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 Nov 20, 2003 - 11:04 PM
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This is a great story. I was driving with my friend, me in the Celi cuz it's going to snow soon so I'm just driving it around trying to get the kinks out of the SAFC and I was behind my friend in his 2003.5 MazdaSpeed Protege. I've raced before the SAFC and he pretty much spanked on me. Well this time, held in the brake all the way held in the gas about half way to get it at about 2500rpm...on green I let go. We're neck and neck all the way through the interesection, he's gotta shift before I even hit 5k in my low gear. I shift up as I hit about 45mph and just lightly touching the redline...shift is smooth, now I shoot a car length ahead of him. I hear his turbo spooling and all of a sudeen whoosh...he has to shift to third as we approach about 65. I shift to drive at about 75. By this time his turbo is spooling and about to kill me but at 85 he has to shift and my drive gear is just getting to 4k. We let up at 100 and I beat him by two car lengths.
So did the SAFC help? I think so. I haven't beat on this car sicne I got the thing and it feels like a different car. I easily beat him with my old RX, and my new Supra...and haven't taken him on in my new RX...but I never thought the Celi would do it. I'm in the mood for some kill stories...post!!! This post has been edited by snadman: Nov 20, 2003 - 11:06 PM -------------------- 95 Toyota Celica GT
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Nov 20, 2003 - 11:49 PM
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 Enthusiast Joined Aug 30, '02 From Anaheim, CA Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
sounds like a mix of a little mroe power from the safc settings and a bad launch on your friends part.
edit: kill stories i was messing with a guy in a 2000 civic si with mods(prolly IHE) i was tking it easy off the line and didnt give it all i had. three times i would be 1-2 cars ahead of him at 85mph when i would let off and he would just pass me and turn on his blinkers. after the third time thise rsx s came and cut me off so from 50mph to 110mph i caught up to him and passed him. that was back when i was still getting fuel cut problems when at full boost, so it was a close race. now my car is running a lot better except for an oil burning problem in the turbo. um i kicked the crap out of a riced out v6 mx6. i own this civic ex every mon. and wed. after my class at the local college. scared away a 300zx NA that was looking for a race pretty much now that i have my exhaust on it attracts a lot of attention(looks and sound) but the bov always scares them away 
This post has been edited by 97sccelica: Nov 21, 2003 - 12:04 AM -------------------- 1994 Celica GT4 WRC Edition
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