I'm getting a little frustrated!
Re: I'm getting a little frustrated!
Originally Posted by arado
I have been frustrated since I bought my SRT6. I have no place to turn it loose. If I go 0-60 in 4.8 seconds I get a warning ticket. It happened and the cop said last one. So I go 0-60 in 6 seconds.
gary
garyLos Angeles gets plenty of flack for its gridlock, but it also features one of the great traffic-management innovations of all time: the on-ramp stoplight. When traffic is slow, the signals dispense cars onto the highway at an orderly trickle. But when traffic is moving, you get a state-sanctioned zero-to-sixty run from the on-ramp Christmas tree. And a zero-to-sixty run in a 458 Italia is a glorious thing. Allow me to explain why.
First, the transmission’s bottom three gears – the ones you’d use in anger on a public road – are spaced in roughly 20-mph increments. You’re shifting just short of 50 mph, then 70 mph, then 90 mph. Given the rate at which a 458 accrues speed, that means you’re basically upshifting as fast as you can grab the paddle.
Second, the 458 makes its horsepower peak at its redline. So if you want to access all 562 hp, you have to hang in there until 9000 rpm. In fact, if you let the tach drop below 7000 rpm, it will start raining because you made Enzo Ferrari cry from heaven. Did it rain while I was in L.A.? No, it did not.
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Re: I'm getting a little frustrated!
Yup, I have free way entrance ramps to use. But I do 0-80 automatically if no impeding traffic for that is the merging speed here. Then my restrictor kicks in. no traffic convictions for 20 years. 
gary, the Xfire does it almost like a bike.
gary, the Xfire does it almost like a bike.
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Re: I'm getting a little frustrated!
Originally Posted by arado
I have been frustrated since I bought my SRT6. I have no place to turn it loose. If I go 0-60 in 4.8 seconds I get a warning ticket. It happened and the cop said last one. So I go 0-60 in 6 seconds.gary
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Re: I'm getting a little frustrated!
Originally Posted by fastfunfor2
In fact, if you let the tach drop below 7000 rpm, it will start raining because you made Enzo Ferrari cry from heaven. Did it rain while I was in L.A.? No, it did not.
My problem with the state-sanctioned 0-60 on-ramps is that I'm often going 120 before I merge, and I have to lean heavily on my brakes so I can merge.
Oh yeah, for the original poster:
Get a cold air intake, a pulley and an ECU tune. You'll giggle like a school girl (or Nick) every time you hit the accelerator. As for being in the UK, no problem. NeedsWings will ship his intake to you, so the only downside there is you have to install it yourself and pay VAT on it. Same with the pulley - from NeedsWings or Eurocharged. And for the ECU tune you buy a cable from Eurocharged, plug it into your car and a laptop and they will tune your car over the Internet.
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