Horrible night last night...

[sKyZ]

Alright guys.. Here's the outcome from last night.

I raced a few cars and here's the outcome:

Me VS 2003 SRT-4:
The kid COULD NOT drive a stick and grinded through every single gear.. I actually felt bad for the car because all I heard was the gears grinding.. Not even a grind where you say "oops" it sounded like he was doing it on purpose. I launched hard, everything was hitting perfectly and I had the car sitting before the race so it was nice and cool before we ran.. I let it sit for about 15 minutes to warm up a little in the parking lot and drove it 3 miles to where we race.. So I'm guessing that helped my car a little before the race. I did a mild burnout before launching and it was great. I beat the kid, collected my $100 and drove away happy. I went back to the parking lot where everyone meets and the kid started talking trash and then went home.. One win for the 'Stang.

Me VS 1997 SVT Cobra:
You guys know the outcome so I don't need to explain. I lost by 3 car lengths.. If I had a better launch I'm gunna say maybe 2 car lengths. This race was just for fun and the kid and I didn't bet any money.. But damn.. Nice cobra

Now what pissed me off:

Me VS 1997 GSX Eclipse VS Civic Hatchback:
We lined up, I smoked the tires a lil' as usual then when the light turned green I flew outta the hole.. Had a good car length on the two and kept the gas down hard.. I wasn't gunna go easy on 2 ricers.. Then all of a sudden this eclipse goes by me and gains atleast 2 car lengths. The civic is still dragging a tractor behind us . Then I notice the finish line is coming up and the eclipse was winning. I LOST to a ****ing eclipse.. A eclipse without a turbo.. A eclipse with just headers.. No, correction.. It was a ****ing 4cyl.. It has A [AS IN ONE] header. It had a cat-back exhaust and a cold air intake..
I ended up losing $50 to the kid.

Now what pisses me off is that I was gunna buy a 1997 eclipse instead of my mustang that I have now after I totalled my v6.. But I thought.. **** that.. I'm a pure blooded american boy.. We don't toy with people.. We don't hide.. We wanna kick someones ass? We do it.. We don't send anthrax in the mail and hide.. We walk up to someone and stab them in the face. We don't drive 4cylinder cars because we're more concerned about gas milage than horsepower. We drive our big 5.0L v8's and play on the cool summer nights.
And now I quote our army:

"The Beach Boys, American pie, and the 1967 Ford Mustang... Three things worth fighting for" - U.S. Army Slogan.

Now I ask you guys.. What's going on here? I lost? I launched perfectly and the car performed well even. I got beat.. By a little car that I almost baught. I'm highly disappointed and ****.. Enough to the point where lately I've been thinking about selling my mustang and buying a VR6 Jetta or a 3000GT VR4.

help me out guys.. What's going wrong here?

 

[Trick95]

You lost to a non-turbo Eclipse???

 

[Swarzkopf]

You should not lose to a n/a Eclipse. Something is wrong with your car.

 

[sKyZ]

You lost to a non-turbo Eclipse???

Yeah, And I have no clue what's going wrong.. I just cleaned my MAF.. I have the 4.10's.. I even looked under his hood after the race.. Nothing special there.. I've changed my oil, all the filters.. etc..what's going on here?

 

[TripleBlack95]

You had a bad night??

At least your FRIEND didn't ****ing back into your front fender (after getting your ride back last week) when you were screaming at him to stop.



But you will eventually burn all of those cars, sorry to hear bro'.

 

[nmcgrawj]

Did you see under his hood? How do you know he wasnt lying? If he flew past you like you say...then he definately had some "help" coming from somewhere.

Any car can be built to go fast, im willing to bet that car was not stock outside of what he told you. Nitrous, internal engine work, etc. Theres a lot you can do that isnt obviousto the eye...especially if you dont know a lot about the engine.

Our cars are not fast stock. They are so restricted out of the factory its sickening. But thats what built the aftermarket up so high. So stick around, and build you car up. Soon enough it will destroy 90% of the cars you will run into on the street.

