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Old 02-01-10, 06:36 PM
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The funniest thing...

So I'm driving home tonight after work and pulled to the red light next to a newish Saturn. I take off not to hard nor wimpy, and as we both get out the city limits into the country home, the Saturn's drivers punches it. It must have a turbo or something because we are doing about seventy five and he is pulling fairly quick. So I dropped down to four and immediately started to close up on it, so I shift to fifth and got this empty handed sort of feeling. I am not getting anywhere no time soon as I let off the gas and realized my MKI shifter is off the tranny and in my hand. I should run into this guy again and making wipe off whatever grin he got on his face thinking he wept me. Anyhow, my wife and I laughed about it, I got home and replaced the bolts with longer ones and place lock washers on it for now.
Old 02-01-10, 08:16 PM
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Holy crap! That is hilarious! Makes me wanna go take a peek at my shifter
Old 02-02-10, 10:39 AM
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well, believe it or not, the dual cam saturns are pretty quick. i have had several of them, and i don't think my old fb would beat them. when i had my first fb, my friends sl2 would walk on me haha. my current one has a few mods so it might hang in there a little better. so from a totally unbiased opinion, stock for stock, the saturn is probably faster, but the fb is way cooler so screw him lol.
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They're pretty light because of all the polymer panels in place of metal, so that 100hp single cam or 125hp twin cam engine moves the car a bit better.
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He did whip you. But he did it through maintenance rather than power. The devil is always in the details...
Old 02-02-10, 06:21 PM
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The shifter incident happened to my Dad too. Only his shifter was about 3" long in a 37 Ford. He managed to stick it right back in place and continue driving.
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Originally Posted by orion84gsl
They're pretty light because of all the polymer panels in place of metal, so that 100hp single cam or 125hp twin cam engine moves the car a bit better.
sounds like you need to get one of them saturns and swap a 13B in it for your next encounter
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lack of maintenance

My lack of maintenance and having to drive this car everyday got me whoop. I will get that twin cam Saturn and having look at the 5 letters that are on the left side of the car, (GSL-SE), momentarily as I pull away.
Old 02-03-10, 12:13 PM
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well if you have a gsl-se, you need to do some work lol. there is no reason for you to lose to a saturn.
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I've seen a stockish Saturn Ion Redline w/BPU make 235whp. Exact same car as the Cobalt SS, good luck beating that. FYI the new Cobalt SS is faster around Nuremberg Ring than the stock C6 Corvette.
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Didn't Saturn used to be a car company...? (ebil grin)

Originally Posted by Hyper4mance2k
I've seen a stockish Saturn Ion Redline w/BPU make 235whp. Exact same car as the Cobalt SS, good luck beating that.

I'd give it a shot.... but only in my 350Z, heh.
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Did you pull the whole shifter out of the trans? I lost the shift **** on a 1st to 2nd ****** but never the whole shifter lol You will get him next time
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