has anyone raced a 01,02 TRANS AM??(I searched, but came up with nothing)

[Sky240PWR]

OK. just wondering how did you do? I raced my friends 02 TRANS AM last night and came up a little short, I have a RB25DET in my 91 hatch, mods are Greddy intake and FMIC, downpipe, test pipe and Tanabe exhaust and we turned the boost up to 11.........I have org rims on with some bald a$$ tires and I need to put my car on a diet( me too!!!..LOL) and a bigger fuel pump wouldn't hurt either........anyway, if you have raced a TA, then tell me how you did and how much hp you're putting out and what mods you have.

[Repo Man]

Well, the fact is that most 240's are going to come up short against an LS1 powered F-Body. GM High Tech tested an '02 SS Camaro with a 6m at 12.9 in the quarter, STOCK. Evan Smith was driving and apparently he is Don Garlits himself. It doesn't take much to get them into the low 12's. They just don't handle very well and their ergonomics suck.

What was done to this T/A?

[Sky240PWR]

I think a air intake and full exhaust.....I got him off line and he caught me at 3-4 gear,..like I said, I think if my tires weren't bald and I take my back seat and back interior out and a bigger few pump, I thinkn I could take him!...I think tomarrow I'm going to put my rims and tires on and take out a bunch of stuff and race him again.......here are my rims I'm going to put on(I bet they hook up better then my stock+bald tires )18x11.......18x9.

[ILikeMy240sx]

I drove my friends WS-6 once and that thing was pretty quick for having just a full exhaust setup.

Also, Ive seen TAs do mid 12s consistantly with very little mods over and over.

They sure are fast.

[drifter_for_life06]

theres a kid around here who's 16 with a WS6 and he claims he spent approx. 1200 on headerback for it, if thats all he has done, i plan to race him soon

[98s14inaz]

I think a air intake and full exhaust.....I got him off line and he caught me at 3-4 gear,..like I said, I think if my tires weren't bald and I take my back seat and back interior out and a bigger few pump, I thinkn I could take him!...I think tomarrow I'm going to put my rims and tires on and take out a bunch of stuff and race him again.......here are my rims I'm going to put on(I bet they hook up better then my stock+bald tires )18x11.......18x9.

You need shorter wheels. 18" is too tall for a 240.

[574-240sx]

LS1 are quick and it doesn't take much to make 400whp.

[dickie]

my friends z28 with cams intake and full exhaust was a beast to drive, but camaros and t/a's are boats. get him onto a track with curves

[TheOne]

theres a kid around here who's 16 with a WS6 and he claims he spent approx. 1200 on headerback for it, if thats all he has done, i plan to race him soon

things can be quite expensive i tell ya, my brother has an 01 vette, a catback exhaust costs between $600-1200(up to $1400 for the best corsa exhaust) and headers are almost as expensive.

those things can really hit 12's or high 11's with bolt-ons.(TA's)

[Sky240PWR]

You need shorter wheels. 18" is too tall for a 240.

well I paid $3900 for my rims and tires I have now so...I can't change them now....here is a pic from the side.......I'm putting them on tomarrow afternoon, I will post some pics of them on the car, I also have Megan coilovers but I'm waiting to put those on till after my bodyshop is done

[drifter_for_life06]

wheels look massive

id go for a smaller wheel though, but thats me

good luck on running him again

[lrb_2000]

lol.. how are 18's too big for a 240? he could put 20's if he felt like it.

[98s14inaz]

lol.. how are 18's too big for a 240? he could put 20's if he felt like it.

We are talking about racing here, 18's will take too much energy to get spinning so the TA will have him off the line. If he had a supra with a billion whp I would say go for 18's but this is a 240 (sr20/rb25/ka-t...300whp give or take) 18's will only slow him down He needs to run some super light 17's.

[lrb_2000]

OHHH, I thought you meant fitment issues lol.. I agree with you.. especially those 18's.. they look like they weigh about 50lbs lol.. they're very nice, but seem pointless unless you're putting down some pretty crazy power.

[tyrannix]

the 2nd last gen of ws-6 weighs 3450 and puts out 320 hp 325 ft-lbs stock*and* they handle like a manatee(a guy with one here wants to race my car once its all together) he (had) lt1 heads on, but blew them... it had a supercharger at some point... but not now, and he says hees been thru 15 clutches, on his stock engine....

couldnt make that up

[240sxjeff]

dude my cousin once had a WS-6 transam it was auto and only had exhaust and that thing hauled ***. I was so surprised that a car that heavy with only exhaust and an auto transmission could push me back so hard in the seat.

