That seems a little closer. I was pretty sure they ran faster than high 13s to low 14s stock. I remember some magazine did a feature where they ran a Syclone agianst a Vette. They used a water truck to wet down the Syclone's lane and the vette ran in the dry one. Even on a wet track the Syclone kicked it's *** bad. I also worked with a guy with one, he turned op the boost a little and replaced the throttle body and it ran 12 flat.

 

A Typhoon or Syclone isn't realy the type of vehicle you drive in winter It's a rare, expensive, limited edition collector type vehicle, not a winter beater

 

Motor Trend tested the truck in their Dec 1990 issue. It went a 13.7 @ 98.5 (13.4 with icing and water).

Car and Driver did take a pre-production model into the 13.0 range (as did a few others). However, production trucks ran mostly mid-high 13's in the magazine racing realm....in C&D's Ferrari vs Syclone test (I remember that one!), the Sy went 14.1.

 

I'm not necessarily calling BS here but a friend of mine had a Syclone that went 12.30s at the track...Street racing was a whole different animal. He would beat up on 11 second track cars because he could build more boost on the street because he wasn't worried about slightly creeping forward
and redlighting...Also his 60's were the same, if not better on the street, than at the track. Getting out on an AWD on the street is very hard to do. I do low 1.7s and high 1.6s at the track where there's a water box and some track prep...I would beat him at the track, he will kill me on the street...
-Alan

 

hey, that bravada didnt happen to be burgundy did it? my buddy just bought one with the typhoon setup. thing is smoking fast to 60 or so. made me laugh when he launched it at 15 psi, no spin, just go.