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Topics - 20th anny 5.o

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Lounge / An interesting read on the New edges, 99-03
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The Duratec engine is a Cosworth casted engine. This is important if you are an F1 viewer. Cosworth makes some of the best engine in F1 and world class indy and GT class racing. Ford outsourced the engine design to Cosworth of England for production. This allowed extremely close tolerances and extremely high durability ratings, according to Cosworth near 1.2 million continuous miles. This is the reason for the "DURATEC" nomenclature. Combined with the powertrain in the cougar the combination is capable of much more power than what the engine is producing. The production cougar was kept under 190 HP to not step on the shoes of the Mustang. The Duratec engine is a DOHC 24 Valve engine with a chain driven timing system.


Some of the stuff he says is wrong but if you want to read more

An interesting read i found on the New Edges, i know not may people give two shiznits about it, i always thought the DURATEC was a mazda engine.
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Lounge / Bought an hid conversion kit
Bought an hid conversion kit off of ebay for the 99. It was kind of a pain but all in all in the end it came out working fine. The kit + shipping cost me $50.00 which i think is a steal considering the Sylvania silverstars that i was using cost 50 bucks and burn out in about a year.





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Lounge / Got a new cellphone
Got a Samsung Solstice nice little touch screen cell with applications and all the flash a tech geek like myself could like. My dad did not like the fact that Verizon was taking alltel over so he decided to jump ship to At&t. Hey brett drop me a pm or message me over Live and ill give you my new #.

 Gotta love stock photos.
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Lounge / For those that are into russian things
I was looking for a fake prop gas mask for my Halloween costume none of the Halloween stores had them. Later that day i went to Wood -Ville surplus (a local military surplus store) and found a real Russian gas mask to be more specific a Cold War era Russian GP-5.

(GP-5 & Carrying satchel anti-fog inserts and cap for air canister for when not in use.)


(Me in the GP-5)


(Me in Gp-5 #2)
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Lounge / Well i had an interesting saturday night
I started out at my friends house was over there for about an hour or so and the girlfriend says take me home im tired (2:00am). I start going northbound on Yarmouth and come to the intersection of Yarmouth and Kirk (a side street of off Yarmouth). I proceed through the intersection but out of the corner of my eye i see what looks like an older man laying in the street bleeding from the head. I swing back around start down Kirk and sure enough there lays a 40 something man in the street passed out sleeping bleeding from his head. I call 911 stick around till the paramedics and police get there they take my statement and after about 15 minutes of tending to the man I was then released to go about my business.
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Automotive News & Fuel/Energy debate/discussion / Has anyone else seen this Months C&D cover
Mustang - Camaro - Challenger


Big red letters MUSTANG WINS. I was actually kind of surprised by this because alot of the magazines like to grope Chevys nuts.

The GT runs the 1/4 in 13.6 @ 105 MPH, 
Challenger R/T at 13.6 @ 106 MPH
Camaro SS finishes at 13.0 @ 111 MPH.

On the skidpad
GT posted the highest number, 0.92G's
The Challenger  0.78G,
SS hung at 0.85G
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Lounge / Cant wait (Forza 3)
So from what i hear Forza 3 should be here sometime this year sporting over 400 cars and 100 tracks. Now the car list i saw all be it an unofficial one included a Classic Cat. Not to mention drag and point to point races are back they have also added a drift mode.

Gamespot
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Lounge / My brother and i are having a discussion
So my brother and i are having a discussion about his 06 Ford focus 5 speed. He insists that 5 gear is over-drive i insist that it is just fifth gear. Just because fifth is .76 -1 he insists that it is OD.