Altima 3.5=1 RX-8=0

[STL08]

A friend of mine has a new Mazda RX-8 and on Sat. night we got into to a little race. Let me just say I smoked his *** bad. He was really shocked and pissed. Oh well. Just thought I'd share.

[chow]

The 3.5 has alot more HP on the rx8.He'll smoke you in a drift battle though :P

[squik]

How does one battle drift a front wheel drive car.....with out the use of lunch trays.

[1unar3clipse]

How does one battle drift a front wheel drive car.....with out the use of lunch trays.

Metal cookie sheets with those orange plastic wheel chocks from wal-mart hot glued to hold the tires like sleds.

[shift_mikey]

Metal cookie sheets with those orange plastic wheel chocks from wal-mart hot glued to hold the tires like sleds.

[1unar3clipse]

Well I guess someone with honed skills can drift FWD without them, but the cookie sheets and chocks only cost me 8 bucks total and I still haven't ruined them completely.

[windhaven]

[jdshift]

Good kill , details?

[shift_mikey]

Well I guess someone with honed skills can drift FWD without them, but the cookie sheets and chocks only cost me 8 bucks total and I still haven't ruined them completely.

You joking? I was laughin cause it sounded like you were being sarcastic. Pics?

[1unar3clipse]

You joking? I was laughin cause it sounded like you were being sarcastic. Pics?

About what? Skilled FWD drifters or my home made sleds?

[shift_mikey]

pics of the home made sleds! Never seen/heard of it before!

P.S. Altima 3.5=+1, Mitsubishi Galant 3.8= 0!!

I had one try to pass me the other night. He came around me and only got to my door before i started pullin on him. I didn't leave him in the dust, but i was pullin on him until we caught traffic.

[Hussain]

lol i love my car and my friend's nick named it "crazy CVT"

3.5 coupe VS 05 SRT-4 with full exhaust, CAI, motor mounts, intercooler, aftermarket wheels and tires = 3.5 coupe WIN

3.5 coupe VS 2000 GT Mustang with CAI and flowmaster mufflers = 3.5 coupe WIN

3.5 coupe VS VW R32 = 3.5 coupe WIN

3.5 coupe VS Evo 8 from 30 mph to 110 mph = WIN

and the list goes on lol so far the only thing to beat me around here was a 12 second Z28 camero. nothing around here comes close from 0-120 mph.... except maybe my brother's C5 corvette which i wont race for a long time lol

my friend's SRT-4 has beaten S2000's and 350z's but i beat him! another SRT-4 i raced beat 350z's and S2000's but i beat him too. i lost to the SRT-4's in manual mode but in CVT, well they shift i jump ahead lol i got really suprised, the car is alot faster then i expected. right now all i have done is 2.5" cat back with the stock muffler. i'm going to cut off the stock muffler and go with no muffler till i get TRUE DUAL exhaust

[windhaven]

I go with sleds, because I have limited skills ..... Plus ..... $8, can't beat it.

[generic808]

lol i love my car and my friend's nick named it "crazy CVT"

3.5 coupe VS 05 SRT-4 with full exhaust, CAI, motor mounts, intercooler, aftermarket wheels and tires = 3.5 coupe WIN

3.5 coupe VS 2000 GT Mustang with CAI and flowmaster mufflers = 3.5 coupe WIN

3.5 coupe VS VW R32 = 3.5 coupe WIN

3.5 coupe VS Evo 8 from 30 mph to 110 mph = WIN

Uhmm...Are you sure that Lancer was a real EVO VIII and not just badged? Or was the driver that bad? Because I know for a fact that an Altima can't even come close to that car. The EVO runs low-mid 13 sec 1/4's and will beat an Altima by at least 10 car lengths. Even running a 30-110, the EVO will smoke the Altima, period.

[bigred311]

so yea im either calling BS or a few of these people cant drive, evo should have had you, mustang should have had you.....

[bArCoDe52]

350Z .... Tie. The look on his face was priceless.

[shift_mikey]

i'm gonna have to raise the on this one.

I'm gonna suggest it was either not the real models, or they are the worst drivers ever.

