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Old 03-12-02, 09:01 PM
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dang 8000 and an indoor gym too! wow..... mine is a half court basketball with a breakaway rim and a glass backboard...! sounds like you got a nice house? yours or the parents? mine is my parents....ha ha... i aint mad loaded like them! i get some petty change now and then tho!
Old 03-12-02, 09:11 PM
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38,000 square-*****ing-feet?!?!!! Geeez! I'd like to see a picture of that house if you can. Does it have style to it or is it basically a giant cube?

A couple years ago Blackhawk Country Club here in Danville was a sespool of drug dealers. Then a caravan of DEA, ATF, and locals busted in and wrecked shop on them.
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Hey, I can beat that, used to work across the street from Joey Butafuoco, hehe. Too bad Amy Fisher pulled out of the boxing match, I was looking forward to Tonya Harding wasting her. When I lived in Brooklyn/Queens, there were lots of drug slingers, but all small time (after all, the successful guys don't live where they do business), once I moved to Massapequa I realized I was down the block from two Gambino Capos that lived at the end of dead-end next to each other, they had a tunnel built underground connecting the two houses so one could make a quick getaway to the other's house and then away if trouble came, when they moved out the two nice families that moved in blocked the tunnel off with concrete. They were always around for the Gotti fireworks every year, and had guys coming and going all day and night. Safe block though, real safe.
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Originally posted by lex400sc
38,000 square-*****ing-feet?!?!!! Geeez! I'd like to see a picture of that house if you can. Does it have style to it or is it basically a giant cube?

A couple years ago Blackhawk Country Club here in Danville was a sespool of drug dealers. Then a caravan of DEA, ATF, and locals busted in and wrecked shop on them.

You live in Danville? I live in Dublin! Are you the guy that works at Good Guys?
Old 03-12-02, 10:35 PM
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Originally posted by mjames08



You live in Danville? I live in Dublin! Are you the guy that works at Good Guys?
Yeah I'm that guy, but I used to work at the Good Guys(laid off) and I live in Pleasanton----even closer!
Old 03-13-02, 10:11 AM
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don't forget GS400s weigh a lot more than a SC400

its basically a flying brick; the Cd on those things is prolly in the 4s
Old 03-13-02, 10:54 AM
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I thought the GS400 only weighed like 300-400 more pounds than the SC400? The extra horses should remedy that quite rightly.
Old 03-13-02, 11:11 AM
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Bean's right, also my motor's putting the same HP to the ground that a stock GS400 puts out.
Old 03-13-02, 11:55 AM
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Originally posted by Bean
don't forget GS400s weigh a lot more than a SC400

its basically a flying brick; the Cd on those things is prolly in the 4s
True the GS's do weigh more but actually have a better Cd ( coefficient of drag). At .29 the GS betters the winged SC and the supra TT by .02. SC's and Supra's have identical Cd's at .32 and .31 (with spoiler).
Old 03-13-02, 12:21 PM
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i totally agree with you. our headlights are HORRIBLE> it's so dim sometimes i gota double check if i have my headlights on .
and whats with our low lights there's barely ANYTHING!
now that one of my fog lights are out, i may just need to change things
are those bulbs off ebay good?
what else can i do to the lights? is it possible to convert the high beam to day time lights?
Old 03-13-02, 12:48 PM
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doesn't downforce play an issue in Cd?

the SupraTT has a pretty good amount of downforce; and from experience I know my SC3 does


would this affect the Cd number?

the 350Z is supposed to be a .26 with a spolier so blehhh


300-400lbs? do you guys realize how much more that is? that puts the GS4 at around 3900-4000lbs
Old 03-13-02, 12:55 PM
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At .29 the GS betters the winged SC and the supra TT by .02. SC's and Supra's have identical Cd's at .32 and .31 (with spoiler).
The sc's and Supra have a drag coefficient of .32. With the added downforce created by a spoiler the Cd goes down to .31. The curb weight for a GS400/430 is 3693/3707 and the curb weight for the GS300 is 3638.
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so its nearly 200lbs heavier
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Originally posted by Legends6spd
i totally agree with you. our headlights are HORRIBLE> it's so dim sometimes i gota double check if i have my headlights on .
and whats with our low lights there's barely ANYTHING!
now that one of my fog lights are out, i may just need to change things
are those bulbs off ebay good?
what else can i do to the lights? is it possible to convert the high beam to day time lights?

What bulbs off ebay are you talking about? Do you have a link to them? A lot of stuff sold on e-bay is sheisty--especially lighting equipment. I'm sure it's possible to run the high beams as daytime lights. It's probably a simple undertaking, but I'm not familiar with the logistics in that kind of project as my SC doesn't have daytime mode (or it's broken). I can find out for you though.


300-400 pounds, even 200 more is a lot, but with 50 more horses, I don't think becomes an issue at all. Any idea on which car has the lowest CoD in the world and what that is? I'm sure it's some LeMans F1 car. What about production cars? McLauren F1 GTR? C5?

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Old 03-13-02, 03:24 PM
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Having 50 more HP is nice... I really didn't want a sedan, and I was lucky that I was able to get all the upgrades to bring my car up to spec.
Do we know how to get off topic or what? this turned into a rant about 38000 square foot houses, drug dealers and the physics of aerodynamics.


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