C5 Corvette Vs. 96 Cobra

Originally posted by veX


The shop that's being discussed is where you go to add performance parts. Pepboys is not a shop. The places where you have your graphics, tachs, and neons installed is not the same shop. Fast cars happen to go to these speed shops to get repaired or become faster. They acheive this not by adding a wing or ground effects, but by adding horsepower and torque.

...Don't be a ****in' dick.

What the...?! Listen, son. I understand the workings of a car, and the differences between shops more than you would think. I have spent countless hours working on all types of cars, doing all kinds of work. I am a veteran of the Chicago racing scene, and I have numerous connections at REAL shops all over Chicago.

All I was saying was that it's very easy to say "Oh yeah?! Well when my car gets out of the shop, it's gonna make XXX horsepower and XXX torque, and run XX.X in the 1/4 mile!!" And it's almost as useless to say that as it is to quote mag times. You don't know what your car is going to run until you run it. Different cars respond to different modifications in many ways. To put an exact number on what your car will run when it gets out of the shop is ridiculous. THAT was my point.

Got that, tough guy? Now watch that attitude, or it might get ya in trouble.