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Originally Posted by jawn
Another 200WHP would put it into Corvette power/weight territory, which means you should've bought a Corvette. Corvettes are fun. 86s are also fun. It's just the type of fun that doesn't lead me to buy thousands of dollars worth of tires every year, which was most of the appeal for me.
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C5 Corvettes less than the price of a brand new 86, 345hp, 350 ft-lbs, <5s 0-60, and that's for the base model. Z06's are still cheaper than BRZ's looking at my local craigslist for 385hp & ft-lbs. Yeah a little chubby at 3,200+ lbs but everything in the car was built to handle that kind of power, no shopping for wheels/tires, injectors, radiators, worrying about the transmission, driveshafts, clutch, or overall engine longevity because you're stretching what the factory designed it for, all things
known to be issues with high horsepower 86's.
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Originally Posted by murdoc
"it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear." -Mark Donohue
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Great book, just finished reading it, fits the thread perfectly. And for those who don't know, he was discussing the Porsche 917 with the Porsche engineers which some claims place at 1,000-1,500+ horsepower. I can't even fathom that, let alone on 1970's tires. Thing was at or better than 1/2 hp/lb at certain points, and we're playing with 1/14...
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Originally Posted by Summerwolf
Corvettes are FUN. 86's are fun..... big difference.
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So any regrets settling for 'fun' instead of 'FUN'?