brother vs brother

hey guys, hows everyone? been a while since i posted a race in here, well, i figure i post this and a lil update on my progress so far. It happened yesterday while i was coming back from work, dude, i've been working like 10 days straight, its been crazy, but today i finally got a day off, whew. Coming back from an exhausting day at work, i'm almost home, about 5 mins away, I spot this mis-matched color car, at first i didn't think any of it because i thought it was just an ordinary car that probably just been in an accident and didn't finish up the paint or whatever, but as i got a lil closer, i noticed that kinda look like celica tail lights! :uhoh: and as i got REAL close, i noticed it was not a celica, but an MR2!!! yes! it was an mk2 mr2, BUT! not only was it de-badged so a toyota enthusiast like myself wouldn't know it's an mr2 :cwm27: but it had unpainted body kit!! oh MY GAWSH! you should've seen this car, it had baby blue side skirts, white bumpers, rust on the trunk! a primered wing! and white air scoupe! BUT WAIT!! it's missing one of them, and it only has one air scoupe on its trunk!(part of an mk2 mr2 body kit) okayy,.....so at this point, i'm really ashamed that this could happen to an mr2 and a toyota owner could do this do a toyota!!!:disappoin, somehow i knew it was not the turboed one, so i slowly pace it and show him i wanna see his car fly down the road, he finally sees me, and takes a U-turn, i slow follow, and right away i come up to his right side and sat there waiting, he looks a me, i look at him, the dude is also asian, maybe a couple years older than me, probably getting to his mid 20s, he was also wearing one of those wireless headset you use with a cellphone, anyways, i rolled down my window with a big grin on my facehttp://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/images/icons/icon10.gif he pulls his car back and forward showing me he's game, i do the same, then i downshifted to 2nd just waiting there for him to make the first move, still he doesn't go for it, okay i guess i'm the guest of honor tonight and i'll make the first move, i wait till he creeps a lil up on my fender, then boom! pedal to the medal! i can hear my car screaming and his car screaming slowly past mine, he shifted a bit earlier than me, i can tell he's a good driver, then i shift to 3rd gear and by the middle of 3rd, he was a good 2 cars in front, some traffic was ahead, so we both shut down going well below the mph to talk, i noticed his windows are down, i do the same, the conversation went like this

me: 5sfe(the name of his engine) or 3sgte(turboed version or the mk2 mr2)
him: what??
me yelling a lil louder: 5sfe or 3sgte?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
him? WHAT?
me at the top of my lungs: 5sfe or 3sgte!!!!!!!!!!!
him: what? i cant hear you (he takes off his wireless headset thinggymagigga)
me: (raising five fingers at him) 5sfe????
him: yeh
me thinking: :screwy:
me again: hey man, fix your car
him: why?
me thinking :screwy:
me again: the rust on the back
him: i'm fixing that right now
me: and paint the color to match
at this point there's a dude in an suv behind me honking at me because i'm going way way slower than the speed limit in order to talk to the mr2 owner, so i hurry up and give the mr2 owner a thumbs up, he nods)

took my U-turn and ended up home! I also had some runs with a couple civics about a month ago or so, but didn't feel like i should post, didn't look pretty happy, both d16z6, and one just left me in the dust at the stop sign but i also let him make the first move since we were at a sign, and the other one i had my 300 lbs friend with me in the passenger, o well

a lil update, things are not going as planned, but here's how she looks as of now, freshly waxed
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/6840/dscf00018bf.jpg
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/518/dscf00534hk.jpg
inside the cockpit

performance
2.25 piping with cf megan racing
obx short shifter, i switched back to the oem knob because the led one sat a lil high and the oem felt a lil better
weapon R short ram intake
hopefully kosei rims by this year

exterior
altezzas
removed emblems
mesh grille
jdm headlights
20% tint all around
eyelids (not installed)
clear signals

interior
pioneer cd player
shift boot
its all good.....

well,.....wish me luck guys!

Nice run. Its always a shame to see nice cars in bad condition:frown:

if that guy should paint his car, you should get some rims. or at least hub caps

if that guy should paint his car, you should get some rims. or at least hub caps

:grinyes:

Man Ricer, it's time to put all that hard earned money into a new car. I'm thinking STi or Toyota MR2 Turbo. Bury the Corolla or sell it to some grandmother :p J/K

Then again the Corolla would make a nice daily driver. Still think you need a faster ride though.

Are rims and a shortshifter really performance mods?

Good kill nonetheless.

^ofcourse mang! they're not only for looks my mang! the car is my only car daily driven for now untill im done with school (2 more yrs) as for the rims, its all about the $$, hopefully i'll get them this year. and as for the mr2, that was the first mr2 i've seen in real life thats been so riced out, ricier than meh! peace out fellas, keep the comments coming!

Are rims and a shortshifter really performance mods?

Good kill nonetheless.
A short shifter can take up to .1 seconds off your 1/4mile (depending on how big a throw the stock one was and especialy cars that need quite a few shifts to finish the 1/4)

Rims help a lot, bigger and wider rims means wider tyres with less flex. Your tyres are the first piece of contact b/w the car and the road, very important to have the right type of rims. Don't forget forged rims, can take some weight off too!

So in short...YES:icon16:

That was a fun read. Good to see poeple actually posting their losses lol. I was beginning to think everyone on here was invincible.

Good kill nonetheless.

:rofl: i cant believe i didnt catch this before :rofl: oh, it wasn't a kill 98stanggt :rofl: u need to go back to reading school mister :nono: keeps the comments coming!

paragraphs are your friends.

