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Termyn8or -> RE: Wanna buy a Batmobile? (1/16/2008 11:01:44 PM)
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Screw Batmobiles, even the real ones, if any ever existed. I could take them with me Olds, and if I had a reall nice one I could really take them, yes, even against the turbine engine.
The turbine has certain characteristics, important ones like torque curve. Even though they can go 200, I am going 100 so fast on a racetrack that I win. This would be in a W34 GT Toronado. I had one that was only five years old but had over 100K on it, then I had a non-W34 GT that had 42K on it, but it was smashed. I used many parts.
In the one with 100K on it, it still had a passing gear at 105 MPH. The spedometer went up to 135 and I did not doubt that it could do it, even that worn out. The thing is it should get there quicker. On a short run, it could actually win. I have never been shoved into the seat by G force ever since I had that car.
There are a few things about that car I can tell you. Zero to sixty might be five or seven seconds or something, I do not care, but zero to forty is almost immediate, I don't say immeasurable, but that first gear is fast. It had a modified cam, bigger intake valves and a special torque convertor in a THM 425 which was specially designed for the front wheel drive, which was not transverse BTW.
The THM425 is almost the same as the 400 but folded over. Mine had a shift kit. I know because if I downshifted, it downshifted, I mean at any speed. The safety was disabled. It also did shift hard.
All this should be able to beat the Batmobile, because traction on the ground is the limiling factor. The is why racecars do burnouts before a race. I did not need to do that with this particular weight distribution. I had a 455 right over the drive wheels, and linear torsion bar suspension. What, you think all the great invwentions cane out this year ?
This is 38 year old technology, and it would beat almost anything. Exceptions might be a good STS, or maybe a Northstar. Foreign cars could come into play also, like Maseratis and all that, but if we are taling domestic cars, most can forget it.
Many cars can burn out, but then how fast do they actually go ? Burning out is a waste of energy. The ONLY reason to do it is to warm up the tires.
Geez, I am really off on a tangent ain't I ?
Later.
T
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