Red2.4SS/SC

well tonight was another night to go out and hang out with the car junkies so i went out there there are 2 guys i always see , one has an STi with some mods and the other has a mazda miata with a whipple twinscrew built bottom end running 14 Lbs

So the STi wanted to run , i was game , the miata i had run before in my old GTO that put down around 375 i pulled him by around 3-4 cars so tonight i knew the runs would be better

first run 35 roll STi , he honks i have about a car by 2nd and maybe 2 cars by the end of third a turn is comming up and BAM i hit my rev limiter **** **** **** ****, i still won because we both breaked i was pissed because i hit the rev limiter first time i had done that one

Sti realizes that i would have pulled him by more so he was done , he moved over and let the miata run me

First run with the miata 40 roll i was about a half car ahead shifting into 3rd and about a car ahead going into 4th then a turn came and i had to merge into his lane to make it

Second run 30 roll im in 2nd, he put maybe a 1/4 of a car on me then i jumped into my power band ended up pulling by about 1-1/2 cars

Third run same thing i inched on him every gear it was about 1/2 a car per gear so by 4th i was around 1 1/2 cars up until we shut down , miata impressed me , STi didnt , it felt like the sti was shifting into 4th right when i shifted into third

Cliff notes : went out to my weekly meet and ran a modded STi and a Blown Miata , pulled the STI by 2-3 cars and counting and pulled the miata by 1 -1 1/2 cars , my 05 GTO is bone stock

1gmfanatik

Nice wins, but why were they all from a roll? No racing from a dig?? Just wondering

Red2.4SS/SC

because it poured at about 5 pm earlier today and because the miata and i werent on tire , and we really dont have a good place to dig race at the meet tonight and plus i figured it would be a good race from a 40 with a pretty modded sti so i didnt argue

aja342

Why is this posted in the cobalt forums? www.ls1gtocom (just in case you didn't know)

1gmfanatik

Why can't he post up in the Cobalt forums about his runs?? He didn't say anything negative about blowing the doors of any Cobalts or anything of that nature. He's not trolling, just read and comment on his thread, just as long as you're mature about things.

Red2.4SS/SC

nope highways werent wet good one though , i woudnt run a 3900 lb car with traction control off on a wet road , lmao you wouldnt even have the chance to get going fast enough to wreck all you will be doing is spinning well doing 360s and spinning all over the place , and where i live it can rain hard for an hour and 3 hours later the roads are dry

1gmfanatik

Spinning FTL!!

Red2.4SS/SC

right now its 77 degrees with 100% humidity

1gmfanatik

humidity sucks *****...

Red2.4SS/SC

o yeah the worst , you cant go outside without sweating

Red2.4SS/SC

here is a video of the miata running an evo with mods

sorry for no sound

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/f...6c010e3f3e.htm

StinkBOMB

So what were the mods on the STi?

Red2.4SS/SC

i know turbo back exhaust , off the shelf tune, i dont know what else , i highly doubt hes running stock boost , i dont know as much about the STi because i dont know **** about turbo's , he has a cobb sticker on the back of his car and he has launch control he was talking about it , he said you pick where you want to rev to and just floor it and it bounces off where you set it , he also said while hes doing that hes building boost to around 8-9psi

Novajoe

good thing you didn't race the sti from a dig... With those mods he would have ate you alive

Red2.4SS/SC

id hope so he wasnt very fast from a roll but most AWD cars arent

StinkBOMB

It sounds like he's a Stage 2 STi with a Utec, or maybe the Cobb Street Tuner, or a Pro Tune. Utec is the only EM that I know that has that feature, but then again I don't know everything. He should be sitting at around 17 or so PSI of boost with a stock fuel system and EM, which is 4 or so more than stock. Good kill.

Red2.4SS/SC

im actually pretty sure he has stage 2 now that i put the pieces together , he was like yea i want to run , i know how my old car with stage 2 did against a 6.0 so i wanna see how my new one does against you , he said something along those lines , its definately a nice STi

StinkBOMB

A stock GTO is a good measuring stick for a roll race I would think. I wouldn't have minded finding a stock 6.0 GTO to race at the track.

Red2.4SS/SC

i would think that would be a tough find

Jimmys2007CobaltSS/C

iTrader: (1)

damn and dats the 6.o right?..impressive

StinkBOMB

Yeah the only GTO I saw at the track back home had some Lingenfelter stickers on it, so I didn't bother. I think it would be a good race, so long as the other car got traction. The track I used to go to apparently never heard of track prep.

Red2.4SS/SC

this guy was definately not stock , he has like new mods evey week

Antyoo

when i protune sti's i take them up to just below 20psi with a taper down to a little over 14psi at redline. the stock fuel system handles it and it make for some fat torque in the 3k-4.8krpm range.

the typical 04-06 stage 2 sti makes 280-290whp and 310-320tq on the dyno i tune on. 07 stage 2 sti's make 300whp and 330-340wtq.

from my experience, it takes atleast 320whp on this dyno(in a evo/sti) to be faster than a 6.0l gto from a ~40 roll.

if the guy in the 07 has an off the shelf tune, it more than likely isnt at its full potential, and even if its at its full potential for being stage 2, 6.0l gto will be a little faster from a roll.

Red2.4SS/SC

yeah i figure once he gets his tune tweaked it will be a good run , from my personal experience there is way more power to be had with a dyno tune

R&C_rallySS