[Hussain]

Evo 8 has 271 horsepower in a car that i'd think is heavy (4 door) and all wheel drive is only good off the line, after that it actually works against you cuz of weight issues and it causes more friction. only reason why the Evo is a mid 13 sec car is cuz it launches off the line hella quick, after that its not all that quick..... plus it was 2 guys in the car with the windows down and sun roof open (more wind resistance), i turned off the AC, put the windows up, closed the sun roof. off the line the Evo would kill me no question's asked but from a roll it's nothing special

2000 AUTOMATIC GT Mustangs run 14.4 and my friend had big rims on it so that slowed him down alot.

[doi]

if anything the evo would be faster in the 30-110 range becaues turbo lag would affect it off the line. he was prolly just a ****ty driver

[Hussain]

ya the Evo could have just been a ****y driver but the cars are alot closer then people thing. i mean the Evo 8 has 1 more horsepower! and it should be a heavier car, plus with 2 guys in the car with the windows down and i was alone with the windows up. but ya, he was probably just a ****ty driver. the SRT-4's beat me in manual mode and even the R32 got me at first but as soon as they would shift a gear i'd hella jump ahead cuz i wasn't shifting (CVT). CVT works really good, i'm surprised how good it works. off the line step on the brake and give it gas till its at almost 3000 RPM and then take off and it does hella good

[bigred311]

i love how now your making every excuse in the book to try and cover you *ss because u know none of this happened and u decided u wanted to sound cool. until people with some car common sense spoke up. lets see so from a roll u pull on the mustang by maybe a car from the beginning but if he has any mods he would reel u in really quickly since the cars weigh almost the exact same. The evo driver had to be the worst driver in the world since his car generally weighs less, and no one keeps an evo stock, it would just be worthless because he would have just bought a lancer. so pretty much either these 2 guys have no idea how to drive or you are just full of sh*t

[generic808]

Turbo lag on the EVO, along with any other turbo'd car, is an issue off the line. An EVO and the STi are very comparable cars and one of my best friends has an STi which I have the pleasure of driving quite often. These two cars are beasts on the road; just pure raw power! I don't know if you really know the capabilities of these cars; they are basically street legal race cars versus a family coupe? A rolling start will have the EVO smokin' you every which way possible because lag will not be an issue. I'm saying it was a regular four-cylinder Lancer with EVO badges, wheels and spoiler There is no way an Altima could even hang with the EVO!

Well, unless he was running only 6psi boost on reg unleaded with five 200lbs adults and a couple of dead bodies in the trunk with tires only inflated to 20psi. Then, maybe the Altima has a chance
Modified by generic808 at 2:19 PM 10/23/2007

[shift_mikey]

Absolutely. Not to mention that anybody that has any idea even how to shift, would not be pulled on that hard by a CVT. I used to be able to shift my civic fast enough that the passanger never even lunged forward from letting off the throttle and back on.

[Hussain]

the evo i only saw 1 time and don't know the guy, maybe it was just a evo look alike but the GT Mustang is my friend and i whooped his *** like 6 times in a row. ill try and get ahold of him and see if we can film it next time.... the SRT-4's gave a better fight and did get me a couple times. my friend's moded SRT-4 takes automatic GT Mustangs all day and we did film the SRT-4 race. ill try and get ahold of the the guy with the GT mustang and see if we can film it next time.... the Evo, i never met the guy before, just saw him 1 time on the road and raced him

[redtop91]

Not to down the Altima, but it's not a sports car. You might just take an RSX but that would be close. Anything above that the Altima is toast provided that the other driver can reach the pedals. I'm gonna have to call shens on your story bro. They weren't racing.

[gotak]

Absolutely. Not to mention that anybody that has any idea even how to shift, would not be pulled on that hard by a CVT. I used to be able to shift my civic fast enough that the passanger never even lunged forward from letting off the throttle and back on.

One of those misconceptions about manual cars. The Williams F1 team actually tried to use a CVT but was banned by the FIA. It doesn't matter if you are the best shifter in the world you are still not fast enough to beat a machine. If you need a solid example check out the differences in times between a DSG GTI and a manual GTI the DSG is quicker.

[shift_mikey]

i never stated i could shift faster then a machine. I claimed to shift very fast.

Never really saw anybody speculate either, why the 6spd A/C is a few tenths faster in the 1/4 then the CVT

[kidatheart]

The CVT may shift faster but it can't handle a Turbo (I wish it could). Put one of those on and jump the power up to 450HP (that is what has been speculated on another thread) and you can afford to shift a little slower.

[Hussain]

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not the best vid but he deleted the other ones or the passenger was talkin too much ****. he cheated off the line and this was with my car in manual mode, CVT is quicker then putting it into manual mode. at the end when he gets me, that's 120 MPH and my car gets slow after 120. i guess it's cuz i haven't broken in the higher MPH yet.... i've only done 135 MPH with the car so far. it used to take forever to hit 130 but then after a few times of doin it, it started hitting it faster, when i raced the VW R32, i hit 135 hella faster then i used to hit 130 mph.

i did lose this race but this shows how i kept up with the moded SRT-4 (that takes automatic GT Mustangs all day) in manual mode, when he got a head start, all the way up to 120 mph

[Hussain]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-rF8ZgF5rCE

theres the link to the vid. ill try and make a vid during the day and in CVT and the guy with the mustang didn't get back to me about another race on film yet