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DragTimes.com Drag Racing, Fast Cars, Muscle Cars Blog
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DragTimes.com blog featuring notable timeslips from the database.
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Porsche 911 998 Turbo Spy Pictures
Here are a few real world pictures of a couple of moderately disguised 998 Porsche Turbos cruising the streets of Hollywood, California. The pictures taken by AllanLambo clearly show the side intakes giving away their “turbo” status. The front is unmasked while the rear is heavily covered up from the rear [...]
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Ferrari F430 Twin Turbo vs Lamborghini LP570 Superleggera
Underground Racing put up some video of it’s first twin turbo build on red Ferrari F430 racing against a brand new Lamborghini LP570-5 Superleggera. While it’s not quite a fair race with the Ferrari sporting 1200+ horsepower vs the stock LP570 with it’s 570HP, it’s still interesting to see just how fast the [...]
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Optima Batteries Launches New Promotions
Look under the hood of most performance vehicles and you’ll see the familiar “6-pack” shape of an Optima Battery. These unique batteries have are popular for street driving, weekend project cars and race vehicles. Optima Batteries offer a superior long-life due to their unique Spiralcell® design.
To reward their enthusiast customers, every Optima Battery sold between [...]
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Porsche 911 Turbo PDK vs Mercedes SL65 AMG Black Series Drag Racing
GTBoard put up a video of a 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo with the PDK transmission running heads up from a roll against the Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Black Series. While the race was very close, it was surprising that the Porsche was able to jump ahead of the Benz each time when the race started, [...]
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DragTimes.com starts accepting 60-130 MPH times
As modern day vehicles from both the factory and from the tuner world become more powerful, quicker and faster, a new benchmark for performance has been catching on to quantify just how fast these cars are, 60-130 times.
A device made by Racelogic, called the Performance Box (VBOX) uses GPS and accelerometer data to record just [...]
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The Last Dodge Viper Rolls off the Line
At a special event hosted by Dodge Corporate and the Viper Club of America on July 1st, 2010, Viper Club Members from around the world gathered at the Conner Avenue Assembly Plant to watch the last Dodge Viper roll off the assembly line. The final Viper produced was this one of a kind [...]
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Nissan GT-R Class Action Settlement Papers PDF
Back in September 2009 a class action settlement was reached between a Nissan GT-R owner that had his transmission destroyed by the Nissan GT-R’s overpowering Twin Turbo V6 engine dumping all of it’s power to all 4 wheels off the line while having the GT-R’s VDC switch in the off position. The VDC switch [...]
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Audi R8 V10 vs Lamborghini LP560-4 Drag Racing Video
Here is some sibling V10 rivalry with a brand new Audi R8 drag racing heads up against a Lamborghini LP560-4 at Island Dragway, NJ. Both cars have the same V10 motor, with the Lamborghini LP560-4 putting out 560HP while the Audi gets a slightly detuned version producing 520HP. The difference in horsepower along with [...]
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Supercharged E92 BMW M3 runs 11.45 @ 131.67 MPH
Take a look at one of the highest trapping BMW M3 Coupes we’ve seen. Drew outfitted his 2008 BMW E92 M3 with a Gintani Stage 2+ supercharger, Gintani intake, midpipe, Gintani front mounted intercooler, Meth injection, along with some custom ECU tuning and H&R suspension modifications. Run only 8 PSI, the supercharged M3 [...]
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Lexus LFA Dyno and Drag Racing Results
Motor Trend got some time to benchmark a pre-production 2012 Lexus LFA by putting it on the dyno and running it heads-up against it’s only Japanese competitor, the Nissan GT-R. On K&N’s DynoJet, the Lexus LFA’s Dyno results were 430.3 horsepower and 283.07 ft-lbs of torque to the rear wheels. These numbers seem [...]
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