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Old Sep 14, 2006 | 01:36 AM
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After being blown off(beaten) by an Aritso the other day

I've made my mind up to get one

I love my Gs300 sport but i really miss a turbo and the giggle factor it brings.

Is there any advise you guys can give me about what to look out for on an aristo i'm looking for a MK1 because i really like the look of them lowered with nice wheels on them.

And starter upgrades e.g. Exhausts/induction-kit or panel filter. so on and so on.

Thanks for your help guy and gals.

I'll keep you posted on progress.

Regards Craig.
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Old Sep 14, 2006 | 06:39 PM
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I know what you mean, a Ford contour tried to race me today, well, he just didnt want me to get thru by the end of the merge. We rolled next to eachother and i saw the merge sign, all of a sudden i hear this loud roar (gearing down) Sounded like garbage can haha, while i was crusing at 2k stepped on it a lil to 2500 to keep up with him, finally i florred it, ended up cutting him off, made my merge.....my car is slowwwwwwwwww, VERYYYY SLOWWWWW, makes me wanna get somn else.

Later down the road he pulled up next to me at a turn lane, i looked at him and said, HA HA, my car is fastteeer, old man just shook his head in shame MAde my day
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Old Sep 14, 2006 | 08:30 PM
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I had a Contour SVT three cars ago. It was 388fwhp 360tq when I sold it. You never know when a rental car will blow your doors off.
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Old Sep 14, 2006 | 09:20 PM
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LOL.. dont see too many rental SVTs.

I had a little run today.. Dodge SRT10 truck. I had passed him after getting on the hwy and was just cruising about 80 or so.. well ahead of him.. he seemed to not notice when I passed. I passed another slow group of cars and was in the right lane to get off at the next exit..about 1.5 miles up the road. I glance to the rearview and see the red truck and he's coming pretty hard. I'm not really happy with the tires on the back right now, due to their size, so I didnt want a
heads up run, but I waited till I knew he was coming for me and punched it when he was about 3 lengths back. He never passed me. I ran it up to about 120 and was pulling on him about 4 lengths by the time I cut right and slowed for the exit ramp. He slowed down as he crossed the bridge still on the highway and I could see him looking pretty hard at WTF just ran him like that..

Viper truck FTL..

I wish I'd had some 265/35/18s on the back for this instead of the 275/40/18s with a low offset wheel. The back end of the car is jacked up as high as i can get it and on hard accel it still rubs the rear tires in the fender.

sorry to steal your thunder Xeeem.
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Old Sep 15, 2006 | 07:24 AM
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Well yeah, SVT's didn't rent too much, however the turbo kit that was on my car was a prototype that ended up being jigged and sold to other contour and cougar owners.
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