[s-cars] Re: front end 'pop / clunk / clank / boom'

[Jerry Scott]

My 93 S4 has just been amazing.  Even though it only has 70K miles, it 
still is a major performer when traveling on the highway.  I just got 
back from a trip from Santa Fe back to Denver.  On some remote stretches 
of highway 285 in NM when no oncoming traffic was around, we were 
clocking 145 mph with ease. In one situation a late model Porsche 
Carrera was trying to lose me by accelerating ahead, but found that I 
was still maintaining my spacing behind him all the way.  You just can't 
beat the performance for what it would cost to replace this car. I just 
got my  bill for plates this year and the cost was $52.  In comparison, 
a new S4 this would be somewhere around $1100 in Colorado.

On another note, four of my Viper friends will be dynoing two Vipers 
cars and two SRT-10 trucks next Saturday, Dec.11th at Mac Autosports on 
Parker Road in Denver.  The silver Viper which has a Roe 10 psi. 
supercharger, now has a new alcohol/water injection system out of Salt 
Lake City, UT.  This car is expected to show somewhere around 700 hp at 
the rear wheels, based on G-tech data, which means somewhere around 800 
hp at the crank.  This dyno has seen over 700 hp on another Viper with 
nitrous, but this may be the highest number yet for this dyno for a 
non-nitrous street car.  The two SRT trucks will have nitrous set-ups 
and should also give some surprising numbers.  This is scheduled for 
around 11:00 am, weather permitting, and is open viewing for anyone 
interested. Call first: 303-841-1176.

Jerry

Larry C Leung wrote:

>Waddya expect? Even the newest of them (Igor...) is 7 years
>old. And then we tweak-em to performance levels beyond
>(sometimes WELL beyond) what the factory had planned. Then
>we push-em. So they break. Oh well. 
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