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Well, i dont know if you have driven a high horsepower fwd as opposed to high horsepower rwd vehicle william, but torquesteer haunts fwd cars...bad!

We recently did a motor swap in a 90's eclipse with a turbo motor, and i test drove it (of course). It had bad torque steer on the street. A rwd car wont have this, or at least not as bad.
I personally agree with Kiki on this one.

edit: Also, high horsepower RWD cars are a lot more fun to drive. THEY GET SIDEWAYS!!!

Team AI wrote:and the ability of the putz behind the wheel I would trust a good driver behind the wheel of a 8000hp rail before I would want to drive on the road with a friggin' moron in a 3 cylindar geo that misses.

do you need help tuning up your geo? :happy055:

yeah I'm hoping to get er' at 30 hp at the wheel... then she will be haulin' arse... look out you amish bastards I'm comin' to get yuh

ridr4lif wrote:Well, i dont know if you have driven a high horsepower fwd as opposed to high horsepower rwd vehicle william, but torquesteer haunts fwd cars...bad!

I think the most HP I've driven in a FWD was my mom's van, 240hp. It does have a decent amount of torque steer when that pedal is mashed :) . But still the amount of the torque steer is dependant on just how much power is reaching the wheels and how powerful the power steering is.

I think the only other car I can remember when I valeted was a Ford ZX2. That thing was really light and a 5 speed. Boy that was fun to drive :) I lit up the tires on a parking garage upramp, accidentally though, that clutch bite was about a half inch long and travel about a foot. As though it felt like both tires had spun, I'm sure that only one did being that there is no LSD on it. That thing had a little bit of torque steer to it. I believe they had 130 hp?

ridr4lif wrote:edit: Also, high horsepower RWD cars are a lot more fun to drive. THEY GET SIDEWAYS!!!

YES!

Yea, this eclipse turbo had to be close to 300 hp...if not more. The kid claimed 450.......but he's a liar. Stupid ricer kid.

BTW, what happened to my username in that second quote??? wtf

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ridr4lif wrote:Yea, this eclipse turbo had to be close to 300 hp...if not more. The kid claimed 450.......but he's a liar. Stupid ricer kid.

Stock they have around 200 hp (first generation 195hp/2nd 215hp if I remember right). I know they can be modded for some good cheap power up to around 240 easy and inexpensively.

reyeder fo leyeph wrote:BTW, what happened to my username in that second quote??? wtf

gearing makes a huge difference, too.
a 400HP RWD car with 2.32 gears in back won't be very fast, whereas a 300HP car with 6.54 gears in back will leap out from under ya.

Will, when I move to NC, I'll have to see about coming down to isit some time when it's nice out. That'd be a fun trip.

dyno sheet.. hmm

wow, hp and tq are almost exact. Thats one badass motor. Did you build it yourself?

Scott Brown and I built it. (Scott runs Straightline, a shop that specializes in mopar engine building for street/strip.)

He clearanced and prepped the block, and did the bottom end/rotating assembly. I built the top end of the motor.

GlassWolf wrote: Will, when I move to NC, I'll have to see about coming down to isit some time when it's nice out. That'd be a fun trip.

That would be cool. I wouldn't bring the Charger into New Orleans. It's pretty dirty there right now :) NC is a pretty long drive from here.