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From: [email protected] (James P. Callison)
Subject: Re: The 1994 Mustang
In article [email protected] (vlasis theodore) writes:
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>I can put a 32valve V-8 with twin Garret-4s on Yugo and get 7.7sec QM.
>Thats useless ... Its still a Yugo that will loose any race on a track,
>or on the street.
A Yugo that will go 1/4mi in 7.7 seconds will _not_ lose on the
street. That's just too damn quick. It might be wrapped around
a telephone pole at the end of that quarter mile, but it will
be there alone...
>Have you Detroit beings compared the ultra-long-throw stick shifts of
>the 5.0 with the 93 MR2 turbo or 93 RX7 (I ll buy it in 6 mos) ?
Or you could replace the stock shifter with a Hurst short-throw
shifter (available from Ford Motorsport), or any number of other
after-market products to boost the performance of a Mustang or
Camaro. Can you do _that_ with a '93 RX-7, or, verily, with _any_
MR-2? With the Detroit aftermarket, you can build a Mustang or
Camaro which is superior to either car you mention for less than
the sticker price of either.
>Or the Torsen differential of the RX7 compared to the Differential of
>the 5.0 that sounds in every hairpin turn ?
Well, gee. It works, and it doesn't break. It transmits power to
the drive wheels, and it's essentially zero maintenance--and there's
an aftermarket in parts for Ford and Chevy rear-ends, too.
>And bythe way 5.0 and Camaro both have drums on the rear breaks ...
>Hello , this is the 90 's ?
Well, the '93 Mustang Cobra (which, from all reports, uses the
same running gear as '94 Mustang) has 4-wheel disks. I can't
speak for the new Camaro, but I think it does, too.
Also, stop and think about the markets here. The Mustang is, and
always has been, a mass-market sporty car (that's where the
"pony car" class came from) with a performance model. That's
why it has the econo-box running gear. That was also factored
into the design of the Mustang from the day Lee Iacocca conceived
his baby; it was designed as a wide-market car--sporty, yet
accessible--with room for performance tweaking.
The cars you listed are designed for a specific market niche,
and they both fit those niches very well. The Mustang, at least,
does well in multiple markets; I can't speak for the Camaro.
James
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