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Post by swervon on Apr 8, 2007 19:10:49 GMT -5
I'm 16 but i have attended skip barber race school 3 times, the only reason i am driving this car as hard as i am is because my mom stacked my BMW E39 into a guard rail at 60 MPH on a freeway on ramp, and this is my replacement for now i acctualty love the car it's just i want a diffrent brake system, and no the ABS light didn't go off to those who asked everything worked fine and it acctualy recived a brake job 1000 miles ago. and i do offroad with it to, i just like driving fast with it, last night i raced a thunder bird in it and kicked it's *** on the back roads and my montero is a stock 2002 3.0 LS
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Post by swervon on Apr 8, 2007 19:23:57 GMT -5
and i started readin acouple of ur guys replies about getting breaks check, i come from a racing family and we do all our own work, and i personaly have looked at the brakes, they are wearing correctly, they just heat up really fast, and to "callookzero" slowing down from cruzing is diffrent than driving in the back roads wear if u are pushing the car the break will fade from heat build up. and my origonal qestion was more aimed towards is there any rotor upgrades? cause i have the best pad i could get for it on the car right now,, but to "bwisports" thx for the fluid recomendation. do you know was rating it is, im looking for something like a DOT 4 fluid
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Post by DJHancock on Apr 8, 2007 23:28:50 GMT -5
Damn man, your making everyone(me) that stood up for you look stupid by coming back and letting us know you just raced your Sport. You also blew it by saying your Mom crashed your BMW, people are going to think you are one of those spoiled rich kid. You don't want that.
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Post by swervon on Apr 9, 2007 9:14:42 GMT -5
dude, i paid for all my stuff, i work very hard, and because i work hard i get to play hard and yeah i no it does sound that way
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Post by beachcruiser95 on Apr 9, 2007 16:57:06 GMT -5
Wow this thread is hilarious........I haven't been on this website for a while and this is what i have to come back too. haha ;D I do have one quick question though.....why would you race your 3.0 MS??? I don't know about anybody else.....but mine doesn't have **** for acceleration or handling.
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Post by swervon on Apr 9, 2007 22:00:17 GMT -5
well you need to know about how to drive the car well, this was just kinda a thing that happend cause of brake fade, and this whole part of not being able to slow down has happend towing my boat (which has 4 disc brakes on it, and well with in the trucks capacity) driving on frontage roads at the speed limit, so im hoping i can find some bigger calipers and maybe sloted, scaloped, or cross drilled rotors to help deal with the brake fade, at my school we have kinda a group of people who race constantly and im apart of it, and i can somke A4's with the 2.8 in the back roads i just had an incident this time were i had some serious brake fade, and again this sometimes has happend towing my fam's boat normaly it gets towed with a range rover and i no ur all thinking this I PAYED FOR MY OWN DAM TRUCK AND EVERY THING ON IT, mommy and daddy didn't pay for anything
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Post by callookzero on Apr 9, 2007 23:21:30 GMT -5
for one... no stock 3.0 montero is gonna beat on a 30v a4... won't happen. secondly you're still an idiot, for thinking that your car should be used for anything but regular driving/towing/off roading. And simply by the quote of being to skip barber's (spoiled brat?) 3 times (failed the first 2?) and talking about brake fade like you know anything about cars, just makes you seem more like a pretentious brat who has no business behind the wheel of a moving vehicle.
