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    Quote Originally Posted by Laurisa View Post
    That is a sexy GSR. My boyfriend is a honda man .

    Earl, while I'm impressed your mustang ran a low 14, bone stock, I am even more impressed that my ex boyfriend's 1992 Eagle Talon TSi (AWD, turbo) ran a low 12 (with two passengers--me being one of them), bone stock. No drag slicks, just normal street tires. Norwalk, OH... I'm there once a year for the DSM shootout.

    Final weight: 2,700 pounds + passengers

    (They are officially supposed to run a 14.4 @ 96 MPH with 190 HP).

    Power maxes out at about 6k, but the engine can run up to 7k.
    I assume that this was not at a track as no track will permit a run with passengers so you don't have a time slip.

    Now bone stock means as it came from the factory with no modifications not even a tune for higher octane. My GT with me weighs 3700 pounds and has 300 hp at the flywheel. The Eagle Talon TSi weighs 1000 pounds less and has forced air induction. The AWD helps it lock up at the start. Low 12 for that car bone stock are fantastic I would like to see the time slip.

    One cannot compare apples to oranges; there was a 1969 GTO at Street Legal night. He had historic plates so he did not have to pass state inspection. He too had forced air induction. At the green light his front wheels went two feet into the air and he ran in the 9s.

    At this point in time my goal was to go 100mph; I did it but it took a near perfect launch, standard snow tires spin very easily. My shifts had to be made at 5800rpm. If I go for 6000rmp and the shift isn't perfect the revlimiter will kick in and I'm dead. As the weather gets cooler the car runs better I want to do a 13 before I start modifying the car.

    Now if you really want to have some fun get a Top Fuel and beat this 4.42.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl_the_Pearl View Post
    I assume that this was not at a track as no track will permit a run with passengers so you don't have a time slip.

    Now bone stock means as it came from the factory with no modifications not even a tune for higher octane. My GT with me weighs 3700 pounds and has 300 hp at the flywheel. The Eagle Talon TSi weighs 1000 pounds less and has forced air induction. The AWD helps it lock up at the start. Low 12 for that car bone stock are fantastic I would like to see the time slip.

    One cannot compare apples to oranges; there was a 1969 GTO at Street Legal night. He had historic plates so he did not have to pass state inspection. He too had forced air induction. At the green light his front wheels went two feet into the air and he ran in the 9s.

    At this point in time my goal was to go 100mph; I did it but it took a near perfect launch, standard snow tires spin very easily. My shifts had to be made at 5800rpm. If I go for 6000rmp and the shift isn't perfect the revlimiter will kick in and I'm dead. As the weather gets cooler the car runs better I want to do a 13 before I start modifying the car.

    Now if you really want to have some fun get a Top Fuel and beat this 4.42.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tg6RDUFQJ4&feature=fvw
    It was at a track, called the Norwalk Raceway Park. How else would I have gotten the 1/4 mile time? I don't have the slip because it wasn't my car and he has the slip, we're broken up, and it was three years ago. I have no reason to lie or try to "up" you for my own sake, it wasn't my car!

    He wasn't using megasquirt in that car, that was for his project car only. He used that car strictly as a daily. We drove it down there because it is more reliable that the other talon he had at the time which was modded and had a shit load of problems. (Who wants to drive a car with no power steering, radio, or interior from Michigan to Ohio)?

    The Norwalk Raceway Park does allow passengers. They have special rules depending on what the owner says the car will run during sign ups. Everyone has to wear a helmet, though, even if the car is going to run a 16. I go there for a special event hosted in August by Buschur Racing Forums, called the DSM/Evo Shootout. Most of the cars there will run between an 11 and a 14, but the cars that make it into the Quick 16 are running 8s and 9s. (All safety precautions are taken).



    This is a youtube video made by the ex of another 1g Talon he had (not the one we drove to the track):
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT0Nna9EmNA

    He's a gay little fucker with a lisp, but he has a nice dick.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Laurisa View Post
    I have no reason to lie or try to "up"
    No problem I get beat by ricers all of the time; small car small engine forced to put out more than it should. It works for awhile then they dump oil all over the track and waste 1/2 hour of racing time while they clean it up. Mitsubishi made some good planes.

    Here is a Mitsubishi A6M Zero looking good.

