My 95 240sx vs. 03 Neon SRT-4

[240SXer]

I raced a friend at work's Neon SRT-4. We raced down hill, ya I know, go figure, better for his FWD worse for my RWD plus I lose my big traction advantage. But that's how he wanted to race so whatever. A person in the SRT-4 called the race over a Nextel phone, it was not days later till I remembered that the Nextel’s have about a .5 second latency so that's why he takes off before me. You can tell from the video I didn’t launch. He took off then I took off, I pulled up next to him after I hit boost and held him till about 75mph. maybe I’m just being a sore loser. I lost by about a car length, when I let off and went behind him I was doing about 95mph, which is about when the 1/4 is over for me. Anyway, here is the video:

http://www.racingonthestreet.c...4.AVI

This is my car's setup for the race:

Race weight 3,075lbs. (2 people + subs)95 240sxS13 SR20DETHybrid FMICK&N Intake3in down pipeApex Dual N1Stock boost

[240SXer]

Save target as on the video, I don't have a streaming server. Plus it's slow.

[PIONEER]

what happened at the 13/14 second mark, did you miss shift?? those SRT guys are ****y as hell

[240SXer]

Well, that was when I hit 4th gear, i guess combined with my inability to shift into 4th superfast and his car just pulled harder at those speeds. Till then I was right on him.

[Altiman94]

sounds like it was a good race even though you were edged out. With that 14.4 1/4 it seems abotu right that you woulda been edged out.

[drifter_for_life06]

was that SRT stock ?

[240SXer]

I think it had a K&N... But ya, stock. Bone stock.

[TachyonS14]

I think you did pretty damn good. You didn't launch, and you are running stock boost on an s13 engine in a heavier s14. And seeing as those srt's run like what? 15 16 lbs of boost. I say crank It up a few pounds! But he did win, make sure that's the last one :ylsuper

[PalmerWMD]

I think you can squeeze out a win under the rigth conditions.

Fred..

[Altiman94]

I don't know about that one fred. If he hasn't broken into the 14's there's a small cahnce if any only if the srt-4 driver is a very bad driver.

[240SXer]

I'm not sure how good of a driver he is. We basically went from a street start, which isnt what I wanted, so it was just straight acceleration and not traction. I'm sure if we started at the same time and I was able to launch I could win. But races aren't always fair and that's life I guess.

[TachyonS14]

If It were me, I would have paid the extra money and got an S14 motor because of the T-28 turbo. Anyway, shake It off and rip him apart next time.

[240SXer]

For the extra it would have costed it just was not worth it at the time. It's harder and more expencive to get parts for the S14 motor anyway.