There's a local street racing hot spot at some gas station near the freeway in my city. The freeway has sections with 70+ mph zones. I'd love to do a drag up to 90 or so. If I can get a good launch and shift right, I think it would be a pretty close race (not too confident I'd take him on this one, though).
The way I launched my car in the short drag was strange though. I've tried to squeal the tires on my car a while back just to see what it can do, but I've never spun them for more than a second, and in any case once the car was moving the tires already had a good grip. However, in this race they were spinning for what seemed like 5 seconds (probably closer to 2 or maybe 3 at most), but they kept spinning even when my car was moving. The only difference was the cold air intake, so I'm wondering if it really was able to add that much power.
Has anyone else noticed that much of a difference after installing a CAI?
when i put the cai on my car i felt a better throttle response when taking off, better gas mileage and a bit of an exhaust rumble
Well listen to this.
If you wait til the 2011 mustangs are out you will be beating V8's of previous years with your V6.
2011 V6 Mustang will have 315 horsepower, 12 more then the camaro. And the 2011 V8 Mustang will have in excess of 400 horsepower and being that it is lighter then the camaro, the camaro can say bye bye
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There's a local street racing hot spot at some gas station near the freeway in my city. The freeway has sections with 70+ mph zones. I'd love to do a drag up to 90 or so. If I can get a good launch and shift right, I think it would be a pretty close race (not too confident I'd take him on this one, though).
The way I launched my car in the short drag was strange though. I've tried to squeal the tires on my car a while back just to see what it can do, but I've never spun them for more than a second, and in any case once the car was moving the tires already had a good grip. However, in this race they were spinning for what seemed like 5 seconds (probably closer to 2 or maybe 3 at most), but they kept spinning even when my car was moving. The only difference was the cold air intake, so I'm wondering if it really was able to add that much power.
Has anyone else noticed that much of a difference after installing a CAI?
didnt feel a big gain but a slight better throttle response with the CAI...thats all
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Well listen to this.
If you wait til the 2011 mustangs are out you will be beating V8's of previous years with your V6.
2011 V6 Mustang will have 315 horsepower, 12 more then the camaro. And the 2011 V8 Mustang will have in excess of 400 horsepower and being that it is lighter then the camaro, the camaro can say bye bye
then the 2010 v8 mustangs owners and below are going to be pissed...LOL
It's possible in all the excitement that I had the engine running higher than I thought when I jumped off the clutch.
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then the 2010 v8 mustangs owners and below are going to be pissed...LOL
That's the way things go. The technology and engineering gets better over time (kinda like computers) and if you don't keep getting the latest model then you're running an outdated machine.
It's kind of surprising when you consider that emissions standards are getting more and more strict.
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Well listen to this.
If you wait til the 2011 mustangs are out you will be beating V8's of previous years with your V6.
2011 V6 Mustang will have 315 horsepower, 12 more then the camaro. And the 2011 V8 Mustang will have in excess of 400 horsepower and being that it is lighter then the camaro, the camaro can say bye bye
I don't know about that. A lot of people like the way the Camaro looks. I personally think it's ugly, but that's just my opinion. Plus it's the new kid on the block. People will be intrigued at least for a while, I think.
Well listen to this.
If you wait til the 2011 mustangs are out you will be beating V8's of previous years with your V6.
2011 V6 Mustang will have 315 horsepower, 12 more then the camaro. And the 2011 V8 Mustang will have in excess of 400 horsepower and being that it is lighter then the camaro, the camaro can say bye bye
well its not proven but this guy at the ford dealership said that the mustang parts book doesnt have 4.6 parts in it for 2011 and it has 5.0 badges. otherwise i have no proof yet, but if you google 2011 mustang specs you can find alot of different things, but lately its been all about a 3.7L V6 with 315 hp and a 5.0 V8 with somewhere in the 400's/ i dont have proof though.
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2004 3.9 V6
Magnaflow Dual Catback Exhaust
BBK CAI
BBK 65mm Throttle Body
42% Underdrive Pulley's
4.10's on the way.
It's possible in all the excitement that I had the engine running higher than I thought when I jumped off the clutch.
That's the way things go. The technology and engineering gets better over time (kinda like computers) and if you don't keep getting the latest model then you're running an outdated machine.
It's kind of surprising when you consider that emissions standards are getting more and more strict.
I don't know about that. A lot of people like the way the Camaro looks. I personally think it's ugly, but that's just my opinion. Plus it's the new kid on the block. People will be intrigued at least for a while, I think.
