If you respected the 8 for what it was, you would have made this a road course instead of a drag race.

 

Aye Dios Mio.

 

Drag racing is for knuckle-dragging, mullet-wearing idiots.

Put me on an autocross course or a road course and I'll show that SE-R who is boss. But I would never drag race my RX-8. Not because it's not a good drag racer (whcih from what I read here, is true), but because I'd never bother with anything remotely like drag racing.

 

Yep, road couse him. My friend drives a Sentra, and it does pretty respectable on the straights; especially when wound up.

But, on some windy roads like Lime Creek, or Volente here I have to pull over and wait for him.

 

If his SE-R is similar to this one, Backout of the race. http://www.nissanperformancemag.com/...2/jschumacher/

 

not -

http://www.garlits.com/

http://www.snakeracing.com/

http://www.yearone.com/leader_ads/grumply.asp

http://www.nhra.com/museum/features/feature16.html

just to name a few from the top of my head.

 

and...

http://www.dezertdemonz.com/

...oh... you were looking for classy?

 

Dezert Demonz is actually pretty nice as far as the El Paso racing scene goes.

 

discretion is the better part of valor. He may call you chicken if you back out, but to be beaten by a sentra is worse IMHO. And from the sounds of it, that thing is prolly putting about 175-180 to the wheels (similar to the 8) yet weights 500-750lbs less. Thats just asking to be beaten.

If you have a desire to race, do what i do, do it illegally on very twisty moutain roads

 

i never bet against a sure thing

 

Since we're in a betting thread. I got 10 bucks that says you couldn't build a drag car, yourself, competitive with those knuckle dragging, mullet-wearing idiots. Not because it can't be done, but because you aren't capable of it.

 

a friend of mine had a old SE-R, bone stock with a 75 shot on it and he ran a flat 14.0. be carefull.

 

I'd bet you 20 bucks that I'd never want to in a million years and could care less about that ****.

I'd say that it is quite true that I couldn't build one, unless it were built from scratch from KNEX and Lego parts and were powered by rubber bands - like we did with my son's scout troop and I PWNED everyone! Who hoo!

My drag racing rant was mainly aimed at the dipshits that practice STREET RACING, versus the professionals. The pros do amazing things, although again, other than hair trigger reaction times, and ***** of steel, there ain't much driving being done there.

 

Its ok, I understand, ur in that middle aged crisis thing and u consider "Street Racing" a punk thing right? Well I bet u weren't saying that while pushing ur Camaro to the Max in the late 70's while ur rat tail was flapping in the wind.

 

What's my excuse then? I think street racing is a punk thing too. I'm also beginning to think you're a punk. A punk out a 1000 dollars.

 

Well ... actually I call street racing a "stupid ******* idiot" thing, but that's just me.

I got my driver's license in 1978. The first thing my dad did with me then is take me to an SCCA road racing school at Road America in Elkhart Lake, WI. I learned road course driving then, and started entering autocrosses, driving my tired out 1976 Chevy Chevette, during my junior year in HS in 1979. You haven't lived until you've autocrossed a 78 horsepower Chevette - and you know what, I could make that car dance pretty well!

Fast forward to 1982, when I bought my first car of my own - a 1979 VW Scirocco, which I then heavily modified for road course driving - lowered suspension, improved the engine breathing, wider wheels and tires, stiffer shocks and springs, better brakes, etc. The engine mods simply helped the engine pull from the corners better but the big money was spent on handling mods (if $1500 was big money). I raced that car until 1985 when, for college graduation, I bought a brand new RX-7, which I autocrossed and road course raced.

So you might say I had a little different path. I never had an interest in street racing ever. Too much at stake.

Also, I never had a rat tail either. You have one of those in the town I grew up in, and someone would just rip it off the back of your head.

 

Are u serious? You guys that are replying about how f'ed up street racing is, are missing what I'm saying all along. If u read correctly what I originally wrote, I said I would be doing this at englishtown. Englishtown is a raceway in new jersey! What's street racing about that? Its a professional straight away with all sorts of supervision, get the street racing mentality out of ur empty heads. I originally came on this forum with a legit question, and all of u are totally going off course with ur answers. If u don't have a legit response u do not need to reply, it seems to me everyone is alittle tense nowadays, take a valium

 

You are right, I missed that point. My apologies.

If you've never raced before, however, regardless of how powerful of a car you are driving, I'd strongly recommend getting some instruction before strapping in and giving it a rip. Even in autocross, you learn the right and wrong way to launch a car, and there are definitely wrong ways to do it. You're behind the 8-ball with this $1000 bet as it is - I think the gang has established that here. At least make up for it by acquiring some skills before you lighten your wallet by a G. Then at least you won't need to blame it on driver error.

 

Want to race my K car for 5k?

 

i bet they might have some wicked chrysler AWD turbo minivans there! Those things are fast!

 

iI wonder how badly he got beat...

 

bad enought that he didnt want to even talk about it here

 

He had to sell his computer to get the $1k

 

He was a troll ... and slipped right back under his bridge where he belongs. I can't believe I apologized to him!

 

Why does everyone from NJ talk like they dropped out of school in grade 8?