Any cross country trippers here?
I drove a 1956 TR-3 from San Jose to Philadelphia ,while in the US Army in 1973. In 2006 I rode a motorcycle from Wilmington, DE to San Diego following mostly I 80. I returned a few weeks later on mostly I 20. It’s a big country!
The TR-3 was a while back, but I seem to remember the northern route, I 80, but I don’t think it was all finished then. Ran low on funds; one of the last meals was a 50 cent bowl of decent chili near Chicago. I had to beg my way through some tolls ion the PA Turnpike.
Any cross country trippers here?
I drove a 1956 TR-3 from San Jose to Philadelphia ,while in the US Army in 1973. In 2006 I rode a motorcycle from Wilmington, DE to San Diego following mostly I 80. I returned a few weeks later on mostly I 20. It’s a big country!
The TR-3 was a while back, but I seem to remember the northern route, I 80, but I don’t think it was all finished then. Ran low on funds; one of the last meals was a 50 cent bowl of decent chili near Chicago. I had to beg my way through some tolls ion the PA Turnpike.
The Triumph TR-3's were nice little roadsters. I own Spitfires myself. I have 1973 MkIV and a 1979 1500.
Been there did that, been to all lower 48 professionally. I want to do it eventually on my own time frame in a RV. I also want to get Alaska and Hawaii in, and then do the Great Loop which is a circumnavigation of the eastern part of the United States via the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Ocean. Very few people ever do it, more people play in the NFL than do that trip. They last part of my bucket list is to do a circumnavigation of the globe via boat.
I’ve always wanted to ride cross country. A buddy did it back in the 80s just before he got married. Now that the kids are out maybe. I had planned to ride to Tennessee and ride Dragon’s Tail this past spring but Covid delayed those plans.
Also working on wife to drive to Las Vegas. We have a relatively new Challenger and unlike the muscle cars of my youth I could easily see making the trip in it.
Any cross country trippers here?
I drove a 1956 TR-3 from San Jose to Philadelphia ,while in the US Army in 1973. In 2006 I rode a motorcycle from Wilmington, DE to San Diego following mostly I 80. I returned a few weeks later on mostly I 20. It’s a big country!
The TR-3 was a while back, but I seem to remember the northern route, I 80, but I don’t think it was all finished then. Ran low on funds; one of the last meals was a 50 cent bowl of decent chili near Chicago. I had to beg my way through some tolls ion the PA Turnpike.
Sounds like you ride two wheels as well. The X-country ride was fun and done at about the last possible age to be done relatively safely. Mid-fifties; the weather sucked for the first few days; when I crossed the Mississippi River into Iowa, the sun came out and the weather was perfect from that point forward. Nebraska is a long state, but not as long as Texas, from El Paso to Texarkana.
I’ve always wanted to ride cross country. A buddy did it back in the 80s just before he got married. Now that the kids are out maybe. I had planned to ride to Tennessee and ride Dragon’s Tail this past spring but Covid delayed those plans.
Also working on wife to drive to Las Vegas. We have a relatively new Challenger and unlike the muscle cars of my youth I could easily see making the trip in it.
I’ve always wanted to ride cross country. A buddy did it back in the 80s just before he got married. Now that the kids are out maybe. I had planned to ride to Tennessee and ride Dragon’s Tail this past spring but Covid delayed those plans.
Also working on wife to drive to Las Vegas. We have a relatively new Challenger and unlike the muscle cars of my youth I could easily see making the trip in it.
What year Challenger, what engine, and if it's a hemi, which one? The day I bought my new truck in 2005, i test drove a Charger. It was the first or 2nd year of the return of the hemi, but it was the smallest version, which was 5.7L I think. It had roughly 340hp in 2005.
But within a few years, they'd increased it to 5.9L then 6.1L, and I lost track after that. In 06, they began offering the "variable displacement" version of the 5.7L, which actually just shut off spark and fuel to 1/2 the cylinders. It would obviously be impossible to truly "vary the displacement", unless you could somehow reduce the piston stroke on the fly(and/or cause the cylinder walls(bore) to close in on themselves, like a room with walls that close in on James Bond or Indiana Jones. Lol), while also simultaneously shrinking the pistons' diameter..
The hemi is kinda mid sized compared with the smaller Ford new(er) generation V8("modular motor") of 4.6 - 5.0 - 5.4L, and the potentially larger GM LS family of small block V8's, which start at 4.8L and go up, up, UP from there, to 7.0L( 427ci) LS7 being the largest version that Chevy installs into production cars(top level Corvette).
But GMPP(General Motors Performance Parts) produces an iron block LS high performance crate motor called the LSX, which is designed to handle up to 2,000 horsepower(not a typo either)! It comes in at least 2 different deck heights. They produce a 454ci LSX(7.4L) and their tall deck LSX is made to be bored/stroked out to at least 500ci(8.2L). An aftermarket company(RHS) has come up with an aluminum LSX block that's now been built to 527ci, or 8.64L! That's a crazy-large small block V8!
Also, what fuel mileage do you get with your Charger?
Mine’s a 2018 with 5.7L Hemi and a 6sp manual transmission. My day to day driving - I live in the suburbs - is about 14mpg - on the highway it’s about 25. I’ve taken her to 117mph and it was turning around 3100rpm - not really working all that hard.
2000hp. I’ve been thinking on and off of upgrading to a hellcat but keep coming back to the thought that I’d kill myself with it. 2000hp. Forget it.
Here’s a pic.
Nice stogie!
I have a 2013 RAM and the advertised mileage was 25mpg. I don’t drive like a teenager and I have never gotten the in dash computer to ever get over 17 something, also a 5.7. How do you calculate your highway mileage?
Nice stogie!
I have a 2013 RAM and the advertised mileage was 25mpg. I don’t drive like a teenager and I have never gotten the in dash computer to ever get over 17 something, also a 5.7. How do you calculate your highway mileage?
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