[s-cars] RE: SSKs

[Marc Gorelick]

Count me in that number.

It's much less "cute" with some decent wheels, aftermarket exhaust and a 
whining supercharger. :-D   No cartoonish-looking wings here, please. I've 
even debated some fat rally stripes but decided against drawing that much 
attention.

I love it when people underestimate my cars.

Marc

At 10:19 AM 1/14/2005 -0500, Pasqualoni, James E wrote:
>Taka,
>
>There might be more than a few people (even on this list) running SPEC
>Miatas that would disagree with your assessment.  Some might also say they
>would never drive an Sti because they don't want to be seen as a 'boy
>racer'...
>
>Jim
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
>[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Taka Mizutani
>Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 10:14 AM
>To: Krasusky Paul (WQQ2PXK)
>Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
>Subject: Re: [s-cars] RE: SSKs
>
>
>Paul-
>In a road car, the Carrera GT is definitely one of the neatest sounding cars
>out there. The high-compression "WHUP!" sounds it makes is soooo cool. V-10
>is very unique sounding. Kind of a cross between the Panoz Esperante race
>car (high-comp. Ford 4.6L DOHC V-8) and F1 car (at much lower volume).
>
>I personally don't like BMW shifters- I think they're quite rubbery and long
>throw, although they're precise enough that I've never complained about
>missing shifts.
>
>I've mixed feelings on short shifters- I like getting the rubber out of the
>shifter so that it feels more precise, but very wary about shortening the
>shifts. I've driven a few cars with short shifters and didn't like many of
>them. The ultra-short shifter kits (40% reduction) for the A4/S4 were too
>short, the E36 M3 40% was too short, Subaru WRX factory kit too short, etc.
>I find that there isn't enough throw to accurately tell what gear you're
>going into.
>
>With the stock STi, I think the shifts are short enough that you may have
>difficulty figuring out what gear you're going into, especially 3rd and 4th-
>STi shifters are quite bad at grabbing a 5 to 4 downshift. I thought it was
>just me, but Jeff Lorriman on Sports Car Revolution mentioned the exact same
>thing, interesting.
>
>Actually, except for the looong throw on Audi 6 spd ZF boxes (never driven
>the Aisin equipped B6), I like Audi transmission shifters- precise enough,
>gets the job done, better than BMW in that regard, I would just get rid of
>the rubber.
>
>IMHO, Hondas and Miatas are still the best in terms of shift quality. I'm
>hoping the new Saturn Sky will be similar, that's my next sports car unless
>it turns out to be a chick car (I won't drive a Miata partially for that
>reason).
>
>Taka
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