True cal-lookers are built to drive
Diederick/DVK:
Quote from: lowfastbus on October 17, 2006, 19:54:42 pm
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btw, perhaps it's off-topic, but to the guys with big displacement engines... at what speed can you cruise? 140 kmh (85-90 mph)?
Don't know for the other guys but i cruise my IDA engined car at 110km/h max... even with the stock box
seriously? i even pull that off with my 1300 single port, 120 kmh for some bits as well...
Rune:
I don't really see the problem. My IDA oval has been my daily driver for most of this summer, in all kinds of weather. Even for some longer drives.. The only downside is the noise level inside the car. A friend of mine from Sweden drove his IDA powered 67 all the way to SPA and back some years ago, without any problems.. It's all about dedication.
Jon:
Quote from: Rune on October 18, 2006, 06:57:37 am
It's all about dedication.
"Dedication to cal-look" is 3450 kilometer roadtrips? Okay I can buy this... but when you get there... to the cal-look show in your hi-po CAL-LOOKER, would you also race it at the strip?
Offcourse you do, or are you a chicken...? No you say? What ever, to me cal look is about ENJOYING the car, not worrying about it, or wearing it out at a danish motorway. I'd rather use it around town at home... and race it at BugIn.
What if your diff dies... or you snap a rocker? Leave the car behind and take the plane back... well fine if you got the finances to have the car picked up... and the HEART to send it by truck.
:-*
BABOON:
Why waste the life of a perfectly good race engine by cruising on the boring and endless highway. And I think we all should agree that a 12 second motor is a RACE engine. And when racing the car on slicks (wich I consider a race prepped car) transmission breakage will happen at some point. Then you are far away from home with no spare trans and no trailer. Have in mind that I am talking about the 1080 miles trip each way.
If we reduce the distance to 125 miles, then the case is a whole lot different. Then I would drive it for sure ;) ;)
Rune:
All I'm saying is that I enjoy spending time behind the wheel of my car, not pulling it around on a trailer. (I had my car on a trailer to SCC remember, but that was more due to the fact that I had a stock trans in it) But by all means, I understand the use of a trailer when you plan to race that far from home. Don't really agree with all the talk about wasting enginelife though. Up here in Norway the season is so short anyway, and most people rebuild theyr engines during winter.... Tomas A ran high 12's at SCC this year, If I got it right that is the same engine that he drove to SPA with as I mentioned earlier.
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