Video of KB Marauder doing burnouts DIAL UP WARNING

dial up sucks

This stinks... I am dialing up and can't even download my own vids.... I MISS MY CABLE MODEM.....
 
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mensrea said:
This stinks... I am dialing up and can't even download my own vids.... I MISS MY CABLE MODEM.....
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If you need I can ship you a cd w/ them on it. They aren't that big. I'll throw some other goodies on there as well. :eek: Only of cars of course.
 
Can you not do a brake stand on a bone stock Marauder?

Perhaps if you were to replace the rear "slightly wider and slightly taller" tires and put the same size tires as the ones in the front, a burn out may be more possible by slamming the pedal or at least a brake stand.

GEO
 
I just saw a stream of the Popular Mechanics road test of the stock Marauder doing a brake stand. I can see that it can burn out now, but the PopMech car had to heat up the brakes quite the bit.

Tell me this, with 4.10's and an X-pipe, should one be able to plant the pedal down and smell some compound? If not I'm sure a chip and a high stall aswell would be enough (and these are relatively cheap mods).

GEO
 
Did you know

That TireRack has a deal on the stock tires for the rear of the Marauder?

Indeed they do. Only $86 bucks each. Check it out.

At that price, it'd be foolish not to try this a few times...

Enjoy.

-Jim
 
Am I the only one excited by the prospect of $86 tires?

I've not paid so little for tires in... forever!

I think the Eagle ST's I used to put on my '73 Cougar were a little less than that, but not by much...

If I had somewhere to store 'em, I'd buy a couple just for kicks.

-Jim
 
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I went back and edited the original post to reflect the correct address for the vids... enjoy
 
mensrea, does the KB performance package you have include a trans sheild and or a driveshaft loop? With all the fun a little safety should be included.
 
Kenny can do what ever you ask for, each conversion is "custom" I asked for the loop... never thought of the tranny shield. Good suggestion.
 
Just a thought, I had a C6 blow on me in 78, ripped up the floor pretty good, now have the sheild on all the time, not the blanket, keeps in the heat to much for street driving, use the one like CSI builds.
 
Geo said:
I just saw a stream of the Popular Mechanics road test of the stock Marauder doing a brake stand. I can see that it can burn out now, but the PopMech car had to heat up the brakes quite the bit.

Tell me this, with 4.10's and an X-pipe, should one be able to plant the pedal down and smell some compound? If not I'm sure a chip and a high stall aswell would be enough (and these are relatively cheap mods).

GEO
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4.10'S the right chip and intake system and you should liquify the tires with ease from a dead stab of the throttle.
 
Stab

Well, my MM has 4.10's and a chip (no intake yet) and it's difficult to get much spin, let alone a real boiler going from a dead stop w/out using the brakes.

Again, for one reason or another, this car does 'hook up' pretty well... Oooh, I know; maybe these 'rake' inducing possibly-too-tall-for-my-liking 55 aspect ratio rear tires are secretly wrinkle-wall drag radials!

Nah.

It is possible to get some spin from a dead stop with a good 'stab' at the throttle, and once I've gotten a good burnout with that technique... But generally a 'burnout' requires judicious use of the brake pedal to modulate forward speed..*

-Jim
*all of the above information is pure speculation on my part. And that video I posted before? That's not my car, that's just a flash animation of a cartoon I drew. Yeah. I would never subject my Mercury cough. under warranty. cough. to such abuse.
 
Hey Mensrea, I'm assuming you have an aluminum drive shaft??
Also, what kind of tires are you running? I know KB said something about the stockers not being able to keep up w/ the hp. I think the quote was "the stock tires would be treads before he left the parking lot".
 
Tires and driveshaft

I have Pirelli P Zeros on it, they are great, but MUCH more $$$ than stock...

I have a different drive shaft in my car, not sure what the specs are, check out the post driveshaft reliability on this site to see an answer from someone from Ford on this whole issue.

I have asked for an analysis of the difference between the stock Marauder shaft and the police interceptor shaft, it will be interesting to see what the actual difference is.
 
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