Ahh, I didn't notice in your sig that you had an 04. Nevermind.

 

 

E46 M3 SMG-II Coupe. No Dinan, but I'm modded with an GruppeM intake, Eisenmann Ti exhaust, H&R coilovers, 19" BBS LM wheels and SMG euro-spec software which allows for launch control. [/b][/quote]
so basically the computer drives the car...not you....overkill maybe.......hmmmmm...... :scratch:

 

so basically the computer drives the car...not you....overkill maybe.......hmmmmm...... :scratch: [/b][/quote]
Any car with an automatic is basically letting a computer drive the car.

 

In all fairness the SMG-II is the best you can get without driving a manual. It’s better then Ferrari’s F1 transmission.

 

 

The Audi DSG gearbox is better than the SMG-II.

 

Popular misconception but no its not an automatic... Its a clutch pedal-less manual modeled after transmissions used in Formula 1 race cars. It doesn't have a torque converter and it does have an internal clutch. Shifts are 0.80 milliseconds quick, faster than any human operated shift. You can still hit the rev-limiter and it rev matches on every downshift. [/b][/quote]
Okay, that's cool, so you are actually telling the car when to shift. I am familiar with that type of transmission.

 

I'd like to drive one of those someday...they sound sweet, probably never happen though <_< , unless they start coming on sub $40k vehicles anytime soon.

Yeah Right!

 

I cant wait to be challenged.........BRING IT ON!!!!




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I'm driving to Ponyland, USA to find Rene'.....you calling me out?

John

 

What is WITH the trucks and SUV's? Around here that's all that seem to want to either prove something or see the back end better.

I haven't had the opportunity arise to truly test the car against another, and since snow tires are still on, I'm not looking for anything till spring. Although, if the situation presents itself, who am I to disappoint them?

 

Popular misconception but no its not an automatic... Its a clutch pedal-less manual modeled after transmissions used in Formula 1 race cars. It doesn't have a torque converter and it does have an internal clutch. Shifts are 0.80 milliseconds quick, faster than any human operated shift. You can still hit the rev-limiter and it rev matches on every downshift. [/b][/quote]
oh...ok. Sounds like a sweet car man.

 

omg i almost spit out mr Dr P

but that of course would be a sin, so i held it in. great story man

 

I think an Sti will walk a Gt beacuse of its all whell drive, but my best friend has a 2001 cobra and he took one off the line all the way till 120 and he beat him by a car length

 

Ok, I had retard number 2 today. The best I could describe it is "redneck rice".

A 68' El Camino pulls up next to me at an offramp, and I hear the rev of a car with little or no exhaust, you know the sound, the sound of a sick tired engine with the mufflers gone to make it "sound" mean. He had at least 2 different wheels from the side I saw, one with a hubcap, the other a mis-sized slotted mag. It was primer gray, primer black, and some other colors that weren't primed yet. I think the base color was once a dark green.

Now for the driver, he was as much a wreck as the car! Greasy baseball hat, long stringy hair that looked like it hadn't been washed in a week. Multiple teeth missing!

We were at this offramp for quite awhile waiting for our lights to go green so we could move a couple of hundred feet. Just when it was getting close to go time he starts revving that sick sounding motor, blue smoke billowing out from underneath his car and leans out and starts saying something to me.

I can't hear a word he's saying as I'm rockin out to Tool on the Shaker, the sight of him alone took me back..... "Am I in the roadway version of 'Deliverance'" I wondered? I give a puzzled look and mouth 2 words that can't be repeated here and the light turned green I went normally along my way.

At the next light he squeezes up into an opposing lane 2 lanes over, he's obviously going to turn right....good, I don't want nothing to do with this freak. But as he's about to make his turn he attempts 1 last time to get my attention, revs his motor, dumps his clutch.....and stalls! Yes there is a GOD!

Hopefully someday he'll realize what a an idiot he looked like out there....probably not

 

To Funny man!! The stall proves the Mustang gods are wathching!!

 

Today I had a light green mid-90's cavalier pull up next to me at a red light. I glance over and you gota be kidding me, sure enough it has hood pins a 2 foot tall spoiler and all sorts of "high performance" stickers all over it, even on the freakin windshield!!! I have my windows down as it was a nice day out and I can barely hear what sounds like 4 gerbals trying to squeeze out of what sounded like maybe a cherry bomb or something?? And what's this 4 highschool kid's trying to "Hard look" me! Allright so when I was going to let it pass, is now going to turn into "schooling". I gave my gas pedal a hard rap, and you should have seen the look on thier stupid faces sorta like especially the driver who now realizes he made a bad mistake! O.K. fellas let's roll, I think's to myself. I'm timeing the light, got the R's to about 3500, light turns green, I drop the hammer!! Smoke plumes out, can't even see the little "toilet mint". I grabed second just right and chirped the tire's, where is he I ask?? Can't see him in the rear view... Power shifted to third and chirped'em again. I could have ate a cheeseburger at the next light waiting for them! Thier "hard looks" were long gone, replaced by perhap's a new found respect for the Muscle car...class is over, well for today anyhow!!

 

Hey that sounds like my cousin BillyBob, dont worry bout him, he harmless, we let him out once a month just for shat and giggles, he get restless up in his pin and all, and boy if that thar dumbarse dont love that El Camino, we call it the Tard Kart.

 

thats odd my brothers STI to date has smoked 5 05 gt's and it is stock... btw it runs a 13.2 at fontana STOCK, i havent seen a stock 05 gt run that yet. Oh well i am a mustang guy but dont get carried away with how fast your car is