[s-cars] Worthy projects (was Alum..was UrS $)

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I read a couple comparos just now, all of them compare this to the audi  
lineup.  Big tires will rub, S cars are limited to 245's, my v8 sports  255.  Now 
anyone that's lowered a S car with wide tires also rubs  them.  Not good for a 
factory car?  I say put the widest damn good  looking wheel and tire combo 
you can, screw the turning radius.  Take a low  speed turn at full lock in a 
torsen car, it makes noises that I find scarey,  that's normal too (the worst is 
the 91 90q IMO, but the S car does  it).   The neu S4 has a oil filter that 
sits out right where the right  road yump will crack the housing, btdt x 2 
already.
 
POS, coil packs, cam position sensors, inner control arms, REAR LAT  LINKS.  
The S certainly racks up some of it's own PITA list.  Get me  an AAN motor 
that doesn't eat POS, I'd trade cut my turning radius in  half.  Get me a AAN 
motor that actually codes a bad cam position sensor  every time, I'd trade cut my 
turning radius by a third.  
 
It's a legit comparo in my perspective, it's an attempt to give the  hardware 
to almost exactly what most S car guys tweek to do.  All in a  package that 
looks good, inside and out.
 
I won't say its a better S car.  I will say volvo took a pretty good  swing 
at making a better one out of the box
 
SJ
In a message dated 4/23/2007 9:58:09 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
audiurs4 at mailforce.net writes:

It's all  good.  I can over look little things, but that would irritate 
the  heck out of me every time I had to u-turn.  Personally if I'm going  
to spend that much on a car I'd want to be able to u-turn and park  
easily.  What is the reasoning behind making it that way  anyway?  It's 
not all bad though.  The car does haul when you  get on the gas.  I love 
the way the car looks too.  My friend's  is the gray exterior with the 
orange baseball glove colored leather  interior and blue gauges.  It is 
gorgeous.  Nice polished rims  and huge brake rotors peeking through 
them.  Other than the turning  radius it's also too low for my taste.  He 
can't go into any ANY  parking lot or driveway without scraping.  Also do 
your tires rub in  the wheel wells when you turn the wheel all the way 
right or left?   His does and the dealer told him it's normal.  I 
searched the web and  found one other account of the same thing happening 
on a non modified  S60R.  I find it hard to believe that it was designed 
to do  that.  My last gripe with the car is that the engine note has no  
soul.  I can live with that though.   :-P

JR


 



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