Track Times, 7 runs Options

[SlowCelica94]

I went to the track last night and got 7 runs in. Here's my runs in order

17.15 @80 Beat cavlier z24 that talked **** all night to me.
16.93 @79 got owned by a hotrod chevy that run a 13.4
16.76 @80 raced my buddy's accord, won
16.90 @79 raced a old beaten sentry, that ran a 17.9
16.89 @80 got beat by my buddy with the accord. he ran 16.777
16.89 @79 owned a fiero
16.94 @79 got owned by vtec 14.26

I my blown rear struts are keeping me from my mid 16s. I'm checking timing and compression thursday night. I also dropped tire pressure for those runs and launched from 4000 to 4500. Maybe I'll be back out friday night. I have video too, ill try to post but have no idea how. any idears?

[Negative]

You know - all of you know-it-alls suck. I personally believe that those times are possible even in an ST. Your skill as a driver can make our "slow" cars much faster than they would be with a driver with no skill. When I posted my happiness with my new intake everybody laughed and joked because I could actually feel a significant increase in performance (note: I did not say increase in HP or Torque - I said performance). Everyone said "it just sounds faster...Ha Ha Ha...Blah Blah Blah". I know for a fact my car is much faster than it was stock and it has everything to do with the parts I have put on it and the fine tuning I have done to my engine. Another thing, when I posted how I pulled on a turbo Del Sol three lights in a row - nobody believed it. Everybody acted like that wasn't possible. First off I stated in my first post that I knew it was not v-tech and that it was a cheap ass turbo kit that they put on there and the guy could not shift for ****. When you add the fact that my car ('GT Manual w/ 50k miles and lightly modified) was being driven by someone who has owned 5 Celicas in a row with a Supra thrown in there (me) you guys should be able to see that I know my car better than some 18 year old with a POS 10year+ Honda who's been driving for what 2 years tops? That makes more difference than all the fancy intercooler setup and whatever you could buy. The last point I will make is that some cars seem to be lemons and every once in a while you will get a car that is the opposite extreme. Some cars just are better put together than some that were produced on the exact same assembly line. That can also have a big effect on a cars ability to out perform cars that should be faster.
So - if his car was an anti-lemon and he has some experience racing his car and he has put some of those expensive performance parts on that "just improve the sound" then maybe he can out perform what is expected of him. Maybe you people should instead start asking yourself why is my car so slow - instead of claiming all ST's are as slow as your ST.

BTW - if our cars are so slow and there is nothing we can do to change that except swap in a 3S-GTE then everyone on here without a 3S is a complete moron for wasting the kind of money we all do on a car that will always be "slow". Personally - I'm not an idiot but I think some of you are.