OT Dodge's New Super Bee

"Jeff Mayner" > wrote in message
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> WindsorFox wrote:
>> dwight wrote:
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>>>>> news:QXAGi.583$ec2.223@trnddc03...
>>>>>> ... was the 5.0 mustang eating 1988 SHO...
>>>>>
>>>>> ...wait...
>>>>>
>>>>> Say what?
>>>>>
>>>>> dwight
>>>>> www.tfrog.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Out on the highway, I NEVER met a 5.0 that could hang with any of
>>>> my 3 SHO's EVER, and there were many 5.0 drivers trying to pick
>>>> their chins out of their laps and figure out what the hell that was
>>>> that just ate their lunch...
>>>>
>>>> The first generation 220 horse 3.0 SHO's flat out ran their
>>>> generation 5.0 Mustangs period. The only people who argue that are
>>>> the ones who never tried it.
>>>
>>> Ah.
>>>
>>> I guess the one that I played with many years ago was either an
>>> aberration or the driver didn't know how to push the skinny pedal
>>> down. dwight
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Nah, he's blowing smoke. Been there done it many times. The little
>> Hybrid V8 would keep up pretty good but that's about it. The SHO would
>> spin the front tires on take off and never catch up again until the
>> 5.0 let up.
>
> The Yamaha V6 car was better in almost every way, from an enthusiast's
> standpoint anyway.
>
> I'm not saying it was faster than the 5.0, especially with the 5-speed (I
> owned an '88 LX) but it was most deffinately a better all around car.
> Handled better, rode better, etc.
>
> The above assuming both cars were stock of course.
>
Screw the charger bring on the hemi Challenger with a 6 speed stick.

Jeff Mayner wrote:
> WindsorFox wrote:
>> dwight wrote:
>>> "My Name Is Nobody" > wrote in message
>>> news:tJjHi.2919$Ap2.40@trndny05...
>>>> "dwight" > wrote in message
>>>> . ..
>>>>> "My Name Is Nobody" > wrote in message
>>>>> news:QXAGi.583$ec2.223@trnddc03...
>>>>>> ... was the 5.0 mustang eating 1988 SHO...
>>>>> ...wait...
>>>>>
>>>>> Say what?
>>>>>
>>>>> dwight
>>>>> www.tfrog.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Out on the highway, I NEVER met a 5.0 that could hang with any of
>>>> my 3 SHO's EVER, and there were many 5.0 drivers trying to pick
>>>> their chins out of their laps and figure out what the hell that was
>>>> that just ate their lunch...
>>>>
>>>> The first generation 220 horse 3.0 SHO's flat out ran their
>>>> generation 5.0 Mustangs period. The only people who argue that are
>>>> the ones who never tried it.
>>> Ah.
>>>
>>> I guess the one that I played with many years ago was either an
>>> aberration or the driver didn't know how to push the skinny pedal
>>> down. dwight
>>>
>>>
>> Nah, he's blowing smoke. Been there done it many times. The little
>> Hybrid V8 would keep up pretty good but that's about it. The SHO would
>> spin the front tires on take off and never catch up again until the
>> 5.0 let up.
>
> The Yamaha V6 car was better in almost every way, from an enthusiast's
> standpoint anyway.
>
> I'm not saying it was faster than the 5.0, especially with the 5-speed (I
> owned an '88 LX) but it was most deffinately a better all around car.
> Handled better, rode better, etc.
>
> The above assuming both cars were stock of course.
>
>

I definitely saw (felt) a better ride, but IMHO the 5.0 still out
handled the SHO, by very little.

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Les Benn wrote:
>> The above assuming both cars were stock of course.
>>
> Screw the charger bring on the hemi Challenger with a 6 speed stick.
>
>

See, I want a 'Cuda. Sublime with a black strobe stripe. Since they
would probably never be able to out perform (or comparably perform) the
727 Torque-Flite, I'll say with a pistol grip 6 speed.

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My Name Is Nobody wrote:

>> Blah blah blah, and your reading retention is sorely lacking. I only
>> mentioned it because it was faster and still didn't do what you claim the
>> V6 to do. That was the days when I went to the track EVERY weekend. You're
>> wrong.
>>
>
> You really do need to take a remedial reading course, one that concentrates
> on reading comprehension! Your are the one off base here, you are talking
> about 1/4 mile drag racing, something I haven't addressed, or eluded to,
> please try and follow along.


No I am NOT dumbass. I am talking about on the highway, on the way
to the track.

I'm not even goign to wade through all that other same old blah, blah,
blah....


> Like I have already said, untill you have actually driven a stock 3.0 liter
> SHO against a stock 5.0 liter Mustang of the same generation, you really
> don't have a dog in this fight...

For the 2nd or 3rd time, I have.


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