an Aston martin, lamborghini, etc.) i'd take a Skyline.  that has got to be one of the coolest cars on the market at the moment.  i mean, it's got like 6 computers, four wheel drive and steering, it's incredible

[phreak]

damn EPA

[Gortef]

At first I read "Carl Modding"

nice pics this topic has. And nice car mods too.

[Fineus]

It's just a pity Stealth doesnt know what a "car" is, and thinks that a plane will do fine.

Oh well, anyway want to try and teach him?

[Gloriano]

*looks his 2 beatyful cars*

[J3Vr6]

lol... Viper may not be the fastest in the world, but it definitely is in the top 10, if not the top 5.  And I guarantee, of all the production cars out there, it's the one that you are more likely to poop your pants in

I can hardly stand Ferrari anymore.  I don't know why, but their cars just don't do it for me.  Lamborgini, yes.  Maclaren, definitely.

The cars I've wanted but never got:


Toyota Supra twin turbo (my absolute favorite)

Mazda RX-7

Gran National (once the fastest production car in the market)


BTW, Drew, the Prelude is nice (not the new body style, but the one in the pic) and it can potentially be quick if you do some real work to it.  I had a friend when I was into car clubs that had a prelude that ran 13.12's in the quarter mile.  He had a v-tech controller (that allows u to dial in where you want v-tech to kick in, if u know what v-tech is), full exhaust, some minor engine work, and a big ass turbo.  Don't remember how many pounds he was pushing from the turbo, though.    Thing was fast as hell, I loved watching it run at the track.

And I give Raa Thor'h some credit, the 3000 GT VR-4 was a beautiful and well made race car.

[magatsu1]

V-tech: variable valve,  erm, somethin' (timing?) , and electronic control (i think)

..WAI(that's a warm air intake for those who don't know....

shouldn't that  be "cold air intake" ?

my first car was a mk2, 1300 Golf with BMW wheels !!
wouldn't mind a 1600 zetec Focus now though.

I've got some video of that new Lambo. goin' past a Vanquish with the driver givin' the engine a real pastin'.
Sounded f*****g incredible !!

[J3Vr6]

Originally posted by magatsu1
shouldn't that  be "cold air intake" ?

No, a cold air intake is a slightly different animal.  A cold air intake, like the one most ricers use (hondas, acuras, etc like to use Injen or Iceman), is actually a metallic pipe that goes from the throttle body down underneath the engine and places the air filter infront of one of the front tires, behind the bumper.  Look at this pic for the CAI:


The science behind it is basically that colder air circulates close to the ground, so by placing the air filter that low on the car (basically a few inches from the ground), you're allowing the air to breath the colder air.  Colder air is better for the car, performance wise.

A Warm Air Intake is basically a short midpipe from the throttle body to an air filter, still situated in the engine bay.  It doesn't scoop up any cold air from the bottom of the car.  It's not really warm air that it sucks in, though, cuz at wide open throttle enough air is getting pushed through the front grill that the temp is nominal.  See this pic of a WAI:


So why get a WAI when theoritically a CAI seems better?  Well, having a longer pipe in the CAI means that the car takes longer to breath that colder air thereby nullifying whatever gain you'd get in the cold air.  You'll never get a definitive answer on this one, though, it's mostly user preference if u want a WAI or a CAI (in this respect).

Second, with a CAI you have a chance of completely ruining your engine if you accidentally drive your car thru a heavy puddle.  Having the filter so close to the ground means you have a chance of sucking up that water.  If you car sucks up water, you hydrolock the engine and pray you have enough money for a new one (or find a junked one).  Many people don't worry about this, though, as where they live they don't suffer from flooding or think they're invincible (read: 16 year olds with daddy's money).  

They sell a bypass valve that you cut into the CAI intake pipe where if the air filter gets completely submerged, the valve will open and would stop the water from getting to the throttle body.

Where I live and where my girlfriend lives there's too much flooding when it rains.  I don't trust that bypass valve (although people swear by it), so I decided to get the WAI.

Anyway, this was probably too much information

Btw, if you want to see some nice racing videos, look at this link.  There's some really nice races, from lamborgini's to hondas.

http://northwestnissans.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11232

[Taristin]

Originally posted by PhReAk
If it was available in the US, i'm sure Raa would be all over a Skyline

Um... no. I don't like it. I'm not one who goes crazy for power. I just have a Mitsubishi fettish. I wanted an Eagle Talon for the longest time, also.

