Has anybody ever had a good race with a 4-cylinder car?
01-08-2005, 06:11 AM
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RE: Has anybody ever had a good race with a 4-cylinder car?
Well, I don't mind at all losing to other V8's, I know I have an auto and I know even with a T-5 I'm never going to be THE fastest car out there, but losing to a ricer is another thing. I want to know, if I'm running mid-15's, will that beat most ricers that go out to the track? I have no clue what they run, although I have heard of ricers with over $10k under the hood and still do best times of mid 14's, which isn't so great considering the work they put into it...
01-08-2005, 09:28 AM
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RE: Has anybody ever had a good race with a 4-cylinder car?
What's it matter if you get spanked by the 'ricers' at the track man...
Hell, I bet there will be 11-12 second AWD 4 bangers at your track, they won't care if your Stang runs 14's or 15's.
Hell, I bet there will be 11-12 second AWD 4 bangers at your track, they won't care if your Stang runs 14's or 15's.
01-08-2005, 05:29 PM
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RE: Has anybody ever had a good race with a 4-cylinder car?
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Has anybody ever had a good race with a 4-cylinder car in their 5.0?
Like a Honda or something of that sort.......
I did...It was a Del Sol with a Type-R Integra motor swap. He launched hard right off the line and got me by like half a car(about the length of my hood) and then about half way through third I was about to pass him but then we had to shut down.
Has anybody ever had a good race with a 4-cylinder car in their 5.0?
Like a Honda or something of that sort.......
I did...It was a Del Sol with a Type-R Integra motor swap. He launched hard right off the line and got me by like half a car(about the length of my hood) and then about half way through third I was about to pass him but then we had to shut down.
01-08-2005, 11:06 PM
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RE: Has anybody ever had a good race with a 4-cylinder car?
Its hard to believe some of you guys saying that you havnt had close races with any 4 bangers when you only have a few mods. i own a probe gt and run 14.9s with it and can hold its own against a lot of stangs ive raced, sure its a v6 probe, but hey its still fwd.
Here are 2 mustangs that cant say a compact car doesnt hang with them
RIGHT CLICK AND SAVE AS!
http://slowmonte.cryptnix.com/videos...TS5.0stang.mpg
http://slowmonte.cryptnix.com/videos...ustang14.9.mpg
Oh ya, and ive had a 4 banger stay right with me, it was an evo 8 that i raced from about a 40mph roll, i started to pull a little after i hit 3rd, if we went from a stop i would have seen all tail lights. My buddy with a 96 stang gt (sure its a 4.6) lost to a crx with a motor swap.
Here are 2 mustangs that cant say a compact car doesnt hang with them
RIGHT CLICK AND SAVE AS!
http://slowmonte.cryptnix.com/videos...TS5.0stang.mpg
http://slowmonte.cryptnix.com/videos...ustang14.9.mpg
Oh ya, and ive had a 4 banger stay right with me, it was an evo 8 that i raced from about a 40mph roll, i started to pull a little after i hit 3rd, if we went from a stop i would have seen all tail lights. My buddy with a 96 stang gt (sure its a 4.6) lost to a crx with a motor swap.
01-09-2005, 01:34 AM
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RE: Has anybody ever had a good race with a 4-cylinder car?
With all of my mods done now I've only had 3 cars come close to me so far. 1 of them beat me which was an '02 TA with $3.5k under hood. One was an '03 mustang GT vert with full exhaust, which was a 1/8th mile race he was 3 cars behind me. The last was a turbocharged Honda Prelude, we took off from a 30mph roll he took off first then I a split second after him, so it was pretty much taking off the same time. It was about 1/4th mile race he was about 3 cars back. Pretty impressive. I gave him the thumbs up & we went our separate ways. I've raced 1 PGT which was my friend, he didn't come anywhere close, but this was when I had most of the things done to my car. I love PGT's, one of the best handling cars out there IMO. Which could be why I own 2 of them 
BTW JDP, wanna buy any parts? I have a 93PGT i'm parting out.
BTW JDP, wanna buy any parts? I have a 93PGT i'm parting out.
01-09-2005, 06:13 AM
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RE: Has anybody ever had a good race with a 4-cylinder car?
Yeah, but rice cars can be $10,000 cheaper to buy in the first place matching year to year.