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Old 08-19-2010, 11:25 PM
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Default What does " I drive flat out" mean?.....

Flat out slow?
Flat out crazy?
Flat out stupid?
Flat out broke?
Flat out fast?
Flat out "add your own"?

T-shirts are being sold so it must mean something.......right?
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I believe it is the performance driving equivalent of Spinal Tap's expression "this amplifier goes to Eleven".
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flatout, thats how I drive...flatout...
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Probably most relevant for this board was a memorable line from the movie Le Mans.

Team manager David Townsend offers succinct guidance to Steve McQueen's character:

"Michael, I want you to drive flat out. I want Porsche to win Le Mans."
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Someone show this man the video link so that we can all go "ENZO"
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If you are that bored we should leave for NJ now...

and to help you with your Pagid Blacks/Pf97 questions a friend (Bill V.) did a check on my rotors after a god run and compared them to a run on the same car with PF 97's all around. It reinforced what I originally said and what Dan Jacobs inferred when he had me install the combo. The PF97s generated about 550F (fronts, measured in the pits) vs the 350F (rears). On the same car with PF97s on both axles they hit close to the same temps. I feel the PF97s give better initial grip when hot and if the temperatures are an indication it would seem a correct assumption. I'm certainly open to discussion though...
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Originally Posted by ltc
I believe it is the performance driving equivalent of Spinal Tap's expression "this amplifier goes to Eleven".
"It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever".
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WOT ........
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Originally Posted by BostonDMD
Flat out slow?
Flat out crazy?
Flat out stupid?
Flat out broke?
Flat out fast?
Flat out "add your own"?

T-shirts are being sold so it must mean something.......right?
Pushing the pedal down all the way, that's very important.





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http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/flat-out.html
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How can you possibly expect to win your DE if you don't drive Flat Out ?
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Originally Posted by ltc
How can you possibly expect to win your DE if you don't drive Flat Out ?
you just need to get moved to the fastest run group...
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I guess you guys have flat out no sense of humor..........

Gary thanks for the info. about the pads, maybe we should leave for NJ sooner than later.......
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Flat Out----that is what it takes to move to the Black run group.


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