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the S60R(and the wagon version, V70R) were made from 03 to 07, and have an inline 5, not a 4. also, there was the ford thunderbird turbocoupe, made from '83 to '88. it had a turbo 2.3l(190HP, LOTS of mods available for the old lima I4. same engine as the mustang SVO). from '89 to '95 they also made the supercoupe, which had a supercharged 3.8l V6(210HP 315lb-ft). would love to get ahold of one of those supercoupes! if your interested in supercharged cars at all, you should also look at the jaguar XJR. 370-390HP from a supercharged 4.0l-4.2l, cool cars. horrible resale value too, so you can pick up a 2000+ all day long around the upper teens(and this is a $70k+ car).

don't forget the volvo S60R, awesome cars! there is no "we will see..." about it, evolution performance has already laid down a 1,000RWHP on a stock block, as well as . TONS of people have 700RWHP stock block cars, and quite a few are at 800RWHP, majority of them with a twin screw. the 5.4l is everything the cobra 4.6l was and more. the shelby GT500 is a 4v 5.4l. getting an aluminum block this year too, dropping 100lbs off the nose!

"Which Is Best? In a perfect world, virtually all street-performance engines would use Mass Air, due to its superior accuracy and greater tolerance for engine changes. In the past there was a problem on high-horsepower engines because larger-capacity MAF sensors were scarce and prohibitively expensive. Nowadays, oversize MAF sensors are available..." besides, if mass air is in place and operating fine, why in the hell would you change it??? i've never heard of any other shops doing this.

lol @ speed density. wow.

i don't know much about them other than modern horsepower is the place to go to get a tune from. their tunes are more expensive than others, but they are also much better as well(the big difference is in the tranny tuning). they've already tuned a few veyrons in the mid-east, so they know their shit. they also make some nice hard parts too, like headers. ford guys might know andy(the owner), he goes by fourcam330 on forums.

if this is for cops, then smart glass... ...is WAY cooler!

absolutely love it! can't wait to see what the aftermarket can do with it as well. i've been seeing more and more SHO's driving around, so much for the "...too expensive for a TAURUS...". ford will have ecoboost engines in 90% of its models by 2012, so keep your eyes peeled guys!

christ, that fawker has an EB110GT!!! i'm sure one of the VW guys will pay the price of admission for just the wheels on that car alone. 'VW, the anti-performance!'

can't pick one over the other, they both can look amazing! BTW, just leaving this here... http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/480321176_8d7249e819_b.jpg

fawk yea! if your gonna replace it, then just go on and destroy the shit!

everyone is talking about these pushrod engines that can hit 9k, but what is the maintenance like on these engines? how stiff are those valve springs?

no no no, i'm talking about regular high RPM use, not just some trips down the 1/4. seriously, if i'm wrong then correct me with some legitimate proof that a mass production synchro manual transmission can reliably withstand 9000-10000RPM use during, say, an open track session or something. i'll fully admit i'm wrong because there is no reward in pretending i'm right if i'm not.

i like the nose, but you can't put rounded fenders on a car made up of triangles and squares.

i think a lot of people are forgetting about the "...for the street" aspect of this thread. irrelevant. my car's engine could spin 6,000RPM for 500 miles and soldier on because that's what it was designed to withstand(read about the durability testing that ford's coyote 5.0l went through). if i built it to spin 8,000RPM for 500 miles, then it would require a rebuild shortly after, just like a NASCAR V8. not sure what a NASCAR engine has to do with a synchro tranny at ~10k RPMs(these guys run dogboxes for a reason)... do you have any examples? i'm talking about reasonable cost and reliability. a stock T56 will, without a doubt, fail after use behind a 10k RPM engine, and 1 off parts obviously won't be 'reasonably priced' compared to an off the shelf dogbox. maybe i'm misinterpreting your stance on this, but i'm talking about a drivetrain that could potentially be taken on a road course, ran at these RPMs, driven home, not cost a fortune(I.E. no $50k transmissions), not require valve lash adjustment every 500 miles, not require 10 new sets of valve springs or camshafts throughout the life of the engine, etc. if we're talking about lasting a couple 1/8th mile passes, then that's a different topic altogether. give me a ford DOHC 4.6l, jaguar/land rover/aston martin AJV8, or any number of other euro DOHC V8s backed by a jericho road racing 5 speed.

