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Originally Posted by FastCarFanBoy
Horse hockey. Air pressure keeps being brought up to discredit the time as though the car cant run those times at 32psi and its therefore modded. And 500 d/a is far from super good...unless you live in the mountains. This wasn't a -2500' Cecil pass. They ran at their home track when they got the car which happens to be in decent air.
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Originally Posted by FastCarFanBoy
Whatever...the car runs harder than anyone around here expected and now the excuses are coming out.
3860# though WTF Ford..thats just sad for a Mustang
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What excuses? I said it seems obvious to me that the only way they could get those times were by lowering the air in the tires. So don't get cocky. For the record, I have always compared magazine times with both cars. The Camaro's 12.2-12.3 to the GT's 12.9-13.2. That is the only way to fairly compare both cars. Same day, same track, same driver, no changes, stock tire pressure, all done by an independent 3rd party. So I'm not discrediting the run, I'm just saying you can't compare it to the magazine SS runs because that makes no sense. There were Camaros running 11.9 bone stock. But I never used those times because it isn't a true and fair comparison. So don't tell us we're making excuses when it was a legitimate statement. Using times from biased companies and shops and adjusting tire pressure and all these tricks are when the tests get murky and unreliable.
And I stand by my statements that I think the GT in the magazine tests will do a mid 12. If LMR did an incredible run with the 18 GT without having to adjust the tire pressure or run it all day then they would have been bragging about it. So that tells you something right there. Regardless I still think that getting a 12 flat is impressive even if they did have to make adjustments. And I think a mid 12 will be just as impressive since it'll put the GT basically about 2 tenths in the SS's range which to me makes it a driver's race. And for consistency, I said that before when comparing the S197 GT to the 5th Gen Camaro. And I will applaud Ford for bringing the GT back to life. Now we just have to see how it handles on a track and see how it stacks up against the SS in a H2H and against the Shelby.