fwd saturn breaks into 7 second zone

[redline2003]

7.72 pass by the APC saturn in the usa... dam, thats a fair effort, would love to see it run. what do u all think, i mean thats almost up there with our fastest rotaries. i know this is a RWD oriented forum but you gotta give credit when credit is due

[lwells]

Did they use NAAAAAAAAAWS?

LW.

[Jimbo2000]

yes thats good.

what the hell is a saturn though :confused:

[lwells]

what the hell is a saturn though :confused:

A crappy GM brand in the US that aims it cars at the "youth and aspiring" market.

http://www.saturn.com

LW.

[dojobi]

and their cars from the 90s weren't exactly good looking either.

Damn good time though - how did they do it? I mean I always thought fwds couldn't do times like that because all the weight transfers to the back of the car on take off?

[lwells]

and their cars from the 90s weren't exactly good looking either.

Their present cars aren't good looking either. In fact, they are damn fugly.

LW.

[redline2003]

fast fours did a feature on it a few months ago:

2.2L ecotec 4 banger

custom t76 turbocharger

Spearco water to air intercooler

10 1600CC injectors

FAST ECU

4 speed dog box

ported head, solid lifters, aftermarket valves/camshafts/valve springs.

all internals replaced with stronger items or race prepped

state of the art suspension set up tuned to perfection

when it ran a 8.04 it didnt use nos, this time i am unsure if it did or not, but im sure theres more left in it

[sewid]

About the most I know about Saturn is that a good deal of their cars use plastic panels (like door skins etc) to save costs. Good for your supermarket car park fender benders I suppose.

A friend of mine in the US had a saturn and f'ing hated it. The build quality seemed fairly poor.

Not that this has anything to do, or is related in any way, to the 7 second saturn which i doubt has plastic panels.

[StraightSix]

and their cars from the 90s weren't exactly good looking either.

Damn good time though - how did they do it? I mean I always thought fwds couldn't do times like that because all the weight transfers to the back of the car on take off?

The Americans have nearly perfected the black art of getting a front-driver to hook up. Comes from racing Hondas for all those years I guess. They use long wheelie bars, not for any fear that the car will do a wheelstand ( ), but to extend the wheelbase. They set them very stiff. Weight transfer is the enemy in a front drive drag car. Suspension setup bears no relation to a rear-driver . . . it's weird, but really cool.

J

[StraightSix]

And yes, Saturns are horrid.

J

[EnricoPalazzo]

why is a 7 sec car using an intercooler? Id assume its running on methanol or something similar....

[nmcmahon83]

Not sure, but I dont see how ethanol would make a difference to using an intercooler or not... Doesn't an intercooler cool the air down because it gets really farkin hot when compressed by the turbo??? What's methanol going to do for it?

[EnricoPalazzo]

its a cooler fuel, hence it cools like an intercooler would, thus reducing any lag at all an intercooler would give. It makes a huge difference...

[MattSR]

Come on guys - look at the specs...

10 * 1600cc injectors.....

On unleaded regular fuel (ie ELF or similar) thats enough injector capacity for 3200HP...

On Methanol, they're big enough for around 1000hp or so....

Of course it runs methanol....

[Clint32]

the abel abera rx7 uses 2 pwr water to air barrel cooler and runs methonal or similar, just becaust its a cooler burning fuel dosent mean it cant be run cooler into the engine. when they run extreme boost like those cars would there would still be alot of heat in the intake

[DoughBoy]

Hah the old intercooler arguement again!

[EnricoPalazzo]

heheh yeh just wondering why due to loss of throttle response to a certain degree and some lag... I mean how much can inlet temperatures increase in only 7 seconds?