I hate cars

Warning, this is not TL related...

I took my dad's 87 daily driver GN out to put some fresh gas and air in the tires. He's in Iraq and the car sits for months at a time. While I was out I called my friend with the IS350 and told him what car I was driving. He of course met me at the gas station which was right by his house. Went to a road in the middle of nowhere for the "race".

The GN is tuned for 19psi on 91 octane and methanol injection. Over the months, the methanol has evaporated or leaked out and I wasn't about to blow my dad's motor while he's away. I had to use the gas pedal to modulate boost to 14psi which is about half pedal.

I cleaned the drag radials with a short spin and so did the Lexus. I told my friend I would go when he went. He brought the rpms up against the brake and I brought the boost up to a conservative 3psi. He went and I let off the brake and kept it at 8psi with the drag radials scratching for traction. Through first gear I put a couple cars right away. Second gear I eased the gas down and put buslengths on him and let off, I was just wasting gas at this point. Even though this guy owns a GN, he thought he would have a chance against the "daily driver" and was talking about getting exhaust and a cold air intake if he lost. After 5+ cars by 60mph and the fact I barely had the gas 1/2 way, I don't think he's going to bother.

Truth is, I didn't expect to beat him that bad in such a short distance and this car has been a fastest of 12.2@114mph but that was at 19psi and a much harder (1.6 60'; 12psi) launch. I wouldn't expect it to trap better than 110mph in the trim it was in.

iforyou

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whoa, impressive, i'd love to drive one of those GN's if I ever have the chance!

Eoanou

Your best time with the GN was a 12.2, which is pretty good, and even with a 1/2 gas you still beat him. So I'd say with half gas your car would have to be better than a 14.0 quarter mile to be him. Judging by how badly you beat him by I'd say with half throttle you should pull a 13.4, LOL if that's true that's crazy.

I hate cars

I would have to say that beating him at 1/2 pedal isn't quite as impressive as it sounds. The boost was at~14psi even at 1/2 pedal and it normally runs 19psi at wide open. So in reality, it's probably making 75% of it's normal power. I really miss the torque of these things. RPMs never went over 4K the whole time.