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Old 04-12-2023, 02:24 PM
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Is this a trick question.

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I want the 14 minutes of my life back. Just two idiots accelerating in traffic saying how amazing it is. No real review, no data points, no track time. Nothing to be learned from watching the video except they keep saying how unstable the GT3 Touring is which is the first review I have seen that mentioned so something must be wrong with that car.
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Originally Posted by MaddMike
I want the 14 minutes of my life back. Just two idiots accelerating in traffic saying how amazing it is. No real review, no data points, no track time. Nothing to be learned from watching the video except they keep saying how unstable the GT3 Touring is which is the first review I have seen that mentioned so something must be wrong with that car.
That's pretty much all this guy does. Never found any of his videos informative, all he does it smash it round the streets saying "Oh my god!" repetitively like a parrot.
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Originally Posted by MaddMike
I want the 14 minutes of my life back. Just two idiots accelerating in traffic saying how amazing it is. No real review, no data points, no track time. Nothing to be learned from watching the video except they keep saying how unstable the GT3 Touring is which is the first review I have seen that mentioned so something must be wrong with that car.
Having driven a "winged" 4.5 981, given the overall linear power band of Rick's blocks, even if down on power a bit, I would have never thought the lack of wing(s) would have made the car "unstable". That said, I wonder if the Touring has a softer overall rear, and extra torque is causing lift under hard acceleration. The DSC PASM tunes try to negate that. If going that route with the 4.5, suspension changes may be something to consider.

As for the comparison, I'm surprised that being ~100hp down, there'd be a definitive agreement that the 4.5 was noticeably quicker...didn't get that impression. But I've never found Miles' vids, nor steams of thought, to be "focused".

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