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Hey guys!

New owner and new here! Just wanted to chime in!
This car sure pulls! I'm still practicing on my launches and my times have improved from when I first started, that's for sure!

My times so far:

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Located on the outskirts of Tampa, so temp in summer is in the mid to upper 90's most of the day. My '18 is stock except for a 93 Performance tune from Unleashed. I was able to achieve a nice 5.5 0-60 the other day without even trying. I'm wondering how much better I would do actually trying to get better launch and shifts. Mine feels like it could get into the lower 5's or upper 4's with some practice. I certainly like taking on cars that would normally walk away from me and getting the look of utter amazement from the person in the car next to me. Never thought I would go for a 4 cyl turbo, but I am thoroughly impressed.
 
Hmm. With my current setup, TC off, Sport mode, let the trans shift itself, no brake standing to build boost..just mash the gas from idle which gives me minimal wheelspin and let the hardware and software do their magic, I get consistent 4.6's to 60 in optimum conditions ( night time, under 80 degrees out ) and even now in the ridiculous daytime summer S. FL heat I'm averaging 4.8's to 60 ( when totally heat soaked and its 95 out it does creep up by a tenth or two more over that ). The car and the engine and transmission tunes are doing all the work..this old fart is just the nut behind the wheel enjoying the ride. Also really helped upgrading the stock tires to the Michelin SP 4s tires, which are fantastic imho. The rest is all in the tuning. Any more acceleration performance will have to wait until the car is paid off and she goes to Tune+ for a monster motor. I'm sure the car would be even quicker with a set of smaller diameter rims and drag radials. That's were most of you are losing time...bigger rims and tires makes for a slower 0-60 time ( but they sure do look nice ). If I ever "upgraded" from the stock 18in rims, it would be to 17inchers...bigger isnt better in this case.
 
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