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Stickers dont add horsepower?

Old Apr 29, 2008 | 01:29 PM
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Im sittin at a light with my brother in my 1993 Camaro Z28 when a little toyota MR-2 spyder pulls up next to me. The kid has a body kit, exhaust, interior work, and a bunch of stickers. My car original in about every aspect except for the flowmaster exhaust. He start revin his little engine. so i decide to amuse him and rev up my american muscle. Before i go any farther though...it had been raining all day...rear-wheel drive...hp...??? The light turns green and he takes off so do i but my back tires are screaming on the wet road. i let off the gas a little to get them to catch when they do i take off...within seconds im flying by him doin about 55...the funny part though is as im passing him im at about a 45 degree angle so i get the car strait and take off and at about 85-90 i look in my rear-view and see he has given up so i slow down...and like a dog with a tail tucked between his legs he stayed back. In my camaro thats about the most interesting race...no one wants to race me...besides the Ford f-150 that i smoked but thats another story.

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Old Apr 29, 2008 | 01:38 PM
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i usually dont play around when its wet out, but thats because i had a bad situation about a year and a half ago with an 18 wheeler [:@]. nice kill, the more riced out they are the better it feels some times
 
Old Apr 29, 2008 | 01:40 PM
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I beg to differ... stickers do add HP....on some cars.
 
Old Apr 29, 2008 | 04:39 PM
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Ha! I had a nerdie looking guy in a Miata rev and take off on me at a light. I thought it was funnier than hell! I just let him go and enjoy his victory over the mighty Camaro. I feel your pain about no one wanting to race. I'm in my Toyo truck and I see GT Stangs and turboed SRT and so forth but when I drive the Maro none of these guys are around.
 
Old Apr 29, 2008 | 04:56 PM
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I beg to differ... stickers do add HP....on some cars.
Yup, Im going to put a few stickers on the vette, that should give me like 900HP, if I paint it red, ill be over 1000 im sure... ALthough I better not state that as a fact, importmd may want to PROVE me WRONG...[sm=pcwhack.gif]
 
Old Apr 29, 2008 | 09:35 PM
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No, most people don't realize that the amount of stickers you add to your car and the amount of HP you get from them isn't a linear relationship. The smaller the displacement the motor is in your car, the better HP gain you get from ricer mods. When you're above 5.0L I don't think you get hardly any HP for your ricer mods...but with a 1.0L motor, watch out, the HP is insane!
 
Old Apr 29, 2008 | 09:46 PM
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i know, right? INSANITIES! they have like, tens upon tens of horsepowers! dammit, i ran out of fingers counting their powers [>:]
 
Old Apr 29, 2008 | 10:09 PM
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I beg to differ... stickers do add HP....on some cars.
Yup, Im going to put a few stickers on the vette, that should give me like 900HP, if I paint it red, ill be over 1000 im sure... ALthough I better not state that as a fact, importmd may want to PROVE me WRONG...[sm=pcwhack.gif]
Thats funny there... Yep 95slvr is right, anything above a 5.0 lacks hp points.... So I put a few on and then keep a case of them in the trunk[sm=happy046.gif]
 
Old Apr 29, 2008 | 10:17 PM
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I beg to differ... stickers do add HP....on some cars.
Yup, Im going to put a few stickers on the vette, that should give me like 900HP, if I paint it red, ill be over 1000 im sure... ALthough I better not state that as a fact, importmd may want to PROVE me WRONG...[sm=pcwhack.gif]
Thats funny there... Yep 95slvr is right, anything above a 5.0 lacks hp points.... So I put a few on and then keep a case of them in the trunk[sm=happy046.gif]
Good point, im gunna try that too!!! Although, if I change the name of my Vette to "civic" I should with my mods, be a 9 second car!!! gotta try that!!!
 
Old Apr 29, 2008 | 10:18 PM
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you do that at the risk of turning ga.... what?
 

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