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    ^^ Oh leave Laurisa alone you fucking browbeater.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl_the_Pearl View Post
    No problem I get beat by ricers all of the time; small car small engine forced to put out more than it should. It works for awhile then they dump oil all over the track and waste 1/2 hour of racing time while they clean it up. Mitsubishi made some good engine.

    Here is one in a Zero at the bottom of Pearl Harbor. <<<<<<<<<<


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    ETP- I find several of your posts to be entertaining, but the last sentence here didn't pass the sniff test. For one, I can't imagine US allowing ANY Japanese warplane, least of all the Zero, to lie untouched at the bottom of Pearl Harbor for 40 plus years, much less 40 days. Curiosity got the better of me- upon going to website depicted at bottom of picture, location of Zero wreck was listed as Papua, New Guinea. There is a very fine article in the Feb.1998 Flight Journal "Zero Myth, Mystery, and Fact" by Corky Meyer that gives some good comparisons of US Fighters vs the Zero.
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    Quote Originally Posted by minnow View Post
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    ETP- I find several of your posts to be entertaining, but the last sentence here didn't pass the sniff test. For one, I can't imagine US allowing ANY Japanese warplane, least of all the Zero, to lie untouched at the bottom of Pearl Harbor for 40 plus years, much less 40 days. Curiosity got the better of me- upon going to website depicted at bottom of picture, location of Zero wreck was listed as Papua, New Guinea. There is a very fine article in the Feb.1998 Flight Journal "Zero Myth, Mystey, and Fact" by Corky Meyer that gives some good comparisons of Zero vs US Fighters.
    Well excuse me. This is the fact Jack.
    "During the assault, U.S. Navy messman Doris (Dorie) Miller helped move
    his mortally wounded commander to shelter, then manned a machine gun on
    the USS Arizona and shot down about six of the Japanese aircraft.
    Now the Japanese aircraft had engines bult by who? Say it, come on SAY IT.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl_the_Pearl View Post
    Well excuse me. This is the fact Jack.
    Now the Japanese aircraft had engines bult by who? Say it, come on SAY IT.
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    Actually, I'll say THEM: Nakajima (Engines for Zero Fighter, and Kate Torpedo Bomber), and Mitsubishi ( Betty Medium Bomber, primary engine for Judy Dive Bomber). Another "Earl Boner" I didn't catch right away. (814pm post did infer a Mitsubishi engine in the Zero wreck). There were some other engine manufacturers in Japan, but Mitsubishi & Nakajima were the main ones. Post edit addendum: for your reading pleasure, www.avweb.com/news/pelican/1185354-1.html
    Article is a writeup on a restored Zero powered by an American Pratt & Whitney engine.
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    Will you person you; I get this.

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    Why are defending the enemies of US. It is one thing to be a "white night" and defend them. When you defend the enemies of the US of A I have to wonder.
    Now you will tell me VW and the other Nazi companies like Bayer Aspirin were only flowing orders.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl_the_Pearl View Post
    No problem I get beat by ricers all of the time; small car small engine forced to put out more than it should. It works for awhile then they dump oil all over the track and waste 1/2 hour of racing time while they clean it up. Mitsubishi made some good engine.
    DSMs aren't the only ones dumping oil all over the tracks, you know. I've seen my share of EVOs and Subarus do it as well, and those cars are much newer. For some 16 and 17-year-old cars to continue performing as well as they do, I have to give them some respect.

    I'm not hating on mustangs, its just that most of the guys I see driving them are 22-year-old douche bags that think they're cool because their car is named after a horse, but they can't even change their own oil!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl_the_Pearl View Post
    Will you person you; I get this.

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    Why are defending the enemies of US. It is one thing to be a "white night" and defend them. When you defend the enemies of the US of A I have to wonder.
    Now you will tell me VW and the other Nazi companies like Bayer Aspirin were only flowing orders.
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    Wow, what a day. I attempt to provide a link for further "edification& enlightenment" & get a "YFU" from link. I point out 2 factual errors , and get falsely accused by Earl of some things. Earl- where in my posts did I say that Japanese build better airplanes, cars, or engines than USA? Or that US didn't really decisively beat Japan in WW2? I'm actually pulling for you, and other Mustang owners to give the ricers a sound thrashing, as, imo, some ricers are amoung the worst abominations on the road.(Can you say "fartcans".) I wasn't an English or journalism major in college, so to clear up any misuderstandings from my posts in this thread............

