![]() I wanted to do so much to my old car, but didn't have the time. Ride it to the red line and you'll give a stock Integra a run for it's money. Starting up you have to rev it a little if you want to take off from the mark, hit 2nd and you're humming in turbo. You can buy a 96 probe, fix it up with 120,000 and have a hot ride for a long time to come.Īdd some salt into the mix and you've got an additional thing to go wrong with old cars - rust and corosion.įor the money I paid for the Mazdaspeed, it's tweaked as much as a project car would be, without any of the effort - a 4 year warranty, a decent sound system that can still be upgraded if need be (and there's already the ports for the tweeters, possibly space in the pre-fab amp/sub holder), and some of the tighest handling I've ever driven short of a ground-brushing Civic (virtually impossible in the land of snow and potholes). ![]() I don't think people in the south can appreciate this car as much because the cars last so much longer down there. It's a tight handling car, it needs to be as solid as possible. Good call on the sunroof - usually they'll blame the weight, but in this case it's more about the rigidity of the frame. Hence, there's no sunroof because it's all in the physics, kiddies! Tough, huh? Now cut a quarter-sized hole in the top of the tube and try it again. ![]() To test this theory, take a cardboard toilet-paper tube in both hands and gently try to twist it in two directions. Second, chassis and body rigidity is best achieved by having fewer or smaller holes cut in the body - that's why two-door coupes handle better than two-door hatchbacks as a rule, and why convertibles generally flex around a lot more than the coupes they're based on. Think about what happens to the handling when you add a roof rack to your SUV and you'll get the idea. The reason behind not having a sunroof is twofold: weight and rigidity.įirst, a power sunroof adds quite a bit of weight - and all that weight is above the natural balance point of the car (usually down by the body's "shoulder"), so it can have a dramatic effect on handling ability. ![]()
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