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Old 04-11-2010, 05:37 AM
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Saw a car with a hood scoop coming up behind me when I was going about 40 and I punched it. The front of his car was about even with my rear bumper and stayed there until we got to 120 and I had to left off the gas because there was a traffic light. Could smelll my brake pads lose about a quarter inch.

I was by myself and it looked like he had someone in the passanger seat. Didn't realize these had turbos in them, 0-60 in 5.2 and quarter is 13.9 @ 102. Wasn't able to race him off the line because I had to turn.

Was pretty invigorating, haven't gotten the speedo up that high in awhile.
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They're good runs for our cars, I've been wanting to play with one.
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I ran against one last week when i was leaving work. We raced for about a good mile and a half. All he was seeing was my tail lights.
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just watch out for the modded ones, they can be quick cars with little work.
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Yes.

My daugter's boyfriend has a slightly modified '08 - upgraded to a GT35 turbo and FMIC. If I remember correctly, it ran a 13.2 last year. Not bad given our altitude (~2200 ft) and the extra weight he was carrying with subwoofers...

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Originally Posted by TiredGXP
Yes.

My daugter's boyfriend has a slightly modified '08 - upgraded to a GT35 turbo and FMIC. If I remember correctly, it ran a 13.2 last year. Not bad given our altitude (~2200 ft) and the extra weight he was carrying with subwoofers...



I think it's more than slightly modded with a GT35R!
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It surprised me, I thought I would blow it away. I've got the K&N and magnaflow cat back, plus I had the diablo tune in it with premium gas.

Then I looked it up on the net and saw why I didn't get away from him. He was coming up from behind me though so he did get a bit of a jump on me. If we started at the same speed I think I could have taken him.
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like every recent turboed car thats come out alil tune and some lovin gets very nice numbers. My friends tuned ss tc with slight mods runs low 13s currently.




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