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Originally posted by TGO:
usually the first really cold day of the winter, i'll goose it and the car will kick me in the @$$. I forget how much this car loves the cold weather.
Also, since i've got the flywheel lightened, 1st gear is a blast. A short blast, but a blast. Under full acceleration the tires are usually spinning towards the end, followed by spinnage in second, and depending on whether or not i'm lucky and whether i want to beat on the car a bark in third.
WOW  mine basically shuts down in the cold. It will start in -25 or -30, but thats the only good winter thing. It looses tons of power and mpg when it starts to dip below 20. the power is about cut in half at -20. and the suspension stiffens up tons so it feels like a radio flyer wagon being pulled by a 3rd grader.
95 LX-with a mind of its own
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well, i mnot talking about -20 degrees!!! but once the engine is warm i never noticed any loss of performance anyway. The suspension does squeak though.
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Quaife, lightened SVT Flywheel, SPEC stage II clutch, removed resonator, k&n drop in - various other goodies too.
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Reminds me of teh first time in my car (I test drove a different car) that I experienced teh secondaries. Some arse was doing 10 mph and I went to pass in 2nd gear. The pedal hit the floor and liek was said, I don't think I stopped smiling the rest of the day!
Now driving the truck every day, I put the pedal to teh floor, count to 3 or 4 then get a little power , downshift then a bit more. I miss downshifitng and having power on tap.
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Originally posted by pole120:
Originally posted by The Mad Ugly SVT:
I am suprised by my car on a daily basis....I literally beat the hell out of this thing when i drive it and every day it makes it back home and out again the next day with no problems.
That's mine too!
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Originally posted by AliasJerk:
Originally posted by OoTLink:
So earlier today when I was going out I had to take the freeway to get to the other side of town, and as usual, there happened to be a van next to me to turn onto the onramp as well 
So while I was turning, I decided to catch up with him (lagged behind a little being in the outside lane and all).. that was cool but when I stomped the gas to do so, our car being a 2L zetec and all, I was expecting to catch up enough that he'd be able to pass me..
Surprise surprise! I stomped, and he ended up in my rear view mirror 
COOL! 
[I don't plan on doing that again unless it's quiet, but it was fun anyway.. good thing there was plenty of space! ]
But yeah, you guys ever get surprised how peppy your car can be?
First time I went on a road trip... it was a 200 mile trip, by 160 miles, my gas gauge had JUST passed the 3/4 mark.  Nothing like awesome gas mileage, and a really comfertable car to travel in.. Too bad I dont have cruise control. 
That just makes me pissed off at the crappy gas gauge. After filling up, I have to drive 80-100 miles before the gauge even goes below the full mark.
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Originally posted by Rishodi:
That just makes me pissed off at the crappy gas gauge. After filling up, I have to drive 80-100 miles before the gauge even goes below the full mark.
Yep same here.
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To other day I was getting out of the body shop 3 weeks after being hit in a parking lot (hit and run). The rear bumper had been damaged but they repaired it and it looked like a new one. Anyways, the only way out of the shop was a nasty little street full of snow covered ice. Since I was on my 225 Bfg kdw's, I knew I had to be extra carefull. Well, I had quite a surprise when I noticed that I had absolutely zero traction and couldn't stop going at about 5 km/h. I slid for like 15 meters and hit a car going across the intersection when I had almost stopped. My SVT has a small scratch on the front bumper but I did a very big and long dent to the side of the Toyota Matrix I hit. What sucks is that I was going home to install my winter tires that I couldn't install before because my car was in the damn body shop  . And it started snowing the day before I got my car back. Oh well, it's always nice to have a big bump in insurances premiums before christmas... And btw, never ever drive kdw's in the snow...
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RU-3530, 17" Rage Enduro, Hella Optilux fogs
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The first time I beat my friends BMW 3-series in my CSVT...I was like dayum. I didn't know what to expect =) He never beat me.
Ryan
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My car does not surprise me much anymore, it does surprise other people tho. My one friend thought it had a v6 in it. One day I was just cruising down the road with the window down, and at a light (heavy traffic so we couldn't do anything) a guy I work with was in his Mistu Mirage, and his cousin was with him, he pulls up to me and says, "hey that all your car has" and laughs I knew he was just picking on me just joking. So I let the car in front of me get a little of a head start and I just nailed it and she opened up and I let off and later that night at work the one that drives the Mirage he told me my car was pretty quick. I think it's slow myself lol.
I got my car in the end of summer of 02 and I was just getting used to driving it, that spring I just got the urge to start hitting the gas pedal repeatedly going down the road, and sometimes I would get a chirp from the drive wheel, I thought wtf. Then one day I finally realized what I was doing, I found out how to chirp my drive wheel into 2nd gear with only using the gas pedal. That surprised the heck out of me. I didn't know a 4cyl ATX could chirp the drive wheel into 2nd gear.
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I guess the car never surprises me. The first time I rode in my friend's dad's 2000 black/black SVT I was surprised. I expect to hit 90 before the end of onramps.
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2000 SVT Black/Tan 84,000 on the clock
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