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Old 06-13-2016, 08:22 AM
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Well something is up with the ST for sure. She's puffing black smoke even under light acceleration. And an occasional white/gray cloud. It's boosting most of the time but every 3rd pull or so it just drops out of boost abruptly.

Colin, I want a blower on it now! If I run into some cash somehow I'll do it right away. I agree the Mach never did get the credit it deserves.
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Old 06-19-2016, 11:54 AM
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Originally Posted by bluebeastsrt
Im actually pretty suprised the turbo car wouldn't put up a better fight.

It's over by 5500RPM. If you wind it out to say 6K its dead. The thing pulls hard then immediately falls on itself. Mine fights pretty good up till 75-85mph then i start getting walked hard
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Old 06-20-2016, 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Explosive
It's over by 5500RPM. If you wind it out to say 6K its dead. The thing pulls hard then immediately falls on itself. Mine fights pretty good up till 75-85mph then i start getting walked hard

And that's exactly what happened. From 0-60mph the ST got ahead a little, by 75-80 the Mach had already caught up and started passing...by 90-105mph it was literally a bus length and getting worse.
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Old 06-21-2016, 01:51 PM
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need RS model...
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Old 06-22-2016, 06:46 PM
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Yep! An RS would be nice. Looks like they're running 13.3 at 105 stock. I'm thinking they're going to respond nicely to tuning and be well into the 12s, maybe mid 12ish. The big question is will they start self destructing or not.
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Old 07-15-2016, 01:30 AM
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I just raced one today in my stock 99 Z28 Auto/3.23 gears from a 50 roll in Drive and he caught up pretty quick from a car and a half behind. But the stupid thing is, there was a car ahead of us coming up fast so I let off. Thinking he was also, but instead, the idiot cuts me off INCHES away from my front bumper while I hit the brakes even harder after slowing down seeing that he was switching over. Fool almost hit the car in front of him AND me. Great car, but I am seriously not impressed by his antics. I bet he's bragging to his buddies how he beat an LS1 lol. He could have the win. He already lost at life driving the way he did.
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Old 07-15-2016, 07:27 AM
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Originally Posted by stealth_GT
I just raced one today in my stock 99 Z28 Auto/3.23 gears from a 50 roll in Drive and he caught up pretty quick from a car and a half behind. But the stupid thing is, there was a car ahead of us coming up fast so I let off. Thinking he was also, but instead, the idiot cuts me off INCHES away from my front bumper while I hit the brakes even harder after slowing down seeing that he was switching over. Fool almost hit the car in front of him AND me. Great car, but I am seriously not impressed by his antics. I bet he's bragging to his buddies how he beat an LS1 lol. He could have the win. He already lost at life driving the way he did.
Month or so ago i ran a new camaro, prob 2015. It was off a red light and i treed him pretty good and was out ahead. We were coming up on traffic in his lane and i was ahead a bit so i braked pretty hard to make him a gap to slip into in front of me. Whats he do? Ricer flyby and tries to pass the approaching car via the left hand turn lane... meanwhile that car saw him coming and panics and jumps into the left turn lane as he is trying to as well meanwhile im over in the right lane with like a damn mile wide space for him like wtf dude....
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Old 07-16-2016, 12:05 AM
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Some people really do not have any racing etiquette whatso ever. Nor common sense

Reminds me of the time a 2v GT read the lights wrong ( four lane stop ) and launched it right in the middle of a red light thinking it was our green! Not only that, dude went sideways and almost hit the maridian lol. This was after putting bus lengths on him in my modded 09 Charger RT AWD

After that, I backed away from any sort of racing. Takes the fun out of it after seeing that type of stuff lol
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