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Originally Posted by Speedy1975
I'm going to COMPLETELY guess and say in the high 1.9 to low 2.0 range. My experience has shown a .5 different in ET between manual transmission with good driver and automatic transmission with OK driver in cars with same power and setup, and that was with the older 5 speed auto tech. These new 8 and 10 speed trans cars are a whole different ball game with gears to keep the cars in the torque band and lightening fast shifts a human just can't match.
This admission of defeat is coming from a LONG time manual trans fan, so I don't say this lightly  |
Very good guess....unfortunately. :(
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Originally Posted by KyleL
Cal's got the record at a 1.991 lol. They're definitely a lot harder to get moving, that's been discussed a million times on here.
But if you compare similar 60' between the two.....the m6 is anywhere from .1 quicker to .2 slower with a mph anywhere from +1 to -7. Now that's only comparing the only two m6 to make passes, but I'll bet we'll see some sub 11.6 passes when cooler weather comes. Also look at the fast list, it's obvious that the autos are consistently faster but you just need to make one pass to make the list  We have a track event in December and I'm hoping we have some cool weather that day, I'm keeping my car stock and aiming to beat 11.6 lol |
That said, if we end up getting a software fix of some kind to get this thing's fat @$$ off the starting line it should end up with some very impressive times.