More of the new KITT

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  1. newtoford

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    [ame="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=27623988"]MySpaceTV Videos: Knight Rider Trailer by Knight Rider[/ame]

    i like the scene where they find the old KITT in the garage and you can see that POS chevy TBI under the hood :rofl:

    wasnt kit supposed to be powered by a nuclear reactor or some futuristic 1980's future tech like that?

    still havent figured out how to get myspace vids to play on this site but if you click the title at the top of the box it'll link you to the page
     
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    Looks pretty cool.
     
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    PAINTANK Cometosis Obsessivus

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    I'll watch it.
    It can't be worse then the Sci-Fi Channel Original monster movies I love so much.
     
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    this show is turning into the best ford comercial i ever seen lol

    tuned port injection FTW!!! lol
     
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    The original KITT was powered by a turbine engine running a special fuel. Thats why you never saw him pulling into a gas station. At the end of the shows history KITT was totalled and it was repowered with a hi perf engine and given streamlining gadgets that popped out of the sheet metal and slowed the car down.
     
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    I beleive it's a MPI...but yea, that scene is funny. It's like they don't know what there looking at LOL.
     
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    Was that the time when KITT was dumped into a big acid tank? Yes...I used to watch it. :hide:
     
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    If I remember right, Kitt once made it back from Australia before the woman who was boarding a plane lol.
     
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    facelessnumber Drew Pittman

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    I'm sorry, I love my Ford, but it is WRONG for KITT not to be a Trans-Am.
     
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    facelessnumber Drew Pittman

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    That's actually TPI - Tuned Port Injection. L98 if it's a 350, LB9 if 305. I wouldn't really call either of them a POS. TBI looks more like a carb. What's strange to me about that though, is KITT was an '82 Trans-Am and TPI didn't happen until '85. That car would have had "Cross-Fire Injection" at best, (now THAT was POS) and more likely a carbed 305.

    Aren't you a closet GM guy? You should know this stuff! :smash:
     
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