0 to 60 time on a SS automatic with a GMTU?
10-03-2012, 05:43 PM
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Let me correct myself I ment low 5 seconds.
Sorry there is no way a low 4 unless you have well over 300 HP and some way top put the power down.
Getting the low 5 would even be difficult unless you have the grip at launch.
Sorry I should have reread my statment as I will correct my statment "I do not accept a low 4 with only the GM Upgrade".
The bottom line is only few people will have the set up for grip and the skill to hook it up to get the max low time.
This car is proof that FWD vehicles do not have more traction. It has been a lie for years that auto makers pushed to get people into FWD cars to save weight and space. The only thing that is easier is the point and gas driving many can do that have issues with keeping a RWD car from sliding around. The fact is over half of the people on the road have very poor car control skills and with all the electronic aids they have not imporved as they rely on the car to do it for them now.
Sorry there is no way a low 4 unless you have well over 300 HP and some way top put the power down.
Getting the low 5 would even be difficult unless you have the grip at launch.
Sorry I should have reread my statment as I will correct my statment "I do not accept a low 4 with only the GM Upgrade".
The bottom line is only few people will have the set up for grip and the skill to hook it up to get the max low time.
This car is proof that FWD vehicles do not have more traction. It has been a lie for years that auto makers pushed to get people into FWD cars to save weight and space. The only thing that is easier is the point and gas driving many can do that have issues with keeping a RWD car from sliding around. The fact is over half of the people on the road have very poor car control skills and with all the electronic aids they have not imporved as they rely on the car to do it for them now.
10-03-2012, 09:53 PM
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10-04-2012, 05:50 AM
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AWD is also not a must if you know how to drive.
How many years have people got where they were going back when all they had were RWD and cheap nealry bald bias belted tires.
Today they can't seem to get anywhere with some of the best all season radials on cars with more electronic aids imagined.
I think it is mostly a driver skill issue.
How many years have people got where they were going back when all they had were RWD and cheap nealry bald bias belted tires.
Today they can't seem to get anywhere with some of the best all season radials on cars with more electronic aids imagined.
I think it is mostly a driver skill issue.
10-04-2012, 06:06 AM
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AWD is also not a must if you know how to drive.
How many years have people got where they were going back when all they had were RWD and cheap nealry bald bias belted tires.
Today they can't seem to get anywhere with some of the best all season radials on cars with more electronic aids imagined.
I think it is mostly a driver skill issue.
How many years have people got where they were going back when all they had were RWD and cheap nealry bald bias belted tires.
Today they can't seem to get anywhere with some of the best all season radials on cars with more electronic aids imagined.
I think it is mostly a driver skill issue.
Plus it was fun to pull out on an empty street and just shoot up 2 white rooster tails.
10-04-2012, 04:07 PM
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I can relate there. I lived in Spokane Washington and Great Falls Montana for a total of 13 year. The entire time I was driving a Mustang. With the 3.08 traction lock and snows, I got around just fine. Even pulled my neighbors 4x4 Tracker out once, granted, that wasn't much of a 4x4....
Plus it was fun to pull out on an empty street and just shoot up 2 white rooster tails.
Plus it was fun to pull out on an empty street and just shoot up 2 white rooster tails.
We were drifting before it became a sport.
It is fun coming around a bend like Tony Stewart in a World of Outlaw car at Eldora.
10-04-2012, 10:07 PM
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AWD is also not a must if you know how to drive.
How many years have people got where they were going back when all they had were RWD and cheap nealry bald bias belted tires.
Today they can't seem to get anywhere with some of the best all season radials on cars with more electronic aids imagined.
I think it is mostly a driver skill issue.
How many years have people got where they were going back when all they had were RWD and cheap nealry bald bias belted tires.
Today they can't seem to get anywhere with some of the best all season radials on cars with more electronic aids imagined.
I think it is mostly a driver skill issue.
How did we change the TV channel before remotes?
And window cranks before power windows?
How the hell did we ever survive?
But we as a country weren't nearly as overweight before all of this stuff... Wonder why?
10-05-2012, 05:52 AM
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I some times think I am the only one who reads road signs or understands what interstates will take you to what city. Though I will look at Google Earth before I leave home.