Little fun with WRX
TypeS
10-07-2004, 08:40 AM
This happened about an hour ago on my way to work. This Yellow WRX (227 hp non STi) was weaving through traffic for about 10 miles and then got stock behind a big truck. So even though he put so much work into passing people every second, in the end, he ended up behind me. I LOVE THAT! I hate it when people don't wanna stay in one lane but wanna cut everyone else off just to get ahead. Wait your turn biatch, we all wanna get to work.
Well anyway, after about 10 miles I got a redlight with him. I looked over but he didn't look back at me so I didn't think much of it. Well the light turns green and I slowly ease into the throttle and at about 10 mph I hear him gun it. He's about a car length ahead of me when I gun it too. Still in first, I have to ease of my throttle because the tires are chirping and once I got traction I again gun it . I slowly start creeping up, put it in second between 35 and 40 mph and my tires start chirping so he pulls ahead a little again. Well, half way through second, I caught up again. Now, you guys have to picture this, there is usually a lot of traffic on this street, so it was stupid to race in first place. The only reason I did it is because we got a red light and there wasn't ANYONE in front of us until the next light. Also, I wasn't even watching my RPMS so I was shifting probably 500 rpms below redline and out of Vtec each time. On top of all this, while racing, I was looking in my rear view mirror for cops. It wasn't optimal and I know that if I ever see him again and I know there is noone there, I can deffinitely take him. Well as I evened it out at about 65 mph in 2nd, I put it in 5th and start slowing down because we were too close to the next red light to keep going and who knows where there might have been police on that street.
Well, like I said, I put it in 5th and slow down, and this guy keeps on going, gets about 2 carlengths on me, puts his hazards on goes into the left turn lane. Of course now I'm pissed because I would have deffinitely taken him in end of 2nd beginning of 3rd if I wanted to drive like an idiot and start stopping 100 feet from the red light and endangering everyone else instead of slowly slowing down. This is the type of guy that you see on the news who dies while street racing. I was pissed because I could have gotten in front of him if I had put it in 3rd instead of 5th. I was gonna drive by him and shake my head and tell him that I started slowing down way before him, but he gave me thumbs up, so I did the same thing and went on my way to work. He looked abuot 20-25 years old. If he would have kept on going straight, we would have gotten another red light and this time since I knew he wanted to race, he wouldn't have gotten such a jump on me, even though he is AWD. Just to put things in perspective, a month ago I raced the same model WRX on the highway from a 70 mph roll and I put two and a half cars on him by 110.
Well anyway, after about 10 miles I got a redlight with him. I looked over but he didn't look back at me so I didn't think much of it. Well the light turns green and I slowly ease into the throttle and at about 10 mph I hear him gun it. He's about a car length ahead of me when I gun it too. Still in first, I have to ease of my throttle because the tires are chirping and once I got traction I again gun it . I slowly start creeping up, put it in second between 35 and 40 mph and my tires start chirping so he pulls ahead a little again. Well, half way through second, I caught up again. Now, you guys have to picture this, there is usually a lot of traffic on this street, so it was stupid to race in first place. The only reason I did it is because we got a red light and there wasn't ANYONE in front of us until the next light. Also, I wasn't even watching my RPMS so I was shifting probably 500 rpms below redline and out of Vtec each time. On top of all this, while racing, I was looking in my rear view mirror for cops. It wasn't optimal and I know that if I ever see him again and I know there is noone there, I can deffinitely take him. Well as I evened it out at about 65 mph in 2nd, I put it in 5th and start slowing down because we were too close to the next red light to keep going and who knows where there might have been police on that street.
Well, like I said, I put it in 5th and slow down, and this guy keeps on going, gets about 2 carlengths on me, puts his hazards on goes into the left turn lane. Of course now I'm pissed because I would have deffinitely taken him in end of 2nd beginning of 3rd if I wanted to drive like an idiot and start stopping 100 feet from the red light and endangering everyone else instead of slowly slowing down. This is the type of guy that you see on the news who dies while street racing. I was pissed because I could have gotten in front of him if I had put it in 3rd instead of 5th. I was gonna drive by him and shake my head and tell him that I started slowing down way before him, but he gave me thumbs up, so I did the same thing and went on my way to work. He looked abuot 20-25 years old. If he would have kept on going straight, we would have gotten another red light and this time since I knew he wanted to race, he wouldn't have gotten such a jump on me, even though he is AWD. Just to put things in perspective, a month ago I raced the same model WRX on the highway from a 70 mph roll and I put two and a half cars on him by 110.
TypeS
10-07-2004, 08:43 AM
Oh, and I really need to upgrade the tires. Even though there is about 80% thread left, the car has serious traction issues.
10sec-Hopeful
10-07-2004, 10:16 AM
Good deal, I hate drivers like that. If he would've turned his hazards on with me, I wouldn't have even looked at him. What an assbag.
VetteThug
10-07-2004, 05:16 PM
what a punk....at least he didn't act like a total asshole and not even give a thumbs up....let's just home you see him again...then he'll see what's really up...good story
TypeS
10-07-2004, 05:20 PM
Yeah I was SERIOUSLY pissed. I know I could have deffinitely taken him if I didn't want to risk lives and if there was more room, but I slowed down and he just kept on going. I was seriously shocked :eek7: when I saw his hazards, as if he didn't see me catch up before slowing down. He was a car and a half ahead at the start and by 65 it was dead even. End of 2nd was already good enough to beat him but in third I would have deffinitely put a few cars on him, judging by the way i was catching up.
