Crna Legija wrote:Daltonultra wrote:Crna, you're wasting a lot of money with all those plenum spacers and other doodads. Get yourself a good turbo. We're getting the Series 2 L67 (American version of the ecotec 3.8) down into the high 8s in the 1/4 mile, and that's driving the wrong wheels. You can run mild boost and still make easy 13s, maybe even 12s since you're driving the right wheels.
cant drive a turbo for 2 more years here in aus, and didn't waste cash on it i made them at work.
@inonickname, Extractors are pretty ezy if you have the right tools like lots of uni joint thing for a socket set the right size socket and a rattle gun, putting a hi flow cats piss ezy and cheep if you gut your standard one.
Shift kit still lets it drop gears but it will take from the smoothness completely make it like a whip lash machine from 1-2, rest are alright. Please don't use the tripmatic gears it will fork ur trans quick.
Come over to WA, you can drive whatever you want on P plates
You can argue that high performance cars are bad news for P platers. Not so in my experience. I'm responsible with my car. I've got plenty of mates around my age (18-20) who drive powerful cars and are safe in them. Most of the friends I've had die have been as a result of drink driving, and one on a gravel road (and several near misses on gravel). None of them were in a fast car. (One of the close calls was, fell asleep after a 12 hour shift and put his SS into a tree. Heartbroken over wrecking his baby, but he was a lot better off hitting a tree in that than in a small car)
Restricting P platers to shit cars does nothing. It doesn't even cut down on hooning. Just means that they're doing skids and handbrake burnouts in hyundai's and magna's instead of in V8's.
Plus it's no cure for idiots. Once on a dual lane carriage way (2 lanes side by side in each direction, opposite directions separated by an island/garden) dad was overtaking a truck- all of a sudden the truck slams the brakes on (having better vision)- there was a woman coming the wrong way on the dual lane carriageway. He drops down a gear, guns the throttle and manages to overtake in time to avoid hitting the stupid bitch. Fortunately the Landy is tuned to about 170kw and 450Nm rather than the 90/300 they come out the factory with.
You can put a 5 star safety rating on a shitty little car all you want, but I know what I'd rather be in if something goes wrong.
