that looks like complete and utter @!#$
if it was just one blower it would have looked a million times better
plus, i like low cars and all, but that is just too low for a car with a blower like that
I am a huge Poncho fan but there is no way I would drive a car that looks that stupid. May be fast but I can not get past the look of the stacked chargers. Should have twin turboed it, would have had just as mouch power and would have looked about a million times better.
KevinP (Stabby McShankyou) wrote:
and I'm NOT a pedo. everyone knows i've got a wheelchair fetish.
I've seen it in person before up at woodward
I wana head over to capital and see if he's actually running it there...wow
CodeRedZ24 (aka Geeds) wrote:I've seen it in person before up at woodward
Seen it around Indy my self once around ITB time frame.
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if that thing ever saw the track then ok, but you know it hasnt, no chutes and no bars in the back? that thing is not run
themarin8r wrote:if that thing ever saw the track then ok, but you know it hasnt, no chutes and no bars in the back? that thing is not run
Of course not, however, its not necessarily "too low", as the pro street "look" calls for low suspension.
Ahhhhhh Pro Street, the American version of Rice. How I loathed it. You'd take a 30,000$ car, put 100,000$ in it, and make it worth about 15,000$ Brilliant. The one saving grace is that a lot of really prime musclecars were saved from the crusher by Pro Streeters. You buy their monstrosity for 15 grand, sell off some of the racing stuff to actual racers and then use the money to bring the car back to a semblance of stock. Not much you can do about the tubs in the back, but with the price of musclecars today I wouldn't mind big slicks in the back if it meant I could own a nice numbers matching Roadrunner or something.
I think "Rice" is the American version, when the Japanese do it its called "JDM".
But I would would have to disagree, I dont think Pro-Street is at the same level as rice at all.
Bad Ace Design wrote:I think "Rice" is the American version, when the Japanese do it its called "JDM".
But I would would have to disagree, I dont think Pro-Street is at the same level as rice at all.
yup, im with you.
And wtf? So anyone thinking this is dumb, stop to think about it.
Supra's, 3000GT both "twin charged"
There's a member here twin charged. S/c and Turbo
The thing is amazing. Plus driving around with wheelie bars, is just asking for someone to hit them.
Now unless you've seen this in person, you'll never actually respect it fully. It is flippin nasty.
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Toaster (stenger) wrote:And wtf? So anyone thinking this is dumb, stop to think about it.
Supra's, 3000GT both "twin charged"
There's a member here twin charged. S/c and Turbo
you also realize, that John Force's funny car makes about 8000 horsepower with one Roots blower (albeit a huge mother@!#$in' one), so that fact that this guy has two is for nothing more than to say "hey I have too much money and not enough common sense or good taste." it's cool, I guess, for nothing other than the shock value.
Compound superchargers... what a waste.
As far as prostreet=rice=JDM... They're their own aesthetic (well with the exception of rice, it's just... tacky and unplanned), but stock has it's own version of ugly too.
Personally, I wouldn't drop a car that low, or put 2 superchargers on top of each other like that (I'd rather see a dual SC with a common plenum). If worse came to worst, I'd go with the remote turbos...
Toaster (stenger) wrote:Bad Ace Design wrote:I think "Rice" is the American version, when the Japanese do it its called "JDM".
But I would would have to disagree, I dont think Pro-Street is at the same level as rice at all.
yup, im with you.
And wtf? So anyone thinking this is dumb, stop to think about it.
Supra's, 3000GT both "twin charged"
There's a member here twin charged. S/c and Turbo
The thing is amazing. Plus driving around with wheelie bars, is just asking for someone to hit them.
Now unless you've seen this in person, you'll never actually respect it fully. It is flippin nasty.
The 6G72tt uses two tiny 14B turbos in parallel. That isn't the same thing as staged or compound forced induction. And I believe the supra uses sequential forced induction which is also not the same. Using a turbine powered supercharger (aka turbocharger) as support when defending a belt driven supercharger, doesn't make sense anyways. Turbochargers are a "runaway" device that are only kept in check because they have a wastegate that expells otherwise useaball gas energy for means of limiting boost pressure, whereas a belt driven charger is strictly limited to the speed of the engine. Because of this property, compound turbochargers "can" work, but compound belt driven superchargers don't do much more than add weight and rotational inertia. If the GTO were twin supercharged, where the chargers are side-by-side (not one feeding the other), then that's a different story..It would certainly look better that way as well (I believe that's also what GAM was trying to describe).
For what it's worth though, I have never heard such an absurd charger whine on a street car. Silly, pointless design but I love the sound!!
None the less I am talking about basics here. 2 exhaust driven turbos, or two belt driven superchargers, STILL is dual boost, or twin charged. There's of the same item creating boost, thus for, twin charged/
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