[Shotimes] SHO-like Feel

[Rbade12@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/10/2003 5:11:33 PM Central Standard Time, 
nottingham@alltel.net writes:

> Where the SHO gets its magic, its feel, is from the Yamaha designed engine.
> When you hit the loud pedal, and the tach needle rushes from 2k on up to 
> and
> past 4k when the secondaries kick in, it sounds like an older muscle car
> with a Holley 4-barrel carb and the secondaries open on it (ok, nowhere 
> near
> as good, but think F.1 with a Holley and you get the sound :-), then keep
> your foot down past 6k, where you would normally shift a Vulcan, keep going
> all the way past redline, then shift, and do it again in the next gear.
> This is what a SHO is all about.  The SHO isn't really about the horsepower
> under the hood...  Well, ok, to some extent it is, but it is also about the
> Bundle o' Snakes under the hood, the awesome rush to the 7.8k rev limiter,
> the awesome sports bucket seats, and watching people's looks on their faces
> when they hear a Taurus turn some serious rpms.
> 

Well said Ron!!