Originally posted by Kalfireth
Raa Tor'h, I think you ought to know that Jaguar used to be a purely British car firm (I believe). So did Aston Martine (why do you think they showed up in almost all the Bond films?).

Either way, take the car for what it is - not who made it - especially if you don't actually know who made it
 

I do know that. But like I said, I never cared for Jaguar. It's personal preference, I don't understand why me voicing my opinion is taken so harshly by all of you. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.

Aston Martins were never big in America, or atleast not anywhere I've seen anyway. So I don't know anything about them, except what they show in GranTurismo, and even then, the cars are still biased by the programmers views of them.

Now I never said they weren't good or nice-looking cars (As you did to the ones we posted), just that I don't like them, and wouldn't buy anything Ford has produced. (Or GM for that matter, except for the Pontiac lineup (GTO, Trans-am/Firebird), which I have a soft-spot for...)

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
It's just a pity Stealth doesnt know what a "car" is, and thinks that a plane will do fine.

Oh well, anyway want to try and teach him?

excuse me sir, but you're the one that posted a picture of some jet-engined experiment.  if you consider that a 'car', then in that case anything with wheels is considered a car... which is why i posted a picture of a blackbird... ON THE GROUND, with WHEELS

[Zeronet]

Originally posted by Stealth


excuse me sir, but you're the one that posted a picture of some jet-engined experiment.  if you consider that a 'car', then in that case anything with wheels is considered a car... which is why i posted a picture of a blackbird... ON THE GROUND, with WHEELS

Actually, the blackbirds primary form of propulsion is through the air, while the jet car is land, its a car, just face it. Your just being silly and making yourselve look foolish.

[Stealth]

Actually, the blackbirds primary form of propulsion is through the air, while the jet car is land, its a car, just face it. Your just being silly and making yourselve look foolish.

If the "jet car" on land is a car, then in that case so is a go-kart, a tricycle, a scooter, rollerblades, and multiple other wheeled ground transportation

A one-of-a-kind, jet engine car that can go 4 miles without running out of gas, made for short, bursts of speed, is obviously not the kind of car we're talking about... so that's why i posted a picture of a blackbird... just to humor Thunder.  I'm making ajoke.  figures you'd have to take it seriously, being a car expert and all

EDIT:  IN that case, if you want to compete, try beating a Kawasaki Ninja (it's a motorbike, but hey, it's got wheels, so it must be a car, right!!!???)...  0 - 60 mph in under 2.5 seconds.

[J3Vr6]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
Aston Martins were never big in America, or atleast not anywhere I've seen anyway. So I don't know anything about them, except what they show in GranTurismo, and even then, the cars are still biased by the programmers views of them.

I live in the downtown area of the city where I work (Coral Gables) and you see at least 2 or 3 Aston Martin's a day.  There's a guy who has the Vanquish parked daily right across my apartment window when he goes to the gym.  It's a beautiful car, but it's not for me.  For some reason that car doesn't push my "I WANT I WANT I WANT" button.  I still gawk at it, though

In this city, you also see 2 or 3 Viper's a day (man I love them).  Gotta love Miami

Originally posted by Raa
Now I never said they weren't good or nice-looking cars (As you did to the ones we posted), just that I don't like them, and wouldn't buy anything Ford has produced. (Or GM for that matter, except for the Pontiac lineup (GTO, Trans-am/Firebird), which I have a soft-spot for...) [/B]

I honestly think they fubared the new GTO.  It's extremely underpowered and looks... well, plain.  When I heard they were gonna re-release this car I almost jumped for joy cuz I loved the classic.  Was actually thinking of waiting to get one before the Altima.  But when I finally saw it and reviewed it, I wasn't impressed.

[J3Vr6]

Originally posted by Zeronet


Actually, the blackbirds primary form of propulsion is through the air, while the jet car is land, its a car, just face it. Your just being silly and making yourselve look foolish.

If you go to that website I linked that had all the racing videos, there's one of a Formula 1 race car racing against a fighter jet at take-off w/ full afterburners.  Can't remember which video it was.  Formula 1 was the winner.

[Stealth]

Formula 1 race car, eh? LOL we're getting pretty hard-core now, aren't we

OK so perhaps Thunder's car counts now, but it didn't count when we were still talking about produced cars

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]1up-manship is funny as long as you don't take it personally.
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[Drew]

bah u aint got nothin on this beast