ok guys so i was driving home late last night when this lil pontiac grand prix pulled up next to me. the light turned green and it took off real fast then slowed down just kinda toying w me. so i was in like 4th gear and started to speed up past the car.... every time i started to pass it, it took off and smoked my ***!! a damn grand prix!! thats not sposed to happen! then just to make things worse it turned out to be a chick driving it, i was floorin it and could not keep up WTF??!! maybe i just dont know how to drive a stick haha i didnt want to down shift back into fourth gear at 60 mph though. whats the first best mod i can make to my car to make it accelerate faster....maybe 3.73 gears?

cant believe i got smoked by a girl in a grand prix!!

 

i can some of thouse cars have more hp then the v6 mustang. get 3.73s and if you really want your gears to go by fast get 4.10s.

 

yea she had duel exhaust two pipes on each side i thought maybe she had something under the hood. can my car handle 4.10s? some one told me they would slip... what about the SCT tuner? are they worth the 500 that AM charges?

 

the 4.10s wont slip if there installed right, get a t-loc get the SCT tuner to.

 

well the gtp grand prix are super charged

 

buy the SCT xcal from www.vmptuning.com

Was she atleast attractive?

 

yea she was bought 20 blonde hair, bein all flirty and stuff u know how it goes hahaha

 

a supercharger in a v6 would blow my car wouldnt it?

 

some of those cars? ha, cars with less hp then us will beat us, it is a sad and unfortunate truth we must accept!

and danlon3.8 no a supercharger would not blow your car. I don't know where you are getting your info about gears slipping, or superchargers exploding, but you have some serious reading to do. Recently a guy built a 4.3, turbo, 16~psi and put down 600rwhp, the V6 can built to your hearts desire, just remember to go fast it is going to take money!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgqkOemJeQE check this out!

 

nope they make alot of superchargers for v6 mustang if your look around.

 

www.vmptuning.com sells a procharger with everything you need plus a tune to get your car safely running the supercharger for $4,500. You'll be a lot faster than shitty grand prix's..probably faster than mustang GTs too. lol

 

danlon, at 60 mph you could easily have gone down to 4th gear and stayed in it to about 80 mph then fifth. 5th gear is more like a cruise control, its not really used for racing at 60 mph, im at like 1.5k rpm in fifth at 60. and at 3.8 rpm at 80 mph in 4th.

 

for $4500 you better be faster then a Gt

 

yea this is the first car that ive had that is a stick so i wasnt sure if i would screw somethin up. haha but man i would love to put a turbo or a super charger in it, do any of you have that set up?

 

Well I'm sure it makes the car faster than a GT but they neglected to post any dyno charts or numbers gained off the motor, but since it's VMP tuning and they know their ****, I'm sure it is faster.

The m112 makes a v6 a lot faster than a gt, on the other hand, and for less $$

 

were can i find one of those? and do any of these take much to install?

 

If you were racing in fifth gear even a honda would embarrass you. You should have been in like second or third gear.

 

hahaha yea but we were already goin down the road when she started pushin it. i should have down shifted. i know i can get off the line pretty quick tho.. ok so what about a v6 pontiac trans am do you think i could hang with that? my buddy has one and wants to race

 

sounds like you might just need some more experience driving a stick shift. do it long enough and you won't even have to think about the downshift, cause you'll already have done it.


Edit: however a set of 4.10's will definitely give fifth gear (as well as all the others) more grunt

 

yea true that.

 

what year is your 3.8 maybe I missed it? My guess is no, he will win.

read it, if you are interested!
http://www.3.8mustang.com/forum/showthread.php?t=206282

 

its a 2000 and i think his is a 98 or 2000 as well somewhere in there

 

alright, yeah I still think he will win, our cars are not the fastest thing at all.

 

haha well hey thats ok at least im drivin a mustang i could be drivin a POS haha

 

true dat!

 

yeah, this was what i was about to post, was just about to make sure nobody had said it before me. you should have had no problem downshifting then.

 

and the power:weight ratio for our 3.8's really ain't all that hot.

the coupes weigh in at just over 3100lbs without anything in em and "rated" at 190hp, so drop your *** in em (in my case my fat ***) and youre sittin a few pounds heavier. it's just a recipe for disaster

 

my girls dad has a grandprix GTP S/C'ed and it puts down 260HP (he is a mechanic so yeah.. he has modded it alittle). have fun lol

 

a set of 3.73...u will beat your friend guarenteed. add a second time around s/c for nice and cheep and u gotta find that grand prix chick again to show her whats up.

my best friend since 12 years old has a 86 trans am, and a 2001 firebird v6(i think its 2001 not sure though). i can ALMOST beat the 01 but the 86 has several mods done do it.......pretty fast for a carbed 305.

 

just a quick point. On the v6's you can't just slap a turbo or a supercharger on the engine. You said that it might blow out, the engine can take it, but you will probly need a new rear end. If you were going to do a s/c get an 8.8 rear end and get 4.10s. Also, for a s/c injectors, fuel pump, fuel regulator and other stuff too. There are a couple of great places to get em.

TMAturbo.com and they have dyno sheets!