Sad, sad, sad day....
02-22-2006, 10:39 AM
#1
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Sad, sad, sad day.... I killed a Mini Cooper S from a dig.
We went from a stoplight. He revved, spun his front tires off the line, and lunged forward. I watched him put a car or two on me, then I got on it after rolling off the line (I did not do an AWD high rev launch).
So, 1st gear to redline.. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, 2nd gear waaaaaaaaaaaa, I'm at his door, 3rd gear I put a car on him and shut down.
This was the longest dig race to 65mph I've ever done. Passing him, I felt like I could have read the front page of the newspaper, had coffee and brushed my teeth.
Slow cars (including my own) should not be allowed to drag race. Hehehehe.
BTW, I'm in a Saabaru 9-2x Aero (WRX Wagon) for those who don't know.
On the bright side, this thing brakes and handles incredibly, and I'm tracking it on roadcourses these days, as I've applied my racing fix to sanctioned roadcourse lapping events. A future roadcourse oriented LS1 F-bod car is still in the works for me.
We went from a stoplight. He revved, spun his front tires off the line, and lunged forward. I watched him put a car or two on me, then I got on it after rolling off the line (I did not do an AWD high rev launch).
So, 1st gear to redline.. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, 2nd gear waaaaaaaaaaaa, I'm at his door, 3rd gear I put a car on him and shut down.
This was the longest dig race to 65mph I've ever done. Passing him, I felt like I could have read the front page of the newspaper, had coffee and brushed my teeth.
Slow cars (including my own) should not be allowed to drag race. Hehehehe.
BTW, I'm in a Saabaru 9-2x Aero (WRX Wagon) for those who don't know.
On the bright side, this thing brakes and handles incredibly, and I'm tracking it on roadcourses these days, as I've applied my racing fix to sanctioned roadcourse lapping events. A future roadcourse oriented LS1 F-bod car is still in the works for me.
02-22-2006, 11:05 AM
#3
I see these same two guys race near my house every week in civics and you hear them from so far away, like the ice cream man that you actually have time to go watch them. It may be kinda fun to have pretty evenly matched cars runing neck and neck all the time. Nice kill though. 
02-22-2006, 11:14 AM
#5
Good Kill, I hate Mini-poopers! Dealer tried to sell me one when I was looking for a winter car and I looked at him and was like "are you on crack, im 6'8 250 pounds..." They handle unbelieveably well but man I cant get past the fact that they look like clown cars.
02-22-2006, 11:45 AM
#6
Originally Posted by 98Z28MASS
Good Kill, I hate Mini-poopers! Dealer tried to sell me one when I was looking for a winter car and I looked at him and was like "are you on crack, im 6'8 250 pounds..." They handle unbelieveably well but man I cant get past the fact that they look like clown cars.
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02-22-2006, 11:56 AM
#8
Originally Posted by Stanger88
Haha, ya know, i bet it would be fun to race 17-18 second cars if evenly matched, it would be ALL DRIVER
02-22-2006, 12:12 PM
#10
Originally Posted by JayplaySS2
Thats funny. I can see your head, shoulders and knees sticking out of the sun roof. Look at it this way, its an easy car to dry off, just lay the shami over the whole car.
Hahaha yea literally thats what it would have been like for me. I obviously never even considered looking at the car but the guy at the dealership kept insisting that it had more room than it looked so to shut him up I sat in it with my knees crammed into the steering wheel and my head pretty much touching the roof...thats true though, it would be easy to dry with a shammi, or I could just hang it out on my clothes line. Plus id be able to whoop on all the kids with powerwheels in my neighborhood!
02-22-2006, 12:19 PM
#11
Originally Posted by 98Z28MASS
Hahaha yea literally thats what it would have been like for me. I obviously never even considered looking at the car but the guy at the dealership kept insisting that it had more room than it looked so to shut him up I sat in it with my knees crammed into the steering wheel and my head pretty much touching the roof...thats true though, it would be easy to dry with a shammi, or I could just hang it out on my clothes line. Plus id be able to whoop on all the kids with powerwheels in my neighborhood!
You should have taken it on a test drive, I hear you click the overdrive button and pedals pop down from the driver side dashboard!
