6GC'er at Harrisburg Show., Who was it that raced me? Options

[Guest_Jason_*]

So my friend and I are rolling down and we come up to a red light and end up waiting. A red Celica rolls up from behind us to right next to us and rolls down his window and asks if its a GT or GTS, so I told him its a GT. He laughs and asks me to race him, so I said sure. I asked him whats done, since I previously had one and he revved his engine and the BOV screamed, so i'm guessing it was Turbo, so I gave him thumbs up and said "Nice.", and he replied its a GT. Then being a smart-ass he said "Ready to get your ass handed to you?", I just kind of laughed and put my sunroof back. I'm guessing he either bought a Turbo Kit for a GT, or had a 3S swap, I was leaning towards the 3SGTE Swap.

So light goes green and we both took off. If anyone knows a GTS, we have no low-end torque from 2000 - 6000RPM. Well, all you hear is my Intake Scream and this Turbo Celica takes off on me by about a 1/2 - 1 car length and his BOV goes and his buddy is video taping and laughing at us. Next thing, lift engages (I lied, its a modified GTS) and he lost his 1/2 Car length and his buddies face drops. Going through 2nd Gear Lift I have nothing but constant pull. Nothing like a little Natural Aspiration over Turbo. As I chirpped into 3rd gear, his buddy was still taping and he actually had my speed matched and may have had a little pull but he was sitting around my rear bumper, but revving out 4th gear he just dropped back into my rear-view mirror and 5th I just breaked and backed off.

Was a good race, looked like he had a small intercooler on the front, nothing to grande', an Erebuni Kit and an OEM CF Hood. Car looked clean, I gave him thumbs up until he flew past us giving me the finger, then I lost respect... But nonetheless, i'd like to know who it was for ****s-n-giggles, i'd like to see that video too.

This post has been edited by Jason: May 15, 2004 - 3:58 PM

[Guest_Jason_*]

Haven't had the GTS at the track.

TwinCelica.com is a website another 7GC'er and I are working on. We are both in the same Club, just waiting to get some pictures and video's together while we work on our Cars. He's pretty much the "Show" Celica heading for that nice Silver Paint with Blue Pearl I believe, and i'm heading in the "Go" area with my GTS, looking to get my hands on an XS Engineering Turbo Kit, but thats not going to happen till Winter time hopefully.

RareToy.com is my buddy Carl's buddies site. The guy in the area here is a very cool 600wHP (I think?) Supra owner, with alot of sponsor's, and is sponsoring Carl a T88 Turbocharger and a Turbo Kit for his NA. Its pretty ridiculous, but Carl just got 3" Flares on his Supra, and got the whole car repainted. Its very sweet.

[edit]Took pictures out.[/edit]

This post has been edited by Jason: May 15, 2004 - 9:42 PM