Killed a Saleen mustang today
02-20-2007, 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Irunelevens
Just cuz it doesn't "feel" any faster, doesn't mean it wasn't. Trust me... it is.
Maybe one day I'll get to view the best part of a Saleen, the rear. But until somebody actually drives one of those things, instead of revving and posing, I just have to go with the rear view mirror view I always see...
02-21-2007, 07:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Irunelevens
Just cuz it doesn't "feel" any faster, doesn't mean it wasn't. Trust me... it is.
1/4 mile 13.2@110
Where is the extra HP???
I've been in plenty of fast cars before, and I can tell you that this wasn't one of them. Did it look and sound nice? Yes. I actually liked the car, but the fact remains that a 13.2 is still slower than most stock LS1's even though it has the advantage of F/I. It pulled decent up top, but the 281 lacks the grunt down low compared to the LSX's.
02-21-2007, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by bryanZ06
Not according to Car and Driver.
1/4 mile 13.2@110
Where is the extra HP???
I've been in plenty of fast cars before, and I can tell you that this wasn't one of them. Did it look and sound nice? Yes. I actually liked the car, but the fact remains that a 13.2 is still slower than most stock LS1's even though it has the advantage of F/I. It pulled decent up top, but the 281 lacks the grunt down low compared to the LSX's.
1/4 mile 13.2@110
Where is the extra HP???
I've been in plenty of fast cars before, and I can tell you that this wasn't one of them. Did it look and sound nice? Yes. I actually liked the car, but the fact remains that a 13.2 is still slower than most stock LS1's even though it has the advantage of F/I. It pulled decent up top, but the 281 lacks the grunt down low compared to the LSX's.
Edit: Unless you're Evan Smith, of course.
02-21-2007, 12:51 PM
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My best friends uncle owns a ford dealership that has both the shelby cobra gt500 and the s/c saleen cobra (435 hp, not the 550 hp extreme edition) and I have driven both and they both are definately faster than an f-body, ls1 vette, or gto, but I think that the c5 z06 and c6 are faster as I have driven both vettes and they definately felt faster. Again not ragging on the ford products as both cars are a pulley swap away from being absolute beasts (although I hear the swaps are tough to do on the gt500) but the c5 z06 and c6 both felt faster.
02-21-2007, 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by thingthatgoes
F/i ?
I'm not trying to rag on the Mustang at all, and I'm not trying to start a Mustang vs. LSX powered car arguement. I never said anything bad about the Saleen, I actually said that I liked it for the most part. Who knows, the car we were in could have had issues, but the fact remains that this car would have gotten it's *** handed to it by quite a few stock cars I've driven (LS2 GTO, LS1 F Body, and the WRX STI come to mind first). Now add in a pulley swap and an exhaust and the outcome would be very different.
02-21-2007, 02:09 PM
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Originally Posted by bryanZ06
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I'm not trying to rag on the Mustang at all, and I'm not trying to start a Mustang vs. LSX powered car arguement. I never said anything bad about the Saleen, I actually said that I liked it for the most part. Who knows, the car we were in could have had issues, but the fact remains that this car would have gotten it's *** handed to it by quite a few stock cars I've driven (LS2 GTO, LS1 F Body, and the WRX STI come to mind first). Now add in a pulley swap and an exhaust and the outcome would be very different.
I'm not trying to rag on the Mustang at all, and I'm not trying to start a Mustang vs. LSX powered car arguement. I never said anything bad about the Saleen, I actually said that I liked it for the most part. Who knows, the car we were in could have had issues, but the fact remains that this car would have gotten it's *** handed to it by quite a few stock cars I've driven (LS2 GTO, LS1 F Body, and the WRX STI come to mind first). Now add in a pulley swap and an exhaust and the outcome would be very different.
Really? I thought the saleen felt faster than my bolt on camaro, my uncles 01 ls1 vette, and the two 06 gto's I have driven. Was it def the S/C ed one? It didnt feel WAY faster but I def felt a seat of the pants difference between the other vehicles listed. Def slower though than a c5 z06 or C6.
02-21-2007, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by bryanZ06
Not according to Car and Driver.
1/4 mile 13.2@110
Where is the extra HP???
I've been in plenty of fast cars before, and I can tell you that this wasn't one of them. Did it look and sound nice? Yes. I actually liked the car, but the fact remains that a 13.2 is still slower than most stock LS1's even though it has the advantage of F/I. It pulled decent up top, but the 281 lacks the grunt down low compared to the LSX's.
1/4 mile 13.2@110
Where is the extra HP???
I've been in plenty of fast cars before, and I can tell you that this wasn't one of them. Did it look and sound nice? Yes. I actually liked the car, but the fact remains that a 13.2 is still slower than most stock LS1's even though it has the advantage of F/I. It pulled decent up top, but the 281 lacks the grunt down low compared to the LSX's.
Not to mention a car and driver 1/4 time is comparable to what a good driver could do on a dusty backroad with a passenger.
02-21-2007, 05:07 PM
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i've got a vid of my friends 99 TA put a pounding on an S281 S/C. and then the next time he beat him at the track over and over...they arent thast fast. freinds care only has exhaust and intake, and tb.
02-21-2007, 05:09 PM
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Originally Posted by bryanZ06
Not according to Car and Driver.
1/4 mile 13.2@110
1/4 mile 13.2@110
We need to beef up this section with more racers. This is getting ridiculous.
