[Shotimes] Pontiac unveils SHO successor?

[Jason Hartberger]

the release catch, that is. the brake engages fine. :P


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Hartberger" <at3hartberger@mail.com>
To: "Rick Glass" <rick@pitroadproducts.com>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>; 
"'V8List SHO'" <v8sho@v8sho.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Pontiac unveils SHO successor?


> 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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