Anyone know what a gifted motor is??

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Old Sep 17, 2004 | 01:27 AM
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Anyone know what a gifted motor is??

Anyone know anything about a gifted motor?? does this exists??
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Old Sep 17, 2004 | 02:24 AM
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gifted motors?? like the factory freaks? i think i heard about some ITR doing low 14's stock was a factory freak
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Old Sep 17, 2004 | 09:15 AM
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most things produced follow a bell curve distribution. 90~% are all alike and produce the same power, 5 % on the bottom end are weak engines, while 5% on the top end are engines that are stronger than the other 95%. These would be the "gifted engines". This is just a generic set of numbers for engines i dont know what the real numbers are.

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Old Oct 1, 2004 | 03:45 PM
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from the dealer, my car had the abiltiy to surpass the rev limiter ( without ecu yet )
then i bought one and had it tuned to see what powers i could make, none up high, so i built the head ( cam ) and at 7000 its like WUT ahaha id say thats a factory freak
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Old Oct 1, 2004 | 10:45 PM
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My son's '97 Monte Carlo Z34 (215hp 3.4 DOHC w/ 4 spd auto,) ran a 15.17@90.7mph down the 1/4 w/ 86k on the clock and not a single modification done, all the way down to a paper air filter.....that's one hell of a factory freak. I'm sure it's about having the right combo of motor, trans, and pcm, not solely the motor.

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Old Oct 2, 2004 | 06:53 AM
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Off to car talk..
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Old Oct 9, 2004 | 08:47 PM
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Doesn't have to do also with how the cams were cut?
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Old Oct 10, 2004 | 12:02 AM
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i've heard of stock ls1 f body factory freaks going 12.9
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Old Oct 11, 2004 | 08:46 AM
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I've heard 'em refered to as "Wednesday Motors" too.

I swear my car was built on a monday morning or friday afternoon
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Old Oct 11, 2004 | 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by darrinb
i've heard of stock ls1 f body factory freaks going 12.9

the ls1 in the fbodies was identical to the ones in the vette very underrated
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