red96gtconvtbl

You really make me want a new car now. I can barely chirp 2nd if I try. Ahh the downside to being a poor college student. Spank that Supra on the track.

mylongvictor

We'll see..... I can tell the control arms and the struts are locking my street tires better then what they would have.... so with my set of Mickey Thompsons and a high reving starting line dump, I can seriously put it to him.

But you can hear when that thing spools up its turbo. Man I wont forget that sound..... I think I'm gonna have nightmares tonight. My heart is still pounding..... I think I'm slightly traumutized...

mylongvictor

Has anyone driven a Supra or had first hand experience in actually driving one in full throttle and racing.... Whats her pros and cons?

ZW99GT

I have a buddy with a "700" rwhp Automatic Supra. Race tune is for 110 octane and 28PSI. Its freaking nasty. But he "only" runs 6.90's at the track(1/8 mile). Thats slower than my other buddy's 540rwhp 03 Cobra.

But you may imagine what that would look like past the 1/4 mile, or on the highway.

mylongvictor

Yea. They are like a long distance type of racer.... I wonder what the japenese had in mind when the built the car.

ZW99GT

Never been in one personally, but I've seen the car mentiond above smoke the tires on the 2-3 shift in an AUTO.

Pros, insane HP, more than you can imagine
Cons, Lag, and once it hits, its hard to hook up.

JJ03MustangGT

yea i ran one...and wow from a dig my car shined. but from a roll, it wasnt even pretty. the sound of that turbo spooling up was very very intimidating. after we raced he gave a thumbs up and was off into the sunset.

i think 2000GT4.6 has a vid of one and him

mylongvictor

And your also saying that with a SINGLE turbo setup, they are likely to produce more horsepower then with a Twin Turbo setup? How? Like for our cars, Twin Turbo is the way to go with one little turbo to spool up quickly during low rpms and the bigger one to take over at the higher rpm levels....

jpmustanggt

Nice run man. You would be a good story-teller

mylongvictor

I took public speaking twice in college... I figured it would pay off somewhere down the line, even though I got a D in both attempts.[:@]

I still don't know how I managed to D out in Public Speaking but still get an A in Physics.