Originally posted by PurpleMystique:
Originally posted by sigma:
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The actual "muscle car" guys are always gonna make fun of the 4-door semi-luxury sedan that cost $5000 less than their ride but runs mid-13s stock and runs 12s for less than the price of headers on a GT. Nothing you can do about that but let them have their fun while you kick their ass.


I'm curious as to what car you're talking about here. Surely not the MS6, as it runs, at the VERY best, high 13s, and I'm curious as to how $500 can get you a full second improvement in the quarter mile.





Well, we can argue whether the best (and one of the only) slip times of 13.7 is a "high" or a "mid" 13. And the guy who drove that is known to not be the best driver out there. But, either way, it's competitive with a GT at thousands less and 10 times the equipment which was my point.

As for going faster, boost controllers have been very effective in the MS6. Stock boost is 14psi and only really comes on from about 3000 and rapidly dies off when the wastegate starts to vent at 5000RPM. Purportedly those boost controllers and with a little tinkering around are able to get 17.5psi and another 1000RPM out of it, which is a pretty significant difference in total power output over a 1/4-mile.

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