jadesville said:
Lets not get ahead of ourselves here.
Paul went 13.9 and yes JDM went 13.4. That's 13.4 at Englishtown Raceway(one of the fastest there is) in very cold air. Motortrend went 13.5 at like 103.6mph, which seams very fishy. We have not seen that trap speed coupled with a time close to that from an actual owner. Shoot, I cant recall if I have even seen that trap speed with a slow run. The 13.6 was in an auto and a pre-production car at that. Remember that many magazines run their times at abandoned airports and such, not always at legit tracks.
There have been claims from some of 13.3-13.4 runs. The only one I have seen backed up is Bryan with the white GT. Please post links to validated 13.3-13.4 runs as I could have easily missed them. We have heard lots of bogus claims, where the starter of the thread mysteriously disappeared when asked to post a timeslip.
Don't get me wront, the times we have seen, even the 13.6's are absolutely amazing. I for one am very impressed. For a 3500lb car with 270rwhp to run those times on street tires is very impressive. Not to mention the 13.35 Bryan ran. I just hope all the kids reading these posts dont think that when they get one for a graduation present this June they are going to go to the track and run these times. This is THE time of year (well Jan and Feb are good too) to run fast times and the drivers ticking of the 13.3-13.4's are very experienced at the track: JDM and Bryan.
JonJon said:
Exactly. Don’t forget Mach 1’s have run high 12’s bone stock and since we have seen the GT is under rated and running better RWHP numbers than the Mach’s, has a MUCH stiffer chassis and a Much better suspension, and weighs less than 100 lbs more than the Machs. The GT is capable of low 13’s, hell we might have seen some high 12’s if Ford wouldn’t have messed with the TB closing. It cracks me up because the Ford and Mustang haters out there will use that all day long as an advantage in their argument. To see the real abilities of this motor and of this chassis without touching it’s internals, exhaust and even without even touching the fat A/F mixture you gotta get that turned off and allow the driver to control the TB. I’m willing to bet the car could run high 12’s in the ¼ on a good track in good air with a competent driver with just that aspect turned off.
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