Chasing Horse Power with money, richest win

[jrhagen]

I have to agree. There is no logical use for 800 or 900 or even 1000 hp on the streets. Wasting all that money is just stupid.

[jrhagen]

Originally Posted by gringo

I don't need a V8 and I love my V6.

Being faster than 85 percent of the normal cars you see every day is fine by me. And, the V6 Camaro is one of those cars. I'm happy.

1%er or nothing.

[fz4k98]

Interesting thread. The stock camaro is computer limited at 155 mph but that is not too much power for the street? These cars break any speed law in 3rd gear but that is not too much speed.

The v6 guys don't get the v8 guys
The stock v8 guys don't get the power adder 800 up guys
The power adder 800 up guys don't get the buy it at 800 up guys.

Speed is addictive kind of like many things.

[CoupeSS]

Originally Posted by Buschman

Failing to understand why you started this thread if that's truly how you feel....

Remember "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness". Some of us just want to go fast!

Just looking for opinions.

[CoupeSS]

Originally Posted by 4510

Despite the OP's claims... if he took the time to start a thread on this topic, then he must not be as happy as he claims.

Reminds me of the 6 cylinder threads proclaiming how much they love their V6 and don't need a V8.

Quiet the opposite, I am in love with my car! Just ask my wife! I never go to the track, and have never had the opprotunity to have a compition at a red light with anyone I felt deserved so, i.e. Mustang, Challenger, etc.... I do love the feel of the acceleration and handleing as it's plenty for what I do. When I was seeking a Camaro, my budget was for a LS or LT so my expectations for speed where not real high but I was lucky enough to find a SS in my budget so it has exceeded my expectations. More than anything I love the look of my car and how it makes me smile when I drive it.

[CamaroFred]

Originally Posted by gringo

I don't need a V8 and I love my V6.

What do most people who have faster cars actually do with them? Goose it from a light or step on it on the freeway to get around someone? Once they hit traffic, the slower cars catch right up to them. To add insult to injury, you get used to the power and then you want more because the car starts feeling slow.

Being faster than 85 percent of the normal cars you see everyday is fine by me. And, the V6 Camaro is one of those cars. I'm happy.

It's really all in the driver skill.

While a V6 may not accelerate as quick as a V8 it can still handle well and stop and surprise most drivers.

A day or two at an SCCA autocross should set you up as long as you get a ride-along instructor.

You will learn to out-brake, out-corner, and use your skills to preserve speed. So much so that the guy behind you in the Porsche can't even keep up. Now that always makes me smile.

I enjoy entering a turn so fast another driver can't even hope to keep up.

I have had people in my SS say "Holy Shit, I can't believe we did that!" as we went around the corner to enter my subdivision. All you need to do is spot your braking points. Start too far away and work your way closer until you get it right. I use a sewer cover on our main drag. First it was front wheels get there, hit the brakes. Eventually it came to my rear wheels are ten feet past it, smack the brakes.

One driver at the race track, while with an instructor, learned to smack the brakes to enter a certain turn when he was passing a bikini clad woman. What he wasn't aware of, the woman was in with the instructor and would move closer to the bend every lap.

It's all practice. And an instructor can certainly help you.

[Rusty35]

Originally Posted by CoupeSS

Quiet the opposite, I am in love with my car! Just ask my wife! I never go to the track, and have never had the opprotunity to have a compition at a red light with anyone I felt deserved so, i.e. Mustang, Challenger, etc.... I do love the feel of the acceleration and handleing as it's plenty for what I do. When I was seeking a Camaro, my budget was for a LS or LT so my expectations for speed where not real high but I was lucky enough to find a SS in my budget so it has exceeded my expectations. More than anything I love the look of my car and how it makes me smile when I drive it.

So you are saying you bought a car with more HP than you can ever use legally on the street just because you like it!
How can you spend that kind of money on something just because you like it when a much less expensive car with much less HP would have served just as well?

[christianchevell]

California guy ..communifornia trying to justify his inability to easily mod in smog testing area..... And no; no one ever needs to hot rod their car as its absurd and no one ever needs to make a magazine showing how to do it and what others have done, and god forbid they should take them to a show so people can stare at the things they are just transportation, and basically anything over 500 rwhp and our platform requires major money mainly... and the usability for a daily driver and mileage take a big hit. And its torque that moves you. A heavy object that wants to go fast such as say a 5000 lb turd of a Dodge needs a paper thin clearance in the engine compartment and spark plugs you pull the engine to change and a 2.9 liter blower with enough boost for two cars so it can be less reliable than the Ford and especially the Chevy...OH they accomplished that.... You could have 50000 Hp and 10 ft lbs of torque.... the HP shows how hard it works making that torque to move the object and is formulated off of it, lord knows the calculation they would have to do for that HP....LOL

All that matters is your happy with what you have, some of us want more, and some of course make better parts than what the cars come with stock. That's why we are in the poor mans Corvette...Money matters, so does weight and seats and comfort and insurance and etc etc etc....

Sorry no-one else is from California so far to commiserate ...... Then the guy with a cammed Camaro go by making you envy...... MURR

[Olddudesrule]

The OP's quandry seems easy enough for me to answer, and I know many, many of us on this and other sports/muscle/HP car forums "feel" the answer. I love the sound and feel of driving a high performance car, plain and simple. I love experiencing the differences in the power to weight ratio of the different car's I've owned. Hell, the most visceral was the lowest HP car, the Cobra replica. It weighed @ 2300lbs, and the engine only put out @ 340hp, but what a ride it was!! I do track my car, but still want to push it's engines limits up to around 600+rwhp,....just because.

I realize that for true use on the road, anything over 700-800rwhp is useless, but, if you truly like the feel of having it under your ass, and don't mind the drivability issues that come with it, all the power to you.

Live and let live. If someone is a douche bag about the HP of their or your car, than they're a douche bag about most things...

[8balldeluxe]

Speed costs money, how fast do you wanna go

[Gunmetal Speedster]

Originally Posted by Rusty35

Yes I agree with you ,your stock SS is enough for you.

[gringo]

Originally Posted by jrhagen

1%er or nothing.

On the street perhaps, but at the track you're probably within the top 20% like I am on the street.

Thing is, my car was intended as a daily while yours is now a track beast and probably trailered to track events. Skinnies and slicks are really not that optimal for commuting on the street.

So, as you basically drive something else most of time I'm guessing, perhaps a truck to tow your Camaro or maybe even your wife's minivan...*gasp*...to get around town, I'm still faster than you unless you have a heavily modded chipped out diesel truck or a 10sp Ecoboost Raptor as a daily.

[jrhagen]

Originally Posted by gringo

On the street perhaps, but at the track you're probably within the top 20% like I am on the street.

Thing is, my car was intended as a daily while yours is now a track beast and probably trailered to track events. Skinnies and slicks are really not that optimal for commuting on the street.

So, as you basically drive something else most of time I'm guessing, perhaps a truck to tow your Camaro or maybe even your wife's minivan...*gasp*...to get around town, I'm still faster than you unless you have a heavily modded chipped out diesel truck or a 10sp Ecoboost Raptor as a daily.

As a matter of fact, I do have another vehicle for daily driving, a truck to tow my Camaro, something to hop from bar to bar. A diesel Chevy truck, an Audi and a Harley.

It's great being single with no kids.

[fz4k98]

A question for the ages here. Why do those who don't have not understand those who do. Cars, cycles, hosted, planes, houses... quite a pattern I don't have it so you should not need it.