09-20-2006, 06:39 PM
You guys want to attack my comparison, but you are doing it completely wrong.
I was talking about the ecotec and f22c, which are both engines, not cars (we all know this but it seems like I got to spell it out for ya'll).
I was alluding in my post above to the fact that 2.2 liter ecotec motors have run mid 7's. I doubt an F20C or F22C powered vehicle has ever backed up a 9 second pass...but maybe someone can find an example of that for me.
The answer has nothing to do with money or badging. You think money is what determines the winner? You think badging makes no difference? WRONG.
I know you want to know, why has the ecotec gone so much faster? Because it is being run by the highest level of FWD dragsters (Cobalts which are replacing the Saturn Ions of a few years ago) and has big time factory support. The F22C sits inside a RWD car and is hopelessly outmatched against other RWD cars (in the realm of drag racing) and so no one wastes money on it. Seriously...you can't write a big enough check to get an F22C to run against a 2JZ or 4g63.
Now that the ecotec is available in a roadster very similar to the S2000 we actually can compare these two motors side by side. Guess what...the F22C is still outmatched dollar per performance.
On a side note, thank God the Sky doesn't have a digital dash cause that is the only thing about the S2K that I don't like.
-T
I was talking about the ecotec and f22c, which are both engines, not cars (we all know this but it seems like I got to spell it out for ya'll).
I was alluding in my post above to the fact that 2.2 liter ecotec motors have run mid 7's. I doubt an F20C or F22C powered vehicle has ever backed up a 9 second pass...but maybe someone can find an example of that for me.
The answer has nothing to do with money or badging. You think money is what determines the winner? You think badging makes no difference? WRONG.
I know you want to know, why has the ecotec gone so much faster? Because it is being run by the highest level of FWD dragsters (Cobalts which are replacing the Saturn Ions of a few years ago) and has big time factory support. The F22C sits inside a RWD car and is hopelessly outmatched against other RWD cars (in the realm of drag racing) and so no one wastes money on it. Seriously...you can't write a big enough check to get an F22C to run against a 2JZ or 4g63.
Now that the ecotec is available in a roadster very similar to the S2000 we actually can compare these two motors side by side. Guess what...the F22C is still outmatched dollar per performance.
On a side note, thank God the Sky doesn't have a digital dash cause that is the only thing about the S2K that I don't like.
-T
MIHS - hot cause we fly you ain't so you not
2004 Subaru WRX STi
1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX
1998 Oldsmobile Cutlass
2004 Subaru WRX STi
1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX
1998 Oldsmobile Cutlass