[Shotimes] Pontiac unveils SHO successor?

[Rick Glass]

I use the e-brake when conditions require rear steering.....
I really wish the SHO had a hand brake, but with a little experience, the
foot brake isn't too bad...
just a b!t#h to release in a slide.

Rick Glass
   Nashville, TN
   SESHOC
'99 Silver 60k (still adding up)
   Flowmaster 40's
   no "pre-muff"/resonator
   WELDED (Kirk's 432nd, 8-31-04)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Nimz" <pnimz@v8sho.com>
To: "Donald Mallinson" <dmall@mwonline.net>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>;
"'V8List SHO'" <v8sho@v8sho.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Pontiac unveils SHO successor?


> My SHO with winter tires is the best car I have ever driven deep snow or
on
> ice.  I did not have any winter tires for my RWD cars so I guess I am not
so
> sure of this.  But with the FWD and the awareness that the front can't do
> two things well it pulls through the snow tremendously.  I do miss the
rear
> end steering that can be had on the RWDs.
>
> I also don't live on a dirt road.....
>
> Paul Nimz
> '97 TR
> '93 EG mtx
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Donald Mallinson" <dmall@mwonline.net>
> To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>; "'V8List SHO'" <v8sho@v8sho.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 10:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Pontiac unveils SHO successor?
>
>
> > Like I said, I have had both, and RWD, even with winter tires still
won't
> > take you through snow as well as FWD.  The right tires make a HUGE
> > difference in compentency in any vehicle, but especially RWD.  My
Mustang
> > with two winter tires on the back would go real well, but it wouldn't
> > turn. With four winter tires, it would have been a lot better. But my
SHO
> > or any FWD with the same two winter tires (this tim on the front) will
go
> > AND turn better than the RWD Stang (or other RWD cars).  With Four
winter
> > tires, a FWD SHO becomes the equal of snow plows in many ways!
> >
> > There is a reason there is no such thing as a rear drive horse drawn
> > vehicle.  :)  The advantage of the "emissions" being in back beside,
LOL,
> > you just can't PUSH something through muck (snow/mud) as efficiently as
> > you can pull it.
> >
> > That, flat out, is why FWD outperforms RWD in those situations.
> >
> > Oh, and you correctly brought up a fun point that with FWD you can
"test"
> > for ice/slick conditions easily without spinning out.  I have been doing
> > that for years.
> >
> > Don Mallinson
> >
> >
> > Ron Porter wrote:
> >
> >> As I mentioned earlier, when my wife & I were living in Chicago, we
> >> replaced
> >> the useless Eagle GTs on her '89 GT 5.0 5-speed (and those tires were
> >> even
> >> bad in the wet in summer) with some good all-season tires, and that car
> >> was
> >> as good in the winter as the SHO.
> >>
> >> Years ago, I believe that much of the issue with RWD in winter were the
> >> generally crappy tires available back then.
> >>
> >> Ron Porter
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Donald Mallinson [mailto:dmall@mwonline.net] Sent: Saturday,
> >> October 30, 2004 11:08 PM
> >> To: shotimes@autox.team.net; V8List SHO
> >> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Pontiac unveils SHO successor?
> >>
> >>
> >> My Mustang without real winter tires was positively helpless in
anything
> >> over a dusting of snow.  EVERY FWD car I have had, including the MTX
SHO
> >> is a huge leap forward in traction in those conditions.