CRX turbo vs Lightning

[98StangGT]

So I'm driving my down a pretty long in-town highway just kinda spacing out, enjoying the scenery. When all of the sudden I look to my right and see a black Ford Lightning instigating a race. He gives it a very loud and powerful rev from his 5.4 liters of supercharged mayhem, I follow suit with a rev from my 1.8 liters of fuel economy goodness. So we both check for cops/other traffic and get ready for a race. He gives the honks and we both take off from out 50 mph roll. I downshift to 2nd then pretty much instantly to 3rd. He is gaining on me a tiny bit. At about 100mph he's got about a car and a half on me, we finally slow it down. I tell him to follow me, he knods. He follows me into a k-mart parking lot, and we both get out of our cars and have a little chit-chat about our cars. I ask him if he wants to go again. He agrees. I then open the hatch on my pocket-rocket and do something I hadn't done before the previous race, which was to crack open the bottle of n20 for my little motor to sip on. I look back at him, and notice a look of concern on his face.

So time for race number two. This time I would really like to see how it plays out from a dig. We are both driving around for a while and find ourselves a nice little red light. I give it a little purge and wait for that light to set my little sub-ton honda free. As it turns green we are both off. I am a little faster off the line and grab a half a car right away, as I notice his obvious traction issues. By the time I reach 80 I have about 5 cars on him, with no sign of him gaining. I give him the thumbs up,slow down, and turn off to go home.

[209 SRT]

Originally Posted by 98StangGT

So I'm driving my down a pretty long in-town highway just kinda spacing out, enjoying the scenery. When all of the sudden I look to my right and see a black Ford Lightning instigating a race. He gives it a very loud and powerful rev from his 5.4 liters of supercharged mayhem, I follow suit with a rev from my 1.8 liters of fuel economy goodness. So we both check for cops/other traffic and get ready for a race. He gives the honks and we both take off from out 50 mph roll. I downshift to 2nd then pretty much instantly to 3rd. He is gaining on me a tiny bit. At about 100mph he's got about a car and a half on me, we finally slow it down. I tell him to follow me, he knods. He follows me into a k-mart parking lot, and we both get out of our cars and have a little chit-chat about our cars. I ask him if he wants to go again. He agrees. I then open the hatch on my pocket-rocket and do something I hadn't done before the previous race, which was to crack open the bottle of n20 for my little motor to sip on. I look back at him, and notice a look of concern on his face.

So time for race number two. This time I would really like to see how it plays out from a dig. We are both driving around for a while and find ourselves a nice little red light. I give it a little purge and wait for that light to set my little sub-ton honda free. As it turns green we are both off. I am a little faster off the line and grab a half a car right away, as I notice his obvious traction issues. By the time I reach 80 I have about 5 cars on him, with no sign of him gaining. I give him the thumbs up,slow down, and turn off to go home.

How much are you sqeezing cause thats a big difference....and I assume your running a low compression b18b set up for turbo and nitrous.........

heres a vid of a srt vs modded lightning
srt (stock)
lightning 6# lower pulley, exhaust, CAI, and predator tuner

http://www.gtphorsepower.com/ford/srtvL.wmv

[TatII]

that lightning was pretty slow for all the work thats been done to it. it barely walked a bone stock SRT 4.

[209 SRT]

seems that way but Im just comparing his run with the srt and lightning.....

[rice(er)]

i wondered if it had anything to do with the fact that it weighs like 5000 lbs

[209 SRT]

the power makes up for its weight.......

[TatII]

not to mention that stock for stock, the lightning is suppose to be alittle faster then the SRT4.

[209 SRT]

supposed too.........

[Sleepr awd]

you saw the concern on his face....


hahahaha, dude you need a remote opener for that stuff, so next time he won't even see it coming!!!!!!!!!!

good kill, i'm assuming the lightning guy wasn't a total dick to you like other members have had problems w/ lightning dicks in the past?

[98StangGT]

Remote opener isnt really necessary for my CRX as the bottle is mounted well within arms-length, though it requires me to kind of take my eyes off the road. And no he wasn't really a dick. He was an older guy who didnt seem to like imports that much, judging from our little conversation.

And for those that were wondering, his mods consisted of: k&n intake, some type of cat-back exhaust, and some type of handheld tuner.

[Sleepr awd]

oh... well why didn't you just leave it a surprise and wait til you were in the car...? nvm it really doesn't matter, but i'm still curious as to why you would make it all so obvious to him he was about to get bent over and raped

[209 SRT]

Originally Posted by 98StangGT

Remote opener isnt really necessary for my CRX as the bottle is mounted well within arms-length

why would you open the hatch and open the bottle if its right next to you............

[98StangGT]

Well I kinda wanted to see what his reaction would be, therefor I wanted to open it in front of him.

[Elk]

I still don’t under stand the appeal of a high-power 2WD pickup, 4x4 shore that I can understand that, but other then burnouts what’s a high-power 2WD pickup good for?

[Slowprocess]

Originally Posted by Elk

I still don’t under stand the appeal of a high-power 2WD pickup, 4x4 shore that I can understand that, but other then burnouts what’s a high-power 2WD pickup good for?

Bet me some money, line up your caprice, and find out the hard way.