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Old Jul 22, 2007 | 02:30 AM
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Out cruising in greenwood shooting the ****. Meet up with a few f body guys and meet this guy john who is pretty cool. Decide to run up north to hang out and he wants to line up to see what my and his car can do. We end up lining up from about a 30 mph roll and three honks and we are off. Pretty damn even cept my tranny hangs up in 4th. Seemed like whoever got the jump off the bat took the race about 2-2 losses and wins a piece but only by fenders. His car sounds nice saw his borla sticking out there and it didn't sound stock by any means. Turns out he shows me his damn vortech SC and I finally notice the slight whisle. He had a shorty headers and other minor mods. I wondered why he wasn't walking me bad with that damn super charger in there. He didn't have a tune or anything but damn we were even every time. I have a lid and a corsa cat back. Good races with a good guy was fun but I didn't think i would do that well.
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Old Jul 22, 2007 | 02:37 AM
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sounds like a good time!
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Old Jul 22, 2007 | 06:47 AM
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After he gets his car tuned look out on the rematch. He should really benefit from a tune. Good luck and be safe
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Old Jul 22, 2007 | 08:15 AM
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Sounds like a bad setup on that car if he ran like that.

Good runs!
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Old Jul 22, 2007 | 09:18 AM
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IDK my LT1s very well, but nice kill man!

I would think a basic low boost Vortech with a few support mods would have an LT1 making mid 300s.
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Old Jul 22, 2007 | 06:54 PM
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I hope he does get it tuned that thing would be BAD with a tune and a cam. I know he is running rich he blew a damn flame out of his exhaust that was cool as ****. I'd still run him with the tune i respect a good death by a nice setup since no money is on it. I got some parts comming that should give me an edge though a set of QTP headers should be here in a few days.
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Old Jul 23, 2007 | 12:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Sparetire
IDK my LT1s very well, but nice kill man!

I would think a basic low boost Vortech with a few support mods would have an LT1 making mid 300s.
Buddy of mine running low boost, shorty headers, couple other things.. 424 rwhp. Stock heads and cam too.
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Old Jul 23, 2007 | 08:37 AM
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Buddy of mine running low boost, shorty headers, couple other things.. 424 rwhp. Stock heads and cam too.
yeah well my buddy's buddy is making 500even off low boost
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yeah well my buddy's buddy is making 500even off low boost


If you don't have anything nice to say..
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Originally Posted by 1987firechicken
Out cruising in greenwood shooting the ****. Meet up with a few f body guys and meet this guy john who is pretty cool. Decide to run up north to hang out and he wants to line up to see what my and his car can do. We end up lining up from about a 30 mph roll and three honks and we are off. Pretty damn even cept my tranny hangs up in 4th. Seemed like whoever got the jump off the bat took the race about 2-2 losses and wins a piece but only by fenders. His car sounds nice saw his borla sticking out there and it didn't sound stock by any means. Turns out he shows me his damn vortech SC and I finally notice the slight whisle. He had a shorty headers and other minor mods. I wondered why he wasn't walking me bad with that damn super charger in there. He didn't have a tune or anything but damn we were even every time. I have a lid and a corsa cat back. Good races with a good guy was fun but I didn't think i would do that well.
FI car with no tune
prolly not even a fmu,
engine is on countdown and hes slow
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