Rabbit TD vs integra

[Dr. Diesel]

On the highway, humming along at 120km/h, two young punks in an integra blow by me with almost enough room to get in front of me before their (left) lane ran out and merged with mine. Dinks. They were tailgating the (too slow) person ahead of them. I smoothly slid around and ahead of both those cars with a well timed lane change using a slower car in the middle lane as a blocker.  They eventually got around the slow cars and farted past me, tipping their junk almost onto it's doorsill with a rapid 3 lane change. I put on some pressure, closing in somewhat. They started to limp-wristedly accelerate. The rabbit was stuck like glue. He downshifted once, then twice. They accelerated briefly and shifted 4th. Still, the rabbit was stuck like glue (in 5th gear). They each flicked a cigarette out the windows at me, so I pulled into the middle lane and went by with firm authority.  His car was screaming like a run-away sewing machine. What a pathetic piece of crud. I treated them to my 'pat the mouth yawn' maneuver-- a stinging, icing-on-the-you-suck-cake humiliator at the best of times-- and continued rocketing ahead.
VTEC SUCKS!!!

 :twisted:

[lord_verminaard]

Vtec does suck.  I was at the NOPI nationals a couple of weekends ago, and 80% of what's there are Hondas.  Some I will give credit to, they are fast.  Most, though, are junk.  They had a mobile Dyno set up, and I heard all of this racket on it so I went to take a look.  It was a 97-ish Civic Si with a REALLY loud exhaust doing a pull.  I checked the dyno readout and it made a whopping 142 hp and 101!?! ft-lbs of torque.  I laughed.  Loudly.  What a tool and what a waste of time.  After every pull he would fiddle with something under the hood- like an extra 2 or 5 or 10 hp would even matter.  

Brendan
84 Scirocco 8v
00 Camaro L36 M49


P.S. the fastest car we saw in the drags in the street category was an Aircooled Beetle that ran somewhere around an 8.5 1/4.  

[MacGyver]

P.S. the fastest car we saw in the drags in the street category was an Aircooled Beetle that ran somewhere around an 8.5 1/4.  

Forced induction or natural?

I'll bet that sounded really cool

[lord_verminaard]

Oh it was forced.    The engine had no cooling tins and no cooling fan.  I got to look at it close up later in the day when we went strolling through the pits.  It was carbureted with a "blow-through" configuration.   No intercooler.  The carb looked like a Holley 850 "double pumper" 4-barrel.  It really sort of looked funny, as it was sticking pretty far out the back of the car on a fabbed "pipe" manifold.  The "exhaust" was about 6" of 4" pipe that turned off the turbo and pointed downard.    It was LOUD.  No idea what trans he was running but it was a manual and from the outside looked a lot like a stock aircooled trans.  It did have a wheely-bar as well.  He launched it right at the rev-limiter, and banged 2nd before the rear tires even left the gate.  3rd lifted the tires up again.    It made me all tingly inside.  

Brendan
84 Scirocco 8v
00 Camaro L36 M49
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[hillfolk'r]

im thinkin intercoolers are overrated
mine runs like a bastid without one,i may never put one on,just to keep the sleeper theme

[SMOKEYDUB]

its actually a very noticable diff.i would definetly try it if i were you

[QuickTD]

im thinkin intercoolers are overrated

I'm thinking you're into the 13's if you get one...

[RabbitJockey]

he'd be in the 13s with a good clutch and his old turbo, or even better with a good clutch (his current *** is good) his cummins turbo and a good set of tires, then he'd be well into the 13s, and if he would intercooler that mother then he'd be set.  i can't imagine what people are thinking though when they pull up beside that ***ing wild ass machine and he leaves them sitting in a clowd while he flies off into the horizon haha.

[jtanguay]

intercoolers are the shyt... but you have to make sure that you get enough airflow through it, otherwise it might just give you heat soak in traffic.  plus finding the right intercooler is the key to success as well.

now a water intercooler would be awesome... lots of equipment needed for it to run though...