I thought I might get your attention. The FJ Cruiser in that test is a 2014, which is slower than the 2011-12, they changed to a 160 litre fuel tank for the later models, mine is only 72 litres. I've also modified the exhaust in mine, they normally have one massive muffler in the middle, I've removed mine and put a much smaller Redback sports muffler in its place. So yes, they do sound good, but mine sounds better, but I'm thinking of going for the muffler delete, so straight pipe it. I also have a K&N air filter, which may or may not help, and I'm running 285 wide tyres. I've timed mine on a GPS performance timer app at 7.8 seconds to 100kmh a couple of times.
Where these traffic light races normally happen is at set of lights on this road near me that's got a limit of 80kmh, it goes from 2 lanes into 1 after about 250 metres, so that's about as far as the race goes, also the HWP patrol there regularly. You know when you're first at the lights and someone comes up next to you in the outside lane that it's on. I had an R52 Pathfinder beat me once, discovered he had a throttle controller in it, and a month later he blew up his CVT, oops. I don't know if it's traction issues, bad driving, or age related power loss, but I've never had a normally aspirated 6 cylinder Falcon or Commodore get past when I don't want them to. Mostly I behave myself, but if the conditions are right, I like to have some fun.
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