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    Tire pressure sensors

    Your gauge does you little good when you're doing 140 mph cooking down some country roads, not realizing you picked up a nail in the parking lot leaving work, not realizing you had a tire that was down 10-15 pounds, until it blows sky-high and sends you careening off the road.... TPS is a...
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    ohio state's Unstoppable

    It's called a free-market system.. If less people watched, bought caps and jerseys, the pay for pro atheletes would be less. It's not worth fretting about... Jealousy is a waste of your own time, as there's always going to be folks who have an easier road due to what they were born with...
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    ohio state's Unstoppable

    The BCS system is always flawed, until your favorite team wins it, isn't that always how it seems to work?? LOL!!!! Nobody's been more vocal about wanting a play-off system than Florida though... Supposedly there's a deal in the "works" Now let's talk about the guys at the track who run...
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    ohio state's Unstoppable

    Good Lord... :rlaugh: :rlaugh: you're joking, right?? Caught off guard?? So, according to you, the supposed best team in the country can be "caught off gaurd" by a "second rate team" and get mowed 41-14... The Gators just sneaked up on them and said "boo", and startled 'em for four friggin...
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    ohio state's Unstoppable

    Give me a break... Is it lost on everyone that if they had NOT given Florida that "free" touchdown, they would have had the ball on the 6 inch line, with an offensive line that was flattening Ohio's D-line like frogs on a rainy road? Quit with the "IF" pouty-party. "IF" the refs had...
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    gt500 price

    Bottom line, it's not the Boss model that Ford is working on in-house. It's a Saleen, tribute edition to Parnelli Jones. Saleen doesn't call it a "Boss", but I'm sure the bozo dealers hocking them on eBay are using that word as a keyword to gain more search hits. Why ask why when the answers...
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    gt500 price

    And yes, the Parnelli Jones Saleen MSRP's for a little north of $60K... "The Boss is already out..." Good gravy :rolleyes:
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    gt500 price

    The right answer is somewhere in between pure supply & demand and this last post.... Because c'mon, there's not a single Shelby sitting unsold on lots, and none of this has a damn thing to do with the competitiveness of the auto industry. The only thing that I'm gleaning from the last post is...
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    Shelby GT500 vs. Saleen S281E

    I agree with Chuckdoc. Also, as a collector, I would put my money heavily on the current generation of Saleen products being more valuable and more coveted than the GT500 30 years from now.. We've discussed this on other threads. If you really think about it, and if you know your car history...
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    C6ZO6

    Yes, the 1st 60 feet is indeed part of the "full story" of how a car performs, but let's be real... When you're out at the track with a street car, you're just having fun seeing what the car can do within the parameters of that format. But your street car is like bringing a butter knife to a gun...
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    C6ZO6

    The most common roll mistakes I see guys make is starting out in too LOW of a gear, i.e. they're sitting there only 500 rpm shy of the redline, way out of the sweet-spot of the torque-curve, and facing an upshift almost instantly after the pedals drop. Choosing the right gear is choosing the...
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    C6ZO6

    Your point relies on the premise that drag racing is the ONLY kind of racing that counts, and that everyone should have their car set up for a sub-2 second 60-foot time.... If we were all die-hard competitive draggers, then that would be one thing... But I highly doubt that everyone here is...
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    C6ZO6

    It depends on what you're trying to find out.... Which car is stronger, or which driver is stronger... Alot of times, dead-start racing doesn't tell you much at all about the car. Hell, I beat my buddy at the track by a full length in my bone-stinking-stock 96 Cobra versus his '95 Supra...
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    C6ZO6

    Don't be too spooked, I'm just a real fast typist, not a closet-case obsessed freak... :eek: :D
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    C6ZO6

    It is a common assumption that 50/50 fore/aft weight distribution is optimal for handling... There's ALOT MORE TO IT than that, it's not that simple. Secondly, it is absolutely incorrect to compare weight distribution of a front-engined vehicle to a mid-engined vehicle. They are two totally...
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    C6ZO6

    :shrug: :shrug: I don't understand what your point is in all of this... So Joe Blow Sixpack with 2 left feet and a total lack-of-knack in the coordination department can't drive ANYTHING worth a damn... What does that have to do with the cars?? In my decent breadth of experience, and having...
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    C6ZO6

    Boosted car + sticky summer air = PIG. Can't tell you how many times I've been asked to join-in a trip to the track in the middle of July, to which I reply "why would I abuse my machinery just to run crappy slugg-o worthless e.t.'s?". My chipped & mass-aired Lightning would drop from 13.20's to...
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    C6ZO6

    GeoffsGT, we're going in circles on most points, so I'm less inclined to think we're disagreeing, more inclined to think we're misunderstanding. I was only making the point that there's more to cars than performance data. I like the way things are designed, built, materials, engineering...
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    C6ZO6

    :rlaugh: :p O.K., thanks for the clarity, which is only further enhanced by the fact you're best time is a 14.41 at 98 with wide-wheels and Nittos, which is exactly what I used to run back in 1988 in my 225 h.p. 3,500 lb GT convert with nothing more than a $129.95 h-pipe and K&N on sorry-a$$...
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    C6ZO6

    You illustrate my point beautifully, and in alot fewer words. Touche' :nice: :nice:
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