I've only taken my car up to 147mph, so I'm not too far off that mark anyhow. I just got a little scared at first because I had never been that fast before. 160+ would just be crazy and very video game like!

 

Because it is illegal for anybody to look at it without a court order.

 

The only people that ever roll race, can't drive for **** from a dig or don't know how to build a car that hooks.

Show me some roll racing time slips and then I will STFU forever about roll racing, until then stop being an idiot in a SLOW car going speeds your car should definently not go. And stop making up cars that you never raced.

 

I think that statement is complete bullshit. Straight line racing from a dig is great, but it's not always so easy to arrange. On top of that, a well rounded car and driver is something I look for. Sure you can set up a car for just the straight line, but how do most of those cars fare in the corners? Roll racing just takes the biggest part that can be screwed up out of a race showing better what the car's capablilities are instead of the drivers. Obviously if his car was that slow by the way, then he would have lost many of those races and wouldn't have broken the speedo. I don't want to argue here or take sides, but I wish people would seriously take into consideration how well are car performs all the way around instead of who has the fastest damn strip time.

 

not really....a fwd car that runs the same in the quarter as a rwd or awd car will rape the awd car from a roll and pull a bit from the rwd car if all things are equal. roll racing is the crap honda boys started because their cars sucked from a dig being fwd with NO torque. most people don't take handling into consideration nearly as much as straight line performance because truthfully it is not as relevant in a street car. how often do you take you car to its handling limits? i can tell you with confidence that 70%+ of the owners on this site will never take their ss/sc to its handling limits or to a road course. straight line performance is less affected by driver error, is much easier to measure, and can be felt more than handling ability, which is why it is more important to most people.

 

I understand the whole dig racing deal because I'd rather run from a complete stop. I can't really back the whole Honda deal starting roll racing though. There are plenty of Honda's I see that are daily driven where I'm stationed that don't give a damn whether it's from a dig, roll, or what have you. These Honda's are all motor badass rides and will tear the nuts from modded mustang cobras. I've seen it with my own eyes at the track and on the street. I fear the little red hatch and white hatch in town myself. Put drag slicks on the front of that Honda with a good driver and they'll nail those 60ft times easily. I think if you want to race, you have to be well rounded, it shouldn't matter which way you run if you have confidence in your car and driving skills. After all isn't the whole point of racing to outrun the other guy whether it's in the turns, from a roll, or tearing off the line?

On a side note, I take my car to its handling limits because carving corners is far more exhilirating than rolling in a straight line. I can say that I have had the ass end of my car drifting outward on a couple occassions to show that I found the cars limitations, and still managed to keep her under control.

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I still dont believe you, but this thread is amazing. Anyway, im sure the only reason you beat those cars is because their drivers arent idiots and dont drive up to 160mph on a regular basis. They probably backed off and your stupid ass kept going so you could say you beat cars that would murder you normally. Go to the track and show us a timeslip. From a stop is all that matters. It takes very little skill to go from a roll. All you have to do is shift fast. From a stop you have to launch correctly which is very difficult to do. Bottom line is you bought a FWD car, so you are going to ahve wheel spin. You are going to have to get used to it and you cant use the fact that you get wheel spin to justify racing from a roll.

 

And you are?....

160mph is a little crazy but good kills anyway! Just please be careful and think things over before you race.

 

[QUOTE=leviticus88]And you are?....

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New member... and a skeptic of this thread.

 

I went 105mph once

 

Hey man, if you did it, good for you, just be careful.
160 MPH on any public road is probably not the best idea.
All it takes is an animal to dart into the road to make you swerve and its

So good for you, just use extreme caution.

 

 

Because there is NOTHING stored unless there is an airbag deployment (or a deploment level event) AND (as someone already pointed out) YOU would have either givent expressed written consent OR there was legal writs of siezure (ie search warrant) in the event of a criminal investigation.
Wop

 

mmmm

 

So far, 145 with my car. I wonder what no govenor and a 7400 rpm rev limit will leave my cobalt at?

 

If I can hop in here....Everyone on this site knows I am a camaro guy, so let me say a couple things:

1) There was no 1995 Camaro SS, the SS didn't get re-released until the end of 96'.

A 96 SS runs a 13.9 stock...I know because I have driven one to that time...with a couple "minor mods" (CAI, headers, cat back) you are looking at 13.5's or 13.6's.

A 98 Trans Am is a 13.4 second car...again...drove one...to that quarter. With "minor mods" (CAI, Headers, Cat back) they trans am with an LS1 is a 12.9 second car (been there done that).

SOOOO...take that as you will, I am not calling BS, I am not saying anything other than putting times out there.

NOW CONCERNING ROLL RACING:

As a drag racer...I think that roll, racing is just as important as a dig...niether is cheap, just preference...I mean no offense...but If I could beat you from a roll in my 00 SS, I wouldn't want to race you from a dig because the results would be the same...a race is a race is a race...quartermile from a dig is NOT the only way to race, nor is it the most accurate as a lot of the drag guys set their cars up for a quartermile and thats is...not exactly hard to see why they want a "dig" start.

 

[QUOTE=WRXYOURBUTT]Don't take this the wrong way but you have 4 posts and your calling out another member.

This site has a problem with trolls and as a new member I would advise you to advance with caution until you prove your self or at least introduce your self.

PS: Welcome to the site WRX! no hard feelings I hope...

 

About 196...assuming you can get the 400+ to the wheels necessary for this car to reach those speeds.

 

I was going to say wrapped around a tree but that works too.

 

Yes, someone on another board already called me on that one. I should have just said that it was an LT1 SS since I really don't know what year it was other than it had the square headlights (i.e. the LT1 model year). Also You guys are forgetting where I am at. I'm hear in Albuquerque at 5600' if I was down near sea level I'm sure some of the vehicals I ran would have beat me, but up here turbos are the least effected by the altitude followed in close second to the supercharged beasts. LT1's run mid 14's to low 15's up here stock depending on many things like 5spd or auto, ect, ect, ect. Fbody LS1's run high 13's to low 14's up here stock. Most stock 1999-2004 GT's run consistent 15.5's up here with the 5spd. Most stock Cobalts up here have laid down 15.1-15.2's stock. That neon I ran layed down a 13.9 up here. SO that kinda gives you an idea of where I'm at.

I don't exagerate the situation. All of the cars that I listed on my kill list I beat wether they told me the truth on their mods or not is another story. The 370whp fox body never did pop the hood for me, but he said he had a procharger running 6lbs and dynoed 370 to the wheels. The Mach 1 I ran and beat is in the far lane in the video, you can see me pull him along with the SRT in run #4.

I would be glad to post up vid from now on of every car I run, since that seems to be what I'll have to do to please the doubters on here. I just don't get the scepticism on this board. You all must think we have slow cars or something....

 

i dont doubt you beat the fox. i doubt it was blown. the kid was probably lying to you. did you hear a surge valve between shifts or blower whine from it?

 

I didn't hear much at all as he was behind me.....

 

Yeah Lith, I am not calling you out or anything. I'm not about that...I know that on the street anything can happen.

Like I said I was just throwing numbers out there for you and concerning the SS camaro, I figured it was an honest mistake since there is no diff between the 96 and 95 models as far as appearance goes...(in 97 they had the same front facia but tri colored rear lights).

Good kills!

 

hahahahaha.. this cracked me up.. burrying the needle.. i highly dought that. you may have won a few of those but you didn't go 160-175.. there is a thing called speed governor!!!

 

there is a such thing as no govenor in a manual transmission, only auto