took the Marauder to The Spectator drags

[djcrook73]

Since my car is not a low mileage creampuff I figured what the hell and see how it ran. It was an absolute blast and I plan on doing it again for sure! A few things I learned- she feels pretty quick and tight on the street, but on the track.. She's not very fast but it will motivate me to Improve her weak points which are power and handling. On stock g force ta kdw's she was skating plenty, needs some grip as I could not stay on it. Well that and it's not a light car but I know some of you get these cars to do some pretty amazing things with the right work! even though she's more beater than most I don't drive it often as I have a daily so I'm thinking some nitto 555r's on widened stock wheels or another set of larger wheels entirely. As far as power it has most of the better mods but right now it has a lean code due to one of the oxygen sensors on the left hand side which I cannot get out of the manifold. Tried the smoke wrench but it just won't budge. I'm up at about 6:40 and 9:50 or so in the video. Trust me beating a pickup is nothing to be proud of and I Got taken pretty good by the wrx , but man I was thinking about selling this car and this changed my mind completely . felt more alive than I have in awhile! https://youtu.be/Zt2YjQPB0pE

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[crownvic97]

Cool vid, looks like lots of fun!

[djcrook73]

Cool vid, looks like lots of fun!
It was and made me want to kick the performance up a notch or two!

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[Jtrip]

Awesome video. Watched it till you got beat. Marauder on!

[Ambitious1]

That looks like a lot of fun! MM looked good on the track! Glad you represented!

[sailsmen]

Thanks for posting. Looks like a blast, were you hooping and hollering when you beat the truck?

[MMBLUE]

Nice vid.

That used to be my home circle track. From 1990 to 1996. I have many laps around that place. "The Konk"

[Mebot]

This is great. Looks like an awesome time for sure

[djcrook73]

Thanks for posting. Looks like a blast, were you hooping and hollering when you beat the truck?
No, but my daughter was! but it still felt pretty awesome just to be there

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[sailsmen]

11.7, 6 years ago, 1:40 minute mark;
http://www.streetfire.net/video/mara...117_728518.htm

My next run was 11.556.

[Turbov6Bryan]

Since my car is not a low mileage creampuff I figured what the hell and see how it ran. It was an absolute blast and I plan on doing it again for sure! A few things I learned- she feels pretty quick and tight on the street, but on the track.. She's not very fast but it will motivate me to Improve her weak points which are power and handling. On stock g force ta kdw's she was skating plenty, needs some grip as I could not stay on it. Well that and it's not a light car but I know some of you get these cars to do some pretty amazing things with the right work! even though she's more beater than most I don't drive it often as I have a daily so I'm thinking some nitto 555r's on widened stock wheels or another set of larger wheels entirely. As far as power it has most of the better mods but right now it has a lean code due to one of the oxygen sensors on the left hand side which I cannot get out of the manifold. Tried the smoke wrench but it just won't budge. I'm up at about 6:40 and 9:50 or so in the video. Trust me beating a pickup is nothing to be proud of and I Got taken pretty good by the wrx , but man I was thinking about selling this car and this changed my mind completely . felt more alive than I have in awhile! https://youtu.be/Zt2YjQPB0pE

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Dude!!!! Your fucing nuts!!!!!! I watch seecunt on YouTube his name is carbon videos and he puts out vids pretty regular

Can't wait to watch it tomorrow, maybe carbon video has a different angle of that race?

Been watching that track for 3-4 years now, heck yeah!

We ( me and all the ***** cats here) really like watching that track and other spectator drags on them there tracks

[Turbov6Bryan]

Just watched it. Awesome

Me and the cats dig panthers on the track

That wrx wasn't slow!!

[MMBLUE]

He honestly didn't have a prayer against the WRX with 4 wheel drive a turbo and half the weight.

[djcrook73]

He honestly didn't have a prayer against the WRX with 4 wheel drive a turbo and half the weight.
Before recently they used to try to match cars up so it was a better race but people were crying unfair so now they draw from a hat for the matchups . The wrx driver won it all last time against cars with 200 more horsepower so I knew I was getting the taillamp view ! He was nice enough to give up the inside lane but I had no delusions of keeping up.. it was a blast even to lose!

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[sailsmen]

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Can a Marauder hold its own on the track with a Lamborgini?

