Kyraina wrote:Joseph BridgesWesteastern Dicantia wrote:Violet shook her head, "We're thinking of two different kinds of rotary," she laughed. "Airplane rotaries have pistons in a circle, car rotaries are powered by triangles," she added, making a triangle with her fingers and trying to emulate it spinning around. "That's why it's called a four rotor, it has four triangles inside. They spin around a shaft and that's how power goes to the wheels. Since it doesn't have pistons, it revs really fucking high. The only bad thing is, it doesn't make a ton of torque, and that's why superchargers aren't that great since they're belt driven. Turbos work well cause the engine revs super high and shits out air left and right." she added, following him to his car. "We're also thinking of two different superchargers," she laughed again, "Turbosupercharger is a really long, badass name for turbos. Superchargers came first, so now they have this other thing that works kinda like a supercharger, but not they just added turbo- to the front and left it. Like I said, we didn't boost it because it was basically undrivable. The boost would come on and the rear-end would fuck off into space," she said cheerily. Violet quickly sobered up as he mentioned his brother, "I'm sorry he had to die like that. I haven't really had that happen yet, nobody in my family's died while I was alive." She looked up from her phone and noticed he had shaken it off. "You'll have to show me the 86 when it comes, I wanna help you finish it." said Violet, hoping to show some support. She nodded along as he talked about the Nova and, thinking out loud, she said, "how opposed are you to sequentials? I'll bet I can knock a whole second off your 0-60. It's a bit different cause you won't need the clutch most of the time, but I think you'd like it."
"I know that, I was being a smartass and it backfired." Joseph said as he smiled and then laughed.
"It's fine, I'm adjusting slowly since I don't have to deal with my mother anymore since she blames me for him dieing in that crash, and I have Dirk to lean on as well, I do blame myself as well, and what do you was alive? You are still alive ain't or am I talking to a flesh and blood ghost?" Joseph laughed again and smiled a relief smile when she offered her help.
"Thanks, it'll be in sometime next week, and was thinking about giving it to Rachel, since she wants to learn to drive, besides the 86 is a easy car to learn in, but a hard car to master, well atleast from what I have seen." Joseph said as he popped the hood. "While it has a 396 badge, the engine block was bored out in tge factory to a 402. My dad and i stripped it down to the Engine Block, and rebuilt it into a fuel injected 402, while adding a Roots Supercharger, and a 50mm turbo, while also installing the computer and electronics out of a totaled C7 vette, and with Settings for more fuel efficient settings comes out to 550bhp, while with the performance settings come out to roughly 650, i think, might be lower now due to altitude. The problem is the take off at either setting, is if you duno the clutch or hold it to long you burn out for a decent distant before it finally grabs and goes. Any way I don't have a problem with sequentials, but Meg might since its her car, so we would have to find out. She shouldn't mind but you never know, still need to teach her to power shift though. Any way i wish i knew of a way to improve the 0-60 on my truck, as it currently is, with the TRD supercharger it will do 0-60 in about 5.0 seconds, but its not built for racing but for wheeling. Which i have a wheeling event coming up."
"What kind of gearing are you running?" asked Violet, "Obviously the torque is there, but your gears are probably too tall," she said, wonderingly. "Can I come with? I didn't know you could wheelie competitively," added Violet, laughing Am I into him, she thought, Maybe I should ask him out, see what happens. What if he's not single though. that'd be awkward as fuck. Violet quietly dismissed the immediate possibility of a relationship based solely on loving cars. As nice as that would be, there were other things she liked and those might be problems. "I'll let you do pike's peak with me. I still need notes but I'm almost ready for the real thing. You think anyone else would want to go up there and practice?" Once, a long time ago, Violet had done Pike's Peak in the Audi with her dad. She was much too young to drive, so he had her along for practice, shouting corners at the top of her lungs. She considered it one of the best days of her life so far. Behind the wheel, she had done a run and a half, both times with notes. If she could get Joseph in on it and get the whole mountain memorized, she thought, she might have a chance when it came to the real thing. Maybe she could get all the car people in the school together, too, and do something big.





