How to control my first V8?

RedFox16 · 2012-03-08 16:30:37

lol.........and the make and model is????:icon_banana: My 07 WRX....

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03-10-2012, 05:08 AM

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lol.........and the make and model is????

My 07 WRX....

03-10-2012, 12:49 PM

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good thread...LMAO

03-10-2012, 02:46 PM

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Ok, I think I got a good list going. 3.73 gears

uhhhh....NO

if your afraid of 4.10's just leave it stock, unless your goal is just to make it "kinda" fast

03-11-2012, 12:51 AM

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Nitrous_bob.... why do you think high gear ratios mean fast? I have friends with 800 hp terminators that smoke the tires in 4th gear with 3.55s.

Traction > gear ratio.

03-11-2012, 11:30 PM

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4.10's
used trick flow heads
TFS 2 cam
SN95 MAF
70mm TB
LT's - back exhaust
100 shot
FLSFC's
rear control arms
4 wheel disc conversion

and then go wherever you want from there...

most of this stuff can be bought used to save you some $$$

03-12-2012, 11:40 AM

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I have friends with 800 hp terminators that smoke the tires in 4th gear with 3.55s.

So do I, and I have spanked more than a fair share of them at the track cause they are not set up for 1/4 and usually it shows right off the line, I think bob is more so a track/ bracket racer which is why his thinking is the way it is.....we just put a set of 3.55's in a buddies turbo car and at the end with a 25.7 tire with a c-4 he's out of steam, so it all depends on the combo, tire , gearing and usable rpm of the motor, for 1/4 mile racing that is all important....now I haven't read back to see what the op wants / is trying to do so to each his own

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03-12-2012, 04:54 PM

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3.73s all day for me but I do a lot of high way driving and the road racing.

03-14-2012, 07:19 PM

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cuz he has a stockish 5.0

NOT a 800 HP big block, there is actually a little bit of difference in the 2 believe it or not

and on a NON turbo/blower stockish 5.0 (like he said his future looked towards) thats what works best. at least for me it has in the 6 stangs ive owned over the last 25 years

and FYI..tell your friends to STOP using NITTOS, thats probably the problem and their 800hp 12 second cars might show some times that looked like they came from a man driving...not my 12 yr old daughter.

or maybe they need to learn to drive.....cuz its pretty elementary math like you showed me....

low ET = spinning tires
better ET = hooking tires
optimum ratio>HP with low ratio
HP<optimum leverage
choads=nitto usage

did i miss anything ?