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To make a short story long I own an 04 DTR Marauder. It has had all the Dennis, Zack/Mac majic done to it. In the past 2 years it has won 3rd then 2nd place in the All Ford Nationals at Carlisle, PA.
I am a member of the Eastern Pantera Club. We co sponsor a track event at Pocono International Raceway yearly with various other Italian Car Clubs such as Lamborgini, Maserati, and Ferrari. Since my Pantera is in pieces I asked and was permitted to bring the Marauder to the track to run. As I stated in a post a while back I am not a drag racer. I use my car every day and in the snow so I opted for a centrifigul vs. roots type supercharger. I have not changed my rear end ratio. I do however like to run in track events.
Well I lined up to run with 19 other cars, all newer model Italian high performance exotic cars. We run NASCAR wise, counter clockwise. We used turn 1, turn 2, then an infield course that has a 270, three 90's, two 75 degree turns and a chicane, then we enter back onto the main staight with 2/3 of that straight available before turn 1.
Well boys and girls I have to tell you after 5 laps everyone in attendance was looking at this Canadian maufactured, Dearborn Sedan. It ate cars like it was at an Italian buffet. Not only did the Marauder hold it's own on the banked turns it passed most and stayed with the best of them in the infield. Comming out of the infield onto the main straight I devoured them. The available touque was awsome. I ran with the antilock brakes and overdrive off. Down the straight going into turn one, 135 mph+ easy. 130 mph+ into turn 2 and an average speed through the infield of 60+ mph.
The transmission mods worked great, that baby knew when to down shift upon hard braking. The supercharger spun up smoothly so the ass end never kicked out. Dennis's total package and the Zack/Mac control arms worked flawlessly.
After I came off the track nearly everone came over to see the car. Most of these folks told me they thought it was a joke putting the DTR on the track against these 6 figure cars. On day two I repeated the same results. No fluke.
A lot of exotic car owners have a new found respect for our "Family Sedans / Cop Cars". Needless to say I had a blast.
Sorry for the long story but I just had to brag a little. Enjoy your Marauders they are all special.

http://www.mercurymarauder.net/forum...hlight=pantera

[djcrook73]

http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160816/e806802ecc39aa9b7f87ed33ee6d6d 7b.jpg my friend with the silver camaro and I both Drive for ups. he snapped this picture for me . He has been doing this for years and suggested I go and I'm Happy I did.. Until a few weeks ago I have never been to the track ever. Obviously a different car would work better but I feel like the experience gained from a few more outings will help me make this car work better as a whole. most of these guys are more serious about it and I don't expect to beat any of them even with more grip but I think it will at least motivate me to try to save up for more power later. glad you guys got a kick out of it!

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[djcrook73]

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Can a Marauder hold its own on the track with a Lamborgini?

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To make a short story long I own an 04 DTR Marauder. It has had all the Dennis, Zack/Mac majic done to it. In the past 2 years it has won 3rd then 2nd place in the All Ford Nationals at Carlisle, PA.
I am a member of the Eastern Pantera Club. We co sponsor a track event at Pocono International Raceway yearly with various other Italian Car Clubs such as Lamborgini, Maserati, and Ferrari. Since my Pantera is in pieces I asked and was permitted to bring the Marauder to the track to run. As I stated in a post a while back I am not a drag racer. I use my car every day and in the snow so I opted for a centrifigul vs. roots type supercharger. I have not changed my rear end ratio. I do however like to run in track events.
Well I lined up to run with 19 other cars, all newer model Italian high performance exotic cars. We run NASCAR wise, counter clockwise. We used turn 1, turn 2, then an infield course that has a 270, three 90's, two 75 degree turns and a chicane, then we enter back onto the main staight with 2/3 of that straight available before turn 1.
Well boys and girls I have to tell you after 5 laps everyone in attendance was looking at this Canadian maufactured, Dearborn Sedan. It ate cars like it was at an Italian buffet. Not only did the Marauder hold it's own on the banked turns it passed most and stayed with the best of them in the infield. Comming out of the infield onto the main straight I devoured them. The available touque was awsome. I ran with the antilock brakes and overdrive off. Down the straight going into turn one, 135 mph+ easy. 130 mph+ into turn 2 and an average speed through the infield of 60+ mph.
The transmission mods worked great, that baby knew when to down shift upon hard braking. The supercharger spun up smoothly so the ass end never kicked out. Dennis's total package and the Zack/Mac control arms worked flawlessly.
After I came off the track nearly everone came over to see the car. Most of these folks told me they thought it was a joke putting the DTR on the track against these 6 figure cars. On day two I repeated the same results. No fluke.
A lot of exotic car owners have a new found respect for our "Family Sedans / Cop Cars". Needless to say I had a blast.
Sorry for the long story but I just had to brag a little. Enjoy your Marauders they are all special.

http://www.mercurymarauder.net/forum...hlight=pantera
I'm pretty sure I read that thread and I have to say I love nothing more then a Good story about a car that no one would ever expect to run with the big dogs open up a can of whoop -ass on all of them.. That is just awesome sailsmen!




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[sailsmen]

Found the current link;
http://www.mercurymarauder.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19385&highlight=lamborgini

Just to clarify it's Pacammer's thread and Marauder.