Racing my boss

[Wills7MGTE]

Why do people try and run against V8 domestics and especially vettes with the NA Supra, no offense to NA owners but you've got a fat car with the lowest HP engine and an auto on top of that and you wanna run those cars, dude most SRT4's and even some RSX's would dust you, save up and go turbo or don't plan to race.

 

[madsupra88]

Dude..... just nooo.

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Your just gonna embarress yourself. save the trouble, and put your car on steroids...(nos) then ull spank him, other than that.....your a dead man.

Edit** didnt realize the date. did u end up racing???

 

[corylee316]

Never raced. He hasn't seen his car in something like 7 months. Plus his decision to get a bigger better motor has me withdrawing my thought entirely. But I am leaning more to a turbo set up or pulling the 3.4 quad cam 5VZ out of my truck and supercharging it. Then I might lose some weight on the car and come back at him in the spring. The local track is a weekend to weekend thing now b/c the possability of snow. Living in the midwest sucks for the next couple months.

 

[mattgo]

race him yet?

 

[Figit090]

why are you so bent on racing this guy? there are lots of cars faster and lots of cars slower than yours...why does it matter so much?

are you spending money on your car to show up your boss that's loudmouthing about his car? it sounds to me like he's a bunch of hot air, or just trying to make conversation. this thread is a little old in my head though and i'm kinda afraid i skewed my perception of what's going on...sorry if i did. i just forgot why you want to race so bad.:icon_conf

 

[corylee316]

The question should have been posted more as how bad am I going to get beat. The guy has put 200 miles on his car this YEAR. He talks about how he loves to drive it all the time but never gets it out. I thought that calling him out would give him a whole day with his car. Me pushing him has done nothing but I still have the intentions of getting some times posted if/when the track is open. I might even go as far as putting some money on it to get him out. I just feel bad for him b/c he has so much going on that he can't do something that he loves.

 

[Figit090]

oh i see, that's nice. hopefully he'll get out and have some (safe) fun. what kinda vette is it again? 200 miles a year IS sad. why doesnt he drive that to work?

 

[corylee316]

Safe was the whole point. He won't do anything to compramise his car in any way. It's an '87 auto. He dosen't drive it to work b/c he lives on a gravel road and it's black. If he drives through the gravel lot at work he washes it. It takes him half an hour just to get the car out from his daughters garage. Between that and his honey do list that his wife seems to always have it makes it hard for him to find any time for himself. It would be more fun for him thanit would for me(getting beat is never fun).

 

[Figit090]

wow....half an hour? what the hell for? does he have it up on jacks and covered with 3 car covers?

too bad he doesnt just drive slow...you know he's probably wearing the paint out MORE when he washes it obessively. i live on a gravel driveway too... it stinks.

if you drive under 5 mph its fine though....

 

[corylee316]

He has to move cats and dogs that are kenneled in the garage. And one or two other cars.
I used to live on gravel and I know how much damage that it can do if you don't go slow. I think he's more worried about the other people that fly up and down his road like it's the salt flats.

 

[Figit090]

OH i see... sorry i imagine my road which is a one-lane all the way to pavement, no other cars. what kind of damage you mean, just paint right? i'm just talking from the car itself...i know another car could flip a rock and chip paint/crack windows and such...but is there something the car could do to itself?

 

[corylee316]

Mostly paint chips from other cars, but you can chip your own paint just from driving. My truck has a ton of chips in the paint from my own tires. In fact eh blue paint looks white from a few steps back from the chips. Nice thing is that it keeps the rust away from the constant abuse. Think sand blasting all the time.

 

[Figit090]

yeah...the fender flare bit just in front of my rear tires has been peppered...its been that way since i got it.

 

[corylee316]

I just looked up the site for the local track and they are hit miss for the rest of the year. I'll have to wait till the spring or head south for a weekend. I just want a baseline for myself. I'm new to the car and have a few plans. I don't really know what to expect. My '82 Thunderbird ran high 15's with a bent distributor shaft and I think this car is faster than that. I haven't really looked for any NA 1/4 times on here.

 

[7Mboost]

Now would be a good time for you to blow a hg or something fo an excuse, see if you can hit 7k rpm and let us know!

 

[Figit090]

lol....please dont.

 

[corylee316]

I've bounced it off the revlimiter a couple times on accident. No problems yet. When I replaced the valve cover gasgets I rechecked the tourque on the head bolts and I think someone beat me to the head gasket.

 

[Figit090]

how did you check it? back them off a crack and go at it again? i dont understand how to check it other than doing that, because static friction is much greater than kinetic and you cant just apply a torque wrench, hear it click, and assume its actually that pressure.... but yeah what did you do.


heh, once i started mine up and accidentally had my foot crammed on the gas...scared the shit out of me when it roared to life and quickly revved WAY up like it was about to explode. i was so worried something was broken and the engine was just going to eat itself that i just turned the key off...then i realised where my foot was. it was early and cold and i had just jumped in and didnt think to adjust my feet i guess.

 

[91T breezen']

C'mon, you are going to get your ass kicked!:icon_razz My brother had a 93, that ran a 13.96@105mph, and currently has a 98 C5, that ran a 13.68 @ 108mph, both stock! You will lose bad! I stick with what I told another N/A guy a long time ago...N/A's shouldn't race!!!:nono: LOL!:biglaugh:

 

[Figit090]

except theres the figure that the 93 has at least 60 extra hp over the 87...as much as 160 extra depending on the model.

sooo...the 87 wouldnt run those times. the weight didnt change much either from those years.

i found one dragrace printout that had an 87 stock vette that ran a 14.8 at 92 mph...

i think a vette would win but not woop him.