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Is a 600plus horsepower engine good enough 4??

Old Nov 19, 2004 | 07:42 PM
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Re: Is a 600plus horsepower engine good enough 4??

Lisa, I checked out your webpage. I don't read swedish but the pics were nice Are Camaros popular over there?
Old Nov 19, 2004 | 07:54 PM
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600 flywheel HP is more than you'd need in a street car. It's enough to get you in trouble in a heartbeat without exercising much restraint. Traction is non-existent, the car gets sideways & cross-up so easily, and the desire to show Z06's and exotics this power is too damn tempting. It's fun, but with it comes responsibility.

Lisa33: your car is a beast. The trap speed is indicative of good power and potentially better ET's.
Old Nov 19, 2004 | 08:25 PM
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Re: Is a 600plus horsepower engine good enough 4??

SS MPSTR, I see you have ai heads and CAM tuning. Creech right? I think I may be getting my car tuned by him. He is only 2 hours away. AI is in NC too, as I am sure you know. How were both of those places' service?
Old Nov 19, 2004 | 08:41 PM
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Re: Is a 600plus horsepower engine good enough 4??

Around here (a little north of you), even 400 rwhp would dominate.

It all depends on where you live.

Dan
Old Nov 19, 2004 | 09:11 PM
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Re: Is a 600plus horsepower engine good enough 4??

Originally Posted by slimdawson
Lisa, I checked out your webpage. I don't read swedish but the pics were nice Are Camaros popular over there?
Thanks, popular? dont know exactly how to judge that, I would say that most of younger car entusiast prefere 4 and 6 cylinders turbocharged european or japanese cars. But we have a lot of V8/us car entusiast here, It have been a huge import of cars from USA the last 5 year, thats beacuse easyer import rules and better exchange course $ vs our "krona"

We have a camaroclub widh around 700 members here and i guess its around 4-5000 camaros total in sweden (9 000 000 people)... Here is a page were you can see some pics from diffrent meetings http://www.camaroclubsweden.com/part...ng____191.aspx
SS MPSTR: Thanks, yes better times are in sight, have had big trouble widh the 4l60E this season, have to let of the pedal for 2->3 shift beacuse the tranny refused to shift correct, tried to floor it all the way but it hit the revlimiter hard (Listen on the second race in this clip) http://forum.camaro.nu/filmer/z28_040912.mov
so this winter we gonna replace the 4l60e widh a 4L80e...

ake

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Old Nov 19, 2004 | 10:30 PM
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Re: Is a 600plus horsepower engine good enough 4??

Originally Posted by slimdawson
SS MPSTR, I see you have ai heads and CAM tuning. Creech right? I think I may be getting my car tuned by him. He is only 2 hours away. AI is in NC too, as I am sure you know. How were both of those places' service?
Yep. Phil's heads, Jeff's tuning and a local-guy assembled 383. The services of all involved has exceeded my expectations. Jeff (CAM) and Phil & Ron (AI) are great folks to deal with and I have nothing but praise for their efforts, knowledge and service. They lead by example.
Old Nov 20, 2004 | 01:53 AM
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Re: Is a 600plus horsepower engine good enough 4??

Originally Posted by detroit1994z28
Is all good They told for 7k they would build me a 600 horsepower engine.

You might wanna double that if you're going with a 600hp NA LT1.

Mike
Old Nov 20, 2004 | 02:30 AM
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Re: Is a 600plus horsepower engine good enough 4??

Originally Posted by Kraest

You might wanna double that if you're going with a 600hp NA LT1.

Mike


Your right kraest. Your looking at 20 G's if not more, for an honest 600 N/A



Hell, I'm spending over 7,000 for a forged longblock for my Lincoln. Mind you the 4V 4.6 can get pretty expensive in a hurry.
Old Nov 20, 2004 | 03:23 AM
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someone up there laughed at me when i said for the total price with everything would be around 50k but yet people buy 13 sec corvette's for 40k put 10k in mods and will never touch the 9's with 50k so i have to say i am very happy
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