Congratulations Jaguar!!!

[ATAG_Bliss]

You're right. I thought the street legal class didn't allow internal modifications. It's the class below that "internal production class".

Either way, 1500rwhp has been made on 100% bone stock factory internals. Many companies sell GT TT kits with tune, all bolt on. No other manufacturer can make that kind of increase over stock with factory internals. That's my point. Hopefully it'll make sense now. The 2nd video, which I already explained, has factory internals and fuel system. Part 2 of that video shows the car making over 1500rwhp all in "bone stock" trim. Hopefully that'll help understand what I'm trying to say.

[Sternjaeger II]

all good on a straight line...

[baronWastelan]

Ford doesn't care enough about the Ford GT to make them anymore, so, as good as it is, it's an automotive dead-end. How about a new thread: Great Obsolete Cars.

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by baronWastelan

Ford doesn't care enough about the Ford GT to make them anymore, so, as good as it is, it's an automotive dead-end. How about a new thread: Great Obsolete Cars.

It has nothing to do about Ford caring about how good it is or was. Ford does things like this every once in a while to show off.

It's kinda like when Enzo (Ferrari) was going to sell Ferrari to Ford and backed out at the last second. Henry basically got pissed off and said, "ok - I'll show them Ferrari bastards" and built a car that won LeMans (totally dominated by Ferrari at the time) 4 years straight, just out of spite. They stopped production of the GT40 and stopped in LeMans, but Ford's little stunt will always be a little reminder to Ferrari that the colonists can still make a car that A.) turns and B.) kicks your ass for less than 1/2 the money.

And the engine in the, as you say, "dead" GT can be bought directly from Ford along with about any other modular engine they make. The 5.4L that's in the GT shares many things with what's in a Shelby or even a Crown Victoria. That's why they call it the mod motor. It's parts swap heaven. I have a few friends running the Ford GT engine from FRPP (Ford Racing Performance Parts) with a twin turbo setup in their mustangs. It's actually one of the things on the rise now as it's about as reliable as a setup with ridiculous horsepower than money can buy and you can get 30mpg out of it.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss

[...] but Ford's little stunt will always be a little reminder to Ferrari that the colonists can still make a car that A.) turns and B.) kicks your ass for less than 1/2 the money.

could make... It's a different philosophy for different driving styles and roads, but the thrill of massive torque acceleration will never be as exhilarating as brushing perfect bends around the Nurburgring circuit.

You can have a fast car, but there's always the off chance of someone having a faster car than you. You don't need to be a good driver, you just need a bigger wallet.

A well balanced car will give you endless entertainment for decades and teach you a lot about handling and performance driving.

I bet that if you ask to most of them "drivers" how's their heel-and-toe they'd probably look puzzled at their own foot

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

but the thrill of massive torque acceleration will never be as exhilarating as brushing perfect bends around the Nurburgring circuit.

Makes me wish I had the cash for one of the new Cadillacs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxLCw...ayer_embedded#

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I bet that if you ask to most of them "drivers" how's their heel-and-toe they'd probably look puzzled at their own foot

I expect transmissions with manual clutch to gone in about 10yrs. Although they are lots of fun.
Maybe you should ask them about left foot braking.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by swiss

Makes me wish I had the cash for one of the new Cadillacs.

oh puh-leaaase!!!

I expect transmissions with manual clutch to gone in about 10yrs. Although they are lots of fun.
Maybe you should ask them about left foot braking.

I honestly doubt it.

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

could make... It's a different philosophy for different driving styles and roads, but the thrill of massive torque acceleration will never be as exhilarating as brushing perfect bends around the Nurburgring circuit.

You can have a fast car, but there's always the off chance of someone having a faster car than you. You don't need to be a good driver, you just need a bigger wallet.

A well balanced car will give you endless entertainment for decades and teach you a lot about handling and performance driving.

I bet that if you ask to most of them "drivers" how's their heel-and-toe they'd probably look puzzled at their own foot

I've had both. Used to race in the SCCA and before that mini sprints. Most of my family has roots deep into turn racing. A cousin races in Nascar. 2 others race in the World of Outlaws.

But there's nothing more exhillerating than driving a car that can kill you anytime you press the go button. Many people have had good cornering cars. Heck you can buy some decent ones directly from the manufacturer. There's absolutely no excitement to that unless I'm racing.

But I build cars to blow people's doors off in roads you see on the street. Driving an SCCA car on the street is boring as hell. But take out something that'll light up the tires at 100mph on the street and that's fun. Take you're high cornering lambo's, bmw's, ferraris, etc., in every day street driving and I will embarrass them. Take those cars to a track and sure, I'll probably lose unless I changed the chassis up a bit. But for the street, a cornering car is absolutely worthless, at least in the US, where 90% of our roads you could fall asleep going 70mph on as they are all straight. I love that guy driving his ferrari that hears my exhaust as I'm creeping up next to him. Then you hear that high reving ferrari wind up and mid life crises ferrari dude's smile immediatley turns into disbelief when I happen to do the same with my car and literally watch him disappear in my rear window in a matter of seconds. That's what every day driving is. That's exhileration on a daily basis. Even funner when you blow the doors off someone driving a 9000lb diesel truck that's faster in the straight line than 99% of most production cars made. That's down right hillarious.

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss

But there's nothing more exhillerating than driving a car that can kill you anytime you press the go button.

I had one of those. It was a 1960 Vauxhall Victor with intermittent braking and seemingly random steering.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss

I've had both. Used to race in the SCCA and before that mini sprints. Most of my family has roots deep into turn racing. A cousin races in Nascar. 2 others race in the World of Outlaws.

But there's nothing more exhillerating than driving a car that can kill you anytime you press the go button. Many people have had good cornering cars. Heck you can buy some decent ones directly from the manufacturer. There's absolutely no excitement to that unless I'm racing.

But I build cars to blow people's doors off in roads you see on the street. Driving an SCCA car on the street is boring as hell. But take out something that'll light up the tires at 100mph on the street and that's fun. Take you're high cornering lambo's, bmw's, ferraris, etc., in every day street driving and I will embarrass them. Take those cars to a track and sure, I'll probably lose unless I changed the chassis up a bit. But for the street, a cornering car is absolutely worthless, at least in the US, where 90% of our roads you could fall asleep going 70mph on as they are all straight. I love that guy driving his ferrari that hears my exhaust as I'm creeping up next to him. Then you hear that high reving ferrari wind up and mid life crises ferrari dude's smile immediatley turns into disbelief when I happen to do the same with my car and literally watch him disappear in my rear window in a matter of seconds. That's what every day driving is. That's exhileration on a daily basis. Even funner when you blow the doors off someone driving a 9000lb diesel truck that's faster in the straight line than 99% of most production cars made. That's down right hillarious.

LOL well allow me to say that you're not much better than the "midlife crisis dudes" you boy race against
Tweaking a car's engine to make it go fast doesn't make you a good driver nor your car a good car, just something that goes very fast on a straight line, and you will always find someone who has a faster car than you.. we Europeans believe in the combination of a well balanced car and skilled driver, that's why we find your drag racing so puerile

You can have a 1000hp Ford GT which is still going to be a POS car, whilst a Ferrari, Porsche or Lambo a refined engineering marvels that outperform muscle cars easily, all you need is a bit of rain and a couple of bends and you're a spec on the rearview mirror.

Power without control is worthless to me, but then, each to their own really..