    1) "White Knight"- It was the picture of the wrecked Zero that caught my attention & prompted Post#156. At the time of posting, I had not read "m"'s intervening rebuke, or the complete content of your banter with "l".My post was solely directed at your post #154, nothing else.

    2) "Sniff Test". Again directed to factual errors, not at your opinion/context of US vs Japan machinery. Mr. Sepilio did list on his website Papua, New Guinea as the location of the Zero wreck, not Pearl Harbor. The Zero is powered by a Nakajima Sakae type engine, not a Mitsubishi engine. I still stand by these corrections.

    3) "Fine Article", "Good Comparison"- This was meant to laud the scope, and quality of Mr. Meyers comparitive reports on WW2 fighters, not to imply that the Zero got a glowing review (it didn't, but Mr. Meyer duly noted the Zero's relative strength in some areas).

    4) I googled Doris(Dorie) Miller, and came up with many accounts of his heroic deeds on 7 Dec 1941. I admire, and appreciate his (and many others) acts on that dark day in history.
    However, Mr. Miller was actually stationed on the USS West Virginia, not the Arizona as you stated. Your comment of "this is the fact Jack" leads me to think that you believe pictured wreck to be 1 of the 6 planes that Mr. Miller allegedly shot down.(I say allegedly, because different accounts say 3, 4 , or "several", Mr. Sepiolos credits notwistanding). I googled "Pearl Harbor Attack Force", and actually got a page with photographs of recovered wrecked Japanese aircraft from 7 Dec attack. All of the planes salvaged from Pearl Harbor waters were torpedo or dive bombers. The Zeros that were recovered crashed on land.

    My motivation for joining SW was not to get into pissing contests with other members. I believe that one going down this road ought to at least get their facts straight.

    PS- Sorry about bad link. Try avweb.com, then homepage search function, typing in "Japanese Zero". The link to part 1 of article appearing on search result is "Pelicans Perch #71.

















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    Well excuse me. This is the fact Jack.
    Now the Japanese aircraft had engines bult by who? Say it, come on SAY IT.
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    Ugh, who cares. Let's save space and get back to pictures.

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    How 'bout me bridging the gap ... as in a pic of me 'hanging out' in my old 98 Talon TSI AWD. My nephew is still driving this car today back in upstate NY !




    For the record, even with auto trans my 98 Talon would run in the 13's bone stock when it was new.

    Actually, I would have kept purchasing Talons / Mitsu Eclipses instead of switching to a Subaru WRX if only Mitsubishi hadn't decided to quit making them in AWD. As it is, the only hot AWD Mitsubishi still offers is the EVO ... which is too much money and too little performance versus the WRX.

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    I'll post pictures of my ride after my car accident on October 26, 2008:

    1994 Eagle Talon DL (N/T FWD) w/ 1.8L motor. It was a 5 spd. I did the motor and trans swap myself . It was my first car. R.I.P Dana Lynn





    I was making a left at a blinking red and the two cars in front of me went without yielding. I followed suit because I thought the light was green. I got hit by a truck going 45 mph on the driver's side. The window shattered all over me and the door crushed in on my leg. I was shifting into second when I got hit so when the manual window knob flew off on impact the metal piece (see picture #1) penetrated my leg. I have a small scar and my muscle is slightly curved inward/damaged from that. I got hit by a car going 45 mph on the passenger side door, but I didn't know that I got hit twice until I woke up in the ambulance. I was unconscious and unfortunately Diamond Star Motors did not introduce air bags until 1995 in Eagle Talons (second generation). I did have my seatbelt on though, and the doctors told me it likely saved my ability to walk.
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    This is a picture of my ex's 1995 Eagle Talon Tsi AWD. 5spd, obviously.

    He bought it bone stock and built it from the ground up, the first of his many projects:




    ^^^ Me about two years ago.

    P.S. Very sexy pic Melonie! I love the shoes.
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    Damn Laurisa you were lucky @@@

    I also totaled an earlier Talon I owned ... a 95 TSI AWD. Believe it or not, some idiot dropped an empty refrigerator box off a pickup into the middle of a 2 lane state highway right in front of me. Not knowing whether it was empty or not, I yanked the wheel to the right at about 60mph and launched the car some 75 ft off the road, missing the tree line by about 3 feet !!! Luckily everybody involved 'walked away' without anything more than a scratch.

