by "That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms" (thatbastardkurtis5)
Published 08/26/2017 at 01:46
by "That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms" (thatbastardkurtis5)
Published 08/26/2017 at 01:46
Tags: TWOT
STARS: 2
I was driving to work tonight to work this stupid late shift the city is experimenting with, hoping it would fail (I think it did!), and I got to thinking: is there a car I’ve owned that’s spent more time at wide open throttle over a two week span than the Miata has since I bought it? Hence TWOT: Time at Wide Open Throttle.
I mean I’ve been hammering this thing. I haven’t been bouncing it off the rev limiter, but just pulling out onto a main road I’m probably going WOT through first and second 70% of the time...which is reasonable and legal because that actually only takes me to 45mph or so. I’ve been using the engine is my point.
The last fun car I had was an ‘86 Mustang LX notch with a 5 liter and a 5 speed. I rarely ever went WOT with it...mainly because getting over 45 happened very quickly in that car and it sucked to drive on the highway. So I usually avoided that.
The Miata though apparently has a very high TWOT value (lots of TWOT? Big TWOT? Good TWOT?), and who doesn’t love that?
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
08/26/2017 at 06:27, STARS: 1
The vehicle for me with the most TWOT is my scooter. Although when I’m running the RallyMetro, I do a lot of rev limiter bouncing as well, I put a lot more miles on the scooter.
"daender" (daender)
08/26/2017 at 09:21, STARS: 1
A lot of people don’t understand is that the Miata is fun at WOT but you really, really have to keep your foot in it to start breaking the speed limit. It sounds and feels a lot faster than it actually is. Every time I take pops in the car, he always complains at least once that I’m going too fast when I’m just trying to accelerate up to the speed limit, lmao.
"That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms" (thatbastardkurtis5)
08/26/2017 at 09:50, STARS: 0
This is a fact. I just drove my wife’s Escalade up route 95 going 70 and felt like I was crawling, the same speed in the Miata last night felt like warp factor 5.