A short shifter can take up to .1 seconds off your 1/4mile (depending on how big a throw the stock one was and especialy cars that need quite a few shifts to finish the 1/4)

Rims help a lot, bigger and wider rims means wider tyres with less flex. Your tyres are the first piece of contact b/w the car and the road, very important to have the right type of rims. Don't forget forged rims, can take some weight off too!

So in short...YES:icon16:


I'm willing to bet his rims actually added weight to his car, and they are probably not wide enough to make any form of difference. And if they are taller then he is slowing his car down yet again unless he compensated for it with gearing/power(which I'm sure he didn't).

I guess I consider performance mods to be ones that actually make some from of a difference :rolleyes:

I'm willing to bet his rims actually added weight to his car, and they are probably not wide enough to make any form of difference. And if they are taller then he is slowing his car down yet again unless he compensated for it with gearing/power(which I'm sure he didn't).

I guess I consider performance mods to be ones that actually make some from of a difference :rolleyes:

well he hasn't got his new rims yet, so u don't know.

dont be such a hater 98stanggt :nono: kosei is well known for their lightweight rims + the tires these will weigh a lil less than my steelies, i will be upgrading from the stock 14s' but not by much, it should be all good in the end homefries......keep it real!:thumbsup:

Rice(er), whats the trade in value of your car?

how much are the rims you want to get gonna run you?

your JDM 4-door supra is looking maddtight B! keep it real. :smokin:

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me again: hey man, fix your car


I would have told you the saaaame thing!


A short shifter can take up to .1 seconds off your 1/4mile (depending on how big a throw the stock one was and especialy cars that need quite a few shifts to finish the 1/4)


:cwm27:

fiz ur car mang....lol...i woulda said the same time. i said to some hispanics that were 'subin' with like 300watts tops and said if u turn it up louder, it'll shake more...they got mad and turned it up too loud. i havent had a race in awhile thats worth posting. if u wanna say me being killed by a turbo tsi was a great race to post and im in auto, i think not... i cant believe im saying this, but make sure the outisde of your car's appearance overal is pretty nice b4 any performance or sound. otherwise its like puttin your money into a junk yard. so far it sounds like no 'new' well different car for me till im 18...damn parents are on my nerves on that one...

:cwm27:



You got something to back up your arrogance buddy?

To tell you the truth, my statement about the short-shifter was so vague only an idiot would try to dispute it. :wink:

You got something to back up your arrogance buddy?

To tell you the truth, my statement about the short-shifter was so vague only an idiot would try to dispute it. :wink:


Do you have something to back up your statement? and something not from a short shifter manufacturer?

Do you have something to back up your statement? and something not from a short shifter manufacturer?

Just think about it logically. The shorter the distance u have to go from gear to gear, the quicker u can get back on the gas. And I said up to .1 - this could be 0.002s!

The point is, it is well known that a short throw shifter will decrease the time between shifts. If all else is equal, logically, it will make ur times faster. not by much, but it does something.

sure it does minimal,but saying it does nothing is not true.

But really, if you're going to dispute a claim like "up to 0.1s"...then yuo're overly pedantic and irritable.

rice(er), is your car red or orange? Everytime you post a picture it's a different shade, so I can't really tell.

its toyota red, more like this pix
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/6840/dscf00018bf.jpg

the one in my sig was taken with a low quality digi cam, so the color is a bit off, ok its way off,......

Just think about it logically. The shorter the distance u have to go from gear to gear, the quicker u can get back on the gas. And I said up to .1 - this could be 0.002s!

The point is, it is well known that a short throw shifter will decrease the time between shifts. If all else is equal, logically, it will make ur times faster. not by much, but it does something.

sure it does minimal,but saying it does nothing is not true.

But really, if you're going to dispute a claim like "up to 0.1s"...then yuo're overly pedantic and irritable.

if your going to make a claim like "up to 0.1s" then how does that make you any better? I could lose 0.01 off my time by going to the bathroom.

Maybe your statement might be true for someone who cannot drive, I would not say it will make times faster because simply its not going to, theres too much human error, you run a different time each time anyway a short shifter is not gonna make a noticeable difference at all. It does do something it feels different maybe "cool" to some.

In the end I really dont care I just saw an opportunity to question someones belief. :evillol:

fiz ur car mang....lol...i woulda said the same time. i said to some hispanics that were 'subin' with like 300watts tops and said if u turn it up louder, it'll shake more...they got mad and turned it up too loud. i havent had a race in awhile thats worth posting. if u wanna say me being killed by a turbo tsi was a great race to post and im in auto, i think not... i cant believe im saying this, but make sure the outisde of your car's appearance overal is pretty nice b4 any performance or sound. otherwise its like puttin your money into a junk yard. so far it sounds like no 'new' well different car for me till im 18...damn parents are on my nerves on that one...

I'm in love with a sleeper. My moto has always been all go and no show, although I have lost site a few times along the way.
Doesn't rust cut weight off too?:cwm27:

Anyways, rice(er) I'm not really a big yota fan but I can pick out even the most riced out mr2's, just to laugh at of course. Nice death/ ricer kill though.

if your going to make a claim like "up to 0.1s" then how does that make you any better? I could lose 0.01 off my time by going to the bathroom.

Maybe your statement might be true for someone who cannot drive, I would not say it will make times faster because simply its not going to, theres too much human error, you run a different time each time anyway a short shifter is not gonna make a noticeable difference at all. It does do something it feels different maybe "cool" to some.

In the end I really dont care I just saw an opportunity to question someones belief. :evillol:

I know, hahah, you always do that.

However, I still don't think it's right to say a short shifter does not help AT ALL.

Stop being a bitch to me or i'll go and cry.:frown:

And it's a well known fact that going to the bathroom is a proven method of weight reduction whilst racing. Especially if you just had some burritos and the gas is building up.