so. y'all just cant deal with the attitude? lol.
look -- im not mad at anyone, i just dont take smack talk about my car lying down. you guys have your v8's - i have my 6. i was doin fine and holding back till i got the "wow, learn your cars" comment to a question i asked.
I will admit I came off a tad harsh, and ill apologize for that. oh yea, i love how you dreged up my post from ls1tech. i got banned from there cause everytime i tried to chime in on something, i would get trashed in pms and on the threads i posted in -- honesty just because i own a v6, does not mean im clueless to the world of cars or muscle or engines or anything else - you need to give us "v6's" credit. we do know a hell of a lot more than you'd like to admit. So i told the admin he could delete my posts and my username - i didnt care anymore. he banned me instead (whatever).
doesnt matter, i dont visit there anymore. its not worth my time cause its not what im into.
FYI - im running the head swap on no tune at the moment. i have been for a while. doesnt mean i wont tune it, megasquirt is almost ready to go in - yup, i wasted my time and money on a megasquirt. why? because i need to and there isnt any other option. no one makes a tuner for the 3.4L car and i dont wanna spend 1000.00 on something stupid when there is a cheaper option. fyi i built mine and got mine for 140.00 - bubba paid 335 cause his is already assembled.
IMO: the lumina
is quite simply, a pos. i wouldnt like that car either. thats why they had the 3.4 dohc in those cars, to make up for the 3.1. the 3.1 is basically an unbored 3.4 (the 3.4 came from it) - now you know why we try so hard to make our cars fast.
Everyone here keeps giving bubba **** about numbers. so ill put my money where my mouth is and give you mine. Think of this as my "re-introduction". I'll try to play nice as long as you guys do. agreed?
Parts List
- swapped to aluminum heads/intake
- comp cams cam(114/110/212/218/.476/.485)
- RKSport headers with 1.75" primares
- 3" catback muffler from flowmaster
- K&N FIPK
- 19# injectors
- electronic cutout
- 8.8mm wires
- crappy copper plugs
im sure im forgetting something but...
current hp: 184.32rwhp @ 4800 rpm / 212.97rwtq @ 4100 rpm
stock hp: 142rwhp @ 4500 rpm / 186rwtq @ 3500 rpm
yes. i ran a ****** 16.0 @ 86 mph (i just looked up my timeslip). do i like it? no. do i think its the best i can do? seriously hell no. do i need more practice at driving the 1/4 mile? yes - im not a racer. if bubba had my car im pretty sure i could pull a 14.9 out of it at least. why is that impressive? cause i havent finished doing everything i can to the engine yet. i havent done any porting or polishing work, the car is very untuned. I have spoken with a tuner who says that as soon as i get the computer in he will be happy to tune it for me and thinks he could get another 10-15 hp/tq out of it by tuning out the
10:1 A/F ratio that is plaguing my car.
so why do we get excited about running 14s? because no one in the 3.4 community has ever done it. GM thought, who the hell needs v6 performance. pfft. whatever. and so they just did what they always do. they threw together a motor that would move the car decently using off the shelf parts. the heads on the 3.4 car have been around and in the same form since 1985. thats 10 years. they didnt take a look at the 3.4 again till 1997 - and just from putting a better head/intake package the hp/tq (rated) went from 160 - 185 and 200 - 215. woo...yay. the big deal? i managed to take the same heads/intake and with just that and a set of headers, i gained 40hp and 45tq (not rw).
I'll apologize again too, cause i almost forgot i lumped you all into the typical "v8 behavior" group. i only did that because thats what it is. its like the only engine on the planet that anyone should care about is the lt1 or the ls1 or the l98 or whatever the v8 owner owns. anything else is crap and therefore should be in a scrapheap.
I'm not trying to start **** - i dont wanna start **** - but honestly i dont take crap lying down, i stand up for what i enjoy and believe in, and thats my car. if you guys dont like it - fine. dont care. some of you seem like nice ppl. some of you i thot were just messin round with me - but i guess i turned that into more.
Again, like i said, i'll try to play nice if you all will. I came to this board cause bubba said that james lost his car. I know james, I've known his car for a while and it REALLY REALLY sucks that he lost it. I feel bad for the guy.
I was reading some of the posts on the board and saw this one and thot id chime in. never wanted to get in a pissing match with anyone but that seems to be what it turned into.
so lets put this behind us and just let bubba keep his thread and keep it on what its supposed to be.
so he wants to speculate on hp/tq numbers. who here can say that they've never done that. im sure you all will but i see posts all the time from ppl (v8 ppl) who are like "this is gonna be awesome, im gonna get like 20 hp from this!" etc etc. im gonna run 13s!
thats great that you can run 13s. feel lucky. we are modifing our cars again, cause they are a challenge.
but whatever. one last thing - if you really feel the need to hate, dont hate bubba, cause he didnt ask me to come here, and he didnt ask me to post. so keep cutting him slack cause i know he doesnt deserve ****.
hope we can start over.
-R