    A lady cop threw the book at me though, because the MOFO who dropped the refrigerator box came back, picked it up, and disafuckinpeared just before the cop arrived on the scene. For some reason I never have those problems with male cops LOL !

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    Damn! I hate women cops, they're such bitches. I think it's because they know they're inferior to their male counterparts and they hate it.

    I'm glad you were okay as well! It took about three weeks for me to fully recover.
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    Quote Originally Posted by minnow View Post
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    4) I googled Doris(Dorie) Miller, and came up with many accounts of his heroic deeds on 7 Dec 1941. I admire, and appreciate his (and many others) acts on that dark day in history.
    However, Mr. Miller was actually stationed on the USS West Virginia, not the Arizona as you stated.

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    I was making a left at a blinking red and the two cars in front of me went without yielding. I followed suit because I thought the light was green.
    Seatbelts save lives. When New Jersey first permitted right turns on red a common occurrence was the car behind a car making a right on red and didn't look assumed the light turned green and went straight through a red light with similar results.
    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie View Post

    For the record, even with auto trans my 98 Talon would run in the 13's bone stock when it was new.
    Most people will get a faster time with an automatic because a stick requires near perfect driver operation to get the best times. It is on a road course where a stick is at its best.

    As for 1/4 mile times for factory stock vehicles this site has a list compiled from reliable sources; mostly automotive testing entities. These times are faster than one will get at the track because they are corrected to perfect SAE conditions.
    Eagle
    1988 Eagle Premier ES 17.7
    1992 Eagle Summit AWD Wagon 17.9
    1990 Eagle Talon TSi AWD 15.1
    1992 Eagle Talon TSi AWD 15.2
    1994 Eagle Talon TSi AWD 14.6
    1995 Eagle Talon TSi 15.1
    1997 Eagle Talon ESi 16.4
    1993 Eagle Vision ESi 17.7
    1993 Eagle Vision TSi 16.6


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    2005 Ford Mustang GT 4.6L V8 13.5 (MT Jan '05)


    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie View Post
    How 'bout me bridging the gap ... as in a pic of me 'hanging out' in my old 98 Talon TSI AWD. My nephew is still driving this car today back in upstate NY !




    For the record, even with auto trans my 98 Talon would run in the 13's bone stock when it was new.

    Actually, I would have kept purchasing Talons / Mitsu Eclipses instead of switching to a Subaru WRX if only Mitsubishi hadn't decided to quit making them in AWD. As it is, the only hot AWD Mitsubishi still offers is the EVO ... which is too much money and too little performance versus the WRX.
    Those will add at least .2 off the ET but I'll bet the other guy doesn't even get off the line.

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    Come on Earl we've all seen cars do far worse and far better than their projected 1/4 mile times, and they don't mean anything anymore because of how old those cars are. I wan to see the projected 1/4 mile times for Melonie's car. Unless it had a motor swap I can tell it's N/T from the picture though. She didn't put the model up unless I missed it.

    The 5 spds versus the automatics in the DSM line usually didn't have a significant amount of extra horsepower anyway, and unless you install a shift light it's going to be hard to get a near perfect shift. Doesn't mean it can't happen though, does it? I bought a 1992 Pontiac Sunbird SE that is a 5 spd and it actually has a shift light installed, it's kind of weird because I'll look down sometimes and I shift perfectly, but other times I'm way off.

    I guess it just depends.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Laurisa View Post
    Come on Earl we've all seen cars do far worse and far better than their projected 1/4 mile times, and they don't mean anything anymore because of how old those cars are. .
    Those times are not projected they are actual test results with real cars new at the time of testing with the best drivers the magazines and other facilities have. The cars are checked to make sure they are factory stock.

    The driver gets a feel for the car and then does three runs the best time is then corrected for air tempture, altitude and barometric pressure using a SAE table; Edmonds’ criticizes Car and Driver and others for using an old correction formula that gives them about a .2 second quicker time then the proper new table.

    This gives the entire story enjoy. Let's just say the times are accurate.

    If the outdated correction factor is combined with rollout, the results can be dramatic. The following example is based on data from a single run of our test car. Here you can see the effects that the worst-case combination of correction factor and rollout can have on a 0-60 time.

