There was a photo shoot today at OSW for a certain Pontiac magazine...and the GTO was the feature car! The car was having some issues though, and wouldn't run better than high 14's. So Brett got to drive it over to Vinci's dyno...that's the last I've heard. I'm sure he'll be on here tonight bragging.

 

 

So who's Bret and where did he get to drive a GTO?

 

Brett Downs, he is the co-owner of MASC Performance. His name on this board is LT1Brutus.

 

The car's sweet. It has some timing issues. After speaking w/ a few Australian companies that I carry parts for, it turns out that the Monaro has an "abuse management system." If the cars computer detects repeated abuse it pulls timing...LOTS OF IT to save the automatic. The GTO we have was the 2nd one to hit the shores (4 total) so it is believed to have a Monaro computer. This was evidenced by the fuel guage not working, the temp guage being way off (centigrade we think) and a couple other little glitches. Well, the theory is that it has 762 Magazine miles on it...so its been thorougly abused. Our Australian associates told us how to ground out the "abuse management" to make it forget that it's been abused. We'll see if it helps. After being on the dyno and having its computer gone through it felt a whole lot better. We also think it may have had some 87 octane in it. The dyno first registered 211 rwhp, then 242, 247....we cooled the car for 45 minutes, went through the computer and suddenly we pulled 262 rear wheel with 278 ft. lbs. That's still somewhat low to me, but up .....WAY up compared to the first run...where it stumbled off idle. It turns out that the computer reconized Foot-braking and turns on "torque management" which dumps the timing. Tomorrow we'll run it w/out footbraking it and reset the abuse managment logger every run.
You get a lot of looks on the 408 EWExp when you're driving a car w/ manufacturer plates on it that doesn't exist yet in most people's minds. If anyone knows someone in a Supra, F-150 lightning, or Mercedes E55 that says they tried to race me...tell em I'm sorry, but the car was on loan.

 

Abuse management system eh? Wow, that is f*cking gay.

 

This might be of help to you guys. It is taken from here.

email is ls1edit@austarmetro.com.au and their web site is http://users.senet.com.au/~dtech/

 

That wont do any good unless the car came with the AUS/SAUDI version of ls1edit and the car had a 03 monaro PCM.

This is a piolt car and there are 6 of em here that have been mentioned.

 

brett your going to sonics tonight right?

 

holy crap...........new cars are so friggin gay.............it just makes me want to build an oldschool carbed motor and say F all the computer stuff.

 

Well I'am GUESSING the the guy in the e55 may have been a guy names jesus ... I'am sure some of you might know him he had a redsupposed 1000+ Hp supra.. he owns aerocomp racing...



I could be wrong but I dont see many people trying to race there new e55 but hey I could be wrong...




Ed

 

ive seen him dyno it personally.........hehe........it IS 1000hp (crank)

 

Hey Brett- So the 1 of 4 GTOs that you drove, was it the actual GTO that is suppose to come to the states? When is the car going to be on sale at the Pontiac dealerships? Just curious! -joSShua

 

Jesus also has an evolution and when i went to the track the other week also saw him in a 9 sec 1st gen eclipse GSX. So i would say he's not hurting for money.

 

well duh.........hes jesus......the son of god!


but for real........yeah.......hes friggin loaded


video of his E55 racing an 03 cobra