A short shifters descripition is dat it reduces the throw by 40-50%. what is the throw??? Does this make the car faster generally speaking!!!
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throw = the distance the gear lever moves inbetween gears, the short shifter reduces the gear change times slightly by reducing the distance you need to move the gear lever.\n\nWill improve acceleration, but all depends on how quickly the driver can press and release the clutch as well as changing gear
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handling would go to the 240sx, its RWD and lite. How many FWD cars are known for good handling COMPARED to RWD. Speed is up to you depends on what you do or want, fwd = understeer/ tourqsteer= lame. Comfort well i dont know. I'm biased towards RWD...
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well drift cars and drag cars are completely different... obviously a car specifically built for one cannot excel at the other. a drift car can run a quarter mile quicker more easily than a drag car can nicely slide through a turn...\n\ncheap drift cars you can slide bone stock if you have enough skill are obvious silvia/240sx, rx7 86+, older corolla gts, mkIII supra, all those cars can be attained for 3 grand or less if you just want to go in a straight line pretty much any car that isnt too heavy, that is rwd and has a v8. ford 302s and chevy 350s can make big power for cheap \n\nit all depends on what youd rather do more, go fast in a straight line or be quick but do everything else well too
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they have many restrictions on thier cars to keep them slower\nso thier not doing 300 miles an hour.thier only going 200mph\nwhat do you think the diff would be in a crash.plus in racing\nthey allways have limits to what you can do to keep it interesting and every one has thier own ways to cheat.
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Can't go wrong with a Honda. They are a bit more $$ but they last forever and you can't kill em. But stay away from the electric shift option on some of them. Just get the normal shifter. The quad with less gadgets and do-dads the better. Less thing to possibly give you a headache someday.
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you are shifting into a lower gear, it goes  1,2,3,then overdrive to save on gas but has less power, so when you go up a hill it will shift into 3 on its own for more power , when you do that you will use more gas, it makes your motor work a little harder but all in all it causes a little more wear but over a long time ,, just let the car do it on its own.
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I'd rather be driving a 1960s chevy than my 92 Sentra. You're comparing 2 different things...cars/buildings and health. It's like asking, Isn't it weird that computers are soooo fast nowadays...but tortoises are so slow? Would going back to Black screened, green lettered computers make tortoises faster?
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Why wouldn't you make an Tempo into a race car?...It's the perfect sleeper, and like it or not, I've seen quite a few made to race...\n\nDid you change the Onboard Diagnostic System?...Because it should be OBD-I...
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Also, you cant go by just numbers alone.  When a car has X amount of Horsepower and X amount of Torque that means its maximum of each at a certain RPM.  Some cars have high numbers but are slower than others.  My friend had a 350Z brand new.  I had a 15 year old 5.0 mustang stock.  My car was rated around 225 hp 300tq his was rated at 300hp 260tq.  His Z was much smaller and lighter and brand new.  My car spanked his at off the line, rolling, freeway, anything.  My car did not have a good max hp but it had good power throughout the rpms rather than just peaking at a certain rpm.  So you cant go by just hp,tq and weight.  You really have to just drive the car.
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Let's assume your range of vision was 0.2 miles infront of you, and 0.1 miles behind with the mirror.  (I'm pulling these numbers out of my behind.)\n\nAt t=0, the car was at position x = -0.1 relative to you.\nAt t=5 seconds, it was at x = 0.2.\n\nSo the speed (relative to you) is 0.3 miles / 5 seconds = 0.06 miles per second = 216 miles per hour.  Since you were doing 85 mph, it real speed was 301 mph.\n\nAre you sure this took only 5 seconds?  I picked some pretty small numbers for the range of vision and this still results in some wicked speed.
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The car accelerated from 0mph to a speed of 100mph.\nIt took 50s to do this.\nThe rate it changed its speed is its acceleration - how long it took to reach that speed.\nSo, 100mph / 50s = 2mph per second.\n\nA car that could accelerate faster reached 100mph in only 25s.\nSo, 100mph / 25s = 4mph per second.
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Happened to a couple of my cars. Take yours to a transmission shop. There's no quick fix.
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Between 15.0 and 15.5 the mods you listed wont help as much as you think they will. That time is probably that of a new car and not 1 that is almost 20 years old.
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WATKINS GLEN, INFINEON, and POCONO are the only NASCAR tracks that I can think of where gear changes are an issue.  Of course, I'm not counting coming out of and going into pit road.  POCONO is the weirdo of this group.  The other two are actual road courses; Pocono bills itself as a tri-oval.  Tri-angle is more like it.  If you look at the layout of the track using the link I provided, you'll see that the turns are pretty sharp by "tri-oval" standards. Turn 1 is almost a hairpin, turn 2 doesn't give you much relief, and turn 3 is brutally sharp after coming off 2 at a good speed.
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http://streetracing.tiora.net/japan/drift/drift1.htm\n\n\nWhat Is Drifting?\n\n  Basically, drifting is getting your car sideways down a road. It doesn't sound very hard does it? Sounds a lot like power sliding huh? Well it isn't. It's much more complex. Instead of a drifter causing a drift and then countering to straighten out, he will instead over-counter so his car goes into another drift. That is the reason many drifters do it in the mountains, because there are many sharp turns strung together. So in essence a good drifter has the ability to take five or six opposing turns without having traction at any point in time.\n  \n \nHow is it Done?\n\nThere are two ways to start a drift. The first is the clutching technique. When approaching a turn the driver will push in the clutch and shift his car into second gear. Then rev the engine up to around 4000-5000 rpm (it all depends all the model of the car being used) and then slightly turn away from the turn and then cut back towards it hard while at the same time popping the clutch and causing the rear wheels to spin. At this point the drifter has a loss of traction and is beginning to slide around the curve. Now comes the hard part. You have to hold the drift until the next turn. To do this you must keep your foot on the accelerator while at the same time adjusting your car with the steering wheel so you don't spin out. It's not as easy as it sounds. Then as the drifter reaches the end of the turn and approaches the next turn which is in the opposite direction he must cut the \n \n\nwheel in that direction and in some cases, if the previous drift was to slow and they start to regain traction, they must pop the clutch again to get the wheels spinning. And that is how you drift a rear wheel drive car.The second technique is used by a few drifters in rear wheel drives, but is the only way you can really drift a front wheel drive. You have to use the side brake. A front wheel drive can not whip it's tail out because the tires are being driven in the front as opposed to the rear. So when approaching a turn you pull the side brake to cause traction loss. And the rest is pretty much the same except that it's much harder to take more than one turn with a front wheel driver \nWho Does It?\n\nOn the average it is men in their early to late twenties, but more and more often you will see girls participating. There are some older men who do it such as Keiichi Tsuchiya (the drift king) who is in his fifties.
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hey no worries ! u need not need ne xperience ! go karting consists of ony steering, acceleration n braking ! no gear control !
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You can't tell what the top speed of the car will be. Not with that information anyways. You can take two of the same cars you just described, one with 200 hp and the other with 400, and the top speed could be the same. To find the top speed of the car you need more information with the main one being gearing. Change the gears in something, you can change the speed.