https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwAasSkZ7pA#t=7m20s

 

x2 for the link ^^^

 

smh i blame society for this...rappers with yolo and movies...fast and furious tokyo drift made everyone foolish! if u dont want my opinion fine...when u smack ur car against a wall or another car and create damage to your own or worst, someone else car then itll be a riot!

 

I don't think it is the same guy Alex...this guy joined the forum in May 2013. Could be brothers though.

 

Did you just watch fast and furious?

 

Powerslide


What happens with a FWD...

 

I love how you accuse us of not knowing anything mechanical, yet you don't even know what the difference is between a parking brake and an E brake is.

Or what the difference between handbrake turns and power sliding is.

 

In my opinion Acurazine has one of the most knowledgeable group of mechanically inclined members, not to mention a lot of people are always trying new things and posting DIYs. When I browse other forums I often find a lot of unknowledgeable members about their own cars. Nothing wrong with not knowing about cars though, but I'm just saying Acurazine has a lot of good info to learn from.

 

Honestly, yes, there are a lot of knowledgeable people on here, but I'm a member of multiple car related forums of various affiliations, and honestly this forum is just average. There's a lot of mechanically inclined people out there, but not all of them know Acuras, not all of them know Mustangs, etc, etc.

 

 

Sorry mate.

This is one of the better forums out there though.

 

I am curious to see what other forums do it better. I registered on the evo forums thinking they'd know about tuning but all they do is buy tuning maps and nothing else. Where else have you seen a lot of DIY posts or suspension and engine tuning posts that are good?

 

Crownvic.net

We have over 20 members who have swapped a manual transmission into a Panther platform car (Crown Victoria, Mercury Grand Marquis, Lincoln Town Car, and Mercury Marauder).

And we have the guy who is currently running a turbocharged LSX/4L80e in his Crown Vic. He drives his car to the track, runs high 9's, and then drives it home again.

Most of the members look for not only the best way to do things, but cheap as well, so there's a lot of DIY going on.

 

I picture something like this happening to the OP.

 

^^^^ insert laughing face here (posting from iPhone)

 

There are plenty of good forums out there for various platforms. I have been on a few good ones, a few bad ones, and few I don't even remember. Who cares which is better or worse. This forum has helped many over years including myself to handle various issues/tasks on their cars. I could give a crap about swapping engines, boost, spraying, big wheels, air rides, blah blah blah.....but many do like that stuff. Basically this forum has most of what you need/want, just have to find it.

 

So you mean to tell me the parking brake and the e-brake aren't the same

 

quick fix for those with negative camber.

 

It's all in the terminology.

 

I agree with this. I didn't intend to say one forum is better than the other.
This forum is the place to go for Acura's, and Crownvic.net is the place to go for Panthers.

 

That's some pretty cool stuff but brand specific which is expected and not really related to what's missing here, suspension tuning, engine tuning maps etc. Just like us or the evo guys its a lot of off the shelf stuff being used. The DIY's are good for crown vics are good. Nothing out of the ordinary from what I've seen. Might have to do some digging but can't say if its really better TBH.

Based off my observation the Miata guys have some interesting posts about suspension. Beyond that I just use google that's taken me to a bunch of different forums to look into what issues other brands have. Nothing that has really stuck in my mind though

Are there any others that you've noticed?

 

Yea, I can see that. I think what catches my attention is the constant re-use or adaptation of other Ford parts to increase performance.


And yea, suspension wise, most CV owners go with one of three brands.

I think the Miata guys are in the same boat as Panther owners, usually a little tighter on cash, so yea, the stuff they do is interesting. I also like 2JZ swaps, most guys who do that usually have interesting things going on.

I think what really appeals to me is the low-budget builds that still end up being blisteringly fast. Maybe that's why I'm so impressed by a lot of the stuff on CVN.

 

hahaha, i was literally loling reading this thread. good stuff.

 

To be honest there's not a forum out there that holds a candle to turbobuick.com. Whether it's the tech or the average ET. That forum was cutting edge in the late 90s with many, many 10 second cars and almost nothing slower than 12s at a time when everyone was stuck in the 14s. Everyone knew it took $1,500 to go deep 11s and a couple hundred to go 12s. It's remained at the cutting edge through the years.

We had an '86 T-Type bought for $3,500 in good shape. It got a higher pressure bolt on FPR out of a FWD Buick 3.8L car out of the junkyard. A $30 Kenne Bell chip, turned the boost up which was free, and a $40 K&N filter, and $160 worth of sticky tires. The car went 12.60 at somewhere around 112mph. At that point in time it annihilated everything on the street. Most Vettes were stuck in 14 second land. Mustangs typically ran 15s but a handful of great drivers put some deep into the 14s.

It is slipping a little, the newest wave of members don't know shit it seems like. I'm glad a lot of the originals have stuck around.

 

This question seems better suited for the Facebook group

 

That was probably one of the only forums around in the late 90s lol

I have to admit, I've never dropped by there, although almost every GN owner I've met seems t be very knowledgeable about their cars. I guess it's because not every yahoo that wants to go fast either thinks about any kind of Buick, nor could they afford one.

 

Back in the day we had the slogan "Going fast with class" that the later DSM guys adopted. It was always a challenge to see who could go the quickest for the least amount of money. Then it was who could go the quickest on the stock turbo, then the stock heads, then the stock block, then pump gas, etc.

I remember be first 10.80 on the factory long block, stock from the throttle body to the pan. He blew a head gasket and let some of the people that doubted it was stock to to his house right after the track for a teardown party. The stock block has gone into the 8s I believe. Stock turbo would belong to the '89 Turbo Trans-Ams, the 1,550 that came with the left over GNX engines and transmissions. I believe one guy went 11.4 on the stock turbo, injectors, with meth injection, that's 95% stock. The term "pump gas" has become too broad so I won't go there.

By pushing ourselves to go as fast as possible as cheaply as possible we had to learn at lot. Instead of bolting on huge turbos, good heads, and big cams, it was fun to take out some of the quickest street cars with a well tuned "stock" GN.

Here's a guy who is good at tuning with the only mods basically being an unbolted stock exhaust, boost turned up, drag radials, and meth injection. I've seen GNs with heads and cam owned by idiots go slower than this car:




And in '87 the Buick engineers crashed the twin turbo Calloway Corvette testing. Obviously 100% stock: