$100,000 to Spend On a Car - What Do You get?

Grummer said:
lol, ya i know....heck $10k for a newer ferrari engine from a written off one is even better than a 308 !! more power and way smoother...(i know i been in a F355 it was insanely smooth when i got back in my old skyline i think something was broken for the next 3 days no kidding....took a while to get over it, unbelievable!!
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lol, that's funny. I never ridden in a Ferrari so I have no idea how it feels. Some cars are soooo smooth, you couldn't even feel it idling at the stop light.
 
sequoias said:
lol, that's funny. I never ridden in a Ferrari so I have no idea how it feels. Some cars are soooo smooth, you couldn't even feel it idling at the stop light.
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I did smogged Ferrari cars on the dyno, I noticed Ferrari's curb idle is above 1k RPM (too high idle), seem nothing wrong with it. You cant hear the beauty exhaust noise. I can't hear it. You need to walking toward the rear of the Ferrari,then your body can detect the vibrates from the exhaust noise. When you hop in the driver seat, feel it like you sit in an airplane as the jets running (Engine idles). I never drive these Ferraris on the roads before, just smogged them. Smooth? maybe heavy Ferrari w/ front V12 engine like 550 Maranello? I dont know.:hmm:
 
deafsmogtech said:
I did smogged Ferrari cars on the dyno, I noticed Ferrari's curb idle is above 1k RPM (too high idle), seem nothing wrong with it. You cant hear the beauty exhaust noise. I can't hear it. You need to walking toward the rear of the Ferrari,then your body can detect the vibrates from the exhaust noise. When you hop in the driver seat, feel it like you sit in an airplane as the jets running (Engine idles). I never drive these Ferraris on the roads before, just smogged them. Smooth? maybe heavy Ferrari w/ front V12 engine like 550 Maranello? I dont know.:hmm:
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I doubt Ferrari are as smooth as some cars with V6 engine with fwd or rwd...some of them idle so smooth and you can't even feel anything basically. There's so many going on in a 12 cylinder engine, lol
 
i would love to buy a cts v for $70,000 and the rest of money will be for tuning up supercharger, suspensions, tires, etc.

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556 HP at 6,100 RPM and 551 lb-ft of torque at 3,800 RPM.
 
Ferraris are THAT smooth, each engine and its parts are individually blueprinted, so its no surprise its operating in perfect balance.
 
If I have $100,000, I would buy an electric car and use the rest to pay for solar/wind system to produce electric for the car. If any is left, I can use it to pay for car battery when the old one goes bad.
 
Grummer said:
Ferraris are THAT smooth, each engine and its parts are individually blueprinted, so its no surprise its operating in perfect balance.
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Ha, I have never seen a high mileage Ferrari...they're just too expensive to keep manitanced. I heard it costs like $250 or so for just changing oil on the Ferrari.
 
Endemic said:
i would love to buy a cts v for $70,000 and the rest of money will be for tuning up supercharger, suspensions, tires, etc.

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556 HP at 6,100 RPM and 551 lb-ft of torque at 3,800 RPM.
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I have driven the regular one, it's nice but not my type of car. I'm not really into caddies.
 
sequoias said:
Ha, I have never seen a high mileage Ferrari...they're just too expensive to keep manitanced. I heard it costs like $250 or so for just changing oil on the Ferrari.
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yes quite right, its Very expensive to maintain these cars, i have heard its cost about $2000 or more just to do fanbelt changes (no suprises here), also yes theres hardly any high milage ferraris that because they wear out so fast, it requires an entire overhaul like when it hit the range of anywhere 40,000k to 60,000k on the odometer, depending on the driver, engine, how it regularly looked (and i mean that in 'stressed' like REALLY paying attention to everything on the Ferrari. Owning such a car isnt just a 'car choice' its a commitment, like owning an exotic weimaraner is going to be totally different to owning a labrador (ok Marley (in the film) was a gun-dog variety of such breed, so that's why he was a 'problem dog') Shocking as it is for Ferraris to require an entire overhaul often well over $30-40k to even $80 or more for the best of best top of the line Ferraris (like the F40 but would be even more scary for say a 1965 250GTO...like unthinkable...). This is actually normal, and terrifying expensive for us ordinary blokes.
so this partly explains it, it is MADE for high performance, so narrowly focused there is no way to cheat physics, extract alot of power you're gonna have to pay for its extraction in wear and tear, pure and simple hard truths. All the glory you read in car magazine never mentions this (except maybe a very very few slip out or 'matter of fact' but nothing more. Glossy exotic/speed oriented luxuary car magazines do not just advertise for these fabulous cars but also advertising that lifestyle, so it should not come as any surprise at this denial of the short-live span of such engines/cars.
 
Grummer said:
Ferraris are THAT smooth, each engine and its parts are individually blueprinted, so its no surprise its operating in perfect balance.
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Older Ferraris are sucked and underpower. Today's Ferraris are better with improvement engine design and electronic controls. You know what's a 308 stand for? 3.0L 8 cylinders but actual size is 2.9L, wonder the piston size in a 2.9L block, looks like a Briggs& Stratton's piston? LOL
 
Endemic said:
i would love to buy a cts v for $70,000 and the rest of money will be for tuning up supercharger, suspensions, tires, etc.

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556 HP at 6,100 RPM and 551 lb-ft of torque at 3,800 RPM.
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Did you really know that the CTS-V's SC motor came out of the Corvette ZR-1? So it's like having a Corvette AND being able to haul a lot of beautiful ladies in that Caddy ;) (The ZR-1 motor was detuned maybe 20% of the power for the CTS-V.)
 
