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I condone street racing! :biggrin:

Let's keep to the topic, please

That pilot could be me too. Mike

I hope you're going to like like a little story from Europe. I was driving my NSX quietly (see mods on signature) on a beautiful mountain road leading to Madonna di Campiglio (Italy), in the Dolomiti, close to the Austrian border, when I heard an incredible noise and was passed by this 360...

I thought I should add my experience. I've had the Taitec headers and GT LW for more than 6 months on my 91. I drove the car in all sorts of situations and my conclusions are - the car is a lot quicker than before (I measured in-gear acceleration) - the noise is awesome under all circumstances...

I drive a Euro E36 M3 as a daily driver, and yes it is an impressive car, but although I have never driven them both at the same time :biggrin: the NSX always feels the faster one and on the twisties would kill the M3. Having said I see the plate as a huge compliment to the NSX. He would never...

Thank you guys for your replies. As I said I will try both a start in 2nd and 3rd gear, although you may have conviced me that 2nd may be better. Now let's just wait for some good weather. Mike

Hi Troll (what's in a name!), A few questions: 1. Do you own the autobahn? 2. Are we braking the law? Remember we'll be running one at a time. 3. You've never seen Porsches and the likes driving above 200 Km/h in Germany? 4. You've never seen German cars driving above 200 km/h in Italy? (THAT...

My actual mph speeds (based on measurements at 4000 RPM, 6000, 8000, not speedo readings) , in each gear, at cut-off point (tacho reading at 8350 rpm) are: 44.4 69.6 95.3 121.0 149.0 189.9 (theoretical) (It's not relevant, but just for the records, the speedo reads 2.7-2.9% high) Based on...

You're right on most points, but here you may not be right: Let's see the basics. What matters obviously is the final torque transferred to the wheels. Short gears are normally used by race cars, why? to keep the engine in the boiling area. F1 cars have 7 gears for example. Rally cars have...

Nsxtasy, The NSX-R has a shorter final ratio, 4.235 instead of 4.062. The LSD also has a stronger action and some parts are balanced (?) The difference is in fact substantial and makes my car excellent for my preferred use which is fast motoring on our mountain roads. There is a nice Honda...

I am preparing an accelerattion test with 2 friends. We have chosen to run from 60 to 130 mph through the gears, using whatever gear we prefer to use. Standing starts are not very popular in Europe, so we have opted for this rolling start above 60 mph. We'll be running in mph instead of km/h...

Hi INSX, I have had 5 "classic" Porsches 1981 3.3 Turbo (300 hp Euro car) 1975 2.7 Carrera (MFI 210 hp Euro car) 1989 3.2 Carrera (231 hp Euro car) 1992 Carrera 4 1971 2.2 Targa (which I still have). I'm writing them up not to show off, but because it gives me a big pleasure to remember those...

I noticed you have some understeering problems and I thought I may offer some help. I live in Italy in the mountains area ...we only have twisties here and handling is everything if you want to "survive" on the road :wink: 2 things you can do to reduce understeer quickly are 1. check tire...

Not arteries, but tear vessels.. :biggrin: