[Shotimes] SHO-like Feel

[Bruce Malachuk]

Couldn't have said it any better if I wanted to

Bruce

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Nottingham" <nottingham@alltel.net>
To: "Jenkins, GSE1" <jenkinsdm@philippine-sea.navy.mil>;
<shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] SHO-like Feel


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jenkins, GSE1" <jenkinsdm@philippine-sea.navy.mil>
>
>
> > I don't own a SHO, but I do own a GL and I want to give it that SHO-like
> > feel. I have already installed an ignition system, a chip, and a K&N air
> > filter which has boosted my overall performance about 10%. What else can
I
> > do to give my V-6 183cid Taurus that SHO-like feel? Thanks in advance.
>
> This has been suggested before, but sell your current Taurus, and buy a
real
> SHO.  Nothing against the Vulcan engine or non-SHO Taurii, but the SHO is
> not a "feel", it is an engine, plain and simple.  You can add all the SHO
> suspension goodies you want to a non-SHO Taurus, and it would probably
> handle just as good as a SHO.  You could add a supercharger to the Vulcan,
> come up with 220 hp, just like the SHO, but still not have the feel.
>
> 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.
>
> Now, if you want handling "feel", sell the Taurus and buy a BMW, either an
> E30 325i (88-91) or E36 325i (92-97), get an "is" if you do not need
> 4-doors, get an E30 if you want awesome handling, an E36 if you can give
up
> a little handling for more room.
>
> Ron N. - Dalton, GA
> 90 SHO
> 89 325i
> "It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile"
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