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Yeah I know, everyone else is talking about spec-v's. Like I said earlier, you should win. YOU BETTER WIN. 
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96 ATX Zetec (i brake to watch you swerve)
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-------------------- Russell 3L Swap in progress... Aiming To Be The Fastest ATX Contour 16.334 @ 845.86 MPH on bald tires! Russell, you must already be the fastest ATX or any car for that matter with a top end speed like this.  16.334 @ 845.86 MPH on bald tires! 
Green 96 mystique gs 4cyl mtx
16.9 in the 1/4 mile @102500 miles
95SE in Midnight Red MTX
MSDS headers and y-pipe
SVT exhaust
SVT UIM
Optimized se TB.
Full pre 98 SVT body kit
15.741 @ 87.73mph :)
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Originally posted by mbb41:
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Russell
3L Swap in progress...
Aiming To Be The Fastest ATX Contour
16.334 @ 845.86 MPH on bald tires!
Russell, you must already be the fastest ATX or any car for that matter with a top end speed like this.
16.334 @ 845.86 MPH on bald tires!
LMAO
ok i fixed it!
Russell
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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
My friend ran 9.8 1/8 mile with his stock spec-v with just no hood, different muffler, and no air filter.
That is about the dumbest thing I've read all week.
Next time you see your riceboy Spec-v friend, smack him for running without a hood on. I mean hell, why not yank the trunk lid too if he wants to look rediculous.
Remind him that a 9.8 is about a 15.2 second pass. Not really any quicker than a stock SE-R Spec-V 
Dave
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Originally posted by Dave B:
Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
My friend ran 9.8 1/8 mile with his stock spec-v with just no hood, different muffler, and no air filter.
That is about the dumbest thing I've read all week.
Next time you see your riceboy Spec-v friend, smack him for running without a hood on. I mean hell, why not yank the trunk lid too if he wants to look rediculous.
Dave
It's at the track and only at the track. (That's where you get the 1/8 mile times.) The point of running at a drag strip is to see how good of times you can get which is what he did (and what all the other people there do). At a non-nhra sanctioned event, this is allowed among many other things and is perfectly fine since you're just seeing how fast you can go. I guess if he added nitrous and used it to get faster times, that would be stupid too. 
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i find it funny when a riceboy with a honda or a neon or a cougar (seen 2 of them guys) that TOTALLY gut the interior and still run mid 16s. its just stupid, who drives around like that all the time? when im at the track i take out the subs and the spare and jack, nothing more.
last night i was lined up against a supercharged 5.0 mustang for 3 of the 4 runs (it was just a test and tune night, no big event) this guy was running 11.5s all night long, broke into the 11.4s 1 time. im sittin on the line, crappy tires are spinning, he just blows by me like a rocketship!
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Originally posted by Dave B:
Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
My friend ran 9.8 1/8 mile with his stock spec-v with just no hood, different muffler, and no air filter.
That is about the dumbest thing I've read all week.
Next time you see your riceboy Spec-v friend, smack him for running without a hood on. I mean hell, why not yank the trunk lid too if he wants to look rediculous.
Remind him that a 9.8 is about a 15.2 second pass. Not really any quicker than a stock SE-R Spec-V
Dave
15.2! WOW! Around here they are like 16 flat.
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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
It's at the track and only at the track. (That's where you get the 1/8 mile times.) The point of running at a drag strip is to see how good of times you can get which is what he did (and what all the other people there do). At a non-nhra sanctioned event, this is allowed among many other things and is perfectly fine since you're just seeing how fast you can go. I guess if he added nitrous and used it to get faster times, that would be stupid too.
Yeah, I understand that it's a 1/8 mile track seeing that you got a 1/8 mile slip
I just think it's completely stupid to be yanking a 35lb hood off street car that is only capable of running 15s. Seriously, why stop there? Why not yank the trunk lid and all the seats. What sort of bragging rights does this get you? 9-second cars don't have problems with running a hood. If he added nitrous, good for him. Personally I think nitrous is a cheap way out to get 1/4 mile ETs, but it's still a true performance mod, not a ricer mod.
Dave
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Originally posted by Dave B:
Personally I think nitrous is a cheap way out to get 1/4 mile ETs, but it's still a true performance mod, not a ricer mod.
agreed. pulling the hood is a true ricer mod, gutting the interior is a ricer mod, im talking about on a daily driven car, that is just gutted to go to the track, NOT an all out race car thats trailored up to the track.
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Hood came off at the track and went back on at the track. Same as removing spare tire, subs, etc. It dropped his 1/8 mile time by 3/10 of a second. And if that equals 15.2 1/4 mile than that's pretty good, since stock they run 15.4 to 15.7. Why take a contour,etc. to the drag strip? To get fast times. The contour is no drag car by any means. It's like saying why add a turbo to a contour. Since no FWD street car will be a real drag car.  Why do people buy different intakes for their contours, on a duratec, a different intake wouldn't drop your 1/8 mile time by 3/10 of a second.
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91 Escort GT (almost sold)
96 ATX Zetec (i brake to watch you swerve)
FS: SVT rear sway bar
WTB: Very cheap beater
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