New 3.3 liter V-6!!

by **Yanks0114** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 11:35 am

It all goes back to the quote, "Horsepower sells cars, Torque wins races"

by **Yanks0114** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 3:21 pm

To support flip's claim go in a honda civic EX. I rode in my friends this weekend and it has Horrible pickup, but once it gets going its pretty fast. You need to rev the engine up to atleast 4000 before you have power and with a SOHC it takes forever to get going that fast. Honda = HP at high RPM

by **impactX** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 4:09 pm

yanks0114 wrote:It all goes back to the quote, "Horsepower sells cars, Torque wins races"

That's a wrong saying in the first place... Horsepower wins races.

Ever wondered why those GT/F1 races are governed by HP figures and not by torque? :wink:

Not to mention, you can create torque by using different gear ratio.

by **Yanks0114** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 7:51 pm

impactX wrote:
yanks0114 wrote:It all goes back to the quote, "Horsepower sells cars, Torque wins races"

That's a wrong saying in the first place... Horsepower wins races.

Ever wondered why those GT/F1 races are governed by HP figures and not by torque?

Not to mention, you can create torque by using different gear ratio.

Horsepower is propotional to torque through a mathmatical equation

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question622.htm

Torque wins races off the line because it is what gets the car moving :wink:

by **impactX** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 9:27 pm

But a race is not won by seeing which car jumps off the line first. :wink:

by **solaraguy777** » Mon Feb 03, 2003 3:34 pm

I herd the solara was gonna have around 300 hp it was gonna get the supras old engine? Thats what i herd from a good friend who sells toyota cars?

by **impactX** » Mon Feb 03, 2003 3:51 pm

solaraguy777 wrote:I herd the solara was gonna have around 300 hp it was gonna get the supras old engine? Thats what i herd from a good friend who sells toyota cars?

They are not going to fit the 2jz-gte in.

by **Flipside909** » Mon Feb 03, 2003 4:06 pm

solaraguy777 wrote:I herd the solara was gonna have around 300 hp it was gonna get the supras old engine? Thats what i herd from a good friend who sells toyota cars?

Uhhh whoever you heard that from is smoking crack. Your good friend knows NOTHING about toyotas. Especially now that you mentioned sales LOL. Salesmen are the best liars out there.

by **Yanks0114** » Mon Feb 03, 2003 5:44 pm

solaraguy777 wrote:I herd the solara was gonna have around 300 hp it was gonna get the supras old engine? Thats what i herd from a good friend who sells toyota cars?

First of all the old supra engine (2jz) was a RWD engine. I doubt toyota wants to put a rwd engine in the solara, especially because a lot of people buy it because its FWD. Also the 2jz does not produce 300hp while being N/A from the factory. Infact its more like 215-230 for the I6. Granted it could be easily modded but toyota wouldn't have it at 300hp

by **Missay** » Mon Feb 03, 2003 9:39 pm

you know..they should make a solara that you can shift it from FWD to RWD as you want...sorta like how you can buy a 2WD suv but have the option to put it in 4WD or AWD. now that would be nice..although, why do i think it's almost impossible?

by **impactX** » Mon Feb 03, 2003 10:27 pm

Missay wrote:you know..they should make a solara that you can shift it from FWD to RWD as you want...sorta like how you can buy a 2WD suv but have the option to put it in 4WD or AWD. now that would be nice..although, why do i think it's almost impossible?

Then they should just make an all wheel drive Solara :drinking:

Website · by **DavPak** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 5:45 am

Flipside909 wrote:Salesmen are the best liars out there.

ahh yes, i find myself saying that all day long!

impactX wrote: Then they should just make an all wheel drive Solara

wow, where do i sign up for one of those?!!

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