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Van2006ko	Jun 1 2009, 04:32 PM
Foamer Posts: 2,528 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: February 16, 2005	buswizard Jun 1 2009, 08:14 AM I saw the NABI scrappings topic has been getting carried away and I didn't want it to go too off-topic, so I started this topic. I mean the eldorados are nice buses to serve low-ridership routes and tight roads, but the acceleration and the shocks of those buses are deplorable. Otherwise I would be a lawnmower fan. I rode 4525 on the 98 (my first mower ride this year) and i now remember why nobody likes them. And I am not sure if frontier would look good with lawnmower after lawnmower after lawnmower anyways. I appreciate all the 40fters; even the bricks are well managed. The Smelldorados are too burdensome. Yeah, I think we should give all our lawnmowers (but one or two for the 35) to Frontier and we get 8210-8219. Frontier deserves ten more 5600s as well. Maybe they should get 5664, 5667-5675. Had it not been for the 5600s and a few lawnmowers (I still have yet to find a really good one) I think frontier wouldve been nearly too boring for me to ride. Well when they were new, they were great buses. They were extremely fast infact hybrid fast, yet bouncy. However sometime in 2002, SEPTA gotten to each one of these units making them slower. When they overhauled them, they adjusted their suspension system. The Eldorados even sounded different with the A/C back then. The product what you have today is mainly a product of maintenance runs just like with the Bricks. These days like any other aging bus in the fleet. Time has taken its toll on many selected buses of the fleet. Quote: The 1st and 2nd gears are admittedly a little sluggish, but once you hit the "lock-up" and move into 3rd, 4th, and 5th, those lil buses surely move! Well the same thing could be said about the 2001-2002 fleet of flyers. Before lock-up, the buses were extremely sluggish yet after the lock-up they are able to fully move. Yet when I've ride on 54xx and 55xx from Comly they are a completely different story. (At least the ones I've ridden on). Before their overhauls there were a few units which it's turbocharger spooled up extremely fast. Exactly like the 56xx and had 56xx acceleration. Since their overhauls, however, the New Flyers are extremely slow at those speeds. On the NABI front, the radiator fans are constantly on. Probably due to constant overheating. They take roughly 25-30% horsepower away from the engine. When the radiator fans are off, however, they sound like New Flyers and have 56xx like acceleration.


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