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Mail From: wmc2004aug ((email redacted))

At 07:25 AM 9/7/2005, you wrote:
>My parents had a 72 Nova with the small block eight. It got only 12
>miles to the gallon in town. ..... By comparison, Honda had the
>CVCC system and met the rules easily with no other bolt on devices.

Yeah, the mid 70s to 1990-ish were the dark ages for cars. Like
someone else mentioned, I had a '73 Olds Cutlass 350 -- was the
family car and was given to me post high school in the 80's. I ran
pizzas for Dominos in it for 3 months or so in 1985, and it actually
got about 12mpg in town with lots of idling. Was rated at a
blistering 180HP (the torque was probably more respectable.) It
seemed quick to me as a kid, but I'd be surprised if it could have
gotten below 16.0 in the 1/4mi nowadays.

You praised Honda, but I also had an '84 Accord with CVCC motot, and
that thing had a nightmare of vacuum lines and pollution crap on
it. Big black box on the firewall with dozens of hoses! 'Course it
was a carb'.

And then in 1990.... AHHH!! Nissan introduced the new model Sentra
with the SE-R model <VBG> Bought one new. Fastest damn thing you
could get for under $20K, and ran with lots more expensive
stuff. 36mpg highway, if I didn't thrash too hard. Handled
decently. I've still got one (and it's cousin, the NX) 15 years
later. I hold claim to the first SE-R in the USA with a 14.x second
drag strip pass :) 14.75 @ 93mph. All 2.0L motor. I like our
Miata, but why are they so damn slow?! Some of y'all were confused a
few weeks back when someone announced a kit to drop a Nissan SR20
engine (the SE-R motor) in a Miata.... I WOULD LOVE TO!!!


-Wayne '93 SE-R / '93 NK2k / '90 Miata
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