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I will once again tell you that the $X,XXX amount of money you save will NEVER actually be in your pocket to be used for mods!!! It just doesn't happen like that; unless you have $25000 in your savings account from flipping hamburgers at MCDonalds.
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yep sure sucks moving out and paying for your own school, no not highschool art fees,I mean college. Doesnt leave crap left to mod your car, however I guess it gives you a concept of money...
Derek Johnson
88 TurboTBird 32psi, t3/t4 bb 50trim, megasquirt, 3 bar map, 50lb inj, roller cam w adj. gear, header, 3" downpipe and full exhaust, gutted intake manifolds, spec stg 3
95SE 3L gone
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Originally posted by 96zetec: I guess it gives you a concept of money...
Don't you hate having the concept of money? I'd rather have the frickin' money! Who needs a concept?
2000 Silver Frost SVT
# 1637/2150
D.O.B. 01/14/2000
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Originally posted by t-red2000se: Originally posted by 96zetec: I guess it gives you a concept of money...
Don't you hate having the concept of money? I'd rather have the frickin' money! Who needs a concept?
Same here.
Hector
2003 Rally Red Mitsubishi Evolution VIII
257HP/259TQ
2005 Lapis Blue Mazda 6s
RET: 00 Cabernet Red Ford Contour Zetec ATX SUPERCHARGED
160HP/141TQ
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98.5 SVT
91 Escort GT (almost sold)
96 ATX Zetec (i brake to watch you swerve)
FS: SVT rear sway bar
WTB: Very cheap beater
CEG Dragon Run - October 13-15
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first of all, i think you misunderstood much of what i said. second of all, i didn't say with same mods your gonna beat a duratec, i said the base power doesn't matter if you have more stuff to give your car power. it's just stupid that some duratecs owners think that zetecs are worthless, just cuz they start out with 40hp less, and then get mad when one beats them. and big deal if i had the times wrong on the se-r, i already said my bad.
98.5 SVT
91 Escort GT (almost sold)
96 ATX Zetec (i brake to watch you swerve)
FS: SVT rear sway bar
WTB: Very cheap beater
CEG Dragon Run - October 13-15
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98.5 SVT
91 Escort GT (almost sold)
96 ATX Zetec (i brake to watch you swerve)
FS: SVT rear sway bar
WTB: Very cheap beater
CEG Dragon Run - October 13-15
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racing wires = 35 bucks = 0 hp homeade cai with filter = 35 bucks= 6 hp(being nice and some toxice pvc fumes) swaybar and bushings= 50 buck =0 hp being stupid enough to think that is modding.... pricelss
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Originally posted by Kremithefrog: you can go slap a new piston in there for a decent price if you decide to use nitrous, anything else that went wrong the dealer can fix.
you really don't know how a dearlership works.... NOS= no more warrenty.... sad but true... and there are more ways they your small mind could ever understand that will allow them to know if there has been NOS on a car or not. besides NOS is the "poor mans power adder" big daddy garland (sp?) old time drag racer.
2003 Subaru WRX some mods
Even if you don't have the answer, you certainly have to admire the problem.
aka ZetecRacing
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Ceteris paribus, more displacement equals more power. Despite their obvious differences, if you added exact components two each, ie. a turbocharger system, the Duratec would be better. But you have to add in other factors, an important one being the size of the engine bay. If you were building the ultimate performance Contour, factoring in the size of the engine bay, you would use a four cylinder. But no one is trying to build the ultimate Contour, and each engine has its place. Sleeper, I've said it before and I'll say it again, nice passes!
-Giovanni
One turbocharger. Two intercoolers. All love.
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