alright. I am not the most car savy person out there. But i have this friend who has been saying some outragious crap lately. starting with. he non-turbo impreza can beat the crap out of my 95 maxima. hello? i have 190hp/205ftlb?!?!? am i crazy to think his 4 cylinder has no chance? then he also told me once his intake is in he'll beat me by 3 car lengths or soemthing. obserd coment number 2. "I beat out a 14.1 prelude the other day" "the prelude didn't had NOS or turbo" WTF!!!! prelude is a 4 banger right? wouldn't it need a turbo to get low 14!?!?!? or NOS. how could a four banger get low 14. please tell me i'm not crazy and my friend is a stupid idiot rice eater. thx

 

4 bangers have some kick to them.
Integra Type R
Prelude 5 speed
elise(hehe)
s2000
and many more but most of them have turbo

 

My Benz is a 4 and it would destroy my Max anyday.

Erik

 

yeah Erik, but I think he's refering to NA 4-bangers. The only NA 4 that I think seriously burns a 4th gen is an S2000... we started at 50mph, even up to about 75-ish, but that bastard had a couple car lengths on me by the time I shifted into 4th.

Oh yeah, Integra Type R, I guess (prolly not as quick as the S2K though).

Oh one more thing, I actually drove an Impreza RS 2.5 before I looked at the Max back in Summer '99... and that car had *NO BALLZ*. I was really disappointed, and judging by the WRX's popularity, I guss so were the rest of the people who drove the NA Impreza looking for a quick sporty coupe... do they sell a 2-door WRX yet?

 

A prelude 5-speed would pull on a auto 4th gen, a Integra GS-R with bolt ons could walk a 4th gen, a Celica GTS would bolts ons could walk a 4th gen. All these 4 bangers listed pull hard on the top.

 

4 bangers are not that slow

for example

my 1994 integra with ls/vtec with civic type r pistons

when i did a compression test i put 225 and my ratio is 11

and oh yea, im not here flammin because i do own a maxima i just dont want you to get the idea all 4 bangers are slow

 

What exactly do you mean by "stupid idiot rice eater?"

 

Yeah, I eat rice all the time. I'm not a stupid idiot.

 

Nobody here will beat my 4 banger honda with a maxima. Well maybe 1 or 2 of the cars here may hang with it. 4 cylinder motorcycles hehe. I've never run it at the track but the mags can do high 10s and I've seen one guy with my bike doing low 11s. Anyway thats beside the point... my friends got a 2.5 RS, one thing he WILL beat you is off the line. He can launch that thing hard as ***** and it will hook right up due to AWD, where our FWD will just spin and spin and spin. He also runs low to flat 15s at the drag strip with minimal bolt ons (intake). So yes, that non turbo'd 4 cylinder is enough to beat most auto maxima's and stick maximas with average drivers.

 

on the street it is much different, maybe from a red light he'll have a little advantage, but what if the race is over 1/4miles? I bet your friend isnt trapping anywhere that high. Or on the roll, an auto maxima will slowly catch up and walk that bad boy.

 

What kind of bike do you have? Anyway, as for the subject at hand, personally I aint scared of any car let alone a 4 cyl. Power to weight ratios is really what we are talking about here. All things kept equal then yes maybe there are a few 4 cyls that can take out a max but two things have to be taken into consideration here: 1. drivers do make a difference and, 2. unless the 4 cyl is modded pretty well even if he does beat you it won't be by much. Unless he has a high end 4 cyl. and all he has is an intake then just run him and teach him a lesson. He's probably talking out of both sides of his mouth. BTW, there is no way that if all he has is an intake (unless he has as mentioned before a high end 4 cyl) that he has a 14 sec. car. As I said before, I aint scared of any car because if they out run me then so what....I'm not racing for slips or money. If you do that then worry. Maximas have never been touted to be the fastest but if done correctly could stand their own with just about anyone...to a certain point.

 

I got a 01 CBR600F4i. Its fast but I know its not the god of the road by any means. Nor am I the god of all riders.

Whats so hard to believe a 4 cyl car can trap out at near 100 MPH? I dont know the 2.5 RS's traps, but there are lightly modded new Celicas running low 14s at near 100 MPH trap speeds at the drag I race at.

 

SLK230 is a dogg. I dont think it will take a stock auto.

 

I have a 900rr (if you hadn't figured that one out by now..lol) I don't have any trouble believing that SOME highly modded 4's can go into the 14's, but my point was that the guy described in the beginning of this thread is not one of those in the 14's. If he is saying that his "4 cyl" with an intake is going to smoke a max or even a "14.1 sec prelude"; he's been smoking something alright but it's not anything that has to do with cars....lol.

 

I dunno... one of my friends who has a 94 integ. gs-r. I didnt put him down at first, but I sorta doubted him, he's running intake only but spring/shocks. he also doesnt have much practice drag racing at all and he ran 15.0 in 3 runs. I was kinda shocked.

 

There was an Impreza RS 2.5 in my autocross group, who won every time he showed up. Sure the driver makes a difference, but when the times are consistently that good, the car has something to do with it too.

 

my buddy has a Lotus Esprit.. nice little 4banger

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A Subaru WRX could beat a 14.1 prelude. So what your friend is saying is that with a stock or a lightly modified Impreza he is capable of the same acceleration of a WRX .