you would have to go with a ford mod motor or other OHC engine. there is no way your gonna be able to spin a pushrod engine at those RPMs reliably. NASCAR engines get rebuilt after every race for a reason. either way though, you'll definitely see an increased wear rate on all of the engines bearings. also, you'll have to go with a dogring transmission. modern synchro transmissions can't withstand the combination of RPM and torque of a large capacity V8 spinning that fast(hence why you don't hear about large capacity 10,000RPM V8 engines in road racing). IIRC, that valve train has sealing issues.

he initially had mono, then was diagnosed with diverticulitus. evidentally he had a small hole in his small intestine and it was leaking shit out into his body over the course of a year or so.

eh, that sets it for me, i'll be going with the motorola droid. the big advantage of the N1 is the processor(twice as fast as the droid, albeit few people will ever use the droid to its full potential, let alone the N1) and the updated version of the android software(which people have been rigging onto the droid). neither makes that much of a difference to me. what does make a difference though is the 12gb larger memory that comes with the droid vs the N1(16 vs 4). i prefer slide out keyboards too. soooo, because you never had any problems, that means that no one had any problems and the engadget pole is a lie? :bs: funny, i've never had any xbox 360 problems either... engadget, and similar websites, have VERY reliable poles, because the people that visit those websites are the idiots that stand in line every year for the latest and greatest.

without a doubt, either alaska or texas.

burn in hell man, 'cochise' and 'gasoline' kick ass! i would rather them take the chance and fail rather than not take the chance at all. this whole "legacy" thing is a load of shit, just get together and make some damn music.

and i thought STP and AIC getting back together was big news, this is fucking awesome!!!! please god bless us with a soundgarden/AIC/STP tour!

from what i understand, no one is capable of adjusting every parameter of the ECU, which is the problem. they can change some things, but not others. it's been a few months since i stopped following these, so there may have been some recent developments that i've missed. correct me if so.

well she's not exactly wrong, everyone says these things are big and heavy and don't turn or brake well. andy lally said this same thing, yet said it was the most fun he's ever had racing, and one of the most challenging forms of racing he's participated in. don't forget that this is a VERY successful road racer saying this(3 time rolex grand-am champ, 2 time 24hr daytona class champ, numerous other accolades). let's be honest here, there is a reason that no other form of racing uses a truck arm suspension. modern day solid axle cars are all 3 or 4 link with a watts or panhard. not to mention the huge sidewalls on those 15" tires.

i'm not quite sure what's so bad about them. i don't like them, but i don't exactly dislike them. it's a damn license plate, it's always going to look like shit no matter what the ink that they stamp on them looks like.

eh, i would've preferred road atlanta or laguna seca(too much sand maybe). can't complain too much though, road america is a great track and any NASCAR road race is a good one!

the real issue with these cars seems to be the tuning ability(or lack there of). i've heard that the problem stems from the fuel system, that they are simply not capable of pushing a ton of power, but i don't know the details. either way, there have been 2 or 3 major buildups i've seen(fully built engines and the like) that just slowly fell apart because they couldn't find someone to fully tune the car(a lot of parameters are locked in the ECU or something). basically, you won't be making any big power with these things, but around 350WHP seems to be relatively easy to reach. if anyone here has one that wants a tune, you might want to call up andy at modern horsepower(they are located in or right outside of columbus). they are the only company in the world right now that tunes by bypassing the ECU altogether changing the 1's and 0's, instead of changing parameters inside the ECU. they don't need the car there either, just gotta send'em the ECU(and tranny controller if it's seperate). he's tuned many many expensive cars all over the world. (hope that doesn't sound like an advertisement, LOL)