02MaximaSE

Till about 65 mph until I hit rev-limiter, we were neck and neck it began to pull slowly on me; and I had to turn left soon after. It was a manual 1999 M3 Special Edition (M-Contour rims, Silver) Very nice car!

My friend with a 93 auto Taurus SHO wants to run me at the 1/8th track. How fast are they? Will I beat him? Its Stock.

I have a 2k2 GLE.

1/8th = 9.355 @ 76.80 mph
1/4mi = 14.68 @ 94.01 mph

My recent track times.

02MaximizedVQ

Motor Trend says the 1992 Taurus SHO which had a 3.2L V6 rated at 220 hp ran a 15.4 @ 88.9 mph with the 4spd automatic. The five speed manual tranny, (if there was one available and I think there was) would most likely turn a 15.0.

Curiously, the 1996 SHO which had the 3.4L V8 rated at 235 hp only ran 15.7@88.6 with the same 4spd auto.

KL99SEA

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What rev limiter did you hit in a race to 65?? 1st would be like 40 and 2nd would be like 80? Now my 6 speed rev limits at 65 in 2nd but you have a GLE??

02MaximaSE

I hit something, I might have hit the MAF up. I was going and the car just limped out, I assumed it was the revlimiter, ,and when I looked down to see what was up it was about 65mph. Then I had to turn and shut the car off and restart it again. I had the ECU reset. It was a throttle error? throttle stopper had to be readjusted.

255HP_03_SE

The SHO Taurus is a torque monster... it will not only give the Max a good run, but (I hate to say it) will probably beat the Max.

02MaximaSE

At work my friend with the SHO said he ran 10.20 in the 1/8th at 71mph. So I decided to run him during lunch and took him out. A manual would be a good race. Not bad stock for stock.

With a 10.20 1/8th mile I wonder what he does in the 1/4? 15.5?

Sam03

In my personal experience against them, (at the track) they, (multiple years of SHO's) really haven't been able to keep up with the Maxima.

vito1281

Sam, is that track time just with a Frankencar? That's a pretty impressive time!

Sam03

Yup, just the Frankencar, thanks for the compliment

POPO6SPD

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I posted a thread awhile back about SHO's. I raced an early 90's version with the Yamaha motor on the highway and beat him by two car lengths. He tried again and I beat him again by about 2-3 car lengths. I have a 3.0 auto, so I would amagine the 3.5 should do well.