BEHOLD! My glorious new toy!

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-01-06 06:18am

Wicked Pilot wrote:Behold, this is what I drive:

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/t-37-98716.jpg

You left the blinker on.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2004-01-06 06:40am

crap-a-mola! I get 13mpg.

That sir, is a nice ride, Crayz9000. I've always wanted a pontiac. (or a stingray :drool:)

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-01-06 07:34am

I think i can hair faint echoes of Sister Christian by Nite Ranger coming from Crazy 9000'S IROC.

Thats a 5.7L (chevy 350 block) right?

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-01-06 07:57am

Of COURSE it's a 350! (If it's an IROC) I got a thing against 350's though...they're a dime a dozen, IMHO, and they fall apart easy, the water jackets clog with the slightest bit of nastiness, and don't even get me started on simple shit like valve cover gaskets.

This is not to say that GM doesn't make good engines, though. The 3100 and 3800 used in many, many many, GM cars (Especially the 3800) are positively bulletproof. you can't stop them with an anti-tank round. good quiet, powerful, solid motors. I'd venture to say some of the best gas engines ever made. now, in keeping with the spirit of the 3000 series engines, the 3400 as used in cars like the older (G)utlass Calais and the like, Garbage. Pure, unadulterated crap times 10.

(I suppose i should mention, however, how ridiculous I find it that pontiac insists on using a goddamned PLASTIC intake manifold STILL on the 3800's in, at the very least Grand Prix and Bonnevilles.)

You know who has the world's best, a-number-one hands down V-6? Toyota. I've met the 80,000 mile toyota engine who never had her oil changed. (We of course had to yank the motor, tear it apart and pressure-wash the sludge away) But, the only problem it was having prior to the owner bringing it in was (He was some rich dipshit, the car was a 97 Avalon.) that when he started it in the morning, it smoked for a bit (Sludge burning?) Anyways, it was NASTY! I don't, and can't to this day understand how the engine managed to chug along like nothing was bothering it...Amazing.

SO ANYWAY...HONDA, RIGHT?! Great little cars (though not so little anymore!

) civic especially! I've met the 300,000 mile civic. awesome things, those. I don't know how Honda manages to squeeze so much power and fuel efficiency out of that tiny little 1.4.........Enjoy, Colonel!

salm · Post by **salm** » 2004-01-06 09:02am

i get 100 km per galon, nananananaaaanaa.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-01-06 09:42am

Vertigo1 wrote:My ride.

Seriously though, congrats. I'm not exactly a big fan of hondas (mostly due to the local ricers), but if you like it then more power to ya.

Well in that tradition: Vehicles I've been known to fly/drive/command/whatever, sorted by tech base (warning, rather long list):

Wars:
Imperial Deuce Star Destroyer (painted red, natch)

Babylon 5:
EAS Valkyrie

EAS Stormbringer, the Valk's BIG Brother

Scorpion Starfury

Trek:
Falkenhorst-class Heavy Dreadnought

Rebel Spitfire Fighter

Own Tech (think Wars with some Culture, B5, and Trek mixed in):
Star Surfer Battlecruiser

Chevy Thunderbird Gunship

The Infamous Blue Space Camaro

The Infamous Chevy Space Corvette

And yes, that incident involving my Camaro, Alyrium's Magick, and Deimos Anomaly's Penis Ship becoming a rapidly-expanding debris field as a result of the first two is true...

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-01-06 09:46am

salm wrote:i get 100 km per galon, nananananaaaanaa.

100 km (62 miles) per gallon? what are you driving? a moped?

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-01-07 12:22am

Col. Crackpot wrote:I think i can hair faint echoes of Sister Christian by Nite Ranger coming from Crazy 9000'S IROC. Thats a 5.7L (chevy 350 block) right?

It's actually a 5.0L small-block. But it has Tuned Port Injection, a high-quality, high-performance camshaft (I don't have the box on me, so I forgot who the manufacturer was) and all the performance mods, so it actually beats the 350/5.7L at peak horsepower. (But not in acceleration; the 350 is a bit hotter off the line).

Chardok wrote:Of COURSE it's a 350! (If it's an IROC) I got a thing against 350's though...they're a dime a dozen, IMHO, and they fall apart easy, the water jackets clog with the slightest bit of nastiness, and don't even get me started on simple shit like valve cover gaskets.

The trick with valve cover gaskets is that you have to cover them in high-grade RTV, or else the cork will disintegrate early. It's a little trade-off, but it's cheap if you don't mind getting your hands dirty.

Although the engine in my IROC was royally botched up by some previous owner. They either had it rebuilt or got a rebuilt crate engine, but apparently decided that they'd do the valve installation themselves. Well, guess what... they overtightened the lifters, which promptly rounded off the camshaft. On top of that, they put oversized valve stems into the heads, so we had to get a complete valve job to correct THAT goof.

The thing that I like about the small-block Chevy is that it's an easy engine to work on. It's designed pretty well (the block anyway, heads can vary) and can take quite a beating. Although, like any engine, if you don't change oil or check coolant you can still break it.

Chardok wrote:(I suppose i should mention, however, how ridiculous I find it that pontiac insists on using a goddamned PLASTIC intake manifold STILL on the 3800's in, at the very least Grand Prix and Bonnevilles.)

That's bad, but I think Ford still takes the cake for sheer shittiness of engine design. Their mid-1980s V6 comes to mind. Also, there was a really nice design with some of their older engines where the exhaust tubes went THROUGH the water jacket...