02-22-2006, 07:02 PM
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The mags have the Mini S at high 15's @ high 80'smph. They have my car at mid 14's @ mid 90's mph.
For whatever mag racing's worth, those times seem to hold true to the events that occurred.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA........ ..
For whatever mag racing's worth, those times seem to hold true to the events that occurred.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA........ ..
02-23-2006, 05:40 AM
#14
lol, When I was in highschool a buddy and I had the same car...84 Renault Alliances. These things made Civics seem like 10sec cars. We would race them against each other everywhere. We where "racing" over a causeway doing about 75 (LMFAO) and where holding up traffic.
haha, just kiddin', nice kill 
02-23-2006, 11:54 AM
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Originally Posted by TARZAN
IS your car turbo'd? Sorry for my lack of knowledge...
But Nice kill, its always fun, no matter what you drive!
-Will
But Nice kill, its always fun, no matter what you drive!
-Will
Thanks!
02-24-2006, 09:09 PM
#18
Wow SouthFL.02.SS - what a nice kill. Finally got the parts to make my litle Firehawk a bad boy like your former SS. Figuring once I get the kinks worked out, I should be at the 465 rwhp on motor. Just for giggles I ran against a Dodge Truck. His sounded like it was mod'd and he did rev when he went by. His was louder than mine. We finally hit a light. I let him have about 2 lengths and then I hit it. About ripped the tires off, and spun a good while. Hooked and went by him doing about 85. My car has serious valve train issues. I didn't replace the lifters and I have a huge vacuum leak ( I learned today ). Looks like I am replacing Intake gaskets tomorrow and then lifters next weekend.
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Originally Posted by SouthFL.02.SS
I killed a Mini Cooper S from a dig.
We went from a stoplight. He revved, spun his front tires off the line, and lunged forward. I watched him put a car or two on me, then I got on it after rolling off the line (I did not do an AWD high rev launch).
So, 1st gear to redline.. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, 2nd gear waaaaaaaaaaaa, I'm at his door, 3rd gear I put a car on him and shut down.
This was the longest dig race to 65mph I've ever done. Passing him, I felt like I could have read the front page of the newspaper, had coffee and brushed my teeth.
Slow cars (including my own) should not be allowed to drag race. Hehehehe.
BTW, I'm in a Saabaru 9-2x Aero (WRX Wagon) for those who don't know.
On the bright side, this thing brakes and handles incredibly, and I'm tracking it on roadcourses these days, as I've applied my racing fix to sanctioned roadcourse lapping events. A future roadcourse oriented LS1 F-bod car is still in the works for me.
We went from a stoplight. He revved, spun his front tires off the line, and lunged forward. I watched him put a car or two on me, then I got on it after rolling off the line (I did not do an AWD high rev launch).
So, 1st gear to redline.. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, 2nd gear waaaaaaaaaaaa, I'm at his door, 3rd gear I put a car on him and shut down.
This was the longest dig race to 65mph I've ever done. Passing him, I felt like I could have read the front page of the newspaper, had coffee and brushed my teeth.
Slow cars (including my own) should not be allowed to drag race. Hehehehe.
BTW, I'm in a Saabaru 9-2x Aero (WRX Wagon) for those who don't know.
On the bright side, this thing brakes and handles incredibly, and I'm tracking it on roadcourses these days, as I've applied my racing fix to sanctioned roadcourse lapping events. A future roadcourse oriented LS1 F-bod car is still in the works for me.
02-24-2006, 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Y2kHawk05
Wow SouthFL.02.SS - what a nice kill. Finally got the parts to make my litle Firehawk a bad boy like your former SS. Figuring once I get the kinks worked out, I should be at the 465 rwhp on motor. Just for giggles I ran against a Dodge Truck. His sounded like it was mod'd and he did rev when he went by. His was louder than mine. We finally hit a light. I let him have about 2 lengths and then I hit it. About ripped the tires off, and spun a good while. Hooked and went by him doing about 85. My car has serious valve train issues. I didn't replace the lifters and I have a huge vacuum leak ( I learned today ). Looks like I am replacing Intake gaskets tomorrow and then lifters next weekend.