ive never really had a real street race, just a couple times where i've wanted go, but the other guy wont. well last night that changed at about 2:30am. i was taking a couple friends home after we had a bon fire at another friends house, and was out Route 33 here in NE PA, when this car come buzzing by me, could tell he had at least an exhaust. as he passed i noticed it was an Eclipse GS-T, with at least an exhaust. i pulled up next to him and looked over, he had some gauges up th A-pillar, and a big auto meter tach and shift light, so i knew he was prob. pretty fast. he looked over and started pulling away, i hit 4th and didnt get quite the jump i wanted, so i slammed 3rd and laid the gas on the floor, ran it up to about 5k and hit 4th, ran it to 5500 and i was about 4 or 5 cars ahead of him and i hit 5th and just cruised away, he got off at the next exit. both my friends like were "holy ****" and so was I. i was rather proud of my self, so i figured i had to tell everyone about my first kill!

 

For future reference, when you see an import with a huge tach and a shift light, 9 times out of 10 they aren't fast at all. Sounds like this guy was slow too. Good kill.

 

haha yea i know that typical stereotype, but there were a few guys who i graduated with with GS-T's and they all had huge tach's, but they were also turbo and quite quick, so i really try not to judge cars that i KNOW are turbo

 

That's the smartest thing I've ever heard.

 

haha thank you stu, that means alot coming from someone like you

 

Yeah if you pulled him that bad he had to be completely stock. I use to race my friends GST eclipse when my TPI 305 was stock and who ever got the jump off the line won the race by a fender everytime.
Good kill

 

check his sig again... hes not sporting a stock 305

 

Good kill, from a dig those things are crazy, for being a 4 cyl.

 

maybe a GSX would be, but i doubt a GST is a killer from a stop

 

check his sig again... hes not sporting a stock 305

Please read an understand whats being said before you comment. I was talking about the eclipse being stock if his 305 was stock it would have been a close race as I was trying to point out.

 

he doesnt have a 305 in the first place. he has a 355. which i must say is quite a big diffrence. i wish i had one. all i got is my damn 305 tbi. should be swaping it for a 350 tpi tho, cant wait

 

BTW if it was modded with the number one mod for those cars (upgraded turbo!) there wouldn't have been a 5 car lead nor a cruised away in 5th.

 

yea he definatly didnt have a bigger turbo. the way i pulled on him the only mods he had more then likely were intake/exhaust, and i knew he had the exhaust, i could hear the damn thing making that loud obnixious racket they all do! the only reason i cruised away in 5th was cuz he was slowing down to merge onto the exit ramp. thanks for the support guys, makes me wanna go run more little ricers and send them home crying to mommy!

 

Turbo cars don't really make that loud obnoxious sound you are talking about, maybe he was a ***** and just swapped badges. They can still run low 13's with the stock turbo I believe.

 

it was def. a turbo car, it was just loud and obnixious cause I hate the sound they all make and they never will sound like our pure american muscle

 

Haha. -30 points.

 

whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

 

LMAO, a mild 350 is no where near 'American Muscle' There are some N/A Crx (built of course) running 10s, alot of v8s are struggling to get there.

 

Well I would say that that a 427 L88 big Block in a 1969 Vette with side pipes has that "The World is coming to an End!" sound if you wanna hear American muscle in a stock motor. As for a N/A crx thats modded going 10's that all well and good, but If your gonna lump modded N/A V-8's into that equation then 10's is kinda slow. I can think of 5 guys in my town alone that have 9 second V-8's all motor. thats just my little town. Albeit they are far from streetable but I'll bet that CRX is about the same streetability as the V-8's.

 

N/A CRX's running 10's? havent seen one under 13 here in my town, and im not saying my car is the end all american muscle car out there, im sorry our view of american muscle differs.

 

ive seen N/A 12 second hatches but no 10's n/a....Ive heard of turbo'd hatches running 10's but much like the loch ness monster, Ive never seen it.

 

There is a 10 second anything there is a 12 second anything there is a 9 second anything...somewhere out there im sure someone has made a 9 second geo metro.

Point is...who cares?

You won a race...you dont know what you raced therefore cause it was an import it was ****....thats all good think what you think.