[dickie]

back in the old days cars relied on brute power because they were so freaking heavy. not much has changed in the domestic market since then. its funny because usually you see ignorant people ripping on imports for their smaller, less powerful engines, not the other way around

[Doomed2Walk]

Drove a WS6 with a blower, very fast, very fun, very scary. The car supposedly does high 11s, but I think it would need slicks for that. Honestly, F-bodies don't handle as bad as people think, yes, they're heavy, but when compared to the S-chassis most cars are. The F-bodies are just a lot more sensitive to throttle input and less forgiving than the S-chassis so they're harder to drive, not necessariliy handle much worse.

[dickie]

i beg to differ, but maybe its because all i was driving was g-bodies and ff cars before i drove the z28... the g-body cutlass i had handled better.

[carterceo]

my advice is get some wider tires. It may be the picture but those look very stretched. Its pointless to have a 11 inch wheel if your gonna run a 275/40 or really anything under a 295. Just ads alot of un-sprung wieght.

[574-240sx]

I have seen what some f bodies can do on an autocross course. Its a big car but they can be setup to handle well. Stock LS1 f bodies don't handle bad for stock.

[BlackFlag_s13]

Did you put your wierd french widebody kit on yet? Lol forgot the name... If not post pics of an 18x11 on a stock-body 240, that will be pretty funny...

[217zenki]

STOP RACING THAT GODDAMN CAR !!!!!!!!!You really need to run new thicker wires and a fuel pump before u burn that ***** up......What ever happened with the rear axle ?

[driftsil40]

does someone sell those wheels in the us? and yes if yo uplan on beating him throw some drag radials on those bad boys! get him bad out of the hole and keep out, most of the stock ta's dont hook up very well on street tires, my friend has one and it just spins bad but when it hooks it goes good. ive been trying to reace it but hes scared

[drifter_for_life06]

the kid i know with a WS6 can hook up okay, but if he goes WOT from teh launch itll get wheel hop and some spin trough first and then hook second

if you get him off the line you should have him the entire way, maybe not by much, but you should have him

[Sky240PWR]

carterceo........255/35/18...225/40/18 was the tire size Jacquemond told me they were running on there demo car. but next time around I'm going with a wider tire.

BlackFlag_s13........it's the Jacquemond wide body kit and it doesn't go in the shop till Jan. 1st, and then it'll take him 5-6 months to get it all done(I'm having alot of custom work done) and yes it does look pretty funny on a stock body!!

driftsil40........I don't think they sell these over here, I got mine from Jacquemond the same time I got my body kit, and I did put them on and took it out to the highway to test them out and they spin for a split second and then hook up, alot better then before.

as far as the first race goes I got him off the line even with alot of wheel spin and he ended up passing me between 3-4 gear, so with these rim and tires I should hook up alot better and either beat him or tie him in the 1/4.

OHHH, I thought you meant fitment issues lol.. I agree with you.. especially those 18's.. they look like they weigh about 50lbs lol.. they're very nice, but seem pointless unless you're putting down some pretty crazy power.

well 217zenki can vouch that they aren't as heavy as they look, we were at his house and his friend had some 17x7 1/2 and they were heavier then my 18x11, both with tires....I guess thats why they were almost $4000 with tires.......and as far as crazy power, I've got a new turbo that rated at 780 hp so, when the body's being done so will the bigger turbo(pt67)

217zenki.......I'm getting the fuel pump, are you talking about fuel lines when you say thicker wires??

[217zenki]

Nissan used basiclly speaker wire for the us s13 chasis fuel pumps You need a thicker gauge wire ran for the fuel pump to work to its full potential

[217zenki]

And yes his wheels are insane .. They are ten times lighter then u could imagine...

I used to have a LS1 Camaro its kind of tricky to launch but the key is 1,500 rpm let the car do its magic from there...If not the only magic is gonna be the great amount of tire smoke

[Sky240PWR]

Nissan used basiclly speaker wire for the us s13 chasis fuel pumps You need a thicker gauge wire ran for the fuel pump to work to its full potential

well where can I get some thicker wire at? and how much is that going to run me?

[dickie]

id say you could get some pretty good wire @ radioshack or whatever other electronics place you can think of. they have heavy shielded thick-gauge wire in the back if its not on the floor. cmon man you can spend all that money on wheels, tires, BODY KIT, etc but you cant afford some wiring? :P