Have you dyno'd your car? Power losses?

[Ben J]

I'm still yet to be beaten at the lights by anything (except for an elderly couple) and pull away from commodores and stuff all day, but then again ive never had a go against anyone in anything actually properly tuned, ie not just some dirty car with a cannon exhaust and fully sick rimz 3 sizes to big, but that's toowoomba for you. I'm sure I'd have no chance against a lot of cars out there. Still the vr6 is a lot of fun. They sound fast atleast

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[Cookie28]

I beat my friend in a Prius and that's with my 2.slow haha

[patmould93]

Yeah one of the reasons I ask is because I was equal with my mate in his VP commodore when we dragged at the lights... It's manual with a catback exhaust but yeah still I thought the VR6 should beat it, maybe my gear changes weren't good enough! That was a while ago anyway, not long after I got my P's, then we tried to do it again last weekend and he stalled, the guy behind us could tell we were going to go for it and he was pissing himself! Anyway yeah fair enough.

[Mk3 AAA]

Yeah one of the reasons I ask is because I was equal with my mate in his VP commodore when we dragged at the lights... It's manual with a catback exhaust but yeah still I thought the VR6 should beat it, maybe my gear changes weren't good enough! That was a while ago anyway, not long after I got my P's, then we tried to do it again last weekend and he stalled, the guy behind us could tell we were going to go for it and he was pissing himself! Anyway yeah fair enough.

Really? My friends Red Colour Concept was square with a mates VS SS that was manual with big cams and almost no exhaust (best sounding commodore I've heard), but I guess those get traction issues. Blitz the dudes VP (Auto). Also sat dead square with an XR5 Focus. Good tyres (and not too big) about 4 grand and a little bit mean to your old friend the clutch and they can really jet... obviously not all that fast but it's the surprise element. In saying that I don't race people, I like my 12 points.

I know a Brissie VR6 got 149.something hp/atw.

[VR28LT]

Talking about getting smoked off the lights , when we were down for SEDF this year I had 4 people in my car schoona at the wheel, burgs , rayray and myself cruising around Melbourne when we lined up a Suzuki Swift Gti and we got smoked hahaha I have a feeling it may have been worked cause the fully loaded VR stood no chance

[Ben J]

Yeah I notice when you get a few people in the car it gets sluggish as hell. I could tell the difference between a whole tank of fuel and an almost empty one too. An empty car with no passengers, spare, tools ect ect felt so nice to drive, however load it up with people and its a slow droney thing.

[patmould93]

agreed, I once had to drive 13 boxes of 24 pack cans and 40kg of sausages along with myself and my mate for a sausage sizzle once... never again... luckily it was only about 2km but still, pretty terrible.