I drove my dad's VR-4 today. I thought I should take
it out and make sure it hadn't gotten "flat". It's
still all there. The car may be heavy, but it's no
roach out of the hole. The guy that Robert "spanked"
must have had his panties bunched up under the
throttle.
Brad
--- ZXiMan@aol.com wrote:
>
>
> Being the owner of a '99 C5 Coupe and having a
> friend that owns a '97
> VR4 (320hp version), I can tell you that my buddy
> can eat me up outta the
> hole (if driven properly). We both have pretty
> extensive modifications (I
> have RM racing intake, DRM mass-air, fatter plug
> wires, Corsa Exhaust, timing
> tricker) and he's got a Greddy exhaust, Profec boost
> controller, Alamo
> down-pipe, Alamo/Bell Engineering intercoolers). He
> can only run 12.5 psi
> boost (until he upgrades his fuel management)
> because of OBDII. My C5 puts
> 330hp to the ground and his a little more. He can
> jump me outta the hole by
> about two car lengths. Unfortunately for him, he
> runs outta steam at about 80
> mph (with his current boost levels) and I catch him
> and pass him...beating
> him by about 1-2 car lengths. When his car was stock
> (and mine also), he
> could still get ahead about 1 car length, but I
> would pass him at about 50
> mph and at the end of the quarter, I was about 3-4
> lengths ahead. I did race
> him once in my dakota R/T (which runs 15.0's). He
> was ahead of me at the stop
> light. When the light turned green, he launched and
> I "tried" to keep
> up...needless to say, he beat the TAR outta me (by
> roughly 15 car lengths) to
> about 100 mph.
>
> James Crone
> Performance Engineering
> 940-321-5865
>
>
>
>
>
===
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318 5-speed 3.55 SG
Street Scene pan and hitch
DJM 3-5 drop with Toxic nitro's
Flowmaster 2-chamber muffler
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