Coworker picked up his WRX yesterday...race worthy?
05-02-2001, 02:02 PM
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by davo-cls:
Two things about that run I don't understand.
1) He dropped the clutch at 6000rpm to run a 14.3@93.55mph. Isn't that clutch suicide or what?
2) How does he have such a low ET with a lower speed. The driver in the other lane had a 14.4@101mph. That's an 8mph difference.
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Two things about that run I don't understand.
1) He dropped the clutch at 6000rpm to run a 14.3@93.55mph. Isn't that clutch suicide or what?
2) How does he have such a low ET with a lower speed. The driver in the other lane had a 14.4@101mph. That's an 8mph difference.
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This happened for a couple of reasons. When the mph is higher that usually elludes to high HP from the engine. When it is lower, it denotes that the car put its HP on the ground much more efficiently and it could happend for many reasons too.
In this case the AWD feature helps the Subaru to put all its power down. If you combine that with short gearing which it has and a good driver shifting super fast, what you saw is the result.
The opposite probably happened for the driver next to the subaru. It looks like a big american V8 ala-Mustang next to him having traction problems but very good top end once well in the race.
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05-02-2001, 02:05 PM
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Xephyr2K:
M3Sins:
Now that was a great post
Are we all happy and freindly again ?
In regard to the WRX....
Very fast little car !! It has great speed off of the line and up to about 70MPH. These things are aesthitically .... different ... but they are little bug-eyed rockets. They do lose power in the upper end as you can see by the trap times of ~93-96MPH that they make all of their time gains in the low end and start to die down as they get into the upper speed brackets. In a street race to ~60 MPH they will most definately leave a stock CL-S behind. Even in a top speed shoot out it the CLS would pull a bit from ~70-110 on the WRX but even then it would be a tight race. If you throw in some turns and bends ...well it wouldnt be too pretty going at it from a Stock -vs- Stock comparison... But for the money its a tight, fast, car ... def. worth the pennies if you want something with a little mod can hang with the big boys in a street race...........
Chris
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M3Sins:
Now that was a great post
Are we all happy and freindly again ? In regard to the WRX....
Very fast little car !! It has great speed off of the line and up to about 70MPH. These things are aesthitically .... different ... but they are little bug-eyed rockets. They do lose power in the upper end as you can see by the trap times of ~93-96MPH that they make all of their time gains in the low end and start to die down as they get into the upper speed brackets. In a street race to ~60 MPH they will most definately leave a stock CL-S behind. Even in a top speed shoot out it the CLS would pull a bit from ~70-110 on the WRX but even then it would be a tight race. If you throw in some turns and bends ...well it wouldnt be too pretty going at it from a Stock -vs- Stock comparison... But for the money its a tight, fast, car ... def. worth the pennies if you want something with a little mod can hang with the big boys in a street race...........
Chris
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I also agree with the points about the Subaru having much better low end than high end. I bet in a race from 85mph to 113mph in 3rd gear, the CLS will win.
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05-02-2001, 02:30 PM
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by eclipse23:
Dude,
Race anything that crosses your bumper, it's fun! I raced a Ferrari Modena the other night because it was fun! Put down the magazines and RACE!
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Dude,
Race anything that crosses your bumper, it's fun! I raced a Ferrari Modena the other night because it was fun! Put down the magazines and RACE!
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05-02-2001, 02:43 PM
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from my understanding they are not very reliable but i could be wrong...really dont know too much about the Subaru...but considering the WRX does the 1/4 mile in low 14's does not seem too impressive with a turbo...the mags are saying 0-60 in 6.2 but others are saying mid 5's....That clutch isnt gonna last too long if thats the case...
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05-03-2001, 01:31 AM
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by CL-Super:
from my understanding they are not very reliable but i could be wrong...really dont know too much about the Subaru...but considering the WRX does the 1/4 mile in low 14's does not seem too impressive with a turbo...the mags are saying 0-60 in 6.2 but others are saying mid 5's....That clutch isnt gonna last too long if thats the case...
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from my understanding they are not very reliable but i could be wrong...really dont know too much about the Subaru...but considering the WRX does the 1/4 mile in low 14's does not seem too impressive with a turbo...the mags are saying 0-60 in 6.2 but others are saying mid 5's....That clutch isnt gonna last too long if thats the case...
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