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chevymad
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:03 pm    Post subject: Blown charger? Reply with quote

Wait for it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcg_2ecot4o&feature=player_embedded
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Laughing

You knew it as soon as he went for a latch on the hood.

It's the same thing they did in Mad Max.

Also I think towards the end of filming Two-Lane Blacktop they had to downgrade the car to a single carb.
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chevymad
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You might be able to apply that kind of boost for a grand eh Aaron?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

LOL! I bet no one wants to race him! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

chevymad wrote:
You might be able to apply that kind of boost for a grand eh Aaron?


Absolutely! It might even get done someday! LMAO

This seems as good a time as any to bring out the "I've got superchargers" line from Lone Wolf McQuade:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvIij84oY2c

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 12:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sad. F&F was full of holes. Like how the hell does a car with street tires do a wheelie?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 2:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If that is the case, then just imagine what is under the hood of all the imports in the movie.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 2:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

blue89 wrote:
Sad. F&F was full of holes. Like how the hell does a car with street tires do a wheelie?


I thought it had slicks on it?

But yea, more holes then a playboy magazine Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 2:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey, might have been some VHT conveniently right there, you don't know. LMAO
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 6:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Funny, those "10 second cars" took about 5 minutes to cover the quarter mile in that last scene! Laughing
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