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Quickest N/A VL?
Started by G · 4 Feb 2006 · 144 repliesPreserved from CalaisTurbo (partial recovery). Original authors and dates are shown; archived members are not current Holdcom accounts. View original archive ↗
04-02-06, 13:56 GMT+10#3
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Originally Posted by ATMO_BT1
dunno man last i heard it was about half track should be done soon
ha ha funny ****
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04-02-06, 14:03 GMT+10#4
lol, that makovl had a 150kw N/A a while ago....
Havent heard what he has done in ages though..
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04-02-06, 14:20 GMT+10#5
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Originally Posted by ATMO_BT1
dunno man last i heard it was about half track should be done soon
LMFAO
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04-02-06, 15:10 GMT+10#7
i think that someone doing an NA and getting faster would say 'mmm turbo' rather than waste more money on NA
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04-02-06, 15:22 GMT+10#8
a guy from brisbane i think his user is 'rover'
he has done a 14.3 pass in a n/a vl
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04-02-06, 16:04 GMT+10#10
yep and you probably spent about 1/3rd the money the bloke without the charger spent to run that 14.3
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04-02-06, 16:09 GMT+10#11
umm.. i dont know.. i have spent alot but could do it again very very fast and very cheap.
From what i know today i could make another VL run faster then mine within 2 days. thats doing the intercooler piping myself and all.
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04-02-06, 16:12 GMT+10#12
I guess that is the problem with tredding the unwalked path.
do it for Nic_S then haha
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04-02-06, 16:34 GMT+10#13
would make a difference to if they were using slicks and a spool too. What are we talking full street setup???? ie (lsd, 17's) or street/drag setup (spool, 15" on 22psi).
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04-02-06, 16:35 GMT+10#14
i dont think it would as much of a difference as most n/a's (except the extreme ones) are not really going to struggle with traction. A good lsd and street tyres should be fine?
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04-02-06, 17:18 GMT+10#15
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Originally Posted by MadVK308
lol, that makovl had a 150kw N/A a while ago....
Havent heard what he has done in ages though..
i have seen him on SC forums and he has more power now, he has 117rwkw with a xf TB change only. i PM him and he says that there are bigger things to come soon. he will get a bigger cam and raise the comp up and he did still mention that he is using the stupid factory cat, he hasnt changed that to a highflow cat yet and he is ripping 117rwkw.
i wonder what the difference is from changing that to a highflow cat.??
o yeh and i did ask him why he aint here and he did say something but it wasnt nice.
and its macovl with a C not K
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04-02-06, 20:46 GMT+10#17
Im sure some guy from the R31 Skyline Club ran a low 13 high 12 in a RB30E R31.
I had a argument on StreetCommodores about this exact topic saying I would spend money on my N/A too make it quick.
If you have a quick N/A and it only gets to a 14 second pass and you spend 1000s of dollars on it who cares, theres no assistance from a Turbo so it makes it more rewarding.
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04-02-06, 20:57 GMT+10#18
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Originally Posted by GLD-086
If you have a quick N/A and it only gets to a 14 second pass and you spend 1000s of dollars on it who cares, theres no assistance from a Turbo so it makes it more rewarding.
i care, at our age every dollar is hard earnt and to piss it away into spending hundreds of dollars per rwkw earned is outragous.
I don't see how building a 14 sec n/a is rewarding, sure its a challenge, so is trying to build a reliable 12 sec street vl turbo and running it at our age, why not do that? To be different you say? If you wanted to be different why buy a vl?
Out of the 2 (14 sec n/a or 12 sec turbo) i sure as hell know which one is going to be more fun and which will give a whole lot more back on resale.
Power is power in the end, who cares how you get it, as long as it burys you in the seat enough to put a smile on your face then nothing else matters. All i know is a 14 sec n/a would never do that for me, nor most people on this forums. I'l keep on trudging on trying to build my streeter thankyou.
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04-02-06, 21:00 GMT+10#19
14.3 with
twin throt's big cam good manual bigger diff gears 3.7 or 3.9 was not 4.11's
port and polish
he has not spent big $$$ on his car
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04-02-06, 21:14 GMT+10#20
not if he did the twin throttles and removed the head for porting himself. How much porting, that is the question as that is a pretty impressive time considering...
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