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fast fours did a feature on it a few months ago:

2.2L ecotec 4 banger

custom t76 turbocharger

Spearco water to air intercooler

10 1600CC injectors

FAST ECU

4 speed dog box

ported head, solid lifters, aftermarket valves/camshafts/valve springs.

all internals replaced with stronger items or race prepped

state of the art suspension set up tuned to perfection

when it ran a 8.04 it didnt use nos, this time i am unsure if it did or not, but im sure theres more left in it

About the most I know about Saturn is that a good deal of their cars use plastic panels (like door skins etc) to save costs. Good for your supermarket car park fender benders I suppose.

A friend of mine in the US had a saturn and f'ing hated it. The build quality seemed fairly poor.

Not that this has anything to do, or is related in any way, to the 7 second saturn which i doubt has plastic panels.

and their cars from the 90s weren't exactly good looking either.

Damn good time though - how did they do it? I mean I always thought fwds couldn't do times like that because all the weight transfers to the back of the car on take off?

The Americans have nearly perfected the black art of getting a front-driver to hook up. Comes from racing Hondas for all those years I guess. They use long wheelie bars, not for any fear that the car will do a wheelstand ( :D ), but to extend the wheelbase. They set them very stiff. Weight transfer is the enemy in a front drive drag car. Suspension setup bears no relation to a rear-driver . . . it's weird, but really cool.

J

the abel abera rx7 uses 2 pwr water to air barrel cooler and runs methonal or similar, just becaust its a cooler burning fuel dosent mean it cant be run cooler into the engine. when they run extreme boost like those cars would there would still be alot of heat in the intake

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