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Message: [QUOTE="YoTRacer158, post: 170075, member: 21301"] yeah the auto with the shifter are called ratchet shifting or a shift kit. it allows you to shift your automatic when you want. the toyota supras (93.5 and up) have the sport shift, which is an automatic transmission w/ maunal over-ride. there are buttons on the steering wheel that you use to shift up and down, the lexus's have these too and they are basically the same as what indy car drivers have. another style is tiptronic, which is what porsches have, its a manual transmission w/ a shifter...you push forward to shift up and backward to shift down. to answer rockriders question...the manual transmission w/ ratchet shifting is the way to go, you dont have to let off the power to push in the clutch and you dont have to take time to move the shifter...justt keep it floored and throw it into the next gear. my friend has this on his chevy nova and it flies casper250...no more jap sports cars? the supra got pulled because of emissions, and i have heard rumors that toyota will be re-releasing the supra in 2003. some guy told me they are still being produced in japan but i'm pretty sure thats bs. toyota also makes the celica gt, which hauls ass. a guy i work with had one, then he let some guy drive it and he dropped it from 5th to second goin 110...it revved to 13500 and blew. mitsubishi has the eclipse, which is a tank but with enough power they can move around pretty good. im not sure where they're from but hyundai has the tiburon, w/ a turbo kit, intake/exhaust and a couple other mods that thing is pretty quick...dont laugh i have an 89 4cyl hyundai sonata 5 spd and ive smoked guys w/ v6's and it'll hit 120 no prob. allthough the japs dont really put out many sports cars these days, the older ones definately have hop up potential. ive seen 4cyl civics smoke tricked out corvettes. allthough the lingenfelter corvette is an awesome car, i would chose a twin turbo supra over it any day. a stock corvette runs probably $55,000 fully loaded (correct me if i'm wrong) but pick up a 95-97 tt supra for 30,000...w/ another 25,000 left over for goodies that thing would tear up any corvette. [/QUOTE]

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