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well, i'm not much to post 'kill stories' and rarely mention anything of the sort without at least some shitty video footage, but tonight i finally got a chance to get my car tuned after the rebuild (keep in mind i was driving around with broken ringlands for two weeks and thought it was pretty quick), so i messed around all day and gradually got on it a little harder every time i'd take it out, well, after a couple quick rapings, coming back to the house, checking my plugs and a couple compression tests (really paranoid with stock used pistons), i finally convinced myself that everything was fine, and ---- it if it wasn't. so i went driving around town for a little while, walked quite a few lightly modded gt's, which is no big deal, that's a given. the real smile maker came on my way home when an older guy in an 03 vette goes flying by me, then he had to slow down b/c of traffic, so i returned the favor to him when i got an opening in my lane and flew by him, we both slowed down to about 50 and let the traffic in front of us clear up a bit, then we gunned it, i only was able to wind out third by the time we caught up with traffic again, but had him by about half a car. we kept near eachother and got to where the road we were on raised up to 55mph, so the traffic in front of us cleared much quicker and we got a bigger opening, i dropped it in third again, around 50mph, we started pulling, by the time i hit the top of third, i had him by a car, banged it in to fourth and just kept pulling. i was super stoked about it, and the old guy was cool, when he turned off, he honked his horn and gave me a thumbs up. car is much quicker with normal compression, the tires were breaking loose at about 6k in third, i couldn't believe it. damn, i know this is a hotrex type post, but i had to share. came back home, checked the plugs again, did another compression test, everything's good, so i've gotten rid of the paranoia and i'm ready to start raping it again daily >:D

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exellent

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Good to hear of the ass kickin of the vette! And remember, Don't drive like you own it, DRIVE IT LIKE YOU STOLE IT!

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1.6 > everything else :D

good to here she's running well. now get to the track again and get us some 11 sec runs >:D

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good job. ;D

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Looks like you got yourself a solid mid-low 13 second car. Nice job on the kill, I'm sure it's a good feeling knowing that an engine 3½ times smaller can keep up.

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didnt read any of that 8)

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yeah, anyone got cliff notes?

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id bet hes faster than that snafu

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Actually, you're right. I was basing that off of what a stock LS1 vette runs. Forget Projekteg has slicks. Nice 12 second car ;)

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I call BS :-*

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haha. special ed i love your avatar. that was my favorite part of the episode. and nice kill.

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LoL... "upside down face"

But yeah, sounds like a good kill. Always good when you smash on a car that stock for stock is much faster. Even better when it's a friendly thing and the other guy is cool about it (some people lose, then want to run you off the road). Car sounds like its pretty dope, you should post some videos or something.

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Nice dude. Bet it felt good. How much boost you up to?

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I did the same thing with a 75 shot on my Z6 2-3 years ago..........it is fun!

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nice kill....good job mang!

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Good job man! I hope I see one soon!

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nice kill. how much boost your running? 10? 12?

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Nice man. Those ls1's are tough customers :)

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i ran a 12.9 with two broken ringlands on 11 psi untuned a couple weeks ago, i rebuilt the block, running 12psi now, and tuned, plus got some 24.5" slicks as opposed to the 22" i was using. mid to low 12's easily, just need to get my new slicks mounted :-\

yeah, i'm running 12psi now, it feels like a beast compared to 11psi with broken ringlands. the tires are breaking loose in third, it feels sick. hell, i'm not the least bit surprised that i walked on him, i was be dissapointed if i didn't, i was just saying it felt good, that's the first time i've lined up with vette, just felt nice to put him in his place. btw, it was a six speed, not a cheesy auto :P

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Was that with or without slicks when you ran him on the highway. Don't flame guys, trust me I've seen it. Guy in town drives his supercharged Rustang around with slicks :P


JP

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yeah, that was street tires, i wouldn't stand a chance from a dig, i get 0 traction with street tires. i'm suppose to be picking up some 555r's this week from a guy locally, but the price he told me seems too good to be true, so we'll see how that goes. he told me 100 bucks and they've only been down the track twice :-\