Hi there everyone i am just going to throw this out there to see if it was a fella aziner. about a month ago in elgin, il on route 31 and lake st heading east i ran into a 6spd type s wdp just like mine but mines auto. anyways a couple of young guys pulled up to me in the same car and asked me if i wanna run it. and of course being a hard core drag racer at heart i could not refuse. plus this gave me an opportunity to run against a 6spd. ive been dying to run one just to see where im at. anyways we started around 30 mph in 2nd gear and we went all the way to about a 100 mph i looked back and he was about 3 cars behind. wow was i impressed. so was he cause afterwards hes like u got full exhaust on that thing. lol. ya and some more. i finally got my chance and i grinned all the way home. so im planning on getting nitto drag radials and im going to strip. maybe byron or great lakes. any ideas of where i should be at from any personal experiences.

 

Mid-to-low 14's.

Wrong sub forum to put this in though. Should be in the "Racing & Competition" forums.

 

 

man another story about winning a race your cool man lets just say OP ur lucky the other driver doesn't know how to drive cause if i was the driver in that TL-S 6mt ill take u no problem

 

A hard core drag racer getting excited about a FWD 5at 15 second car? Sorry, just had to. I've played around in my TL before but I never take it serious. I've wanted to see how badly mine would get beat by a 6mt but never had the chance. I raced one 5at and we were dead even but I manually shifted from 3rd into 4th and put 2 cars at that moment and held it. Not exciting by any means but it was neat to see the difference holding that gear just a second longer makes.

 

^ I'd like to see that GN on a strip tho...

 

lol at your username....im pretty sure there are other 5AT TL-S that are faster....

 

I'm assuming you were driving solo? You said there were passengers in the 6MT, correct? If so, that could be part of the issue here. I still wouldn't imagine it'd be 3 cars behind, unless of course driver error. But nice kill.

As far as the track, mid to low 14s is a safe bet. Traps between 98-99 I'd assume. You may touch 100 under perfect conditions.

 

>Hard core drag racer
>Racing on the street

Stupid's gonna stupid.

 

I love how everyone on these Forums try so hard to be an ASSHOLE against each other.. talk shit on the internet guys way to go!! I wonder whats gonna be said about this? lol

 

dont make me pull out our mountain run footage

 

That's the internet for you.

I only bash people when they talk of weaving in and out of traffic and in heavily populated areas. Or when drag racing is their lives and they drive a TL lol.

I've been known to street race a time or two lol. When I was growing up, this was a small town and there were plenty of times it was just you and another car on a 3 lane road with nothing and no one to hit. Even my last race ever was two 10 second cars battling it out on the street, mine and a Corvette ZR1. We left an intersection with cars but for a mile in front of us it was open road, no side streets and no cars. It comes down to knowing when to use the power and when not to. I play it very conservative.

 

Welcome to the internet.

Shhhhh!

 

Do it. do it. do it. just do it. Common do it now . Do it lol

 

If its the clip Im thinking about, it wasnt much of a run. But I wouldnt mind seeing it either. All my videos came out horribly.

 

I hope the OP took the necessary precautions. I've seen a few people first hand racing through traffic and it's retarded. It suits no purpose whatsoever who can "cut traffic" better. No one cares. It's completely useless.

There is a time where I feel it is safe to do a run. If there are no other cars in sight, or you have a long stretch of road with no cars on it. If the conditions are safe, it's not too crazy. I am very cautious, but have been known to be stupid (I can count the number of times on much less than one hand), but never again. It puts not only you and any passengers in danger, but EVERY other car on the road. Stupid.