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^^The gearing of the car has nothing to do with the motor. My buddy has a 88 Comaro with the 5 liter 305, and it's a good motor. They are very diverse motors. You can't compare them to anything for that reason. Maybe your friends particular 305 is junk, but they all aren't. I was comparing it to the 302, and I still am, because those motors came in a ton of things. Trucks, sports, and sedans. Same as the 305 came in all three of those too. The Chevy 307 is junk. Are you sure your not thinking of it? I don't think they ever put it in a Comaro though. With the Toyota motors, all you have to do is see a couple and you know what kind of motor they are. The those 5 liter Domestics, they just have to be of a variety to make judgement unless you've really seen that particular motor in what ever car upclose.
EDIT: This post was in response to creamed corn's post. I took too long typing it.
No, trust me, the 305 is a very insubstantial motor that's not good for modification, and was never matted to any sort of transmission that effectively utilized the little power it did make. I'm not talking about reliability, market use, or driveability here (although the 305 is a decent cruiser motor), it's just straight up not a tuner motor, and in that sense, the 302 is light years ahead of it. For fun, check out some timeslips for 305 Camaros.... they're running times similar to our Celicas.
I have a buddy who hooked a 6 speed from a late moddle Comaro onto his 305 in his 85 Comaro. And that thing really gets down that road. They make a ton of parts for the 350s, everyone knows that. And almost everything made for the 350's will fit onto the 305's. That makes them great motors for tuning.
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Grand Nationals were like turboed charge V8's, I think they could do 0-60 in like 5ish seconds. I am not sure though, thats what I've heard. But thats cool, beating any V8 with a 4 cylinder is awesome. I would've been crazy impressed if you did beat a grand national though......that would've been cool.
Grand National is a V6 turbo. They were 3.8 liters, if I'm not mistaken. I don't think they every hit the 5 seconds in the 0-60, but they were still very fast. Really rare now.
. my mr2 is the way to go if you want to race from a dead stop...if you want roll on from 10-15 i would actually wanted my celi cause if feels like it got more top end for some reason??? The spool up is super fast in the celi compared to the mr2 (dont ask me why cause i would have thought the mr2 should spool faster with shorted exhaust and shorter ic piping) so anyway the celi cant do much but spin the wheels in first gear while the mr takes a quick jump and is gone with minimal wheel spin.