Are you seriously going to compare a 25+ year old ~$1000 commuter, with a brand new $125,000 purpose built sports car? really?? Do we have a face palm icon?
Ok, sure, "take one out" on the street... it's probably a 50-60 year old guy in his mid-life crisis car, or if they seriously got on it, they probably didn't get traction through the first 3-4 gears... and at the end of the day, you're still going home in your fiero.
Don't get me wrong... I'm all for fieros, and still have one sitting in my garage, but comparing them to the new age stuff...is just stupid.
Not sure if a fiero's gear ratios are suited better than a ZR1 or not.
Guess what car has a better drag coefficient.
200lbs? Curb weight on a ZR1 is 3340 lb, and heaviest Fiero was 2790. That's 550 lbs difference. So yeah, your car could accelerate just as fast, with less power.
The ZR1's drag coefficient is 0.36 and the Fiero's is what, 0.375-0.38? Pretty close, but the ZR1 is built to be stable at 200+ MPH. The Fiero starts getting shaky in low-mid 100s.
200lbs? Curb weight on a ZR1 is 3340 lb, and heaviest Fiero was 2790. That's 550 lbs difference. So yeah, your car could accelerate just as fast, with less power.
The ZR1's drag coefficient is 0.36 and the Fiero's is what, 0.375-0.38? Pretty close, but the ZR1 is built to be stable at 200+ MPH. The Fiero starts getting shaky in low-mid 100s.
Wouldn't his fiero weigh more than, the heaviest fiero, because it has a 3800 with a full ic setup and a turbo? I'm going to assume he's much closer to 3000 if not over.
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Originally posted by Steel: Wouldn't his fiero weigh more than, the heaviest fiero, because it has a 3800 with a full ic setup and a turbo? I'm going to assume he's much closer to 3000 if not over.
Even if all that added 200 lbs, it's still at least 350 lbs away from the ZR1's weight. Not to mention the whole trunk being cut out. Would be interesting to see how badly his setup screws with airflow though, given the lack of trunk, and air getting trapped in there.
Wasn't there a thread about the GM 3.6DOHC around here somewhere? I must have missed it buried under all this Buick BS.
Stop trying to hi-jack the thread bud. Jeeze there is a perfectly good conversation about the 3800 in here and there you are bringing in this 3.6 DOHC BS.
