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Old May 26, 2005 | 12:26 AM
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I never got to see the end results of the whole Dream Car Garage series. Does anyone remember what the final dyno results were?
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Old May 26, 2005 | 01:26 AM
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don't feel bad... I haven't seen but one.

You might get info from MAD's site.
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Old May 26, 2005 | 09:24 AM
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They drove the car around on a track and on some local roads, down in Georgia I think. And said it feels pretty good.

Very technical evaluation of the difference.
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Old May 26, 2005 | 10:04 AM
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Lame.......They need to devote some "time" to real world mods and improvements. The car they worked on (for 2 mins per show) was a nice car, but they changed air filters injectors ect. and didnt really inform or show anything that most women wouldn't know.
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Originally Posted by TommyL
Lame.......They need to devote some "time" to real world mods and improvements. The car they worked on (for 2 mins per show) was a nice car, but they changed air filters injectors ect. and didnt really inform or show anything that most women wouldn't know.

They did some major upgrades like Accel runners and upgraded suspension components. But in the end they didn't really try to measure the difference it made in the performance of the car. And it seems to me they added enough stuff that at retail (MAD prices to us) it would pay for the cam/heads upgrade I put into my LT1. I doubt the car will touch my 94 as it sits.
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Old May 26, 2005 | 09:08 PM
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That whole series was a real disapointment. As was stated above they spent onlt 2 minutes per show on the C4 build up and they didn't "show" you how to do anything.
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Old May 26, 2005 | 09:36 PM
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Series sucked, just a lot of BS that was meant to make MAD a lot
of $. If mem serves they stated that RWHP off the dyno was 230.
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