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Old 06-03-2013, 03:00 PM
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Neither car is being pushed to its limit, I have a passenger and he doesn't, but pretty quick lap in traffic.

This is about as much fun as you'll ever have as a gear head. Two closely matched cars driven together around the Nurburgring.

The Boss has a better power to weight ratio, the 295 rear tires and torsen diff help it exit corners better, but as my passenger said "you brake later and a lot less".

Stronger brakes in a lighter car, allows me to close the gap a few times, or maybe its just easier to be brave in a car worth 6 times less than the Boss. A little too brave, as you can see the back slide out at about 105mph at the 2:25 mark.
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jealous id love to rip down the burburg
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Nice, thx for sharing
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Is that scary when the back slides out going that fast? Looks like you did a good job correcting.
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Originally Posted by Marc3.4V6
Is that scary when the back slides out going that fast? Looks like you did a good job correcting.
Thanks, the steering is very talkative so its fairly easy to catch. Eventually I'll post up the videos before I got the shock settings set. It looked like a drift show.
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Awesome. You in the military? How'd you get the car over there?
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Nice vid and nice job of staying in control.
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Awesome vid, thanks for sharing. Aside from watching it, your car is awesome to listen to screaming for almost 10 minutes. Music to my ears.
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What tires are you running? You were fighting the car pretty hardtowards the end.

no way I would ride with you without door panels

car sounded awesome, wasnt it stock not too long ago or is there another fbody that runs the ring too?



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