Myths about Motors...

1. You need NAWS. Two bottles. The big ones.

2. It ain't how you stand by your car, it's how big the wing is.

3. The buster brings you back.

4. You can have any beer, as long as it's Corona.

5. If the road suddenly narrows, drive under a truck.

6. Practice pre-race skills with Gran Turismo.

7. Even the cops in L.A. are Hollywood.

8. No one likes the tuna.

9. Big wing = big speed.

10. Amateurs don't use NAWS.

11. Never narc nobody.

12. Stickers, stickers, stickers.

13. Winning's winning.

14. Stand alone fuel management system.

15. Break her heart, get neck broke.

16. Leopard-skin pants make you badass.

17. Live life a quarter mile at a time (-17 seconds).

18. L.A. cops respond to one emergency at a time with the entire police force.

19. You can never have enough foglights.

20. Only asians, latinos, and blacks street-race; everyone else is an undercover cop.

21. Win race, get threesome.

22. Shooting a MAC-11 from a motorcycle isn't easy.

23. Ramming a charger with a motorcycle hurts.

24. Oil tastes bad.

25. Pizza boys don't like street racers.

26. Stay out of asian turf and don't sleep with their sisters.

27. The Fed with the loudest voice can pin it on whoever he wants.

28. Stealing Apex DVD players is lucrative.

29. The proper display of affection with a bald man is kissing his head.

30. Cuban restaurants are called 'Cha-Cha-Cha'.

31. Truckers never carry guns (almost).

32. Truckers don't know how to use brakes.

33. It's not a color unless it begins with neon.

34. Car part stores give Lightnings to delivery boys.

35. Fire bursting from tail pipe indicates speed.

36. High-pitched buzzing exhaust indicates speed.

37. Single winshield-wiper? Ditto.

38. Hoods and bodykits do not need paint.

39. It's not the train that gets you, its the truck.

40. Ugly paint is not a bad way to spend $10,000.

41. Overuse of nitrous makes the floorboard fall off.

42. Dual tailpipes are good, quad tailpipes are better.

43. CAI adds 50 hp.

44. Exhaust adds 150 hp.

45. If you scream "NAWS!", it will explode.

46. Ferarris are more than you can afford, pal.

47. You can beat any car if you say "Smoke 'em" before you run.

48. Any scrap-heap can be made race-ready in under a week if the parts are ordered from Ja-pan.

49. Computer-controlled nitrous kits require a laptop.

50. Owning a supressed MAC-11 is a minor weapons violation.

51. And whatever you do, don't blow the welds on the intake manifold.
 
manufacturers have been known to do worse than not dipping the clutch to get the best 0-60 times.

Non production tires, mild engine tuning, taping up panel gaps, removing spoilers etc.. its all been done in an attempt to get the best times.

What a load of bull. I tried all those tricks on my C3 Picasso and it didn't make it get to 60mph any quicker whatsoever.......;):D
 
It might just be me but trying to heel and toe in my E46 is a lot more difficult than any of the other cars Ive owned (with standard hinged pedals).

Not just you, a lot of people do suffer from that. I personally am the opposite, find it far easier but i don't heel and toe as such, i use the sides of my foot (ie the left part of my right foot is on the brake, right on the accelerator) and pivot off that. My foot doesnt like being at a right angle to my body like normal heel and toeing needs :D
 
Golf MK3 16V actually had around 170bhp but was listed as 150bhp to avoid harming VR6 sales.

(I'm not promoting or discrediting this myth, btw).

hahaha thats a good one.

its definately not true, i think the myth goes along the lines of "the 16v was detuned so as not to impact vr6 sales"

there are some bits on the 16v which really hamper it performance wise but to get it to a real 170bhp involves a fair bit of work and the VR6 would still be faster due to having so much more torque everywhere else in the rev range
 
Of course you could, you can change gear by matching the revs in any car with a conventional manual gearbox. Whether clutchless shifting will improve your 0-60 time I'm not sure, if it were me it would definitely be a lot slower.

Yep, on an upshift you have to back off the throttle, slip the gear lever into neutral and wait for the engine to slow down to an appropriate speed before you could get a higher gear in; way slower than using the clutch. Forcing it would just end up with a bent or broken selector.

It might be a tiny bit quicker to not lift off the throttle (i.e. keep engine on the limiter) whilst you selector the next gear and dump the clutch, but again the transmission isn't going to thank you for it.
 
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