Okay so, I've never dyno'd my car nor run my car at the track. The only track close to me is over an hour away and it's an 1/8 mile track. The closest dyno to me, I don't trust. I know the shop and everyone who works there but I wouldn't ever let them turn a wrench on my car.
The reason for this thread is that I'm trying to get a feel for where my car stands without doing the above.
I was just cruising along with my wife when this red hatch with chrome/gold rims rolls up beside me. Normally I wouldn't really street race, I'll take off hard from a light to the speed limit but not much more after it but apparently he's been looking for me for awhile. The road ahead was empty and a decently long straight stretch, so he says "Go on 3" and I nod. Now at this point I didn't know what he had but I was curious how my car would stack up against it. So he matches my speed which was 2nd gear at 3500 RPM, right in my sweet spot for torque. Beep, beep, beep and we go for it, started spinning as the car hit full boost at 17 PSI so that gave him a fender lead. I hit 3rd and started pulling him back in while his car is screaming beside mine, at the top of 3rd I had pulled the fender back and gained a fender. I shift into 4th and watch his car slowly start to go by my door, at this point I had never been in such a close race, then I went into 5th just to watch the lead continue to grow so I let out shortly after I hit 5th.
He follows me for about 1/2 mile and I point for him to follow me to a parking lot. After we get into the parking lot and he gets out all excited saying he'd never been in such a close race before. We start chatting about the cars when he says that he's running a LS/vtec with a type r head using ferrea OS valves with skunk2 pro1 cams on a built bottom end running 12.5:1 compression running 9k RPM. He's controlling all of this with a hondata S200 and 93 octane mixed with cam 2. He ran at Sumerduck on Friday and ran a 8.1 in the 1/8 on street tires.
My mods are in my signature.
The reason for this thread is that I'm trying to get a feel for where my car stands without doing the above.
I was just cruising along with my wife when this red hatch with chrome/gold rims rolls up beside me. Normally I wouldn't really street race, I'll take off hard from a light to the speed limit but not much more after it but apparently he's been looking for me for awhile. The road ahead was empty and a decently long straight stretch, so he says "Go on 3" and I nod. Now at this point I didn't know what he had but I was curious how my car would stack up against it. So he matches my speed which was 2nd gear at 3500 RPM, right in my sweet spot for torque. Beep, beep, beep and we go for it, started spinning as the car hit full boost at 17 PSI so that gave him a fender lead. I hit 3rd and started pulling him back in while his car is screaming beside mine, at the top of 3rd I had pulled the fender back and gained a fender. I shift into 4th and watch his car slowly start to go by my door, at this point I had never been in such a close race, then I went into 5th just to watch the lead continue to grow so I let out shortly after I hit 5th.
He follows me for about 1/2 mile and I point for him to follow me to a parking lot. After we get into the parking lot and he gets out all excited saying he'd never been in such a close race before. We start chatting about the cars when he says that he's running a LS/vtec with a type r head using ferrea OS valves with skunk2 pro1 cams on a built bottom end running 12.5:1 compression running 9k RPM. He's controlling all of this with a hondata S200 and 93 octane mixed with cam 2. He ran at Sumerduck on Friday and ran a 8.1 in the 1/8 on street tires.
My mods are in my signature.
