neverfastenough
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Figured I yap a little about some modern cars and competition these days since I kinda raped DD's thread about it back in the day. I live in a pretty average home town full of civics and cobalts etc. The car scene her in the Akron canton area where I go to school is a bit different. Went to a very large meet here that happens every weekend, I was an outcast . High dollar vettes, cobras, t/a, supras. Some of the lower dollar stuff was still nicely done srt-4's, audi's, 240's, sti's etc. There I am with my $1500 dollar blue book value t bird chilling there next to 4 whippled cobras, and evo 10's.
Some people were poking their heads in and catching the boost gauge in the A pillar. I actually didnt pop my hood until a kid with a currently broken down sc asked me to. The cobra guys then took some attention. A few asked the turbo size etc and I figured I was talking to 600rwhp+ cobra owners. Then the big question, how much power does it make? I said 425rwhp on the current baseline tune, one guy shook his head and walked off, the others were very impressed. The highest rwhp cobra of their group was 480rwhp, the 2.3L whipple car right next to me was 460. Apparently they all owned a stang shop near norwalk and came down to show off their cars. Anyway a few other german car guys and supra guys were tossing around dyno numbers and I couldnt find anyone in the 500's. I feel like us sc guys really have our ~~~~ together.
I know there are tons of 800rwhp cobras out there and other cars but no one was getting the job done at this meet. We're making 400+ rwhp like its our jobs. Im still going to stick to my guns like I did in Dave's thread back in the day, that even if we had all the money out there, that our 3.8 platform cant catch new vettes, mustangs, etc that have an equal number of mods. The technology is getting better and so is the aftermarket, plain and simple. However, as car owners and modifiers, we do work. If we had cobras and vettes, supras, etc, wed be knocking on 4 digit hp numbers, and running 9s all day. Maybe its because we are obsessed lol or smart, maybe a bit of both. If I was at the meet today with a fully done set of heads on my motor, and some real boost, it would have been an embarrassing day for some cars with rather badass reputations. Ha other than the vettes, I was probably the only thing there with pushrods. Dont really have any purpose to this thread, just proud of were we've come. This shootout and the shootouts to come are going to be crazy, just wait until someone makes a new single port casting and flows 260+ cfm. Its not just dyno numbers either, my car has been tearing up the highway. Not so much at the track tho. Some of you other guys can handle that reputation for us
Corey
Some people were poking their heads in and catching the boost gauge in the A pillar. I actually didnt pop my hood until a kid with a currently broken down sc asked me to. The cobra guys then took some attention. A few asked the turbo size etc and I figured I was talking to 600rwhp+ cobra owners. Then the big question, how much power does it make? I said 425rwhp on the current baseline tune, one guy shook his head and walked off, the others were very impressed. The highest rwhp cobra of their group was 480rwhp, the 2.3L whipple car right next to me was 460. Apparently they all owned a stang shop near norwalk and came down to show off their cars. Anyway a few other german car guys and supra guys were tossing around dyno numbers and I couldnt find anyone in the 500's. I feel like us sc guys really have our ~~~~ together.
I know there are tons of 800rwhp cobras out there and other cars but no one was getting the job done at this meet. We're making 400+ rwhp like its our jobs. Im still going to stick to my guns like I did in Dave's thread back in the day, that even if we had all the money out there, that our 3.8 platform cant catch new vettes, mustangs, etc that have an equal number of mods. The technology is getting better and so is the aftermarket, plain and simple. However, as car owners and modifiers, we do work. If we had cobras and vettes, supras, etc, wed be knocking on 4 digit hp numbers, and running 9s all day. Maybe its because we are obsessed lol or smart, maybe a bit of both. If I was at the meet today with a fully done set of heads on my motor, and some real boost, it would have been an embarrassing day for some cars with rather badass reputations. Ha other than the vettes, I was probably the only thing there with pushrods. Dont really have any purpose to this thread, just proud of were we've come. This shootout and the shootouts to come are going to be crazy, just wait until someone makes a new single port casting and flows 260+ cfm. Its not just dyno numbers either, my car has been tearing up the highway. Not so much at the track tho. Some of you other guys can handle that reputation for us
Corey