Racing a prius

Skud

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• Jul 18, 2006

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Hahahaha.. My co-worker sent me this link to a thread on prius chat about people racing other cars with their prius.

http://priuschat.com/index.php?showtopic=16201

Here's my favourite quote..

My wife ran hers at the Houston dragstrip. She turned 17.8 seconds at 78? mph. There is a thread about it here. I agree with the full battery technique but there is a problem. When you do that the battery gets quite warm which increases internal resistance and reduces output. Your first run will be the fastest. At some point the battery gets so full that it runs the engine to reduce the SOC. All this makes for a warmer and warmer battery. I think the best strategy is to charge to 8 bars and then shut it down and let it cool for at least an hour. It might be a good idea to push it to the start line. How do you get a warm engine and a cool battery at the same time? There are definitely some inherent hurdles to getting a low drag time.

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And then this...

What about having the A/C at full blast so some of that cold interior air filters down the vent to the battery?

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Lol.. there is lots of good stuff.. Some guy AutoX'd his prius just to do it..

Thanks!!
Riley

 

Mike97gt

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• Jul 18, 2006

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I will run them in my wifes sunfire... 2.2 liters of POWA thru a 3 speed auto


BTW that dennis guy over there is the biggest tool of all time on any forum I have ever read. If he registered over here I think we would have a record time set for banning a non spammer.

That thread was a all out tard carnival.

 

blackfang

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The guys at work will get a kick out of that

 

tomustang

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potroast

 

Duke309

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• Jul 18, 2006

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I think im gonna have a heart attack laughing so hard from reading these people talking about racing their prius.

 

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Pennywise2

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tomustang said:

potroast

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Rumproast for 1000 Alex.

 

GoofNOff

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• Jul 19, 2006

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These guys are serious about this? He beat a 5.0 uphill and lost to an M3 because they were going downhill and he had lowprofiles on? The first guy even says he kept up with a crotch rocket. Is there a new racing game for the PS2 and XBOX?

 

Dusstbuster

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Jul 19, 2006

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• Jul 19, 2006

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They have to be retarded...they go on and on about how it's a 17+ second car at the track, yet they "beat" all these 15second or slower cars? wow...

 

Stangsgrl

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i saw that at another forum...I couldn't believe some of the things they've claimed. To race one it's just laughable anyway. And to think that others would try to race them is just funny too....i'm sure all those vehicles they claimed to "race" didn't even know they were in the presence of a prius.

 

Susky

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• Jul 19, 2006

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GoofNOff said:

The first guy even says he kept up with a crotch rocket.

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I'm curious about what he means by "kept up." And if that "crotch rocket" had more than an 80cc engine.

 

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2kblackgt

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• Jul 20, 2006

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Stangsgrl said:

i saw that at another forum...I couldn't believe some of the things they've claimed. To race one it's just laughable anyway. And to think that others would try to race them is just funny too....i'm sure all those vehicles they claimed to "race" didn't even know they were in the presence of a prius.

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EXACTLY, took the words right outta my mouth.

 

streetstang03

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• Jul 20, 2006

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one of their members name is Bjorn