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Gear ratio helped out then on the race. Running 4.56 to the op's 2.93 or 3.29. Doesn't seem like your wifes mark would make more than about 30hp over stock? Not real sure on that though.
 


lawl at Lincoln guy posting here.

lawlz at Jarred losing to the Titanic.

lulzville @ everything I missed.
 


dsmuts said:
Gear ratio helped out then on the race. Running 4.56 to the op's 2.93 or 3.29. Doesn't seem like your wifes mark would make more than about 30hp over stock? Not real sure on that though.
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Without getting into a full trans ratios and final drive ratios debate. I'll focus on the highlights. :th_lightbulb:

What is Jared's max rpm before he shifts? - 5000rpm?
The white Lincoln is 7500rpm, so it need the gear to get it up on it's power band. It has 2500 rpms more than Jared to spin before the shift.

Think about it like this. A bike typically has a 14,000rpm red line. Now I don't know off the top of my head, but think about how short the gearing is on those to get them up on their powerband.

Now in saying all that, I shifted into 2nd (1-2 shift) at 3500rpm. (you can hear it in the video) Then I got WOT in 2nd, and shifted out at 5000rpm on the 2-3 shift (...on one race, 6800rpms on the other race)

That's right, he only posted the one vid. Here is the other:

Steff's car vs GTP 1 - YouTube
 
lsxkilr said:
Without getting into a full trans ratios and final drive ratios debate. I'll focus on the highlights. :th_lightbulb:

What is Jared's max rpm before he shifts? - 5000rpm?
The white Lincoln is 7500rpm, so it need the gear to get it up on it's power band. It has 2500 rpms more than Jared to spin before the shift.
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He shifts at stock shift points, because he has stock valve springs. He isn't taking full advantage of his valvetrain mods (rockers) and should be running it to about 6K-6200, 5500 RPM isn't cutting it.

lsxkilr said:
Think about it like this. A bike typically has a 14,000rpm red line. Now I don't know off the top of my head, but think about how short the gearing is on those to get them up on their powerband.
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Thanks for the lesson, but we know how it works.

lsxkilr said:
Now in saying all that, I shifted into 2nd (1-2 shift) at 3500rpm. (you can hear it in the video) Then I got WOT in 2nd, and shifted out at 5000rpm on the 2-3 shift (...on one race, 6800rpms on the other race)

That's right, he only posted the one vid. Here is the other:

Steff's car vs GTP 1 - YouTube
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I saw it, you have dumb gearing in that car, of course you're going to yank that car from a dig and make it look way worse than it really is. Go run it from a 40 or 60 roll. It'll be a totally different ball game.
 
I understand that you need the gear. I did hear you spinning in the video were your tires not warmed up? GP's suck to try to get traction in anyway jarred might need a driver mod and drag radials?
 
It was 20 degrees out that night. DRs don't help when the streets that cold.

The Mark was pulling the whole time. If you cant see that by watching the vid, i don't know what to tell ya.

"Go run it from a 40 or 60 roll. It'll be a totally different ball game." Think how bad it would have been if i hooked and used all of 1st gear.
 
i still want to see a run from a 40 or up. because CLEARLY your car has the advantage at a dig with that gearing AND radials.
 


Jarred got his ass beat by a guy in a fancy ford, its plain and simple, why are we still arguing about it?

Going from a different MPH wouldnt change anything with the way his car is set up, he'd still beat him.
 
Lulz, well this certainly backfired. Sometimes when folks talk smack, they get smacked...oh well, it happens. Never, under any circumstance, should one do a cash race with a car they know nothing about though, that's just silly.
 


gtpsleeper said:
ya I dont get the nitrous comment? why would he say I had it when I clearly didnt? its whatever im not butt hurt about it he won and I lost thats that...
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ummmm???? ^^^^ really dont know where me talking smack came into this as I clearly admit right there I got beat plain and simple???

did he seriously make an account to come in here and bash me more or something?

and before you say all this stuff about how much I was "thinking my car was the fastest car around" or whatever... you were talking with some kid ABOUT my car who rode in it... we never even spoke until THAT night (thurs)... all I knew was some guy wanted to race me and was notified at 11:30pm the night before an exam so of course I wasn in the position to drop more important things just to meet some guy that wants to race me... sorry my life doesn revolve around how fast my car is... which is why itd never "seen tail lights" (which words were also not mine...) because i dont go out racing it all the time...

not my fault the kid you were talking to thought my car was more than it was... and its not race gas its e-85 btw...(and that little mod list thing hasn been updated since 2009 when I had "nos bottle BASS TUBES" in the back so dont get that confused with the real thing...)

I wasn trying to bash anyone or anything either but for the record you didn wanna go from a roll... if the tires werent that important then why do a burn out before we went?

since maybe you still haven gotten it... I LOST!!! YOUR MARK IS MORE SUPER COOL THAN MY DD FWD V6 GRAND PRIX!!! YOU ARE A MUCH MORE AWESOME DRIVER THAN I AM!!!MY CAR SUUUUCKS!!!

we good now? I mean we could bring the nova out at heartland one night if we wanna race real cars...
 
Slowpoke said:
Also, I R confused.

Just a joke then? What's a nitrous tube?
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