I bought my dream car last year for almost $40,000. A limited Jeep Grand Cherokee with a Hemi, fully loaded, leather auto hi-lo beams, auto wipers, Quadra Drive II with ELS, chrome wheels-0-60 in 5.7 seconds. Cadd sedans and Corvetts hate Maine winters.
 
deafsmogtech said:
Older Ferraris are sucked and underpower. Today's Ferraris are better with improvement engine design and electronic controls. You know what's a 308 stand for? 3.0L 8 cylinders but actual size is 2.9L, wonder the piston size in a 2.9L block, looks like a Briggs& Stratton's piston? LOL
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I knew that, i didnt care, I liked the looks of it, its a great little V8, and I meant as a nice shopping basket, hell a 288 would be nicer but that would be well over US$100K probably double or even triple that.
 
cdaigle430 said:
I bought my dream car last year for almost $40,000. A limited Jeep Grand Cherokee with a Hemi, fully loaded, leather auto hi-lo beams, auto wipers, Quadra Drive II with ELS, chrome wheels-0-60 in 5.7 seconds. Cadd sedans and Corvetts hate Maine winters.
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I dream to have a 2009 Dodge Challenger w/6.1L Hemi V8 and Vette ZR1.
 
Grummer said:
I knew that, i didnt care, I liked the looks of it, its a great little V8, and I meant as a nice shopping basket, hell a 288 would be nicer but that would be well over US$100K probably double or even triple that.
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Ferrari engines are handsome craftsmanship. No question. My 71 Alfa Romero GTV 1750's cylinder head looks like Ferrari. This 1750 engine use a mechanical fuel injection pump similar to diesel injection pump, and 8 quarts of motor oil in crankcase (large sump), easy rev up 5k RPM in 1st gear, sometime 6K RPM ( need to drop clutch at above 2K RPM). This mechanical fuel injection pump on a GTV 1750 is US version. European model use dual Weber carburetors. I wish to drop Weber carbs instead of mech fuel inj pump but illegal in Calif. Fk
 
deafsmogtech said:
Ferrari engines are handsome craftsmanship. No question. My 71 Alfa Romero GTV 1750's cylinder head looks like Ferrari. This 1750 engine use a mechanical fuel injection pump similar to diesel injection pump, and 8 quarts of motor oil in crankcase (large sump), easy rev up 5k RPM in 1st gear, sometime 6K RPM ( need to drop clutch at above 2K RPM). This mechanical fuel injection pump on a GTV 1750 is US version. European model use dual Weber carburetors. I wish to drop Weber carbs instead of mech fuel inj pump but illegal in Calif. Fk
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Sucks to be living in Cali when you cant swap the FI out for Webers eh. I know the feeling as I was living in CA before and had to get my 1984 Audi Coupe GT to pass smog. ugh. Now in Tenn no smog tests in Knoxville (Nashville and Memphis has smog tests) and if I had ur Alfa, I would swap the FI out for the webers without question.

Plus besides my dream Cayenne GTS, I would really love to have the 1988 Lancia Thema 8.32 with the Ferrari 308qv motor. Unfortunately if I want it in the US I have to wait until 2013 when its 25 years old then I can legally import one in. Same went for another unobtainable car the 1978 Ford Falcon XC Bathurst Cobra. I would love to have that one too.

Lancia Thema - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The ultimate Thema, the '8.32' ("8" standing for the number of cylinders and "32" for the number of valves) was assembled at Lancia's S. Paolo plant in Turin.[3] It used a 2927 cc Ferrari V8. This engine was based on the unit used in the Ferrari 308 qv and some of the componentry was assembled by Ducati[4] from castings made at Maranello. The engine differed from other Ferrari V8s of the time in that it was equipped with a 90 degree crankpin type crankshaft rather than the usual 180 degree type, smaller valves and different firing order. All this to make the engine characteristics more suitable in a 4-door luxury saloon. Both Series 1 and 2 cars in non catalysed form produced 215 bhp (158 kW) and were capable of 0-100 km/h in 6.8 sec and 149 mph (240 km/h) whilst catalysed versions were slightly detuned to 205 bhp (151 kW) which gave 0-100 km/h in 7.2 sec and 145 mph (235 km/h).
The car offered good performance (though the Turbo version was quicker than the catalytic version from 0 to 100 km/h) and excellent refinement, including a luxurious hand made wood-and-leather interior by Poltrona Frau complete with the same luxury equipment as LX versions of the Thema. Unfortunately, a price tag of £40,000 (or more) in Britain, and the fact that only left hand drive versions were produced, limited its appeal, with only 9 being officially sold there. It was even a rare sight on Italian roads, with just 2370 Series 1 built between 1986 and 1988 and 1601 Series 2 built between 1989 and 1992. Even 64 numbered editions where made,32 series 1 and 32 series 2. These where only delivered in Ferrari-red and should be sought after examples in the future.
Five non catalyst Thema 8.32s were exported to Taiwan and 2 of them still survive today.
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sablescort said:
Sucks to be living in Cali when you cant swap the FI out for Webers eh. I know the feeling as I was living in CA before and had to get my 1984 Audi Coupe GT to pass smog. ugh. Now in Tenn no smog tests in Knoxville (Nashville and Memphis has smog tests) and if I had ur Alfa, I would swap the FI out for the webers without question.

Plus besides my dream Cayenne GTS, I would really love to have the 1988 Lancia Thema 8.32 with the Ferrari 308qv motor. Unfortunately if I want it in the US I have to wait until 2013 when its 25 years old then I can legally import one in. Same went for another unobtainable car the 1978 Ford Falcon XC Bathurst Cobra. I would love to have that one too.

Lancia Thema - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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THAT is what id buy a low milage mint cond Thema 8.32 based on gtb308 but stroked a bit for more mild tune but with higher gearing in a saloon - NICE !!
yeah the turbo is faster...but not as 'special' hmmm

hell i think id keep restoring the XU1...
 
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