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[AJStarhiker]

Fast and Furious 4?  What happened to 3?

[Ruski]

*shrug* whatever number they are up to now.

takes place in tokyo... aparently sponcered by 'mustang'

*shrug*

they are filming it now.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[ROOTless]

Aren't crawling a tod off topic by now?

[Ruski]

movies... sequils... nah, not much off topic.

want me to tell you all the 'secret' to a scanner darkly?

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Gabriel]

Not really. But thanks for the offer.

Gabriel

[Jester]

*shrug* whatever number they are up to now.

takes place in tokyo... aparently sponcered by 'mustang'

*shrug*

they are filming it now.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

so it's a mustang comercial this time around

[Gabriel]

I hate those damn movies.

Gabriel

[Ruski]

yea, aparently in the storyline they have a mustang that they do an engine swap on and put in some rice-burning crap in there. word on the set is that they just left it as a nice stock 4.6 V8 go figure. LOL

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[AJStarhiker]

ricer crap does NOT belong in a Mustang.

[Ruski]

well, japan has some strict horsepower limitation laws in regards to imports, so bringing some american mussle isn't something they could probibly advertise.

however, getting a shell and droping a rice-crate-enginge into it is legal... so there's a coulple of go-gangs over there that do that.

*shrug*

and for the sake of the storyline for the movie, that's what happened.

turns out the stock american musslecar had more power than the tuned up enginge swap, so they are just using it for all of the actuall driving sceanes.
LOL

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[AJStarhiker]

lol  I'm really not surprised.

[Gabriel]

How about taking a nice efficient rice burner and sticking it in a Vaolkwagon Micro-Bus??? That might be the plot for The Fast and the Furious 5.

Gabriel, who would really like to do that

[Ruski]

really, what it comes down to with thoes 'rice burners' is the power:weight ratio.

you put a big enginge in a heavy car... and it'll go fast, you put a little enginge in a light car, and it'll go probibly the same amount of fast.

to really 'get ahead' you need to shave weight off of the frame, and increase the enginge power.

so you get your built 502 big-block chevy, slap a blower on it for a nice round 500 horsepower, add 'genie in a bottle' to slap on another 200 horse, and throw it into the lighest car frame that can hold it... and you've got lightning on four-wheels.

you can bump it up further by going with an aluminum block (such as the new corvette motor) all alluminum frame, carbon-fiber hood, doors, everything... and have something with so much power it's tough to keep the wheels on the ground.

or, you can just go how I figured: and get a motorcycle.
for about $4K, you can get a used bike, bone stock, that will beat the dual-supercharged dodge viper.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[AJStarhiker]

hehe.  And it's more fun when there's no walls between you and the wind.

[Ruski]

Well, as far as bang-for-buck goes look at this:

a Hyabusa 1600 costs $12,000.00 if you get the 'limited edition'
it's got a govener on there, that'll top it off at 160 MPH. for the price of a screwdriver you can pull that off, and have your top end jump up to the neborhood of 240 MPH

Corvette, brand new Z06, with a top end of 210 MPH will run you closer to $95,000.00 (for the limited edition with the bells and whistles)
(about 8 times as expencive) and it's not as fast.

go exotic... get a mclarin F-1 or something, and you are looking at the neighborhood of $10 million for a car.
top speed jumps to almost 300 MPH, pretty amazing stuff.
but the 0-60-120 acceleration is still almost the same as that stock, $12k bike.

if you double the bike's price in aftermarket parts (bringing the total to $24K for thoes of you keeping track) you can push a better than 340 MPH topend

all for the price of a mic-sized sadan.

-RuskiFace the Pirate