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Originally posted by ZetecRacing:
[BINGO..... just like I have seen a few WS6 T/A's run 15's and all of them were 6 speeds.... reason is most people seem to freak out with all those gears. /quote]
6 speed yes,but what difference would the extra gears make in a race??????6th gear is just another overdrive(above 5th,which is overdrive too)5th and 6th are useless in anything but high speed highway driving...so a 6 speed is the same as a 5speed when it comes to racing,where overdrive isn't(or at least hopefully isn't)used.... 
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Originally posted by chrisilversvt:
Originally posted by ZetecRacing:
[BINGO..... just like I have seen a few WS6 T/A's run 15's and all of them were 6 speeds.... reason is most people seem to freak out with all those gears. /quote]
6 speed yes,but what difference would the extra gears make in a race??????6th gear is just another overdrive(above 5th,which is overdrive too)5th and 6th are useless in anything but high speed highway driving...so a 6 speed is the same as a 5speed when it comes to racing,where overdrive isn't(or at least hopefully isn't)used....
Yeah but do you think all the people that have a 6 speed know how to drive it? 
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Originally posted by Hector:
Originally posted by chrisilversvt:
Originally posted by ZetecRacing:
[BINGO..... just like I have seen a few WS6 T/A's run 15's and all of them were 6 speeds.... reason is most people seem to freak out with all those gears. /quote]
6 speed yes,but what difference would the extra gears make in a race??????6th gear is just another overdrive(above 5th,which is overdrive too)5th and 6th are useless in anything but high speed highway driving...so a 6 speed is the same as a 5speed when it comes to racing,where overdrive isn't(or at least hopefully isn't)used....
Yeah but do you think all the people that have a 6 speed know how to drive it?
yeah you're probably right..hell people can't seem to drive 5speeds half the time..i guess that xtra gear really freaks some people out...lol..
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if these 6 speed drivers are getting to 6th gear in the quarter then they really dont know how to drive. 
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Originally posted by mikey boy:
if these 6 speed drivers are getting to 6th gear in the quarter then they really dont know how to drive.
LOL
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Originally posted by mikey boy:
if these 6 speed drivers are getting to 6th gear in the quarter then they really dont know how to drive.
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Originally posted by Hector:
You know now that I think of it many of you SVT/Duratec owners are (probably not intentional) ragging on the Zetec in your posts. Like I said before this is pointless. Instead of encouraging each other were are here ragging on each other.
Originally posted by wavrdr:
If the Zetec was a better candidate, SVT/Ford would have gladly chosen it for the high performance CDW-27. The SVT Focus is a bunch a Marketing BS, it's slow! I recently had an encounter(rolling)with one, not a chance in hell could he even keep up with me. He did have minor mods installed(according to him), but didn't understand how he had gotten smacked around by a four door family car
This bothers me. I have a whole lot less power (look in my sig) and I have kept up if not walked away (from a roll) with modded Duratecs and kept up with SVTs with my modded Zetec ATX. Maybe these Focus SVT owners don't know how to drive a 6 speed.
Hector, not to rag or you/your car, or anyone else for that matter, but I consistently trap 12-13 mph more than you, and 2-2.2 seconds faster. This is from a standstill with 2.3-2.4 60' times. Now if one can hardly pull or keep up for that matter from a standstill, then there is no way one would be able to pull on an MTX Duratec(mine for that matter). I'm not here for a pissing contest, just trying to help with an extra non-biased opinion.
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This arguement as gotten waaaaayyyyy off topic.
The original arguement by DemonSVT was that a Zetec (or any engine) could not possibly drop 2.2 seconds off the 1/4 mile simply by adding a 75HP (dry) shot of nitrous.
Yet I have the time slips and witness to prove it.
If you need more than that, too bad, tracks are closed.
But your welcome to come to Oregon and see for yourself next spring.
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Just stumbled across this post and thought I'd throw in my 2 cents. The Kremit guy really needs to put up or shut up. Talk is cheap. When you have experience with performance parts on your Zetec (real mods...not plug wires and an air filter) come back and talk. Hector, ZetecRacing and others really seem to know their stuff and have done many performance mods to their car, I respect what they say. According to Kremits sig he is getting the body kit so atleast he will look fast  Your 96 GL ATX will be even slower with the body kit, so if you are going for performance....you are heading in the wrong direction. And yes a 96 Zetec ATX in stock or lightly modded form is horribly slow, I have one that I use as a beater. Since the Zetec has all of that potential, why dont you put that money towards a turbo  As far as sleepers times, congrats man. It's great to see those kinds of times out of your Zetec. -neal
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Originally posted by Dan Nixon:
Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
i'm just a little perturbed that svt owners don't like the fact that i modded a zetec to be faster than a duratec.
In your head it's like you already did it is'nt it...
"Mentally modded zetec"
oops a typo, so sue me. 
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