Trans Am

[thrasher]

Got a good story here, that should make all the Maxima drivers here proud. So I was rolling through uptown (a prissy area in Minneapolis) and this newest update Trans Am pulls up next to me at a stoplight, so I look over and give him the nod. He of course thinks he will piss all over me, so doesn't bother to really try for a good launch. I get a good drop and by the time he realizes I am for real, I have him by a good car length and once I hit the upper RPM range, i keep pulling little by little and then i shut down at 50 and he does a ricer fly by of course. So we hit the next light, and he gets a little on me from the jump, but once the VQ kicks in again I start pulling on him in the higher revs. All he could do is shake his head in amazement. VQ kicks ass!!!

[Pick]

Originally posted by thrasher
Got a good story here, that should make all the Maxima drivers here proud. So I was rolling through uptown (a prissy area in Minneapolis) and this newest update Trans Am pulls up next to me at a stoplight, so I look over and give him the nod. He of course thinks he will piss all over me, so doesn't bother to really try for a good launch. I get a good drop and by the time he realizes I am for real, I have him by a good car length and once I hit the upper RPM range, i keep pulling little by little and then i shut down at 50 and he does a ricer fly by of course. So we hit the next light, and he gets a little on me from the jump, but once the VQ kicks in again I start pulling on him in the higher revs. All he could do is shake his head in amazement. VQ kicks ass!!!

[Ace$nyper]

Cool I didn't know the new maximas could do that good kill!

[thrasher]

i din't think i would be able to take him either, it just goes to show you that some good shifting and a VQ can do a lot

[Paonessa]

was he automatic?

[thrasher]

nope, 6 speed

[Paonessa]

damn, not that it would even matter, either way it's a 300+hp car.

good shit, man.

[Pick]

Originally posted by thrasher
Got a good story here, that should make all the Maxima drivers here proud. So I was rolling through uptown (a prissy area in Minneapolis) and this newest update Trans Am pulls up next to me at a stoplight, so I look over and give him the nod. He of course thinks he will piss all over me, so doesn't bother to really try for a good launch. I get a good drop and by the time he realizes I am for real, I have him by a good car length and once I hit the upper RPM range, i keep pulling little by little and then i shut down at 50 and he does a ricer fly by of course. So we hit the next light, and he gets a little on me from the jump, but once the VQ kicks in again I start pulling on him in the higher revs. All he could do is shake his head in amazement. VQ kicks ass!!!

He must have either:
A) Been a shitty six-speed driver
or
B) you are a really good six-speed driver

I honestly think that if someway possible, I could drive my car and a 6-speed WS6 Trans-am simultaneously, my car would lose(2002 6-speed, WAI,y-pipe,exhaust).
I have driven a WS6 Trans-am(That's the ram-air package 325 horsepower) and they are freaking beasts. If driven properly, they can definitely pull like a bitch.

[thrasher]

it wasn't a WS6, so i think that means 15 less HP, but anyways, it's hard to get all that torque to the ground smoothly, and the 1-2 shift can't be all that easy, i think those baby's have 340-350 TQ. i drove a 95 cobra once, and those have like 317 TQ, and that was hard to launch without smoking the tires

[Pick]

Originally posted by thrasher
it wasn't a WS6, so i think that means 15 less HP, but anyways, it's hard to get all that torque to the ground smoothly, and the 1-2 shift can't be all that easy, i think those baby's have 340-350 TQ. i drove a 95 cobra once, and those have like 317 TQ, and that was hard to launch without smoking the tires

Yeah, if you take off the traction control you have some burnt Dunlop's. It must have been a Formula. Same power as the Z-28 Camaro(315 horse, 340 torque).

[deadmaninc]

It could have been an older Firebird with the 275, the 305hp or even the 310 Firehawk Firebird.

[Paonessa]

regardless, it's a family sedan beating a sports car with a god deal more horspower and torque

[thrasher]

you guys, i'm not an idiot, it was a newst update Trans Am Firebird with 310 HP w/o the WS6 package, and it was a 6 speed. a formula is a lower trim level than the trans am, and the WS6 packageis only optional

[Bluebird from the]

They do come in V6's.

[Paonessa]

they do come in 6's but you can tell the difference between a 6 and 8 just by listening to it idle.