|
|
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 4,140
Hard-core CEG\'er
|
Hard-core CEG\'er
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 4,140 |
I'm just not a drag guy. You can't auto-x or road race with a bottle. It's a cool technology, but I don't like nitrous because it's not sustainable. I personally don't enjoy drag racing enough to build a car that is best at going in a straight line. The "cheating" comment was a little tounge-in-cheek; mostly to get a rouse out of you, but I stand by it. You can build up a car to operate at it's maximum cylinder pressure with a F/I system that gives you N20 performance levels all the time. Nitrous is cheap and easy, but I'd never do a mod that is so limited, and clearly inferior to a (more expensive) F/I system.
On the other hand, the peakiness afforded by most F/I makes a car very difficult to transition in a situation where you have 100% tire load all the time, so I could rant about that too...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 4,292
Hard-core CEG\'er
|
|
Hard-core CEG\'er
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 4,292 |
Originally posted by 95UndersteerSleeper:
I'm just not a drag guy. You can't auto-x or road race with a bottle. It's a cool technology, but I don't like nitrous because it's not sustainable. I personally don't enjoy drag racing enough to build a car that is best at going in a straight line. The "cheating" comment was a little tounge-in-cheek; mostly to get a rouse out of you, but I stand by it. You can build up a car to operate at it's maximum cylinder pressure with a F/I system that gives you N20 performance levels all the time. Nitrous is cheap and easy, but I'd never do a mod that is so limited, and clearly inferior to a (more expensive) F/I system.
On the other hand, the peakiness afforded by most F/I makes a car very difficult to transition in a situation where you have 100% tire load all the time, so I could rant about that too...
....i dont think it entirely true..with a cheap nitrous setup,yeah auto-x or roadracing might be hard..but with a setup with a window swith were you can set it up to come on at a certain rpm,not just WOT...or am i wrong 
"Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but STUPID lasts forever."-Aristophanes.
--93 pgt,headers,intake,borla=14.9 1/4mile
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 4,140
Hard-core CEG\'er
|
|
Hard-core CEG\'er
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 4,140 |
It doesn't matter when it comes on, it's highly non-linear which means un-settling of the car in the corners. People who road race don't use nitrous.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 6,106
Addicted CEG\'er
|
|
Addicted CEG\'er
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 6,106 |
I do neither auto-x or road racing. I go to the track a few times a year, but nothing serious. I really only use it when "testing," how shall I say this.... HP/Weight ratios with other cars  Mark
2000 Black CSVT
3.0L Hybrid - 206fwhp & 195fwtq
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 4,140
Hard-core CEG\'er
|
|
Hard-core CEG\'er
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 4,140 |
Exactly what N2O is good for! Just not my cup o' tea.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 69
CEG\'er
|
|
CEG\'er
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 69 |
I hit 60 in about 4.7 seconds. Oh you mean in a Contour.. Nevermind... R
2004 WRX STI
91 Eclispe GSX (to many mods to list, Want to race?)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 9,602
Hard-core CEG'er
|
|
Hard-core CEG'er
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 9,602 |
Originally posted by SeR Guy1:
I hit 60 in about 4.7 seconds. Oh you mean in a Contour.. Nevermind...
Sounds quick.
I'll run ya. 
2000 SVT #674
13.47 @ 102 - All Motor!
It was not broke; Yet I fixed it anyway.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2000
Posts: 661
Veteran CEG\'er
|
|
Veteran CEG\'er
Joined: Jul 2000
Posts: 661 |
0-100 in 13 secs???
Are you serious?
A 425 hp Chrysler 300C SRT-8 will do it in 13.2 sec @ 109 mph.
A 2006 BMW 330i will do 0-100 in 14.3 sec @ 98 mph and that's rear drive.
What have you got under yer hood and how do you put the power down?
99 SVT Contour Silver Frost, #365/2760, DMD
98 Audi A4 2.8 Quattro Tiptronic, 30V -- SOLD!
91 Isuzu Impulse XS Kammback, Handling By Lotus
Victoria, BC, Canada
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 9,602
Hard-core CEG'er
|
|
Hard-core CEG'er
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 9,602 |
Originally posted by kerrychin:
0-100 in 13 secs???
Are you serious?
A 425 hp Chrysler 300C SRT-8 will do it in 13.2 sec @ 109 mph.
A 2006 BMW 330i will do 0-100 in 14.3 sec @ 98 mph and that's rear drive.
What have you got under yer hood and how do you put the power down?
13 seconds is a conservative estimate based on G-Tech guesstimates and 1/4 mile times.
The 1/4 mile states 102mph in under 13.5 seconds and we all know that's an average over the last 100' and at the final lights your are traveling faster then the estimate.
As for your comparison. The SRT-8 weighs over 4200lbs  I beat that by well over 1000lbs! It's a fuggin' pig of a boat to put it bluntly! They should put that engine (with a MANUAL!  ) in a real car and not a sofa of wheels!
2000 SVT #674
13.47 @ 102 - All Motor!
It was not broke; Yet I fixed it anyway.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 6,106
Addicted CEG\'er
|
|
Addicted CEG\'er
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 6,106 |
Originally posted by kerrychin:
A 2006 BMW 330i will do 0-100 in 14.3 sec @ 98 mph
Mark
2000 Black CSVT
3.0L Hybrid - 206fwhp & 195fwtq
|
|
|
|
|
