alright......the story is i have a 1996 chevy cavalier and completely stock right now except system.......and i followed this about a 1985-8 mustang(his car didnt look to hot except the cowl induction hood) till we got to a red light and i pulled over and got in the other lane beside him and we both looked each other and we noded and then i noticed the GT on his car.....i looked to my passenger and said shit its a gt.....well we took off i had a good launch......he didnt so i got about a car length on him and stayed the same till about 85-90 and all the sudden i couldnt hear anything from where his blower kicked in and he blows by me like i was goin in reverse so i just shut down there and i saw him about a mile down the road in a turnin lane i slowed down and passed him and gave him a thumbs up and honked he did the same back to me.....but it wasnt a bad lose b/c i am stock

not bad...but a blower takes that long to kick in?? i dont kno much about them...i just think it'd be like VTEC or somethin and kick in at high RPMs or somethin...but i'm clueless when it comes to blowers...

Blowers don't kick in late, the power is usually instantaneous. Even with a centrifugal blower (belt-driven turbo), the power comes on quickly. Chances are , however, that with a large cowl hood, his blower sat on top of his intake manifold, ruling out the centrifugal option. My guess is the reason of the delay was that he sat at the light spinning the tires while you took off. Once his street tires hooked, he took off.

either that or he was letting you get ahead so that he could blow by you.

either that or he was letting you get ahead so that he could blow by you.

i second

thats what i thought...i wasn't sure tho...i didn't think it was after a certain speed or something...

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i think he has seen the mr. clean car wash commericial too many times where automotive technology catches up to car technology

lol apparently...

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one of these days im gonna get me some of those dam smiley things and then we'll see

i see so many stock mustangs where i live that have HUGE 5" cowl hoods and monster friggin' tires in the back. Flowmaster mufflers and that's about it. They sometimes try to f*ck with me but since we all grew up in this neighborhood they know who i am and what i have done to my car. :) but sometimes.......only sometimes they try it. i don't really like them, they're just a bunch of cowboys who think that with a big hood and tires they have all-out dragsters.

i see so many stock mustangs where i live that have HUGE 5" cowl hoods and monster friggin' tires in the back. Flowmaster mufflers and that's about it. They sometimes try to f*ck with me but since we all grew up in this neighborhood they know who i am and what i have done to my car. :) but sometimes.......only sometimes they try it. i don't really like them, they're just a bunch of cowboys who think that with a big hood and tires they have all-out dragsters.

I've seen 'em.

Even saw one run at Speedworld, with a primered cowl, with the rest white, and it ran - get this - 15.1.

Think one of them will run my Sentra? http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/images/smilies/evil_lol.gif

I chased down a 5.0 with a cage and slicks at the track.... with pump gas,no cage and no slicks. I beat him by 9 thens of a second

one of these days im gonna get me some of those dam smiley things and then we'll see

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I've seen 'em.

Even saw one run at Speedworld, with a primered cowl, with the rest white, and it ran - get this - 15.1.

Think one of them will run my Sentra? http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/images/smilies/evil_lol.gif

that's fuk'n lame 15.1? omg what a disgrace to stangs everywhere. Heck yeah it'd be funny as friggin' hell to watch you whoop up on one of them hehehe. :iceslolan

I get it more from fellow Mustang owners then anybody else. Your right! A huge cowl hood and flowmasters doesn't do anything.

Yeah i've seen mustangs like that where I live they will try to race anything that moves and most of the them get schooled :rofl:

either that or he was letting you get ahead so that he could blow by you.


im pretty sure thas what he did b/c he didnt take off to good

i think he has seen the mr. clean car wash commericial too many times where automotive technology catches up to car technology

umm havent seen that commericial sorry.....i have tivo i FF through commericials

PM me dude and i'll give you a crash course in Forced Induction and explain to you why you sound ignorant in your first post.

this was my first acutal race.....other than like a 1989 honda accord that was stock i killed it

im with josh, please educate him

yeah like someone said i think he let u take off or he didnt floor it then all of a sudden he just slammed it down and flew by u.

either that or he was letting you get ahead so that he could blow by you.
:1: No blower just "kicks in" at 85mph. I he left you like you were standing still then he was playing with you.

It's been taken care of.

In that commercial I no the white car with the blower or w.e. on it is a 69 charger, but what's the other car... a mclaren f1???

Pagani Zonda foo! :uhoh:

Hah, j/p. I doubt his blower kicked in at 85.....he HAD to have been messing with you.

In regards to being a blown car, centrifugal blowers generally build boost slower (linear boost curve) compared to a roots blown motor, which is full boost off-idle. I doubt his blower only "kicked" in later. It also could be the fact he was running a huge cam and there was a serious loss of low-end torque. And, he certainly could have been madly pedaling to finally hook up the measly street tires. You can never really know.
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Or he was just playing with him.

maybe nitrous if it took that long to respond...otherwise he might've been playing with ya...

or maybe people can stop saying "he was just playin with ya" over and over and over and over and over and over aigan... For thoes who dont know much about FI go to Cars in General > Forced Induction and read how turbos owrk etc etc etc...