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Racing the Geo Metro

I borrowed my wife's Geo Metro last night. One liter of raw power, three cylinders of asphalt-tearing terror on thirteen-inch rims. It's stock, alright, nothing done to it, but it pushes the barely 2000 pounds of metro around with AUTHORITY. I'm always catching mopeds and 18-wheelers by surprise...

I was headed back from Baskin Robbins with my manly triple-latte cappuccino blast ("No Cinnamon, ma'am, I take it BLACK"), when I stopped at a streetlight. As the Metro throbbed its throaty idle around me, I sipped my bold beverage and wiped the white froth my stiff upper lip. I was minding my own business, but then I heard a rev from the next lane. I turned, made eye contact, then let my eyes trace over the competition. Ford Festiva-a late model, could be trouble. Low profile tires, curb feelers, and schoolbus-yellow paint. Yep, a hot rod, for sure. The howl of his motor snapped my reverie, and I looked back into the driver's eyes, nodded, then blipped my own throttle. As I tugged on my driving gloves and slipped on my sunglasses (gotta look cool to be fast, and I am *damn* cool, hence...), the night was split with the sound of seven screaming cylinders...

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Horsepower vs Torque

Ok, so any time you look at an ad for a new car and there it is: Specs for horsepower and torque. You see it every time you look at a performance advertisement. People talk about horsepower and torque with a knowing nod of thier head but if you ask 10 different people what the two terms actually mean, you'll get 10 different answers. So let's lay the rubber onto the road and once and for all satisfy the issue: Just what is horsepower and torque, and how do those two things affect how fast your car goes down the track?

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The Hot Rod is Dead

"One day that garage door will open, and the ground will shake a little..."

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Reading a "Time Slip"

OK, so you have decided to finally find out just how your car really performs, and you have taken it to your local drag strip. You've met new friends in the pits, you've experienced the adrenaline of staging, and your car gave everything it had to get you to the white line as fast as possible. And now you have a slip of paper in your hand filled with numbers and measurements... what do they mean?

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