roush stage 3 vs 95 gs-t

[sarge]

i forgot people posted kill stories on this forum, this happened about 2 weeks ago, right around christmas

so, i had just met some of my buddies after getting off of work tonight (yesterday), we were merging onto a highway to go to someones house to watch office space. when we were merging onto the highway, i heard and saw a mean looking mustang fly by, so of course i dropped to 3rd gear and caught up with him. 3 of my buddies were following me, one in a 944 turbo, one in a 300zx tt, and one in a shitty volvo 240, anyways, the guy in the 300zx stayed with me as we tailed the mustang (thought it was a GT, WRONG!) after a couple miles of following the stang, we hit a break in traffic, at which point the mustang floored it and zipped through the gap, i followed, i figured the 300zx would too, but he did not. so we were just ####ing around in 3rd gear for a bit, doing 60-90mph sprints, both cars are about even, i am running about 15.5psi. eventually we quit messing around and are side by side, and we both go for it.

we started around 60mph, i was in 3rd gear and stayed in 3rd till almost 110mph, then shift to 4th, and take 4th to its max, egt's peaks and holds at 850C, thats good, but the mustang has pulled about 2 cars on me. we ran from about 60mph to 140mph before shutting down, in that time, he put maybe a little less than 2 cars on me, very annoying, he was pulling so slowly that if i was running maybe 1-2psi more it would have been another story. anyways, we end taking the same exit, and again, i am right behind him. i figure my car is not running right because what looks like a GT (actually turned out to be roush stage 3) to me has beaten me, well, i flash my brights at the guy and stick my head out the window, the dude rolls down his window and says, "whats up," i say, "what is that," he says, "roush stage 3," at this point i am like WTF, i just about beat the supercharged roush. this made me feel much better knowing that a car with more than 360hp and the torque to boot almost lost to me. at first i had figured that my car was not running right, and that a 260hp GT had somehow managed to beat me. my passenger, a big guy of probably 220lbs was like holy #### that was fast! (his car is a 944 turbo)

after that i gave the guy a thumbs up and he smiled and said nice ride and gave the thumbs up also and we went our separate ways


two days after i raced this guy, i by chance happened to run into him during the day, and we started talking about stuff after we pulled over into a parking lot:

he said my car sounded very nice and he liked the bov i have alot, he said he was also very suprised i stayed with him the whole duration of the race, his car dynoed 328.8whp, and runs the 1/8th mile in 8.07, he has never been to a 1/4 mile track, his car is a 2001 roush stage 3, which he got after he kept getting his ass kicked in his roush stage 2, i told kosta my car was 8yrs old, had 120k miles on it, burned oil, and was running 15psi fairly untuned

 

[LightningMS]

hehe them roush... them cars are quick my nephew raced one , I was sitting passanger, in a 90 single turbo supra with a t3/t4 nice fuel system , boost controller we were rolling on stock boost. Light turns green and we here someone behind us revin it, im like just another mustang smoke him.. so we gunned it making a left... drifted a lil... next thing u know when supras floorin it, mustang passed us to our left With lots of ease..... I was like S*** peter are u floorin it hehe... hes like yea... next light was red and we braked from 100mph on the st. to 0 going side to side, mustand too.... peter raised up the boost and we ended up catching up but took a while.... doing st. chases is DANGEROUS !!! hehe especially in los angeles... I think those roushes are fast, can they beat the saleen?

 

[sarge]

kosta, the greek dude that owned the roush stage 3 i raced, said that he had raced the new 03 cobras and that he would generally beat them, but not always


both are pretty bad ass cars

 

[mccurdy]

I raced a roush stang as well. Mine was last weekend, and me and my buddy were out at the local runs checkin the scene. We go to the meeting spot and manage to catch a Camaro, Trans am, and Stang group rivalry.

Were all mobbin out to some of the racing spots and I saw a roush stang on my right. It looked mean as hell, so i catch up to him. We manage to hit a red light, but werent even in car spots. I get up next to him, and decide to go at it from about 20 mph on. He downshifts first, we both have our windows down with 2 people in each car. He starts to pull on me a little, but then i downshifted and was pulling on him quite well. By the time i hit about 80 mph i was about a car on him..maybe more.

We didnt have a chance to do any more pulls, but it felt damn good to make a V8 upgraded mustang my personal bi***.

that same night i pulled on a beefy Z28, a 89 5.0 mustang, and a 95-96 talon tsi fwd. I beat the 5.0 and the talon from a roll and from a stop. It was a good night.

 

[sarge]

^ cool, when i had the 17c on my car i would embarass the roush stage 2's and non supercharged saleens, as well as the NA cobras, and sometimes camaro SS's

how do you like that 19c, i always wondered what the bigger version of my old turbo was like, how many psi you run on it?

 

[mccurdy]

I'm tuned for street runnin 17-19 PSI. It flows so much ive blown about 7 hose couplings off my intercooler pipes over the past 2 months. Im lookin to invest in some hard lines soon.

But ya, i recently pulled on an STi from a roll and a BUILT 5.0 stang. I know it wasnt the origional engine, i think the guy said a 396 or 402 or something, i dont remember.

It flows good, but a 50 trim would be MUCH better. With my o2 dump though, ive been embaressing fools lately.

 

[TurboSpoolinIns]

The stage3 /sc'd Roush's are not as quick as the 03 cobras. The avg was only tested to like 13.5's at 105 mph. The 03 cobra's gone like mid 12's at 112 stock I believe.