    Correction SAE J1349 (current) without Rollout 0-60 8.61 (sec) with Rollout 8.3 (sec) 1/4 mile with Rollout 16.44 (sec) @ 83.85 mph.


    Correction SAE J607 (obsolete) without Rollout 0-60 8.23 (sec) with Rollout 7.92 (sec) 1/4 mile with Rollout 16.17 (sec) @ 85.03 mph.
    Quote Originally Posted by Laurisa View Post
    I'm not hating on mustangs, its just that most of the guys I see driving them are 22-year-old douche bags ...
    Thank you I would love to be mistaken for a 22 year old anything. Do you know my Mustang has a hooligan button? When I push it at any speed it turns off the traction and stability control.

    BTW when I said cars dump oil on the track it had nothing to do with the age of the car, if a car is leaking oil it will not be permitted to race. I was talking about modifications that push the drive train beyond its designed limits. A Mustang GT can safely be modified to 400 HP and Ford will honor the full factory warrantee if done at time of purchase.

    Third party vendors sell bolt on modifications that will push the little 4.6 to over 600 HP but without internal upgrades something will explode and dump oil on the track.

    This one dumped more than oil.

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    ^^ Projection: a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations. I'm pretty sure my use of the word was proper, because I was stating that those 1/4 mile times were the projected (which is synonymous with estimated) times for all of the cars that met that criteria. (i.e. year, model).

    I am aware that dumping oil on the track can be caused by improper modifications, but it can also be caused by cam seals going bad over time and numerous other factors that come with an aging vehicle, several years of wear and tear, etc. Do I really have to name them all? Big oil leaks that wet the whole track are usually caused by faulty modifications though, you are correct.

    I wasn't saying that you are a 22-year-old, but most of the people around here that drive them sure are and they think they know everything when they can't even check their tire pressure. Those kind of guys really get me going.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Laurisa View Post
    ^^ Projection: a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations.

    I wasn't saying that you are a 22-year-old, but most of the people around here that drive them sure are and they think they know everything when they can't even check their tire pressure.
    Those times were not predictions they are real times achieved by real drivers in real cars. Math is an exact science and the testers set up a weather station where the test is taking place so the SAE correction factor can be exactly calculated to make all tests equal. The SAE correction factor is used to determine HP ratings for auto manufactures and when dynamometer testing. I get better times as the weather gets colder. This is science not guessing.

    BTW Mustangs have electronic tire pressure monaters.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl_the_Pearl View Post
    Those times were not predictions they are real times achieved by real drivers in real cars. Math is an exact science and the testers set up a weather station where the test is taking place so the SAE correction factor can be exactly calculated to make all tests equal. The SAE correction factor is used to determine HP ratings for auto manufactures and when dynamometer testing. I get better times as the weather gets colder. This is science not guessing.

    BTW Mustangs have electronic tire pressure monaters.




    You know if you dynoed every car brand new off the lot even if they were the exact same car there would be some slight differences in HP, right? I'm saying those are the estimated 1/4 mile times for the entire line of those cars, I'm not saying they were not really achieved by someone at a certain time. You're missing my point but I'm getting frustrated so I'll stop trying to explain.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Laurisa View Post
    You know if you dynoed every car brand new off the lot even if they were the exact same car there would be some slight differences in HP, right?
    Of course they would have "slight differences" if they were built right. That is why racing engines are blueprinted to get maxium power.

    If you look at the times for the exact same car by differant testers on that site you will not find more than .3 differance.

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    She didn't put the model up unless I missed it
    '98 Talon TSI AWD. This was the last year that Mitsubishi made Talons for Chrysler. The Talon AWD model came from the factory with an oversized exhaust system that supposedly added 10hp over the 2WD Talon models and the both the 2WD and AWD models with an Eclipse nameplate.

    I found a pic from way back in 1999 that shows the model. It also shows my 'old' hair and my 'old' breast implants !



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    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie View Post
    '98 Talon TSI AWD. This was the last year that Mitsubishi made Talons for Chrysler. The Talon AWD model came from the factory with an oversized exhaust system that supposedly added 10hp over the 2WD Talon models and the both the 2WD and AWD models with an Eclipse nameplate.

    I found a pic from way back in 1999 that shows the model. It also shows my 'old' hair and my 'old' breast implants !


    Well thank you for the clarification.

    You look great in that picture!
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