How do you think a celica would do vs... Options

[Benevolence]

I have a friend of a friend who wants to race in his 94 mustang (v6), I have a 94 celica (2.2), would it be a close race? My car is totally stock performance wise while his has intake, exhaust, and some other minor stuff like plugs. So far I can tell with 135 hp and 145 tq weighing close to 2600 lbs (little less) and his is about 3000 lbs but has around 215 tq and 145 hp should be an ok race, but with equal drivers (both 5 speed btw) who would you put your money on?

[jayi12-15psi]

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Benevolence Posted on Apr 30, 2003 - 1:26 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well I lost, the first run he crept up ahead of me and got a head start so it wasnt really a race.... the 2nd run I noticed he kept on creeping except this time i crept a little bit too but not much so he got the run on me, i started to catch up but stopped at around 70 since I think the noise was attracting truckers (we raced on a deserted industrial type road) so he got me at about a cars length, btw he also had lsd or something too he mentioned, wish I coulda raced him on a track would have been better, couldnt even tell if we were lined up right and the bastard kept rolling forward instead of being a dead stop like me. When I get me some new spark plug wires (mine are shot) and new tires (shot also) gonna have to race again and see how it goes.

replacing the spark plugs and the tires would have a big impact (if both are shot) with your tires you need more traction and yor spark plugs wont produce enough spark at higher rpms. I also have no mods done to my car, but in top mechanical condition I have been able to outrun many v6 mustangs and camaros, even a few gt mustangs.

And those car stats on that web site dont seem to be very acurate when I looked at them. they seem to be more like guesses???