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You've got to have traction folks


-Josh-
06-09-2008, 08:54 AM
No matter how much power you're bragging about putting down, if you can't hook up people like me in their STi's will eat you alive all day.

(case point)


My boss drives an 02 Cobra, that's been to Anderson Ford for performance upgrades and dyno tuning more times than i can count on my hands. He usually gives me crap ocassionally about being a Subaru owner, and i know his car has more power than mine, which is fine. Well sunday after my old mans car show he puts on, i followed my boss home in the scoob, when we got out of town we finally got a red light with plenty of open road on the highway.

I look over at him and he's got this shit eating grin on his face like "i'm about to wipe the floor with you"... Light turns green and picture this, me putting bus lengths on him while he's spinning and raising all hell with his smokey burnout, by the time he got traction it was all over, there was no hope of him catching me.

What good is bragging about power if you can't put it to the ground and use it right? NONE...

CassiesMan
06-09-2008, 12:52 PM
Ask him if he wants to go from a 60 punch?

-Josh-
06-09-2008, 02:11 PM
That's understood he'd take me from a roll, but i had to turn around and head back into town, next time i get him alone in his car we'll make a few "spirited" runs on the highway. I really do wanna know how i handle against him from a 60 roll.

-Jayson-
06-09-2008, 08:11 PM
lol nice kill and i know exactly what you mean

a friend from my car club recently finished a turbo build on his cobalt LSJ. Want to know what his best run was last time he was at the track?

14.5@115MPH LMAO His car is trapping 115MPH but hes running 14's. That trap should be good for a mid 12 second run...

subieskier
06-09-2008, 09:16 PM
That's understood he'd take me from a roll, but i had to turn around and head back into town, next time i get him alone in his car we'll make a few "spirited" runs on the highway. I really do wanna know how i handle against him from a 60 roll.

Time for a 20g.

jeepgclwj
06-09-2008, 09:43 PM
I heard those 02 Cobras are really, really rare...

-Josh-
06-09-2008, 10:35 PM
I heard those 02 Cobras are really, really rare...


Yeah yeah yeah....01/03 one of those damn years... ok SN95 Cobra mustang

Sleepr awd
06-09-2008, 11:00 PM
a guy on xbox live "MadeinDetroit" for those of you that want to flame him, was bragging about his jeep that put down 600whp and ran 12's. I told him my car could run 10's or better with that much power and the jeep community should be ashamed to be associated with him.

Traction and winning races in that first 1/8 or 1/16 mile of a race determine most of what happens after that. So, he'd have to have gotten some serious traction and put down some serious power to have caught you... Have you talked to him since to find out what his ricer excuse is?

MZR_47
06-10-2008, 12:29 AM
lol nice kill and i know exactly what you mean

a friend from my car club recently finished a turbo build on his cobalt LSJ. Want to know what his best run was last time he was at the track?

14.5@115MPH LMAO His car is trapping 115MPH but hes running 14's. That trap should be good for a mid 12 second run...

thats got to be one of the funniest launches to watch

CassiesMan
06-10-2008, 09:46 AM
14.5@115MPH LMAO His car is trapping 115MPH but hes running 14's. That trap should be good for a mid 12 second run...

I got a video around here somewhere of on FD running a 15.8 at like...12x. I love runs like that.

Sleepr awd
06-10-2008, 08:25 PM
^^ i actually remember that guy, he was pissed!!!

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