but alot of the people around here ALWAYS follow the rules......

 

No, they are not lol. Not sure where you get your information at, but street racing is HIGHLY ILLEGAL. It's stupid because you are putting innocent people at risk because of your wrecklessness. There are mortal and legal ramifications of street racing.

There's no justification of putting other people's lives on the line just so you can have a little bit of fun.

No one is pushing any one's opinion on anything. The mods asked what we thought, and so I am saying what I think. Either accept it, or GTFO. It's not open for debate.

 

woah woah calm down.
everyones got an opinion so lets not turn it into a "this or gtfo" pissing contest.

 

And so am I. Notice Im not saying you are dumb for NOT street racing tho Just trying to state my side of things...

And text while driving has been proven to be as dangerous, if not more, then drinking and driving. Do your own research. Do you ever text while driving? Prolly have.. Just as deadly, stop putting my innocent family at risk for your silly text message. See my point..


I agree when you see people racing on the highway weaving in and out of traffic, that is INSANELY stupid and deadly. Not everyone operates like that and most REAL street racers will tell you they dont pull crap like that. Im talking taking it to an empty road WAY late at night and running with nobody around. I do get tho, that that isn't every story you will find in those war stories sections.

 

Not being a dick or anything, just stating my opinion. I don't text while driving. It's stupid, which is why I don't do it.

Also street racing has other effects if you really want to think about it;

Destruction of city property. It destroys streets and will pull up pieces and chunks of it. Also weaks the bonds of the tar by heating up the asphault so rapidly, causing for potential future destruction. This, in turn, will cause the DOT to have to spend money to repair these. In the end, raising tax prices on the people of that city in the end.

It's against the law. You won't always get cited for rolling through a stop sign, or for going one over. But you sure as hell will for street racing. It's not just because it's stupid for doing it, but it's illegal too. Police departments DO troll threads looking for people doing illegal racing. And the site owners can get in big trouble for providing a place for people to discuss stories of street racing or for future street races.

Just sayin'. I say off with it's head, but obviously I'm not majority =P

 

Then we should set it back to only able to view if you're a member. Not that that's fool proof but it will help keep it more private. Maybe make it a sub-section of Drag Racing and have a disclaimer *CSS does not encourage street racing, post here at your own risk* or some crap like that lol.

Trust me, I get that it's illegal and it can kill, but many things can really. Im not going to live my life by statistics, Im here to enjoy the time I have. Street racing has been around since modding cars has been around, without people running from the cops with moonshine, a certain race series may have never been born even. Not to mention the countless movies with street racing in them. It really is just part of the culture, you can chose to ignore it but not everyone will. Removing a section on a forum sure isn't going to curb it! (I realize that's not the intention, just saying lol)

 

Ok ok.. well look at this way. we have 1 local track. it has been used soo much that there are track grooves down the entire thing.
i have seen first hand what happens to cars, regardless of how formula 1 the driver is, when they get out of those grooves.
good luck saving your car when you do.
one race in particular i watched a guy get out of the grooves and made his car pretty squirrely. he ended up hitting the ditch, which slung his car 30 feet in the air.
is he lucky he lived? you bet your ass he is.

just throwing that out there for the "track is always safer than an EMPTY flat stretch of highway" arguement.

 

in addition to this:
running stop signs, speeding 1 over, texting, etc are all violations but not criminal acts.

street racing is a criminal offense as opposed to a violation.

I wish a police officer would chime in in this thread about how the law regards street racing...

 

i think having the war stories really detracts from the respectability of this forum as a whole, it gives a place for people to just rant about how fast they are at a 40 roll, while other sites have specific track racing sections and delete any links or stories about illegal street racing.

 

HOLY ****!!!! This man gets it! Why can't anyone else. Thank you sir for not being one of the completely incompetent, immature css.net user.

 

I have seen no replies to to the fact that there's pretty much only CRAP in that section anyways. Like I said a few posts back, go under the assumption its legal and awesome-o's to street race. Don't post here for 10 minutes. Don't click post quick reply or submit! Review threads in this section on the first page for example. Look at how members interact with each other / what they produce in terms of posts.

 

If we're just going to say it's illegal and shouldn't be done, then this thread really is pointless and just remove the section lol.. Why ask?

 

ok quick question and seriously no douchebaggery intended but to those of you on the street racing is dangerous and illegal side with mods lists in your sigs:

How many CONFIRMED (meaning track slips that you can post up or link to better yet) track runs do you guys have on your modded cars? or were all of your mods for "show?"

 

My Cobalt is stock. I've AutoXed it twice, but I was using Blizzaks because I cannot afford better wheels/tires at the moment. Plus a lot of my money went into a new trans and other misc parts to help keep the Cobalt alive longer.

I will be doing AutoX and Road Racing spring next year once I have wheels/tires.

 

Thank you for a serious answer.

 

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/auto...master-229280/

here you go. theres some screenshots of my telemetry data from road racing at Nelsons Ledges

note that I posted it in the "racing" section

 

Stock AutoX class FTW. Dirty25RS convinced me that this car would haul ass in the stock class because of its insta-torque. So I make every mod I can to make it better as a stock AutoX car. That's about it though.

 

I goto the drag strip and plenty of NASA HPDE events. As well as street race if the mood should strike me lol

 

to justify themselves, the poll says it stays /thread. i'm tired of reading the **** the saints have laid upon us. please end this thread and release us unto more fitting topics.

 

I don't believe it should be removed its a section i like to read just to see what our cars can do. It can be argued that it puts peoples lifes at risk but if done in isolated areas where there are no cars or people for miles than their really isn't any risk but to you an the person your running just about as much risk is took while your driving around due to stupid ass drivers

i've been street racing for a while an have yet to see an incident am i saying its safe no but we make it as safe as possible doing it late at night an all that. Yet i continue to see more accidents an fatal accidents occur during normal driving involving people speeding, running lights an **** like that

 

If safety isn't a factor, that keep in mind what Dirty and others have said. It's a criminal offense. Not always a matter of "It's dangerous" but a matter of "It's ILLEGAL".

 

quoted for posterity.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe one of the mods is a police officer.

 

why is it a criminal offense? because the law says so? if its done in a safe controlled enviroment i see no issues..hell i know of a city down here where the cops are fine with it if its done after a certain hour in a certain place because they know its going to happen one way or another so why not allow to be done in as safe of a enviroment as it can be.

 

Love your avatar!