Well, better braking and lateral grip is just about impossible due to basic physics. They wear the same size tires, both ford spec Cup 2’s, yet one weighs in excess of 350-400lbs heavier.
Actual skid pad and braking tests show the R to be superior; the only advantage in this area the 500 will...
Just as an FYI to anyone reading this thread; all season tires are absolutely not capable year round. “All-weather” tires, a different category from all-season tires, are capable of maintaining their grip once temperatures drop below 7*C.
All-season tires, no matter who says different or what...
1/8th mile is the only track we have in our province, not circuit, no 1/4. Took my R there twice for shits and giggles to make a few passes, best I managed was an 8.2X at 92.6mph with a 2.2X 60ft. Couldn't get a better launch than that, trap speed was strong though. Tried launch control but...
The big willow test is literally the go to for every Chev fanboy who don't know all of the details, or purposefully leave out the details that make the whole story. It doesn't show it in that "fastest laps" leaderboard, but on the day the 350R set that slow time, the ZL1 was only 0.39 seconds...
What does a race track or 85+mph have to do with using a manual??? Pretty weird logic there. My R will almost never see a racetrack (none here in my province) and I'm not frequently over 85mph. But I wouldn't have even looked at the car if it had an auto as the only transmission.
Sorry to...
Dude those wheels are curb rashed, the tire is also torn... I sure hope for 67K they're throwng in a new set of wheels and tires.....
You can find new models for not much more than that FYI if you want to search a little. Then you can get the color/options you want, new wheels and tires, and...
Well I mean, that's the best part eh, that it is literally a bunch of bolt-ons, with none of the overall vehicle dynamics taken into consideration, nothing integrated to work together as well as OEM, and people think its some super fast, super awesome car because it has XYZ suspension kit and a...
Eh, I wouldn't worry about that too much. The original AMG gang believed the same thing when Merc/AMG started putting AMG badges on the likes of the "C43" aka just a C450 with a different badge to get more sales, and other similar cars that didn't follow the original AMG ethos. But hey...
The quicker shift speed over the PDK only occurred during a 3-4 (going off memory, could be wrong on gear to gear number) upshift when left in full auto. Point is, it was a farce. A big reason why the DCT's are preferred, and are better, than an auto is the speed in which it shifts after the...
You are so hilariously wrong it isn't even funny lol
The dynamometer itself assumes you are in the 1:1 gear... research how a dyno works. OP, go back, do a pull in 5th and you'll get better numbers.
We need to remember a few things though, in that the 2JZ legend that everyone remembers came out with 300-320ish hp at the time, when everything else had such little power or similar power even in the exotics. Even though of course the technology back then wasn't as good, it was still a lot...
An automatic being more fun on the street....? LOL
Power comes on in the 350 in the mid 3.5K range. You've got nearly 5000rpms of bandwith… meanwhile, how many times can you accelerate hard in an auto and "have fun" in that 0-30 range on the street before it gets old. The Voodoo never gets...
I would say about a 0.00001% chance of it trapping 118+... you're expecting trap speeds of our 526hp car out of a 380-400ish hp car that only weighs a couple hundred pounds less.
Billy Johnson (BillyJohnsonRacing on here); they specifically said it is not the same as the GT350R tire and that it isn't as aggressive a compound, just the same nominal size. More street friendly/durable compound.
From what BJR said about the Cup 2's on the PP2, they are not the same as what comes on the R in terms of compound/design. I would say they favor closer to off the shelf Cup 2's which are not as sticky but tend to have deeper treadwdith and last a lot longer. I may even try some OTS Cup 2's...