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Saturday, May 19, 2007     My SHO never did the Nurburgring :-(     But this one did, and thanks to very creative use of a custom editor for Gran Turismo 4 (courtesy of HunterVF via YouTube) we get to find out what it would be like. This is a really nice peice of work. If you want to quibble on the details... the V-8 SHO wouldn't actually sound like this unless you spun it up to 9000 RPM (and hopefully the cams are welded!), and of course the tranny that is envisioned here is about 10,000% better than the terrible production 4-speed auto. So I like it! Production SHOs are rarely seen on tracks. My '97 SHO did do Texas World Speedway - just once. My new '99 Cobra hadn't been delivered by Ford to my dealer yet (it was the first one in Central Texas, and we believe the entire state - and Ford delayed production for several months while some - but not all - of the bugs were worked out). So my daily driver SHO was all there was to drive (it's lease would run out a month later), and when I had the opportunity (I was an instructor in the LSRPCA Porsche club before they got too snotty to put up with) I took a few laps. Clearly the SHO wasn't the worlds greatest track car, but it did stay unruffled.  What's the ultimate SHO? About ten years ago, I was lucky to have several laps as a passenger at Bondurant in their early V-6 SHO instructor car. With a opened-up engine, unrestricted exhaust, a Quaife limited slip diff, a fuel cell, and of course a great driver - the difference was astounding and the tremendous flexibility inherent in the SHO V-6 really came out. I wonder whatever happened to those cars... and I wonder what it would be like having one now for fun. It'd be easy to duplicate it. Anybody out there have a limited slip diff in their Gen 1/2 SHO? More Information DrivingEnthusiast.net has: a SHO section, in the Ford part of my site: http://www.drivingenthusiast.net/sec-ford/special-reports/index.htm a SHO blog: http://www.drivingenthusiast.net/sec-blog/categories/fordSho/index.html a SHO RSS feed: http://www.drivingenthusiast.net/sec-blog/categories/fordSho/rss.xml Tools & Links for DrivingEnthusiast.net post number # 2108     View and add comments: Comments:   Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[]   Permanent URL for this post: http://www.DrivingEnthusiast.net/sec-blog/2007/05/19.html#a2108   See similar posts in these categories: Events - Track Days | Ford Motor Corporation | Ford - Taurus SHO | Track - Nurburgring | Track - TWS | Video Compendium   Search Google for similar topics on the web: Google It!   RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net   About DrivingEnthusiast.net  Original Taurus SHO commercials     For your enjoyment... and deja vu.... Gen 1 Gen 2 Tools & Links for DrivingEnthusiast.net post number # 2107     View and add comments: Comments:   Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[]   Permanent URL for this post: http://www.DrivingEnthusiast.net/sec-blog/2007/05/19.html#a2107   See similar posts in these categories: Auto Industry - Advertising | Ford Motor Corporation | Ford - Taurus SHO   Search Google for similar topics on the web: Google It!   RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net   About DrivingEnthusiast.net  CarScoop rocks again with a rotary-powered DeLorean!     Carscoop scored well yesterday with a W-12 powered VW GTI.. Cool, but not something any of us would be likely to build. But today's post on a 3-rotor Wankel powered DeLorean hits home - this is something that we could do, and something that we would want to do. DeLorean prices aren't too bad... and as Carscoop says the 130-HP Renault motor is pointless. DeLoreans have long needed an alternative.  This swap provides that, as well as the Porsche transaxle needed to make it work.  Continue at link: http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2007/05/delorean-with-300hp-mazda-rotary-engine.html Tools & Links for DrivingEnthusiast.net post number # 2106     View and add comments: Comments:   Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[]   Permanent URL for this post: http://www.DrivingEnthusiast.net/sec-blog/2007/05/19.html#a2106   See similar posts in these categories: DeLorean | Engine Swaps | Mazda - rotary engines   Search Google for similar topics on the web: Google It!   RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net   About DrivingEnthusiast.net			Prior Blog Posts by Date May 2007 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31     Apr   Jun Use this calendar to navigate thru prior blog postings by date.
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