[Shotimes] Pontiac unveils SHO successor?

[Jason Hartberger]

on the ATX, it has that handy little automatic release while you're in 
drive... it's really great cos I can use it just like a hand brake... it 
doesn't engage or anything.

Jason


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Glass" <rick@pitroadproducts.com>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>; "'V8List SHO'" <v8sho@v8sho.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Pontiac unveils SHO successor?


>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.
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