Me and Steve met up today to swap out our headlights(I gave him my clear ones) and of course to do a few races The smack talk has been going on since our 4th gens, lol. So we lined up on a wide big straight road. He beeped 1,2,3 and we took off, he spun a bit and I jumped him off the line, then I went to shift into second with a one car lead and I missed the gear, argh. A truck appeared at the end of the road so we had to call the first run off.

Run 2, we lined up again and he beeped 3 times, I beat him off the line again. I slowly pulled away to about 90 MPH and he was about 3-4 lenghts back.

Run 3 I counted to 3 and we got out of the hole about the same, I got ahead of him a little. We where pretty close the whole race, by about 90 he was about a 1/2 a car back.

After this we decided to see how are cars whould do from a 40 MPH role. He beaped 3 times and he got a little bit of a jump on me(only a few ft but he had momentum) and by about 90 MPH he was on my front door.

We did a few more rolling races and I ended being ahead of his car by about a half a car.

Over all I'd say are cars are pretty damn close but on a roll I pull away a little bit on him. He needs to get his street launch down too, hehe. We figured out his clutch pedal is a bit screwy too, it feels all slushy, it's not nearly as crisp as mine. I supect he either has air in his clutch fluid resovoir or maybe his TOB is screwed up?

I also figured out my AE pedal is what's screwing up my car.

Anhow, I had a fun day today, it was great meeting up with you Steve.

And I should also mention that Steves car looks really nice, I love the blue color. His big brake kit seems to work very well too although brake pedel feel has been compromised(it's worth it though).

 

Yeah yeah... now tell us the truth Ethan.



hehe j/k I wish I could have seen that.

 

you guys stop that street racing ya hear

 

Matt Ethan

 

Are you sure it wasn't "Steve Ethan" ????

 

Haha, quit the spaming punk!

 

Who??

 

hehe... steve called me to tell me about it... all he said was how his clutch sucks and how he things he's a cop with his headlights

- M

 

Proof that the UDP works!

 

lol, his lights do look like cop car lights now. BTW I wish you had come over to tape the races. That would be very intertaining to watch!

 

and Y-pipe

 

yeah well i have to break some knees at a nissan dealership cause i bought a honda from em and they've decided to keep it... bastards...

 

I think he did pretty well considering you have more mods than him. All Steve has is an intake right?

 

The last I knew, Steve had FSTB, RSB, Progress/KYB AGX, Catback, 18" wheels, BF Goodrich G-Force KD tires.

 

Intake(of course) gutted cat and cat-back exhaust. And I agree his car kept up very well with me. However my car has been acting very odd lately so I don't know if it is running 100% or not.

 

What was that? You unplugged two coils before the race??

 

Man, these are the best kind of races, 2 very similarly equippped cars. Its almost all about the driver

next time you should trade cars and race to see how the other car really feels, and also really know if its all due to driver skill or not.

DW

 

 

Hey Ethan,

Did you ever race the guy with the WRX... Or is he still too afraid?!

 

We almost switched cars but decided that it was not worth doing becuase if one of us broke something on the others car it would really suck.


Matt, I don't get it?

Amazing2, I never heard from him, I guess he wimped out, lol.

 

the race accounts sound pretty accurate, they were all very close. something is DEFINETLY wrong with my clutch throw and i need to find out what it is, it's horribly different then ethan's and he said that he would have trouble launching my car with the clutch like that.

my car looks awesome with the cleared lights and blue bulbs, insanely illegal but so hot at the same time. i'm glad we did it, thanks again ethan.

i actually got lost on the way to his hosue and my cell phone wasn't working, there are two roads with the same name, i went down the wrong one and he came looking for me after he realized that's prolly what i did. no headlights and all he drove around for me it was funny. i actually said to him on the way to the dealer that i bet it was his AE pedals because the accelerator one didn't fit right and i bet that's what it was. we got to the dealer and they cleared the CEL and the reason was accelerator pedal.


and i have an intake, catback, and a test pipe(not a gutted cat) i had an idea for a ghetto y-pipe too, get a cali spec 2k pipe and have the rear bank cut and weld a new flange onto it so that it bolts up to the rear pre cat, i'm not sure if it will make as much power.

 

did anyone get to fail safe mode? b

 

No limp modes from what I understand. I think some viagara was involved.

 

Haha I called steve and all I heard was an intake and him yelling something...then he told me about the races...Anyways too bad I wasnt there cause I woulda whipped both the 2k2's A$$'s

 

sure..


Darren the retard mode did not show up today, however it's lurking in the back round waiting to spoil a good race.

 

Ethan we need to meet up dude, I mean shiet I live on like the border of RI...Ill e-mail you later

 

darn you good stock engines!

 

take it to the track.

 

Track will tell all

 

It's to bad the track is 2 hours each way We need a track in Rhode island!

 

track is much safer. Remember, Steve has already cracked up his car.

 

 

blah

 

you know whats is funny is that looking at the 1/4 trap speeds of both of the cars, anytime you race from a roll, emax should walk dmb. what is it like 94mph to 99mph?, that is huge. I trap roughly 5 mph faster than my friends civic, and I walk him from any speed and gear. I would guess that the traps at dmb's track are a little off or something, because you guys are pretty close. Thats why comparing trap speeds is so hard to do when it is different track and different conditions, it is so much easier if you just race the other person.

 

hey now, just trying to keep you people alive in one functioning piece.

 

Interesting.

 

sounds like a fun race. too bad this thread is illegal!! where are those moderators.....

 

the mods are in bed with me and ethan, how do you think this thread is still up and

 

I still own steve and ethan...the 2k2's arent that fast

 

Well Steve lowers his tire PSI to like 18 PSI at the track so that right there causes a lot of rolling resistance on his car and lowers his trap speed. When we raced from about 0-90 I was probably going about 3 MPH quicker at the end. Steve got his low trap speed on a very cool day(which is great for traps) and I got got mine on a humid 80 degree(which of course is bad for racing) so I don't think track conditions is the case. I think we went to the same track too? Did you do your 14.3 at NED Steve?


Erica just so you know the road we raced on was basicaly a 1/4 mile track, there are no houses around and you can see for about a 1/2 mile ahead of you. The only danger present is if a deer ran in front of my car(they only come out at night around here though).