The car features a quad exhaust layout with two traditional outlets going out the back and a set of side pipes that aren’t just for show. On the road, most of the exhaust stream goes out the back, with the side pipes doing auditory duty for the most part. On the track however, where noise restrictions aren’t so stiff, you can remove the attenuation discs and drop in a bypass spacer for full-on side pipe action. The system’s even sized for aftermarket electronic bypass valves, you know, just in case you have an off-road application for it. Wink, wink. The end result is 440 hp and 380 lb-ft of torque, not a bad upgrade over the stock 5.0-liter’s 412 hp, though that’s 10 lb-ft less in the torque department. Remember, this car’s designed to be wrung out on the track, not raced stoplight to stoplight.
But it’s not all engine, the car also gets an upgraded clutch and short throw shifter, retuned electronic steering, traction control and stability control. The suspension sees some nice attention, too, as there are stiffer springs all around, larger diameter anti-roll bars and Ford’s installed manually adjustable dampers with five different stiffness settings. Grab a screwdriver and you can change the damping from each shock tower — cool! The rear end is geared at 3.73 with long-life carbon fiber plates slipped into the limited slip differential. There’s also an optional Torsen torque-sensing limited-slip differential.
This is so much cooler then the car you’re driving. Ford has come a long way in the last year or two. I wanted my girlfriend to buy a Ford, she bought a Subaru that pretty much sums up our relationship right there.
So my girlfriend and I were driving home from lovely North Adams on Sunday and we strike up a conversation about John Mayer. As many of you may know I am a huge John Mayer fan, so this is much to my delight. Until she starts saying that she loves Jennifer Aniston and that she doesn’t like Mayer for fucking with her. Blah Blah Blah. I don’t really give a shit, I couldn’t care less about the guys personal life. So I tuned her out for about 5 minutes while she went on and on, and then I said none of this matters because Jessica Simpson is much hotter than Jennifer Aniston. She stopped and gave me a look as if I just murder her parents and said Jessica Simpson is a fucking moron, to which I replied and how does that effect the way she looks? So blackouts I ask you this, which of us is right? Who is hotter Jennifer Aniston or Jessica Simpson?
Is this the highway to heaven? Driving along and the road becomes filled with Bud Light cans, how can it not be? Why didn’t the kid immediately stop the car and get out to collect as many beers as he could? This is unacceptable behavior.
A Comox Valley man a local police officer saw fall off his bike while riding drunk has been sent to jail for 20 days.
Donald G. Madsen was on a court order prohibiting the consumption of alcohol at the time.
Defense lawyer Eric Chesterley said his 51-year-old client concedes he is an alcoholic and is not interested in counseling so he has difficulty adhering to court-ordered demands to abstain from alcohol.
Judge Brian Klaver said the Crown position of 40 days in custody for the breach was “a little on the light side” but not inappropriate.
“You won’t take counseling so the only thing left for us is jail,” said Klaver.
Because Madsen had already spent 10 days in pre-trial custody, typically credited two-to-one, he has another 20 days left to serve.
How is this even fair? The dude concedes he’s an alcoholic to the court which he should be given credit for because isn’t the first step admitting you have a problem? Also the guy should be commended because instead of driving drunk he rides his bike making sure the only person could potential harm is himself. This is what’s wrong with the police instead of setting up check points to catch drunk drivers they waste there time harassing a guy just trying to get home safely without putting anyone’s life in danger but his own. Ridiculous.