I agree with you on this...i dont like them ethier
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if your tires spun for 2-3 seconds, there is no way in hell you would have beaten him. sorry, but that would put your "ET" for this race at like....11 seconds at least.....my 3.0 ranger could have beat you. either you spun for a much shorter time that you thought, the guy in the lexus didnt know the gas from the brake, or you really didnt beat him. i believe the lexus you are talking about is the LS400 with a 4.0L v8 producing 260hp and 270 tq. the car only weighs about 500 more lbs than you, and i dont see anyway a halfway concious driver of that AUTOMATIC car could lose to a stock 02 v6 with 100 less hp and 50 less tq where the driver spun for 2 seconds, in ANY kind of race.
the lexus LS400 has a rated 0-60 time of 7 seconds, whereas your car with a good launch has a 0-60 of 9.9 seconds. i just dont see how your race proves that your car is faster than his when 1)it probably didnt happen, and 2) if it did, the other driver either beat his engine to death, or had no clue how to drive.....an automatic.....
go to the 1/4 mile and really see what happens. you will probably run a mid-high 16, where he will probably run a low 15....unless his car is in the worst shape it can possibly be.
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Well i wasn't being an a$$ hole. You said " When we reach 55-60 mph I pull off the gas" Thats not even all the way through second gear, which = not even an 1/8th mile. So i stand by my previous statement. This pull said nothing for either car.
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well its not proven but this guy at the ford dealership said that the mustang parts book doesnt have 4.6 parts in it for 2011 and it has 5.0 badges. otherwise i have no proof yet, but if you google 2011 mustang specs you can find alot of different things, but lately its been all about a 3.7L V6 with 315 hp and a 5.0 V8 with somewhere in the 400's/ i dont have proof though.
i read that ford will be stepping back up to a 5.0L in 2011, but i didnt know they were going to take such drastic measures with the V6. hell, a V6 putting down those kinds of numbers will beat any GT built before 2011.
if your tires spun for 2-3 seconds, there is no way in hell you would have beaten him.
I agree...if I was sitting on the line while they were spinning. As I stated, my tires were turning over as I was pulling away from the line. (I suppose I should say "tire" since I'm still running on a limited slip diff). In other words, of that 2 seconds or however long it was, only a fraction of a second of it was me sitting like a duck at the streetlight.
So, given that my tires were pulling that hard, and I took off of the line in much less than 2, let alone 3 seconds, I don't see how that's unreasonable.
Yes, it definitely was a bad launch, since I spun the engine up too hard before engaging the wheels, but my car is faster than his heavier V8 in the short run. A bad launch didn't mean I was going to be slower than him off the line, just that I wasn't going to beat him in a short drag by as much - which is exactly what happened.
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the lexus LS400 has a rated 0-60 time of 7 seconds, whereas your car with a good launch has a 0-60 of 9.9 seconds.
I'm going to put myself out on a limb here and assume you don't own a 99-04 V6. Bone stock or with only one minor bolt on, I can easily run a faster 0-60 time by at least a second - without trying very hard. 0-60 time is at most high 7s. Some reviewers have put it at one or two tenths over 7 seconds. I can't speak from experience because I've never timed myself, but 9.9 seconds is a laughable estimate.
I don't drive a Focus.
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go to the 1/4 mile and really see what happens. you will probably run a mid-high 16, where he will probably run a low 15....unless his car is in the worst shape it can possibly be.
Yeah, we're planning on heading over to the freeway and running it up to 90. That's a good enough gauge of performance. By the time I hit that speed it should have been about 1/4 mile.
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i believe the lexus you are talking about is the LS400 with a 4.0L v8 producing 260hp and 270 tq. the car only weighs about 500 more lbs than you, and i dont see anyway a halfway concious driver of that AUTOMATIC car could lose to a stock 02 v6 with 100 less hp and 50 less tq where the driver spun for 2 seconds, in ANY kind of race.
I'd have to find out for sure which exact model he has, because I don't know. He bought the car used (no idea how good of shape the engine is in, though the car seems to have been taken care of by the previous owner) just a couple of weeks ago. I haven't even been inside the thing yet.
Either way, the numbers are a little more even handed than you imply. Assuming you're correct on the numbers on the lexus, I have 70 less hp (maybe only 55 or 60 less depending on how liberal you want to be with the gains my CAI gave me), and 45 less ft/lbs of torque. Not the biggest difference, but if we're going to start splitting hairs then let's split hairs.
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Well i wasn't being an a$$ hole. You said " When we reach 55-60 mph I pull off the gas" Thats not even all the way through second gear, which = not even an 1/8th mile. So i stand by my previous statement. This pull said nothing for either car.
You're right. I apologized in an earlier reply.
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Way to go B... I think Irish's weather forecast might read "cloudy with a chance of BS".
Damn, man. I'm gonna need some aloe for that burn.
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