I played around with a nice looking sedan on Spicewood Springs yesterday. Was it anyone here?

I was in a black 06 6mt coupe. We dropped back from traffic and had a few runs, passed a slow car and then raced uphill.

if it was you reply.. have some questions!

 

I have an extra flame suit if you want to borrow it.....

 

To answer your questions, the sedan weighs less, thats why it is faster

 

lol

he almost kept up, i assume it was modded. The sedan is NOT faster, sorry. Of course, I dunno if he was AT or MT, that's one of my questions.

The other has to do with some mud we ran over at about 80mph while turning on a narrow twisty road....

 

Technicaly speaking the MT6 sedan does have a 100 lb weight advantage of the heavier MT6 coupe, so if both drivers had the same skill the sedan should edge out the coupe, technicaly speaking of course

Remember the sedan and coupe have the same engine and same transmisison but the sedan is lighter... Although I will say the coupe is more sexy looking

 

you don't think factors like suspension, exhaust, tires, weight balance, etc make any difference to offset the weight difference?

and for the record, i was running on a nearly empty tank.. that prolly helped me.

 

Depends to on which sedan you were racing the automatics only have the 280 hp vs the 298 for the 6mt if I remember right...

I think suspension and tires would play a bigger role if you were racing from a stop, where you would probably get a little better traction, but this depends on stock vs stock or modified vs stock, etc.... In my experience its always been a drivers race between the two if there both 6MT.

BTW, i found the #'s for different weights

06' G35 Coupe MT6 - 3524 lbs
06' G35 Sedan MT6 - 3472 lbs

06' G35 Coupe Base - 3505 lbs
06' G35 Sedan Base - 3449 lbs



So it ends up only being about 50lbs between the two cars on average....

 

dude that was me.. haha my mom was in the car or i would of burned you lol.its an auto but was in the mt and miss shifted lol. whast up what quetion you got we should run again.

 

Stock from the factory, the 6MT coupe and sedan have the same power ratings. Exhaust isn't going to matter. The weight balance is basically the same. Suspension is a little stiffer in the coupe, so that would help in the turns, as would bigger tires. But the bigger tires/heavier wheel combo would actually hurt acceleration.

In a straight line, the sedan is slightly faster, like it or not. In the severe twisties, the coupe should be able to go a little faster with more rubber under the car, and stiffer suspension.

Of course, that's stock.

 

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haha it was a bad situation anyway. there were 3 lanes. car in the middle infront of us and biker in my lane. lol .he had a free lane and i was over there doing some mission impossible moves . lol lets run from stop should be fun. plus my heads are goin on this week. ok im not sure if somthing like is is already in place but US Gs should really meet up. ATX where you guys at? we need to meet up like once a week.

 

G-Dub you sure that was you? Yeah I remember there were 3 lanes on spicewood up the hill but on the twisties... two lanes, one way each.

That pass on the mr slow poke and then running into dried mud on the road at like 80-90mph... my VDC was off but I hit the brake and let it save me... I was trying to gain on you so maybe u were not going as fast but damn that was some scary sh*t

you did that w/ your mom in the car? I'm pretty sure I would not have done that with anyone else in the car

and yeah, i thought i heard your rev-limiter near the top of the hill...?

 

haha o yeah. old spicewood is the bomb. My car handles so good now in that. haha that was tight when im passing that car and I see you doing the same thing. lol she was the one that told me to pass. .. yea on the hill i had alil to much going on and miss shifted. i was tryn to get to a 20 and you took off lol. that was fun though