Fixon White GenCoupe with Horizontal Intercooler
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Thats what we need a Genesisforums.org car all decaled out to promote the site and Hyundai. So anyone at Hyundai can you help us out? :wave:
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i was lookin at the whiter car a lot and ALMOST decided i liked that better than red, then i saw the red one... time for a cig and a cold shower!
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Ooh, v-mount, me likey.
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ssssiiiickkkkk!!!!!!!!
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I can't wait for somebody to build that car in black with stock wheels and a quiet exhaust, and whenever somebody pulls up in their "musclecar" and asks what you've got, "Oh, it's just a Hyundai." "A Honda? *snicker*." "No, just a Hyundai, it's Korean." "Korean? *laughs out loud*" Then you beat the ever-loving pants off of them.
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I like this, but I still think my muscle car would win.
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Oh, no doubt a properly built muscle car would still be very hard to beat, the quotes around the word represented a bit of sarcasm, referring to how everyone with a Mustang GT or a Firebird thinks they have a "musclecar". I've never really considered most modern cars to qualify, but its fun to have a little turbo car that can show every guy with an american V8 rear-driver their taillights.
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I've seen some nasty 455 big block FIrebirds from early 70's that were pretty nasty, but yeah I see where you're going. There are 2 eras of muscle cars: 1) those from the 60s & early 70s that I grew up around & 2) those from mid 80s on...
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does anyone know if they are going to develope that setup? bc I don't care how much it costs I WANT!!!! lol
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I believe it's setup designed more for drifting, than anything else. But, I'm sure there will be tuner shops/manufacturers that will be looing into selling set-ups like this, since this car will have a pretty big drift following.
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yea I know Vmount is actually good for drift and road coarse setups. I just wanna know where they got the turbo manifold like that. bc if I have that I can peice that all together and build/install it. but i hope they sell it bc I hate doing fab work on a brand new car lol
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Good eye sleay, If you get a chance, introduce yourself in the new member section.
I was actually talking about the Firebird TransAm, which still didn't come with larger displacement engine until the 2nd generation T/A. It was the Olds 442s that had the 455s back in the early 70s. Thanks again, I guess I'm getting old & starting to forget some of that muscle car info I got stored up there...LoL Just don't think about those cars much anymore...:rolleye:
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And don't forget the BUFORDS....BUICKS.
Really I thought the 455 that appeared in the 71 firebird-trans am was a 428 pontiac motor with an increased bore. Dubbed the 455-HO and later SD-455 in 73/74.
Oh and I want a V-mount:bump:
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That's exactly what I thought, because I had a friend with a white T/A back then, that I think was a 73' model & could of swore it had a 455 in it. But, I did a quick search on the internet after sleay brought it up & only showed 400HO for Firebirds & T/As for that time frame.
Just did some more research & found this:
"For the first time since 1970, two engines were offered in the 1973 Trans Am, both displacing 455 cubic inches, in base and Super Duty versions. The engines might have offered the same displacement, but that is where the similarity ended. The base engine (coded as follows - manual WT, WW, ZZ, and, ZE and for the automatics - X7, XE, XL, XM, YA, YC, and YD) produced 50 fewer horsepower than their round ported 1972 H.O. counterpart. Horsepower was [email protected] rpm while peak torque took a hit as well, dropping to 370 lb/ft @2800 rpm. Increased emission regulations meant a drop in the compression ratio, now down to 8.0:1. The output of oxides of nitrogen (large displacement engines are more succeptable to high levels of N0x as compression ratio's increase) were lessened with a lower compression ratio. Pontiac removed the H.O. designation from the engine, and simply badged the shaker with 455 engine calouts."
Here's the website: http://www.2gta.com/1973ta.html
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