2011 V6 3.7L vs. 1999 Firehawk
10-04-2010, 06:36 PM
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10-04-2010, 07:33 PM
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10-04-2010, 08:17 PM
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So my best friend has a 1999 Firehawk trans-am and his mods consist of CAI, Full exhaust, 3:73 gears, and lowering springs (Auto). We were both curious on where caroline (my stock 2011 V6 with 2:73 gears) would stack up. Mind you with my old 2000 GT, CAI, Full exhaust, full suspension, 4:10 gears, (no nitrous) 93 dyno tune, would get crushed by 3-5 car lengths from a roll like we did; Each and every single time...
So we line them up on mexico cruising around 55 and we did a 3 honk. We both took off and by 95 was when he started pulling on me. We were dead even until then. Around 110 we both shut off with him only 1-1.5 cars ahead of me.
We are both surprised of the turn out! Especially this car being BONE STOCK! Caroline continues to impress me. Next mods in the near future will be axle back exhaust, CAI, and a dyno tune when ever shops near here know how to tune them well!
So we line them up on mexico cruising around 55 and we did a 3 honk. We both took off and by 95 was when he started pulling on me. We were dead even until then. Around 110 we both shut off with him only 1-1.5 cars ahead of me.
We are both surprised of the turn out! Especially this car being BONE STOCK! Caroline continues to impress me. Next mods in the near future will be axle back exhaust, CAI, and a dyno tune when ever shops near here know how to tune them well!
10-04-2010, 08:27 PM
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Im not trying to take anything away from you, but with his gears, power and weight advantage, etc and you with 2.73 gears, there is NO WAY IN HELL you would beat a 360 or so HP 410 lb/tq or so ( with the mods ) off the line, or mid range, or even high RPM's... that car would give mine a run for the money, if not, beat me....
10-04-2010, 08:30 PM
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Im not trying to take anything away from you, but with his gears, power and weight advantage, etc and you with 2.73 gears, there is NO WAY IN HELL you would beat a 360 or so HP 410 lb/tq or so ( with the mods ) off the line, or mid range, or even high RPM's... that car would give mine a run for the money, if not, beat me....
I don't think the OP thought he could take a firehawk.
10-04-2010, 09:21 PM
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I really have nothing to hide here. This was the outcome of the race. If I would have lost by 15 car lengths I would have wrote that. This was what happened, I gave a description to the best of my ability to what happened there. I knew I was going to lose going into this, and I lost. The fact that surprised us both was the fact that not by much. I really have no reason to lie about this. I can care less if I lost to a car faster, and for what reason would I have to lie about the distance? You got to remember he was an auto. That was the killer for him. His car put down ~320 rwhp and ~333 ftlbs of torque; cant remember the exact number. People are putting anywhere from 260-270 rwhp stock. This car also weighs almost 300-400 lbs. less. Before we raced we BOTH thought that I was going to lose by 3-4 car lengths. All I can say was that this was not what happened. It happened like I described and there you have it. Believe it or not. 