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03-21-2007, 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by bww3588
must be nice, the girls i meet, drive shitty luminas, probes and blazers...........but they could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch.
cant wait till the premire.
cant wait till the premire.
03-21-2007, 08:42 PM
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I just watched both of the episodes online and I'm lovin it. I'm a little confused though, how did that Scion get on the show... Toyota even makes a TRD supercharger for that car that wouldn't even void warranty.. and all these girls have is an intake and Sway bars?... That car wouldn't have been able to perform on any level in any of the challenges.
I wanna see goldberg speak his uncensored mind, which you can see on SpikeTV.com where he expresses his "distaste" for the lamborghini guys haha.
I think everybodies pick for the winner on this site is probably the T/A.. but I think it for good reason they seem like good people and have a very strong and reliable car there.
F-bodies finally getting some spotlight, though not much. Now lets see the lambo break down (or crash) and the T/A tear at least one more car apart. Keep it up/.
I wanna see goldberg speak his uncensored mind, which you can see on SpikeTV.com where he expresses his "distaste" for the lamborghini guys haha.
I think everybodies pick for the winner on this site is probably the T/A.. but I think it for good reason they seem like good people and have a very strong and reliable car there.
F-bodies finally getting some spotlight, though not much. Now lets see the lambo break down (or crash) and the T/A tear at least one more car apart. Keep it up/.
03-21-2007, 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by kars10_4
oh yeah, I almost forgot...Go Team Trans Am 
, I love this show.
, I love this show.I know it is confusing but there you go.
Mike
03-21-2007, 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by malsop
Sorry on the bad information! LONG STORY 688hp! That was the motor we were going to use. The trans was going to be a turbohydromatic 400 with a gear venders overdrive and a different rear end. All that was going to happen, but we pulled up short and went with this settup because of the time and the liveability factor (ex: the boys pushing all the horse thru the Nissan that let go).So that motor didnt get installed nor did the transmission. The suspension wasn't even going on but we decided to go with it and literally we/Dustin just finished the engine, suspension and the tune hours before the car was picked up from the dealership.
I know it is confusing but there you go.
Mike
I know it is confusing but there you go.
Mike
03-22-2007, 05:41 AM
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Originally Posted by malsop
Sorry on the bad information! LONG STORY 688hp! That was the motor we were going to use. The trans was going to be a turbohydromatic 400 with a gear venders overdrive and a different rear end. All that was going to happen, but we pulled up short and went with this settup because of the time and the liveability factor (ex: the boys pushing all the horse thru the Nissan that let go).So that motor didnt get installed nor did the transmission. The suspension wasn't even going on but we decided to go with it and literally we/Dustin just finished the engine, suspension and the tune hours before the car was picked up from the dealership.
I know it is confusing but there you go.
Mike
I know it is confusing but there you go.
Mike
03-22-2007, 06:27 AM
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Originally Posted by WS6 Rampage
Yea,.as much as I love that T/A after I heard that I kept think'n to myself,.."No Frig'n way!!" plus .....can't break in a new motor push'n that much power on a cross country race with occasional challenge abuse. You'd end up on a trailler like the Nissan boys in no time! lol!
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03-22-2007, 08:24 AM
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Yeah we thought we would have more time to ste it up and work out the bugs. Thats why the decision to go with the mild setup. However you have all of this different footage everywhere that makes it all look bad because you mentally cant put it all together. Kinda like for me when I watch the show it is edited the way they want it to look sure these things happenened but maybe not at the right time.
Mike
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03-22-2007, 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by malsop
Yeah we thought we would have more time to ste it up and work out the bugs. Thats why the decision to go with the mild setup. However you have all of this different footage everywhere that makes it all look bad because you mentally cant put it all together. Kinda like for me when I watch the show it is edited the way they want it to look sure these things happenened but maybe not at the right time.
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03-22-2007, 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by WS6 Rampage
lol,...Yea,.,kinda like what those reality show people from MTV where complaining about some years back. The editing made things look different and occur at different times then they actually where or took place. Oh well,... guess Spike is no different than MTV or CBS in that respect!
the funny thing is that MTV does own SpikeTV.
03-22-2007, 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by bww3588
so what are the official specs on the T/A?
401 @ the wheels on the dyno corrected no NOS.
Car was 430 -440 horse w/o NOS
Add the NOS @ 150 shot and if thats correct then do the math.
The Suspension is Qa1 shocks and springs, BMR control arms and sway bars.
The specs and all the pertinate information will be in Mays issue of "High Performance Pontiac Magazine" as well as photos.
Due on the shelves April 24th.
Under title "Reality T/A"
All the other horsepower quotes are made up by I dont know. 6000 in the local paper, 486 by the producers of the show and we were going to put a bad *** 688 horse 408 in the car along with some other stuff in the audition video but we decided not to.
Now that I have time and wont be rushed you will see the new T/A with all the new mods here at the Pontiac store this summer. I promise not to dissapoint anyone and will have the dyno sheets here for everyones eyes to see. It is going to be a cool project and I cant wait. Dustin is brewing something in a LSX block for me so stay tuned.
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03-22-2007, 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by malsop
Sorry on the bad information! LONG STORY 688hp! That was the motor we were going to use. The trans was going to be a turbohydromatic 400 with a gear venders overdrive and a different rear end. All that was going to happen, but we pulled up short and went with this settup because of the time and the liveability factor (ex: the boys pushing all the horse thru the Nissan that let go).So that motor didnt get installed nor did the transmission. The suspension wasn't even going on but we decided to go with it and literally we/Dustin just finished the engine, suspension and the tune hours before the car was picked up from the dealership.
I know it is confusing but there you go.
Mike
I know it is confusing but there you go.
Mike
). Go Team LS1 
03-22-2007, 06:40 PM
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Originally Posted by kars10_4
Thanks for the clarification. It must be annoying having to chase down and correct info like this haha. Good call on going with the milder set up, 688hp would have been impossible to maintain on a cross country rally (especially if it was a 346, and if it was stock cubes I want to hear how the hell you guys made 688hp ). Go Team LS1
). Go Team LS1 Mike
