Thread: gtp vs sho

Are the older generation 5spd shos the same performance as the newer generation v8 shos, i know the knewer shos only had auto's like a 98 for example. I could of bought a 94 blue sho in like mint condtion for 1200 bucks with a brand new tranny but needed it to be installed but i allready bought my gtp. I would like to have a sho cause i think it would be a good beater car, no offence sho owners.

The 5 speed v6 SHO's can beat the V8 SHO's. The 96-99 SHO's were all automatic and V8. The reason why the MTX V6's could beat the V8's is when the V8's came out, they reworked the design of the intakes, the original intake mirrored after the v6's intakes boasted something near 300hp which was too much for the tranny they were going to put in them so they reworked the intake to make less hp for fear of replacing a bunch of tranny's or the money to beef it up. There is a website about this somewhere, but its been so long I can't remember it...

They are fun cars, first time I ever was in a car that did a 30 ft burnout outta the high school parking lot was when my buddy had a automatic SHO v6. I was hooked.