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Originally Posted by crosvs
yes but then magazines have ALSO gotten mitsu evos to hit 60 in 4.5 secs or so.
doing that 5+ times will rape your clutch.
so in a way, i find the magazine's 0-60 numbers to be quite pointless.
e.g., i'm sure my dad's porsche CAN do 60 in about 4.9 - 5.0 secs. but like the evo (since he's got the C4S) do it more than a few times and the clutch is FINISHED.
i think a good rule of thumb is that you always need to add at LEAST 0.5 secs to a magazine's 0-60 rating EVEN if you're a good driver and launch a car PRETTY hard without destroying it.
thoughts?
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I am not a manual tranny driver as many of you know, but I drive several manual cars each year out of necessity. Your statement makes perfect sense to me. It's exactly what I was trying to say above - the magazine times are useless in real life, cuz it's not like you can replicate them 50 times in the same day.
It's like running a computer overclocked. My dual-core CPU is clocked at the factory at 3.0GHZ. With aftermarket cooling and overvoltage, I've reached 3.7GHZ, but it gets unstable if you load it. So I go back to a lower overclock. You can't possibly have "sustainable" performance at the "limit" of a machine. Same thing with these times that the magazines are getting.
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