Slow cars!?

[pontiacgp]

Saskatchewan is nice and flat, with the 2.78 gear you should be able to wind that car out and and do a respectable speed in a 10 mile drag race.

 

[jeremyandthemonte]

I daily a 2003 pontiac sunfire aka "the flower" my God is this car slow but it is so much more fun at 30 then our friends bmw at 100 due to i really don't care what happens to it even ask Pontiacgp he has seen what I have put it through honestly I don't understand why it is still going. Moral of the story driving a slow car fast and better then driving a fast car slow

 

[pontiacgp]

I've seen that abused Sunfire and it looks like one of those cars that will never dies. My Jeep isn't quick but I don't mind except at times when I need some power to pass. In my GP I don't have to think about setting up to pass, I just do

 

[Turbo Zach]

I do get just as many looks when I'm cruising down the freeway with the ac blowing getting almost 20 mpg, as I would with 500 horse big block under the hood getting like 3 mpg. O and freeway drive in my Nova is a bad idea!

 

[81cutlass]

My carb turbo 3.8, even in its worst untuned condition is far from the slowest car I've driven.

Worst- 86 AMC eagle, 4.2. Wore out, untuned. Pressing the gas pedal requested the engine to make popping sounds and not really do anything
Runner up- 01 grand am 2.4. I have never experienced a car so slow that shouldnt have been. I didnt know it was possible to be so slow. Stomp on it from idle and it wouldnt chirp a tire or anything, took like a block to go 35ish. Ive been in older 2.4's and they werent terrible.

My old 88 cherokee with a renix 4.0 would absolutely boil the rear tires at will. That jeep was deceptively fast.

I would hate to get in an old deisel volvo or mercedes from the 70's/80's. They are legendarily bad.

 

[Clone TIE Pilot]

Have you looked up beforeblack.net ?

 

[Clone TIE Pilot]

Have you looked up beforeblack.net ? Some good info about improving Buick carb turbos.

Slowest car I drove was a 2000 Ford Contour, even a n/a V6 Regal could outrun it, just barely.

 

[joesregalproject]

You don't have to go fast, or even look cool to have fun with a car. I'll be the first to admit I've had more fun in slow, ugly, POS cars than I have with any fast car. Sure going fast is fun, but it's not everything. First off, the old family minivan, a 2006 Kia Sedona Base model, RIP, no longer with us. I've been on every dirt road in Western PA in that car. I've done more neutral drops and beat on the suspension of that vehicle more than any other car I've ever ridden in. Secondly, my old Lincoln Town Car. Sure, I did some things to make it quicker and handle better but it still only ran 15.5 seconds in the 1/4 mile on a good day. But that car would still do donuts like no ones business. It always had a spray of black rubber on the bumper behind the wheels 🙂. Currently I'm having fun with my daily driver (sort of) 1999 Chevy Suburban. It's got ~230 HP and weighs about as much as a Sherman tank, but it makes you feel like a king on the highway, it's awesome off-road, and you can practically live inside of it! Slow cars FTW

 

[Turbo Zach]

Have you looked up beforeblack.net ?

Yep I have. I have my waist gate rod adjusted to make a little more boost. There is not much of a gain in the stuff they say you can do.

 

[King_V]

I picked up a 1970 Cutlass S, instead of the nice high compression 310 HP 350, it has the 105 HP Olds 260 in it's place. It at least has the dual exhaust option, meaning I now have probably 120 HP/220 TQ. For what it is and considering the 2.78 gears it is actually acceptable just not fun and won't race anyone. It will be getting an upgrade.

The 260 is actually quite surprising right off idle... weird feeling that it doesn't seem to care if you give it a little gas or a lot, it just feels like an absolutely plateau flat torque curve. The throttle really only seems to affect the shift points, IMHO. Still, an interesting feel nonetheless, my lighter Olds is probably balanced out by the fact that I have 2.29 gears.