 

LMAO, a mild 350 is no where near 'American Muscle'

He was talking about the sound of american muscle not the performance. You can make any V8 sound strong with good exhaust setup the same can't be said for 4 cylinders. The sound of a turbo or supercharger has a appealing sound to me.

' There are some N/A Crx (built of course) running 10s, alot of v8s are struggling to get there. My nova dosen't have a problem running 10's and its streetable(sort of ) There are way way more v8 in the 10's than Crx cars

 

You've never seen a 10 second turbo Honda? You guys should go to an NHRA sponsored Import race someday. I mean the big one, like Super Chevy Show, but imports.

1.) You will get to laugh at the trillions of high school jack asses making clowns of themselves all day.

2.) You will get to see the 6 second cars.

 

theres 10 second all motor hondas in the 10s....but thats a good point people here just dont seem to think there are actually fast imports...

there is EVERYTHING possible out there...

 

i did read. you said the Eclipse must have been completely stock if he pulled 5 cars on him cause your 305 would go door handle to door handle with one

however, the thread starter is running a carbed, vortec headed 355 with a 5 speed manual trans. i would think his setup would put more than 5 lengths on a bone stock, low 15 second FWD Eclipse

sooo... if the Eclipse was modded (maybe stock turbo, but it had to have other things done: upped boost, fuel mods, intake, exhaust, etc), and the thridgen owners car obviously wasnt a 305, why did you bring up the whole 305 thing vs a stock Eclipse?

 

i think they were saying they havent seen/heard of a 10 second N/A Honda. while ive never seen a 10 sec turboed Honda, i have seen one go 11.1 before (not to say that 10s cant be done, just i havent personally witnessed it yet). i would say its almost impossible for a N/A 4cyl to make enough power to propel a car to 10 sec E/Ts

 

why did you bring up the whole 305 thing vs a stock Eclipse?

I was pointing out how fast a stock GST really is so if he pulled it by 5 cars or so then it wasn't modded.

 

i dont think you realize how fast a stock 305 isn't

 

It's possible.. but it takes LOTTTTTTSSSS of money.

 

I would say that you should go to an NHRA sponsored race and watch the N/A class.

 

I did a quick google search and found this.

How about high 9's all motor?
http://www.nhrasportcompact.com/apcm...3705&zoneid=11

Here is the main page:
http://www.nhrasportcompact.com/

 

jeeze had i known this was going to start a war about quick improts, i wouldnt have started it.

 

Every thread is a war about imports when they are mentioned, it doesn't matter who posts. Also, no one is even fighting, this is a tame discussion.

I found the national records page:

http://www.nhrasportcompact.com/2005/stats/records.html

 

This is the smartest thing I have read in this entire post.

Tim

 

I can't believe how many posts like this I read in a day.

 

all because people like to just down imports...when they cant just say if they won or lost...instead its a hating on imports that happens, stu defends it cause there are TONS of fast imports

oh ya on this board....import = **** thats how it goes...i cant see why people cant have a civil chat about imports.

I am in no way an "import lover" i just know there are plenty of fast ones out there ive been in plenty of fast ones and watched tons of them...just i like my car a lot more then most.

 

i dont think you realize how fast a stock 305 isn't

I didn't say a stock 305 was fast I said I raced a stock GST with my TPI 305 and who ever got the kick won the race.

unklechuckles19 stated that he beat one by 5 cars so it must not have been modded because a stock GST eclipse only runs as fast as a stock TPI 305.

 

All I can add to this fun is, I Believe GS-T means Turbo, GSX is Turbo and AWD, GS is non turbo etc...


Nice kill!

 

Correct.

Spyder = convertable (for any car)

 

wow, thats some crazy MPH for a N/A 4cyl. is that car still FWD or is it a conversion? (didnt check the site). also, is that on gasoline (like C16) or is this an alcohol or nitro car?

 

Let me be the 41st preson so say congrats on your first kill. I remember my first kill like it was yesterday. I was in my old 86 Fiero and I kicked the crap out of a 84 Camaro with a V8 unfortunately. It sucks to look back on now but it was fun at the time, that Fiero had some bite. Anyway Congrats on the kill and may there be many happy kills in the future.

 

thanks! sounds like you had one heck of a fiero