So I was on my way to my friend's apt for a party supposedly, just cruising, savin' gas. I hit a red light. Car pulls next to me. I thought it was a Trans-Am.
Guy whistles at me. I look...it's an FD! haha...I was like "YEEAAHHH!!!! I'M NOT ALOOOOOONE!!!!" haha.. I haven't perfected launching yet, with my quite unstreetable OS Giken twin-plate w/ flywheel, so I didn't launch. He semi-launched, and had about 2 cars by the time I went WOT and hit full-boost in 1st. 2nd gear, he hit rev limiter, and was spinning in 2nd(stock rims on his) he says. So then I was next to him in 2nd, but I hit fuel-cut about about 6,700RPM...lost about half a car thx to it. By 3rd gear, he ended having 1 car on me, 'tis all. Then we pulled over to talk. It was awesome lookin' under that hood. LS1 or whatever. Nice aftermarket radiator with well-done ducting. Totally sweet. Very quiet too, haha, can you believe that? Oh, he shot flames too. So when I saw the LS1, I couldn't help but think about that...usually you affiliate ROTARY with shooting flames out of the exhaust. haha Cool guy too. Avid forum-er, but aparently he's been somewhat "disowned" for going V8, at least on RX7club he said. I thought it was cool. He gave me some good rotary-related tips/advice too. :P My mods? Bah "Poor Man's Non-Sequential" @ 9-10psi Greddy 3" down-pipe stock cat APEXi N1 catback OS Giken Twin-Plate clutch/pressure-plate w/ lightened-flywheel Intakes Pettit AST coming Monday. :P What a out-of-nowhere fun night!..till I got to the "party" that is. Bah. >_> :P |
learn how to drive and tune your car
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Thats still pretty cool you didnt get stomped by him. He pry has close to 100hp and 150lbsq advantage on you.
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lol thanks v8
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Originally Posted by rfreeman27' post='787677' date='Dec 18 2005, 02:57 AM
learn how to drive and tune your car I can't see why it's hitting fuel cut at 10psi with just intakes, dp, exhaust, and "poor man's non-seq." Explain THAT to me, and then I can 'tune' it....with...you tell me. I have it turned down to 8 1/2-9psi now. Learn how to drive, you say? Didn't you read the part where I said I was uncomfortable with the clutch, thus I didn't launch? Why do you have to be so rude? Not cool. :/ |
Originally Posted by rfreeman27' post='787677' date='Dec 17 2005, 11:57 PM
learn how to drive and tune your car wow. encouraging. |
Sounds like you had some fun. I would think with your mods he would have ate you alive but good runs non the less
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Eh..I met up with him later and he kept pointing out his loss of traction and lack of manual-transmission skills.
I don't doubt him, but I think he's still exaggerating. I had met someone who's quite rotary-knowledgable, has quite the collection, and almost bought mine before I did, and he gave me props saying I have a really clean car that's pretty quick. His FD is non-seq, but he has it set up right at a solid 10psi. He couldn't figure out why I fuel-cut at or anything over 10psi either in late 2nd gear, or mid 3rd gear, etc. Bleh. All I want is 10psi solid. Until I upgrade to Power FC, fuel-pump, FMIC, radiator, etc. |
Eff the V8. Good run, get the car going better.
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Don't mind rfreeman27, he is usually grumpy. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png
At least the V8 was a clean swap like you said. |
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