Good choices there. Both are solid cars with good modification responce. I personally HATE FWD.. hate the feel of it and really hard to get traction off the line. All my DSMs were AWD for both launching and just plain security when driving down the road in bad conditions.
Actually a stock 93 Saturn SC runs an 18 second 1/4 mile.. just looked it up. But, if you go through with all these mods go ahead and do a run and post the new time you get.. its always fun to see how much you can shave off the stock time.
Sorry I didnt notice you were running an SL.
Here is a helpful link to look at current saturns that people are modding and running. Good to see how it will respond to mods.
http://www.dragtimes.com/Saturn-Times.html
This is a list of times of stock cars tested by "the experts" on what they run coming out of the factory
http://www.albeedigital.com/supercoupe/articles/0-60times.html
yep, the Firebird and Camaro are basically the same car.
I dont know where you got 18 seconds from, but thats totally off. I think you looked at the
SC or the
SC1 or the
SL1 because all of those cars have an 86hp engine. Ive got the
SL2 with a wopping 125hp..
This is from the first link you posted.
Do you see who I bolded? That guy is on my forums that I go to and his car is basically stock with the exception of an exhaust system, lightweight flywheel,a ported & polished head, and underdrive pullies which have proved to do jack shit for our cars.
1/4 Mile
ET 1/4 Mile
MPH 1/8 Mile
ET 1/8 Mile
MPH 0-60 Foot
ET Car Year Driver
1) 11.809* 116.488 7.587 92.053 1.450 Saturn SL2 Sedan 1991 Jeff Silva
2) 13.100* 106.470 8.534 84.830 2.065 Saturn SL2 1994 Carlos Ramos
3) 13.650 102.100 8.710 80.120 2.210 Saturn SL2 Nitrous 1994 Bill Eppes
4) 13.898 95.660 8.800 77.000 1.960 Saturn SL2 1992 jason yarbrough
5) 13.958 95.340 8.825 77.450 1.979 Saturn SL2 1992 jason yarbrough
6) 14.100 99.550 Saturn SL2 1995 Brian
7) 14.520 91.460 9.300 75.130 Saturn SL2 1998 Green Monstah
8) 14.731 97.170 9.616 75.730 2.424 Saturn SL2 2001 Wayne Fajkus
9) 14.769 95.120 9.599 76.350 Saturn SL2 1997 Mike Matson
10) 14.802* 91.640 9.437 75.640 2.145 Saturn SL2 1994 Jon McCullough
So now the 1/4 mile time of a Saturn is cleared up.