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Joined: 4/14/2003 From: United States Status: offline
my wife was driving us down the highway and some old guy in a new 120k porsche was getting it on. we passed our exit for at least 15 miles messing with him. 150 mph plus he still couldn't shake us. she had to keep letting off to keep from running him over. the old guy was pretty cool. He gave us a big thumbs up.
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Joined: 5/21/2003 From: United States Status: offline
oh you could keep up with one easily with a super charger and stock gears...all you have to do is run about 185...and thats not hard, even for the stock mustang with cams and a 6 pounder...look at the motor cross guys. Although realisticly youd need a good air dam kit, a functional spoiler and good tires, probably want a decent suspension...I figure for 6G's youd have a car that could "mud stomp" any carerra. So youve got a 25, 500 base car (thats loaded) and 6k more...thats 31,500, and a car that will run all day long with a carrerra, that costs 2 times as much....and that will run easily with it in the sprints....
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Joined: 5/22/2003 From: Newport News, Va Status: offline
shoot me for asking, but dont late model GT's run about a 14 flat stock? at 13.4, i dont think it would take a whole lot for a GT to beat that time, or run with a car boasting that time. the carerra has a good top end, around 170, nothing an ungoverned mustang would need much to acheive im sure. i wouldnt think it takes a supercharger to shave .6 off the 1/4 mile time.
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Joined: 5/22/2003 From: Newport News, Va Status: offline
the carrera doesn't have 500 ponies. its an N/A 911. your thinking of the carerra GT, wich is brand new and a twin turbo. now that's a car running mid-low 11's stock. the N/A 911 carerra runs mid 13's.
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Joined: 5/21/2003 From: United States Status: offline
If I were running a 99 Mustang GT, with 8lbs of boost and a 3.73 gear, with the same tires the Carrera GT has in the rear, Id run mid 11's, which is enough to keep up with or even beat the carrera, and with the computer speed limiter removed, I could cruise right on up to 180 with it on a track. The carrera handles better, but really, with compareable suspension components, and ground clearence, and maybe some add on body panels (Cobra R peices, air dam, valence, wing) I believe honestly that the mustang would rape the Porsche...for way over 300 thousand dollars less.
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Isn't it funny how all the same people jump all over every message always knowing the right answers and everyone else who thinks they know the answer is wrong in their book?
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