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Post by swervon on Apr 9, 2007 23:45:34 GMT -5
ok well im sorry u feel that way about me, and im sorry u don't think i no alot about cars. im not trying to be combative on this but, check out this page it's a project im working on in my garage. www.cardomain.com/ride/2568458 this is a project that my dad got me on because i have wanted to fab a car from the ground up and this is wat his solution was, he bought me a 1969 Lotus Elan + 2 that was not running, and i started to canoblize it from there, also there are pics of my MS there (which is stock as stand) and my BMW before it got totaled, i work at a realestate brokerage as a photographer and a GPS mapper, and i have maps on google earth if u want to check them out, u can search 1700 twin sisters, fairfield CA, so i pull in a very susbstantial amount of money so i can do things like these projects. again sry u think of me that way
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Post by cwic on Apr 10, 2007 14:25:39 GMT -5
porterfield racing makes pads and rotors. the rotors can be cross drilled and slotted and cryo treated. check them out . i will prob be getting some soon. also regardles of how well u drive or how skilled u r this is not the vehicle to do it in. its not built for that and u may break something which could lead u to having no controll over the situation. Clay
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Post by swervon on Apr 10, 2007 14:31:16 GMT -5
thx, that actually the first helpful tip i have got. i agree with nothing is as important as being a good driver, and knowing ur limits, but again thx for telling me bout those rotors, that exactly wat i was looking for
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Post by CerOf on Apr 10, 2007 17:51:33 GMT -5
1) I don't know of anyone with a larger caliper upgrade for the sport 2) Pads and rotor's help, but the caliper being the size that it is for a 4,500lbs pig is the real issue 3) The person driving the t-bird was a bad driver and wasn't really racing 4) 3.0L montero sport MIGHT get to 60mph in 11 seconds, 10 with a 100mph wind at its back 5) Enjoy your ride, enjoy driving fast, be safe, do it where no one else is around 6) to use your words, I can smoke your a** in our Minivan, even if you had a modified 3.5L Sport....and the worst part about it....I'd be ripping you to shreds in a KIA minivan at that. 7) Don't let people get to you on here about driving fast and being youthfull. I had one of the first Nissan Altima's (1995 SE) with all the mods from Stillen and I drove the snot out of it. It'd peak, top speed 154mph. 0-60 was 7.1. Not too bad. Never got a quarter mile on it. Made it from Dallas, TX to Lubbock, TX in 3hours. (320 miles one way, stopped once for gas 10 minutes) 8) Oh, be carefull
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Post by swervon on Apr 10, 2007 23:10:16 GMT -5
thx thats acctualy pretty insight ful i figured i couldn't fit any calipers on this truck with out doing custom fab, which i'm not to into doing cause it's my daily driver, idk if u looked at the link i posted about my project car but all u have to do to hotwire it is touch 2 wires together and your off litteraly (i have started it this way) really the big reason i started playing with the idea of substantialy bigger brakes is i'm doing work on the induction system and it's begining to get faster and faster so i need a way to slow it down. my reason being i want to ameture rally this truck in a car class. in so-cal theres alot of trucks similar to this, but the more i look into doing this the more i keep thinking maybethe way to go is a toyota tundra cause theres so many f***ing parts avaiable for it and not for the MS so i might just keep that as the daily, but regardless i want bigger more powerful brakes. but thx for dropping me a line on all of that. but u'd acctualy be suprised how fast u can hustle a stock MS around a corner if ur comfortable with the lean and tire screeching causer the truck hates it but for a big it dose really well at carrying speed. a big part is everyone around here sucks at driving so beating out people in anything is to be expected
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Post by cwic on Apr 11, 2007 14:29:29 GMT -5
i never caught the #6 statement. i dont know about that swerv. (check my sig at the bottom of my post) u can also use this info to find out about mods. Clay
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Post by CerOf on Apr 11, 2007 15:42:30 GMT -5
not hijack but but the 2006+ Kia Sedona Minivan stock, as tested, real numbers, by Motortrend:
0-60 mph 8.2 sec Quarter mile 16.2 sec @ 84.5 mph
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Post by cwic on Apr 12, 2007 13:06:58 GMT -5
i will know by sat for sure but i should be better than that. i do rember reading in R&T. that an retired racer bought a minivan with no features to use to haul materials in and that he liked to take it out on little trips in the hills cause they handle so well with their low center of gravity. so the minivan statement could be true, just not in every case. clay
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