Fully_Sick
10-07-2004, 07:28 PM
Sorry but is your car turbocharged or something because, I have a hard time believing a FWD Honda(if it is a FWD honda) can take 2l Turbo...
carrrnuttt
10-07-2004, 07:33 PM
Sorry but is your car turbocharged or something because, I have a hard time believing a FWD Honda(if it is a FWD honda) can take 2l Turbo...
From a roll, FWD is more of an advantage than AWD. Also his Type S had about 260HP when it was stock...
Hint: it's a Honda, but it's not. ;)
From a roll, FWD is more of an advantage than AWD. Also his Type S had about 260HP when it was stock...
Hint: it's a Honda, but it's not. ;)
HighRev87
10-07-2004, 07:48 PM
Hint: it's a Honda, but it's not. ;)
Is this due to the fact that it comes with power? lol.
Yea FWD is better from a roll then AWD, but i still hate fwd. RWD and AWD top my list.
Is this due to the fact that it comes with power? lol.
Yea FWD is better from a roll then AWD, but i still hate fwd. RWD and AWD top my list.
drftk1d
10-07-2004, 07:54 PM
no its acura (honda but not get it?) cl -s (right? do i get points for being right? do i get points for it being my birthday?)
CivRacer95
10-07-2004, 08:12 PM
[QUOTE=TypeS]This happened about an hour ago on my way to work. This Yellow WRX (227 hp non STi) QUOTE]
He could have easily taken him, had he known that the WRX wanted to race. Too bad, but another day, another time. It wasn't a turbo. So he could have taken him.
He could have easily taken him, had he known that the WRX wanted to race. Too bad, but another day, another time. It wasn't a turbo. So he could have taken him.
drftk1d
10-07-2004, 08:21 PM
since when was a wrx not turbo (impreza rs = nonturbo).?
HighRev87
10-07-2004, 08:23 PM
Yea both the STI and WRX are turbo's impreza = n/a.
And I knew he was refering to acura (honda but not), I was just adding some bad humor.
And I knew he was refering to acura (honda but not), I was just adding some bad humor.
drftk1d
10-07-2004, 08:33 PM
Oh. I hate internet sarcasm.
HighRev87
10-07-2004, 08:41 PM
And I love you too :)
TypeS
10-07-2004, 08:44 PM
Sorry but is your car turbocharged or something because, I have a hard time believing a FWD Honda(if it is a FWD honda) can take 2l Turbo...
Either:
A. You don't know what car I drive
or
B. You don't know the stats of my car
Stock for stock, the WRX Impreza (227 hp) runs about the same 1/4 mile as a stock CLS, but I have about 40 more hp at the crank in mods and the WRX traps about 5-10 mph below the CLS. (dynoed by a guy with the exact same mods as me)
Like I said, just last month I beat a WRX by two car lengths from a roll. An sti would be more of a matchup from a roll because their trap speed is a lot closer to mine than the imprezas. Of course the sti would kill me from a stop.
If it my car was turbocharged, it would have about this much hp on just 7 psi and stock internals. This is a guy from the Acura board that I visit.
http://photos.imageevent.com/shawnsef/miscstuff/Turbo%2001.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/shawnsef/miscstuff/Turbo%2002.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/shawnsef/miscstuff/Turbo%2003.jpg
Either:
A. You don't know what car I drive
or
B. You don't know the stats of my car
Stock for stock, the WRX Impreza (227 hp) runs about the same 1/4 mile as a stock CLS, but I have about 40 more hp at the crank in mods and the WRX traps about 5-10 mph below the CLS. (dynoed by a guy with the exact same mods as me)
Like I said, just last month I beat a WRX by two car lengths from a roll. An sti would be more of a matchup from a roll because their trap speed is a lot closer to mine than the imprezas. Of course the sti would kill me from a stop.
If it my car was turbocharged, it would have about this much hp on just 7 psi and stock internals. This is a guy from the Acura board that I visit.
http://photos.imageevent.com/shawnsef/miscstuff/Turbo%2001.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/shawnsef/miscstuff/Turbo%2002.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/shawnsef/miscstuff/Turbo%2003.jpg
VetteThug
10-07-2004, 09:03 PM
damn that guy isn't playing around...acuras are nice clean cut cars...much like bmw's they're exterior is simple...no crazy fender flares like a new mazda rx-8....
HighRev87
10-07-2004, 09:28 PM
ike bmw's they're exterior is simple...no crazy fender flares
But who doesnt thing the Z3, Z8, and M3 fenders dont say enough?
But who doesnt thing the Z3, Z8, and M3 fenders dont say enough?
TypeS
10-07-2004, 09:32 PM
Actually there is a video of the guy above running against a stock 260 hp CL type S with just an intake and the passanger.
You have to "save target as" to watch it. And no, he doesn't have a rice muffler, he just didn't run with an exhaust. His best kill so far was a new 360 Modena.
http://www.flwse.com/images/steve/Ramanan/Turbo_vs_Stock.mpg
You have to "save target as" to watch it. And no, he doesn't have a rice muffler, he just didn't run with an exhaust. His best kill so far was a new 360 Modena.
http://www.flwse.com/images/steve/Ramanan/Turbo_vs_Stock.mpg
Boosted1
10-08-2004, 06:54 AM
Good race man, the two would be close in the 1/4, but from a highway roll you would definitely take it.
Fully_Sick
10-09-2004, 10:41 AM
Hmmmm interesting, I have never heard of this car before, and it sounds pretty impressive. Too bad there is none here in Aus, I'd love to line up against one..
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