Good, it will make replacing the springs and struts that much easier to justify...cthomas said:
Anybody have a release date yet?
Dale
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HAHActhomas said:
Car and Driver is definately off on their numbers. I've seen official numbers from Saturn saying 1/4 mile times of 14.2. Pretty good guesstimates for not even taking the car on a track.
matt said:HAHA
Car and Driver is definately off on their numbers. I've seen official numbers from Saturn saying 1/4 mile times of 14.2. Pretty good guesstimates for not even taking the car on a track.
Zero to 60 mph: 6.2 sec
Zero to 100 mph: 16.0 sec
Standing 1/4-mile: 15.0 sec @ 96 mph
Yuck.
Unless saturn is giving us wheel HP and TQ ratings AND underrating the car by about 20 HP and 50 LB/FT of TQ, I think those numbers are accurate. The only thing I see that would help it get a better 1/4 time (using stock SRT numbers as a basis for comparison) is that the curb weight is 2600 lb's, 250 lbs less than an unmaned SRT-4. Still for the money, this appears to be a very formidable lil rocket.no, they said that. second apparently is too tall. i'm pretty sure i got it from that article, but they mentioned that the saab tranny is used and that the saabs in europe generally have the tall second for towing stuff.... as in... what you WON'T be doing in an ION RL (but you can.... thanks to a tall second).
that's what I understand it to be. I really hope they fix these problems... get an LSD kit going... from quaife or otherwise..., fix the gearing, increase the rev limiter, and do all the fancy stuff.... seriously though, when i tell my friends about it, they're like 205hp... nice.... and when i tell my SRT-4 owning friends they're like "pshhfhfhstpsptpfss. it's a saturn" and then i mention how it's still under peak power at the rev limiter and they're like phfphfphphshpfpdhpshph as they spit out their coffee.
it will be interesting to see if someone takes the 2.0 as a crate engine and builds up a beefed RL setup and then just stress tests it to see how much it can take (rev wise) or even where the dyno goes after peak.
that's what I understand it to be. I really hope they fix these problems... get an LSD kit going... from quaife or otherwise..., fix the gearing, increase the rev limiter, and do all the fancy stuff.... seriously though, when i tell my friends about it, they're like 205hp... nice.... and when i tell my SRT-4 owning friends they're like "pshhfhfhstpsptpfss. it's a saturn
" and then i mention how it's still under peak power at the rev limiter and they're like phfphfphphshpfpdhpshph as they spit out their coffee.it will be interesting to see if someone takes the 2.0 as a crate engine and builds up a beefed RL setup and then just stress tests it to see how much it can take (rev wise) or even where the dyno goes after peak.
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