Confirmed: SLP Firehawk G8 - Discuss
09-25-2008, 08:02 AM
#381
Teching In
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Elgin, IL
Posts: 15
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I just realized that I'm going to have to change my little signature emblem so people aren't thinking that I drive one of those G8s. It's a nice car, but it is a sedan.
09-25-2008, 08:35 AM
#382
TECH Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: In your sisters panties
Posts: 623
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Ding Ding Ding; we have a winner!
IDK about you guys, but i think seeing just "SLP G8" or "SLP *insert car line name here*" on the back of a car would be straight sex.
kinda like, "Damn, is that an SLP car?!"
Last edited by Nine Ball; 09-25-2008 at 09:15 AM.
09-25-2008, 08:42 AM
#383
TECH Senior Member
GM has officially raped every performance name that enthusiasts had once held dear. Now they're nothing more than trim names. It really is no wonder that this company is going down in flames.
09-25-2008, 08:48 AM
#384
I like the ring of SLP G8. It goes better with the moniker of the vehicle itself. It's all alpha-numeric to start with. Adding a name to something alpha-numeric is more along the lines of fighter aircraft, and that isn't as glorious as it once was.
09-25-2008, 09:08 AM
#386
TECH Fanatic
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Reading, Pennsylvania
Posts: 1,115
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Thankfully they dropped the Malibu SS when the Malibu got redesigned.
I don't like them using Firehawk on it myself, but it is what it is. No sense in complaining they're not changing their mind. Can't wait to see the specs though.
09-25-2008, 09:16 AM
#387
TECH Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: In your sisters panties
Posts: 623
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
for the sake of argument; even if adding a blower adds only 25% crank power; we're still talking 375HP and 343 ft/lbs from a DI V6. That isn't to shabby for a DD for someone who can afford it. that would easiy run with BMW 3 Series and low end AMG's.
Add a pulley, intake/exhaust, and a tune; you have a "poor man's" CTS-V (kind of like how the F-Bodies are "poor man's" Corvette's)
09-25-2008, 09:18 AM
#388
This is NOT a GM decision. It is purely an SLP decision. That makes it even more painful since thousands of us actually supported SLP by purchasing our Firehawks and Camaro SS cars, as well as SLP parts. They are an enthusiast driven company.....that seems to be turning their ears away from the very group that helped them grow.
09-25-2008, 09:30 AM
#389
TECH Apprentice
Having been a member of the SLP board since what, 1996 when it first came online, the OLD LS1.com, now this site and LS2.com, I almost purchased a 2001 Pewter/Beige 6spd Firehawk but the dealer was a douche bag......upon hearing this name for a G8.....in my opinion, foolish.
I think a bit more thought should have been made to another specialty vehicle from SLP. Firehawk would not have been one of them. There wasn't one older Pontiac model name that is not under license from GM that could have been used? I'm guessing when shown at SEMA, the reaction will be overwhelmingly negative.
I think a bit more thought should have been made to another specialty vehicle from SLP. Firehawk would not have been one of them. There wasn't one older Pontiac model name that is not under license from GM that could have been used? I'm guessing when shown at SEMA, the reaction will be overwhelmingly negative.
09-25-2008, 09:48 AM
#390
On The Tree
iTrader: (2)
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Eastern PA
Posts: 180
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
In my opinion, SS was always used on multiple cars, Nova, Camaro, Chevelle. Firehawk was used on the Formula and Trans Am. Nothing else. SS had been thrown around a little before, Firehawk was sacred.
09-25-2008, 10:21 AM
#391
TECH Addict
iTrader: (41)
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Germantown Hills IL
Posts: 2,003
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Firehawk was sacred.
Good luck!
09-25-2008, 11:04 AM
#392
That makes it even more painful since thousands of us actually supported SLP by purchasing our Firehawks and Camaro SS cars, as well as SLP parts. They are an enthusiast driven company.....that seems to be turning their ears away from the very group that helped them grow.
09-25-2008, 12:17 PM
#399
Staging Lane
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Posts: 88
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
just debadge them
anywho...glad to hear slp has got people even more excited about the g8 but "firehawk"...i dont think so
yall stop being so hard on the "ham-burgular"
...lol
anywho...glad to hear slp has got people even more excited about the g8 but "firehawk"...i dont think so
yall stop being so hard on the "ham-burgular"
...lol