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SHO=Fast, Alfa=Faster Posted by Justin VanAbrahams [Email]  (#32) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Justin VanAbrahams) on Fri, 15 Dec 2000 01:29:22
In Reply to: New Personal Landspeed Record - 00 9-5 Aero, Bryce, Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:00:14 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Funny you should mention the SHO - my first Land Speed Record was in an SHO in the middle of Nevada - my friend at the helm, me in the front seat, and his dad in the back seat. 130-something in the desert in a 1990 SHO.
About six years later I bought an '89 SHO. Fast car - faster than a 5.0 and respectable against Z28s. After 4000 rpm and the short runners open up, redline is a heartbeat away. My '89 was sans sunroof and ABS and all that other heavy stuff, and had the light flywheel (which they killed in 1991 - bastards!). Also was a first-run car, meaning no rev limiter and an engine that would spin to 8000rpm (where I chickened out!). I managed 145 between Bakersfield and the Grapevine on I-5 on more than one occasion. The car would do 120 in 4th, which was bloody impressive.
Earlier this year I bought a '95 Alfa 164Q in New Jersey, and drove it back across 80 to my home in Sacramento. In the middle of Wyoming, I decided to see what fast was and determined 160mph is in fact fast - 7000rpm (redline) in 5th is top speed in the car, and it took surprisingly little time to get there. Scenery moves by at an astonishing rate, but that car feels incredibly solid at those speeds. Much like a Saab, the Alfa is not quick off the line, but is geared and cammed to do wonders at freeway speeds. The car does not have short & long runners like the SHO did, but you feel the cams at 4000rpm, and it's a kick in the pants.
Anyway, the actual point of this message was to confirm all manual SHOs were 3.0l, and the 1/2 gen ('92 and later, I think) automatics were 3.2l. The SHOShop in SoCal has a stroker kit for the MTX cars to bring them to 3.2l and even 3.4l. Before opting to sell my SHO, I had my eye on their Genesis III package - stroker+supercharger=300+hp. Great cars, if you can overlook the fact that they're Fords! :>
-Justin
, Fri, 15 Dec 2000 01:45:35
, Fri, 15 Dec 2000 07:39:19, Fri, 15 Dec 2000 01:29:22 <-- Viewing This Message, Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:15:56, Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:49:08
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