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No track time. On the street it feels like low 12's due to traction. If I could actually stick and get my 60' times around 1.60 based on my hp I should be high10 and low11 area.

Funny this is the same exact problem I had with my turbo 7thgen. The GTO has IRS and even has the dreaded wheel hop.

 
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umm looks like i might have to make a trip to houston soon...i wish i could have been there to see you beat srt4s with your boosted civic...

 
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All the old/used to be boosted d17 guys posting again. Next thing you know Madwheel will be posting haha.

-edit-Guns are you still on the stock rear end?

 
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omg! u got the car with the mods i was planing! awsome car and #'s!

 
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What the crap was the last pic?

 
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I am still on stock rear end. The car is built in Australia and there is no swappable parts off of US cars. Someone is working on swapping the Cobra IRS rear end on to the GTO. It would take custom drive shaft, drive axel, etc.. Believe it or not alot of the same issues with a boost 7th gen. There just is not a big market for aftermarket parts. The LSx series motors have a ton of parts to get the hp up, put the rear end is lacking.

I threw up the second pic to upset the tree huggers on here. What is the pic?
Hint: Can you hear me know?

 
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It was a drivers race. But modded SRT4s were killing me. The M3 BMWs were the most fun. Once you are built run down to Houston for some fun. I am sure I can find a few big fat GTOs for you to run.


What happend to Madwheel and Catalyst?

 
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catalyst is now myrika he just posted a vid of 18psi with a 10.0 afr. he says its about as fast as he was when he was on a stock motor @12-14psi.

 
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That second pic looks like a head and part of the upper torso. Looks like I see a should bone sticking out there. That from a bomb?

 
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hahahaa that second pic is ****ing awesome!...looks like it used to be a head lol

 
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Liking the GTO.. Paint your damn hood though!! your not a rice burner anymore lol.
Glad to see your in love with your GTO. I have an 04 impulse blue GTO as a daily driver, might seen my post on the forums www.ls1gto.com
A good ls7 swap will run you around 17 grand. There are two members with it currently...tons of custom work to the engine bay and everything else! worth it (hell ya)!



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To all future performance car owners on this forum. You will not find a bigger bang for the buck and nicer interior than the GTO


here is pics from STG meet in cali I attended. This is how GTOs throw car meets

 
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It is a carbon fiber banshee hood. It came on the car. I am not the only one on ls1gto.com with the DriftR rims. I am currently saving for methanol, gears, drag radials, mods...Once it is done I will have the spoiler, mirrors, hood repainted back to red and the rest de-riced.

But right now I am not too worried about it. Makes it easier to pic on SRT4s and Hondahs. They love to go after what they think is rice. Realy would you think someone in a car with carbon fiber hood, driftR rims and neons would have 550whp?

 
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I believe Madwheel has a boosted TC now.

 
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get some 3.71 gear ratios and a rip shift for it!!3.91's are too extreme for people with boosted engines.
also heads+cams = 100 crank hp..check SLP for that stuff.
de-ricing sounds like a plan!!

 
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thanks for the info on the contacting, if theres any more u know on it pm me, i think im going in to enlist army on winter break.

 
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Enlisting is great. But if you just want the expierence and want to be paid 10X more go on a contract.

 
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I have the ausie ripshift. I was thinking the 3.91s do to bad boost lag with the STS kit. The larger gear will spin things up a lot faster. I am even getting tempted to part out and find a used C6. I saw a procharged C6 with head/cam/headers put 711whp on a dyno last saturday. To break 700whp they sprayed the intercooler down with N02 and it jumped from 650 to 711.

The rear end sucks on the GTO. At least you know you can find some meat to put under a corvette.

 
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all i got to say is.... I drove a new GTO at work recently, and......holy ****, lets just say im 18 and it was my first time in RWD on the streets, I cant imagine how u drive in a straight line with TTs.

 
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Yes the rear end does suck on the GTO.. The vette is amazing car and it feels so much lighter!!! I couldnt tell you, have to experience it.
As for the c6, its going up for sale soon! Getting replaced by a yellow c6 z06 2007

 
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Just dont mash the gas in first or second gear while turning...

 
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lol w/e, i might have missed this point, but is there any major differences between monaros and GTOs, that would affect performance????

 
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The Monero did not get the LS2. The Holden HSV and Vauxhall VXR got the LS2, better suspension, wheels, gears, shifter and wider body kit. The last year of the VXR even got a Harrop Supercharger. The US market always get the short end. Thanks to all the tree huggers and crash test freaks for fawking it all up for us.

Chevy would never let a family car have a supercharged LS2 to compete against the Corvette.

 
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Not sure that the rice makes that car a sleeper LOL. Not knowing much about the GTO, I would see the hood and assume that it is a 6.0. Right then I would be thinking that I am in a bit over my head, but I would love to give it a go. Then I would get **** on hard core and I would know that it is well beyond a 6.0. Honestly if I did not hear the turbo I would think it was a 6.0 with some crazy NA mods. If we did not race I would think that it was a 6.0 and still a fast car. Unless you left the 5.7 emblem on it I would never guess that it is a 5.7

 
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It is a sleeper for most. The carbon fiber hood, typeR rims, painted mirrorsspoiler/grill and neons even make v6 Mustangs rev at me. But if it not worth the time I just let off a big Whistle followed by an even bigger Wooosh and they back off. If it is a close race I tell them I was just stock with a cat-back..lol..

But I think I found a buyer for my turbo kit and might get the C6 by christmas. The civic brought me to the Skyline and the GTO is guiding me towards a Corvette... Boost is like crack one try and your hooked...Procharged C6 here I come.