motorbuilt

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Hey KP, how come that looks like you launching your car in front of your house

kp

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Was a friends house, funny thing the street was just paved and the guys in that pickup were the pavers - there was two holes dug there for nearly 20 years until they paved it in the late 90s lol.

ty_ty13

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im 20 (21 in april ) but ask me where all my money is that i've made every summer that i've been working.... and ask me where all the money is that i made while in college and working...

I do work for my dad but i've been working there since i was 13 and now run our two websites and ship stuff LTL and ground all over the country...

im a young guy that lives with his parents and have no bills to pay or responsibilities of children/wife... im not working many hours but when you put all the money in one place it can add up fast... but to me it doesnt seem like it ....

i'm done with making power on my 2002 Z28 now just to spend a little more money getting the thing to use all of it going down the track... then its time to save for important things like a house and a ring....

chasgiv3

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I had a 302 Boss Mustang that I screwed around with when I lived in Atlanta. I cranked it up with all the go fast goodies and I believe it was pretty close to 500 crank. Sold it for $3,000.00 in 1982 I bet it's worth some bucks now.

When I was 18 I bought a Torino from a local gearhead who ran mid 11's with it. Never dynoed the car but the 429 in it with all the go fast goodies that this guy threw in it was said to produce around 500 crank also. Car had a big cam in it. I lost control of it getting on it and smashed it up.

The only car I owned that ever produced 500 RWHP or better is the one I own now. I did heads and cam on the car and made 400 RWHP. I added a 125 shot of nitrous and BAM...over 500 RWHP. It's just not that hard to do.

germeezy1

I have over 500 RWHP and 550 lb ft on the bottle right now. And even N/A around 420~ RWHP was not prepared for the launch of a built trans A4 C5. It goes absolutely sideways at any speeds under 50 mph. When I first got it I was used to spinning the tires in my Cobra but the first time I launched off the line hard in this thing I had turned the TC off and the AH is the only thing that kept me from smacking a curb. I can only imagine what a 1,000 hp car would do!

pakisho

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I started with a 220hp Taurus Sho in 2000. Spent about 10k on it and got it to about 240hp. Yes you read that right. (Okay, okay, so most of the money went into the suspension and brakes).

Then I bought another Sho in 2002 after graduating, with a blower and a bunch of intake mods, it put down 370whp but being FWD wasnt THAT much of a threat to my safety. Got from 60mph up into the 100s very quickly though, I did hand out a beating or two to some stock or near stock F bodies, talk about being dumbfounded.

Sold both for a stock S2000 only a few months later which was great for about a week then it needed like 500hp more, so I supercharged it and ended up at 300rwhp. Nimble, and quick, but not fast.

Demodded and sold the S2k in 2004, bought a stock Z06, added headers, cam, yada yada and got it to 430rwhp, and bought the bottle for it, then sold everything when this blower car came up for sale. Bought that, discovered it made 200hp less than I thought it did, and have spent about a year and a half getting it to the current state.

And I bought a Mini and two Infiniti FX35s along the way somewhere in there.

Is there a 12 step program for this stuff?

Regardless, the progression was such that I worked my way into faster and faster cars over a couple of years. When I think of someone between 16-25 and no prior fast car experience buying a 500rwhp car.......not good.

DeltaT

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Good point...

Jim

Quickin

Cracks me up...........500 RWHP is a joke...if you have problems with it you simply need to "learn how to drive a fuc$in car" or go back to stock because you're gonna kill yourself or someone else. Its just like fighting, either you have it or you don't, you're not gonna learn it.

1,000 RWHP cars and higher, leave it to the drivers with skills.


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Snyper

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300rwhp cars and higher....

LS1injection

My 01 SS M-6
makes 540 & 505 at the wheels , with 9-10 PSI from a D1-sc procharger
long tube headers, acufab 75mm throttle body, and of course my progressive methanol injection system, running VP-M1.

bboyferal

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... And in Miami, anything with over 100 hp and VTEC is highly challenging for many of our residents.


500 rwhp is fun at first. However, it truly does become a damn joke.

smokinHawk

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this thread needs to e retired.