 

[94YellowStang]

A GSX Eclipse is a AWD Turbo, the guy must have added GSX emblems if it was a N/A car.

 

[Swarzkopf]

Yargh, I missed the GSX part...a GSX is a turbo Eclipse, man.

 

[sKyZ]

Did you see under his hood? How do you know he wasnt lying? If he flew past you like you say...then he definately had some "help" coming from somewhere.

Any car can be built to go fast, im willing to bet that car was not stock outside of what he told you. Nitrous, internal engine work, etc. Theres a lot you can do that isnt obviousto the eye...especially if you dont know a lot about the engine.

Our cars are not fast stock. They are so restricted out of the factory its sickening. But thats what built the aftermarket up so high. So stick around, and build you car up. Soon enough it will destroy 90% of the cars you will run into on the street.

I did look under the hood.. for like an hour.. Like a stupid teacher that was just corrected by his student. There was no turbo... No nitrous hookup in the CAI, no fogger system near the fuel injectors, everything looked stock.. and i didn't have any tools with me to disassemble his engine.

 

[88GT460]

did you have all of your radio bull**** in the car.. looks like you have a lot of weight from the speakers and ****.

the eclipse weigh less than you to begin with, and then you add all the speaker thump thump bull****.. I think that is your loss.. a stock mustang gt shouldn't even lose to an eclipse.

unless he had a 50 shot of nos, you should not lose to him

 

[Swarzkopf]

If there was no turbo, it wasn't a GSX.

 

[sKyZ]

I was just thinking.. Since I have 4.10's on an AODE transmission..maybe I need a chip?!

 

[GRGT1994]

To pull 4 car lengths on you (2 down to 2 up) he was running nitrous. No question.

 

[nmcgrawj]

To pull 4 car lengths on you (2 down to 2 up) he was running nitrous. No question.

Thats what im trying to say. N/A to N/A it wont run you down like that "out of no where" especially with that small of a motor. So if there isnt a turbo then it must have been nitrous.

Just cause YOU cant find it...doesnt mean it aint there There are ways to hide it VERY easily.

 

[sKyZ]

Thats what im trying to say. N/A to N/A it wont run you down like that "out of no where" especially with that small of a motor. So if there isnt a turbo then it must have been nitrous.

Just cause YOU cant find it...doesnt mean it aint there There are ways to hide it VERY easily.

I agree.. But it's not the fact that I can't find it.. It's the fact that it beat me.. What's going wrong here? I'm not in the best of moods..

 

[nmcgrawj]

I agree.. But it's not the fact that I can't find it.. It's the fact that it beat me.. What's going wrong here? I'm not in the best of moods..

NOTHING! Man...mustangs are not the king of the road. The imports CAN be built to be fast. Its that simple. Do you like them? No. Do i? No. Will we buy one? I highly doubt it. But the fact remains that we must respect them.

Nitrous can make any car fast. How long it will last is a different story. Just like that srt-4...i bet that if that kid could drive you probably would have lost that race...or it would have been close. A couple mods to the srt-4 and it will easily beat you. If you wanna walk all over all these cars then you HAVE TO upgrade your car. Complaining that your car lost to these new cars isnt right. They have 10 EXTRA years of technology working for them.

Its OK to lose...just use it as fuel to go faster. There will ALWAYS be someone faster...whether its a muscle car, exotic car, import, truck, whatever! Built right they can ALL be fast.

 

[Blackened302]

sounds like n2o to me.

 

[xr8d302]

He might have had a turbonator.

 

[Blackened302]

hahaha, or a leafblower!

 

[Kevin R.]

Ya something is fishy here.

I beat a GSX 5 times in a row from about a 40 roll, which should have helped him. Granted I only won by about a car length I still won, and this was when I was bone stock.

I doubt something is wrong with your car. I think you just missed something, can you say, sleeper?