actually my car runs high 14s with a cold air intake, pulley set, and fuel pressure regulator. im just telling you how it happened. if your worried about him not being able to drive, talk to the other guy that raced me in the same car that has been racing for years.

 

my friend has a 100 percent stock 305 tpi running 15.4 with no traction. if he could get tracton id say low 15's

 

yeah...i guess aaron7 is just too much of a r*cer to believe that a little old 305 will beat a turboed car.

 

Don't be so quick to jump to conclusions if you don't know what you are talking about.

305 tpi's have dipped into the mid- 14's bone stock depending on options.

Carry on.

 

Don't know what I'm talking about? I've owned 4 3rd gens, two with 305 TPI motors. My friend owns one as well. I also have a somewhat friend with a WRX, and as small as the turbos are on those cars (run out of breath about 5500rpm), they are definately faster than a 220hp (if it's an 88 with a 5 speed, otherwise less) 305.

I've seen enough 15-17 second 3rd gens at the track, trust me. I know there are a few people out there running 13-14 seconds on a LB9, but he said minor bolt ons.

 

my car runs out of breath around 4800, ur point is?

mine is a 91 lb9 230-235 hp

 

Like he already said, if that kid knew how to drive the car at all, you would have had to make up your story.

 

like i already said, two different people drove the car and i beat both of them. my car runs high 14s. wrxs run 14.6 with a professional driver. and if you cant drive your own car then you shouldnt have one.

 

Two different people who couldn't launch the WRX. I like the second sentence. That's like saying that people who can't spell shouldn't talk.

 

you say "the WRX" like its something special. how can you not launch a wrx? i drove his car and it didnt pull much. and your comment about the 2nd sentence thing, go back to kindergarden and learn to count. what i ment by not being about to drive one is, if you cant drive a car you shouldnt race it.

 

I bet you can't launch the WRX either. Learn to count? lol

 

Mazda RX8, straight out of the box, with a 6spd manual is easily a 14.4 second car....easy. And the riced out mods you so eloquently put, could put him in the low 14s. But then again, it was a brash statement and you did not mention what mods he had. I do not expect you to know either.

I guess you forgot the part where aaron7 mentioned he owned four third gen cars, and that he currently owns an MR2. He is definitely a bad person for owning an import....shame shame [/sarcasm]

Those WRX Subarus are about 14.4 second cars as well. And if it was a manual (which I assume it was) its kind of hard to launch on a manual especially with an amateur stick driver. Even the underdog of the WRX which is just simply titled....WRX is a low 14 second car. You said your car is high 14s...ok....high 14s can range anywhere from 14.5-14.9, low 14s....14.0-14.4 Catch the drift? And that second statement is ridiculous. And that second driver could've easily messed up too. Every car is different, the second guy was probably used to driving something else. You have to know the car. You can expect the second driver to be good just because he has been racing for years. Just think, there are teachers around this nation that have been teaching for 20+ years and they are still terrible at it.

The WRX is a special car...and how can you not launch a WRX? Now you're just being silly. Launching a manual based car is not the easiest thing to do in the world. You need to time your take off, you need to determine if the amount of gas you are giving is good enough. You can easily screw up on launching. And turbo based cars are known for not immediately pulling off the line, that's how the majority of them are. You feel the pull as you move along higher RPMs. And what, where, and when was there a mention of counting and not knowing how to.

Good night...

 

launching a wrx: rev into the high rpms, drop clutch, let the all wheel drive do the rest. and we raced from a roll anyway so launching wouldnt be a problem. his turbo was fully spooled too.

and about the rx8, it was an auto.

as i said before, im just telling it how it happened.

 

Racing from a roll (20mph or so) is the best to do, as it rules out driver inexperience and error!

 

Third Gen Street Racing

One Sunday afternoon, while returning from the Redondo Beach Pier, driving my mostly stock CFI DT500 a couple of guy’s in a Mustang GT wanted to go from the dig when the light turned green on PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) and Torrance Blvd. I don’t think so was my reply. So whatever next was said, my next reply was I’ve got my family with me and so, no. So more words come out of the driver’s mouth and my reply was if you want to run, I’ll be at the Denny’s on Artesia Blvd and Aviation Blvd in a half-hour to forty-five. So, we went home and put the DOT Hoosier slicks on my Jeff Blosdale Racing (RIP) built 350-cu 5-speed DT500. So off to Denny’s I go. The passenger was smart enough to know it wasn’t the same car. The driver: “yea right what he went home and changed engines”

The run was north from Manhattan Beach Blvd to the grade school at 135th up Aviation. I took him the whole way and in the grade school lot was my better half with the CFI car and had a great big smile on her face.

As they pulled in the lot, the driver didn’t stop with so much egg on his face and the passenger telling him I told you so.

Bait and switch, so many Mustangs so little time.

Just one of my bait and switch stories but, the most memorable one.

 

Quarter mile times have very little bearing on how a car performs off the line. When it comes to rwd cars like our camaros and firebirds vs. awd cars like the wrx, awd cars have the advantage because they can put the power to the ground equally through all wheels, but only if they have the power to begin with. It doesn't suprise me that "skifur555im666" could beat a wrx in a parking lot race because his 305 puts out more torque sooner in the rpm band than a wrx does at a higher rpm.

 

Ok guys. I think its time to end it.