Raced my buddy Mike with a 96 turbo eclipse (same one that raced 5SIZ but this time it was not running in limp mode) he turned his boost down from 24 to 17 which actually made his car MUCH faster than it was. So anyways, the only reason I race him is because he has this hot chick in the passenger seat that he wants to impress, so I know I'm running street tires and a big stupid mechanical fan on the camaro and I'm going to lose anyways, but what the hell, racing is fun! So since I'm sure I'm going to lose, I pile in three people into the camaro (me, my girlfriend, and Synapsis) and we go race down Pima. Well, funny thing is, with 3 people in my car, the weight actually prevented me from spinning vary much and we still had enough power to pull away by about 2nd gear!! hahahahhahaah and that was with the camaro running in the ****tiest setup possible.........solid mechanical fan, dry rotted street tires! Anyways, right as we let off the gas at about 85mph, we see a cop RIGHT in front of us going the opposite way at the light! Long story short, cop was stupid and didnt' seem to notice the headlights on the camaro drop down 6inches when I slammed on the brakes. He never followed! IT was a sweet race anyways. Tonight I'm going to race him again, this time with no extra people in the camaro, an electric fan, and slicks! Thats gonna be fun

 

good race man. that sounds kinda like an experience I had, without the cop though. Just after I did my engine swap, before gears or heads and cam, pretty much stock, I went down to our local meeting place just to see what was there. This was probably one of my very first races. Anyway, I'm standing there just listening to the bull**** fly, relaxing and drinking a coke. I look over at this red 94'ish eclipse. Little while later a guy comes up to me, asks if I want to race it. I immediately say sure without even thinking about, knowing I'm going to spank him. Then he says, are you spraying? Nope is my answer. "You're not?!" No. His reaction kinda gets my attention. Well, his buddy decides to jump in his car and run over to the store real quick. First thing I notice is the chrome exhaust and canister muffler. As he's coming back, I happen to notice the friggen intercooler mounted in his front grill. So I'm thinking to my self, oh ****, no wonder he was surprised I wasnt spraying. But I act like everything is cool and we head out to our spot. We get out there, I get an alright launch, spin too much and he jumps out about a length ahead of me. So I'm already playing catch-up the whole time. By the end of the quarter, we were nose to nose, him ahead by maybe 6" So we get back to the meeting place, he naturally says he won, and then asks me what I had done. So I tell him. come to find out, his was I'm pretty sure AWD with 14 lbs of boost, boost controller, everything. It was a damn good race though.

My cop story: I was at the same meeting place, just before I left for school. A buddy of mine and one of his friends want to go for a ride and see if the other guy wants to race me. I was in a racing mood really bad that night so I say sure. We pile in, leave the parking lot, I turn left onto the street and nail it. I go down, make the first turn around, and he says do it again. So I naturally do, I get up to about 70 in a 35, maybe even higher, not sure, as I'm slowing down past about 60, I look up and see head lights, then I look up a little higher and see the friggen light bar. So I'm thinking, "oh ****, this is great, just before I leave I go to jail for excess speed and reckless endangerment." Anyway, all three of us are watching the mirrors looking for break lights. sure enough, just as I'm about to turn back into the parking lot, he turns around. This immediately gets my heart racing, knowing that he saw me. But amazingly, he didn't turn on his lights. I turn into the parking lot and act cool, but as soon as I get behind the bulding, I nail it, go flying across this mostly empty parking lot, hang another right into the Walmart parking lot, haul *** to the back, park and run into Walmart. All three of us are like holy crap we just ran from the cops! We hang out there for about 20 minutes, then walk back over to the parking lot where everyone meets. Turns out the cop had come into the parking lot, circled about 4 times, went across the street into another parking lot, looked around, and finally left about 10 minutes later. Needless to say he was looking for my ***, and needless to say I was scared ****less, but it sure was fun as hell. Talk about an adrenaline rush! I think its an experience everyone should do once, just to say they did it, then never do it again. but thats just me

 

damn double posts

 

Nice kill. That's a lot of boost.

 

Why did you think you were going to lose, again??? With five or six people in the car you probably could have taken him!!!

 

that is a lot of boost. i was talkin to a guy with an awd talon at a friend's work (schuck's) who said he was running 22 pounds of boost. he had a wing and **** but i respected him cuz it sounded like he had done some work and was headin to the track to prove it. he said he was gonna run low 13's, he was in the low 14's tho that night i dunno maybe he just couldnt drive his car...

 

i just ran your motor in Desktop Dyno and without the porting of the vortecs you made 442 horsepower and 427 ft lbs of torque. not too shabby.

now... if you had an extreme roller 282 you would have 490 horsepower and 471 ft lbs torque, but roller stuff is expensive. oh well good kill.

 

Well actually I raced him in the camaro................I've raced him in the firebird and its a ****ing JOKE .

 

Whats 14lbs of boost worth in terms of hp? I heard it was something around 10hp per 1lbs of boost. Is this true?

 

I've read on a turbo eclipse/eagle talon web site that with upgraded turbo, boost controller and intake/exhaust, you can make 275 HP, which is pretty damn good for a 2,700 pound car! At least I'm guessing it weighs around that.

 

It's not about the amount of boost you are running...it's about the FLOW. A guy running 15 lbs of boost with a stock 2.0 inch crush bent exhaust with a catalytic converter will most assuredly run slower than a guy running 12 lbs of boost with a 3" exhaust and a test pipe. Likewise, someone running 15 lbs of boost on a t25 (small) turbo is going to run slower than someone running 12 lbs on a 16g (larger) turbo. You cannot accurately estimate someone's hp based upon how much boost they are running. There are other factors that play into it; you need supporting mods to maximize the power.

 

This guy had intake and exhaust mods, I believe it was 3inch or 2.5 mandrel exhaust with a stainless steel fart muffler.