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you can laugh if you want - 8/22/2005 11:34:34 PM

brokenarmboy19

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Ok i got a stock 1996 dx and I was board so I went to the late night drags down at Portland International Raceway (PIR) and wanted to get laughed at. This was my first time racing. I got beat by every thing there and it was like 90 outside. My times you ask

17.485 @ 79.85mph

but my reaction times is why i am posting my fastest .055 my slowest .098 and this was my first time.
If only i had a faster car and more $$$ for practice.

So you can laugh if you want but I beat 2 vehicles one was a lifted truck and the other was a new landrover.

but you can comment on the r/t i am hoping for some feedback

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RE: you can laugh if you want - 8/22/2005 11:40:30 PM

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that reminds me of my first time when i had my dx motor in i was flying with a low 17 second haha. got to love it. still waiting to go with the new motor.

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RE: you can laugh if you want - 8/22/2005 11:42:24 PM

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damn nice RTs, and not bad for a stock dx, now, just start saving for that turbo kit

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RE: you can laugh if you want - 8/22/2005 11:51:09 PM

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Turbo that is about $3000 to much the car only cost me 4k and thanks i am proud of the R/T's. Oh and i am building my car for performance in the twistie back roads that means i think i need to be more like a spords car not an econo box my e/t's are the least of my worrys but i do want to run a low 15 or hi 14 eventually

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RE: you can laugh if you want - 8/22/2005 11:52:13 PM

Street Sniper

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Is that a manual tranny or auto? Those RTs are great, esp on a manual.

Dude nobody is gonna laugh at you here. I would say ~ 85% of our members are I/H/E or less and couldn't beat that time by much if at all. Now you have your baseline. Everytime you get a mod on there you have something to measure your results by.

What the word on a Mini-me? What mods are you looking at?

If you go next time, maybe do some free stuff to get that time down. Take out your back seats, spare and jack, passenger seat, and only go with a 1/4 tank of gas. Bump your timing up a few *'s and run high octane. Take out your air filter (you should be Ok for just a few runs on the track w/o one). Let a little air out of the tires. Hell, get under there and take off your cat and run an open header. But mainly lightening. Shhh! It's our weapon.

Any other suggestions?

You do those few freebies- I bet you could get it into the 16's.

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RE: you can laugh if you want - 8/22/2005 11:53:20 PM

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damn. now thats the right attitude! sticky tires, a set of sway bars, and a full coilover system with camber kits! mmm, good times, good times.

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RE: you can laugh if you want - 8/22/2005 11:56:28 PM

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oh it's a manual tranny and every one i raced was freaked out by the r/t's see what i get for those countless hours of playing x-box payed off

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RE: you can laugh if you want - 8/23/2005 8:18:08 AM

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Nice R/T's man, that was pretty much the only highlight of my first time out too.

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RE: you can laugh if you want - 8/23/2005 11:19:22 AM

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last year, my only time out in the stratus, i was running slow, of course, and there were only a few vehicles slower than myself. the bright side, like yours was in the first threee rounds of eliminations, i had a 501 lights (500 tree)...i made it to the finals, against the only vehicle in street stock that was slower than me...a 4 cyl automatic s10...and the big board spit out a 498...

nice reaction times brokenarm...

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RE: you can laugh if you want - 8/23/2005 12:24:07 PM

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Newer Land Rover? If its the Discovery ok. But if it was a Range Rover, Range Stormer, or the LR3 it should have smoked you sensless... maybe there was a terrible driver in there.

~ a mega Land Rover enthusiast.

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