Today's new cars are way overpowered...

[MinnesotaEric]

Its winter around here and all the corners are icy. Trail brake into the corner, ease into the gas expecting all four tires to spin allowing my four-wheel drift to carry the car and I around the bend in the road and electronic nannies eft it all up. With the outboard front wheel now getting braked, the stupid car thinks I'm not trying to bend it through a corner, and so I saw on the wheel giving it even more oversteer so the nanny takes a hike. But no, now the car's nannies must think I'm about to spin out because it is now applying a rear brake too and I dramatically slow down.

No way to nail the road with the 330hp because Infini doesn't have a nannie off button.

 

[AGRIMAN]

First priority is good brakes. Then monster engine. :thumbsup:

LOL..Well, good brakes have always been a close second as you needed to hold that mountain motor on the line. Now, I use a transbrake.

 

[timswi]

What year Nova?

79..Wife's grandfather bought it new and gave it to her for a graduation present...It was 10 years old 29k on it..Garage kept, never saw winter and was a grocery/church vehicle...For an 75 year old guy to buy a 2 door Nova was unusual at the time...Not an early 70's vintage (wish it was) but I bare metaled it, painted BC/CC Deltron black, put corvette rally wheels on it...looks pretty good for what it is. She just wants something that moves and makes a lot of noise in it now.

 

[timswi]

and.... Your Saturn is a dinosaur thats not made anymore.....

My take on power versus humans is, keep your right foot off the loud pedal. Discretion is an adult thing.

It is?...I'm a juvenile delinquent then

 

[MossRoad]

79..Wife's grandfather bought it new and gave it to her for a graduation present...It was 10 years old 29k on it..Garage kept, never saw winter and was a grocery/church vehicle...For an 75 year old guy to buy a 2 door Nova was unusual at the time...Not an early 70's vintage (wish it was) but I bare metaled it, painted BC/CC Deltron black, put corvette rally wheels on it...looks pretty good for what it is. She just wants something that moves and makes a lot of noise in it now.

How about dropping an L-84 in it?

I had a 62 2dr, a 70 2dr, a 71 2dr, a 72 4dr, and a 73 2dr. There were a lot of $500 cars back in the early 80's... :laughing:

 

[NoTrespassing]

Agree with the original post. When I was in school during the Carter administration I always wanted a 1st gen. Honda Civic. I never was able to get one but eventually I bought a brand new Hyundai Accent with manual transmission. It hits 4,000 rpms at about 80 mph. I sure wish it had another gear.

I get better than EPA mpg in it averaging 35mpg summer and 32mpg winter. My best tanks have averaged over 40 mpg. With almost 160,000 miles I'm still running the original brakes and clutch. Price in 2008 was $12,500 with A/C plus tax & title.

I'd replace it with a new one but I haven't heard good things about this generation Accent. Guess I'll just keep driving it 75 miles per day.

Kevin

 

[timswi]

How about dropping an L-84 in it?

I had a 62 2dr, a 70 2dr, a 71 2dr, a 72 4dr, and a 73 2dr. There were a lot of $500 cars back in the early 80's... :laughing:

Not sure what I'm going to do, probably be a Summit GM Performance 300-350 HP crate engine of some sort or other...You know how it goes--The Nova waaaaay before the Chevelle.

Thankfully a friend has a tranny shop to bullet proof the 350 turbo...See what I end up with, he may be back for the rear end if it's a tire smoker

Have to re-spring it, it's height is pretty much today's custom standard but we had a road kill cat hit the cross member--too low. Will put an inch or so under it to make it more palatable for PA terrain. Plus my floor jack barely will slid under it without inspiration.

My parents drag raced (yes, my mom too. She blew it up a couple of times--very competitive--she can hit some gears) a 62 or 63...Love the late 60s and early 70s vintage, true classic style.

Mom broke the Hurst shifter off in a 65 GTO Bobcat 421 tri-power..She didn't want to loose to a Hemi Roadrunner..."Powder Puff" at that time was straight up, no dial in...Momsie didn't want to loose (she did)...My dad kept the remains of that shifter.

 

[MossRoad]

Not sure what I'm going to do, probably be a Summit GM Performance 300-350 HP crate engine of some sort or other...You know how it goes--The Nova waaaaay before the Chevelle.

Thankfully a friend has a tranny shop to bullet proof the 350 turbo...See what I end up with, he may be back for the rear end if it's a tire smoker

Have to re-spring it, it's height is pretty much today's custom standard but we had a road kill cat hit the cross member--too low. Will put an inch or so under it to make it more palatable for PA terrain. Plus my floor jack barely will slid under it without inspiration.

My parents drag raced (yes, my mom too. She blew it up a couple of times--very competitive--she can hit some gears) a 62 or 63...Love the late 60s and early 70s vintage, true classic style.

Mom broke the Hurst shifter off in a 65 GTO Bobcat 421 tri-power..She didn't want to loose to a Hemi Roadrunner..."Powder Puff" at that time was straight up, no dial in...Momsie didn't want to loose (she did)...My dad kept the remains of that shifter.

Very nice! :laughing:

 

[sld]

Not sure what I'm going to do, probably be a Summit GM Performance 300-350 HP crate engine of some sort or other...You know how it goes--The Nova waaaaay before the Chevelle.

Thankfully a friend has a tranny shop to bullet proof the 350 turbo...See what I end up with, he may be back for the rear end if it's a tire smoker

Have to re-spring it, it's height is pretty much today's custom standard but we had a road kill cat hit the cross member--too low. Will put an inch or so under it to make it more palatable for PA terrain. Plus my floor jack barely will slid under it without inspiration.

My parents drag raced (yes, my mom too. She blew it up a couple of times--very competitive--she can hit some gears) a 62 or 63...Love the late 60s and early 70s vintage, true classic style.

Mom broke the Hurst shifter off in a 65 GTO Bobcat 421 tri-power..She didn't want to loose to a Hemi Roadrunner..."Powder Puff" at that time was straight up, no dial in...Momsie didn't want to loose (she did)...My dad kept the remains of that shifter.

A gear splitter with the turbo 350 would make it a sweet 6 speed!

 

[Egon]

I have a '75 Formula that was an old door slammer road course car, it was capable of over 1 G, and would stop on warm brakes from 70 so fast your eyeballs would pop out, but in the hands of a bad driver, it doesn't matter.

So it goes, it stops, it can turn. Nothing wrong with that is there?