Aveo kills rx7!

[y2daniel1981]

Yes, you heard right. Tonight I beat an RX7!

I was coming home from poker night (I lost ::thdown: ), I usually take memorial drive (the road where everyone shows off and crusies), and coming flying up behind me I see some lights and hear a real loud fart can. Well he does a ricer flyby and cuts me off to get into the turn lane so he can get on memorial. Well I get into the turn lane as well (because that's how I go home) and I follow him and watch him race a riced eclipse with a wing that was taller then its roof! The RX7 and my Aveo meet at the next light and I thought "Hey. why not give it a shot"
He was revving at the light. So the light turns green and he squelled his tires on take off and by the time we hit 40mph I was about 4 lengths ahead of him. I finally shut it down at 55mph and I look back and had to be ahead by around 8 lengths or so...

I guess I forgot to mention the RX7 was running a nonturbo, auto, had a passenger, and car was smoking...

[05aveohotrod]

Did he know you were racing?

[y2daniel1981]

Yeah considering he gave me "the look" and "the nod" and was revving at the light and squeeled his tires

I did some research on the RX7 i raced...

it really doesn surprise me that i won considering the 1st gen rx7 has 100hp, 105torque and weigh as much as an aveo, and they have a stock 1/4 mile of 17.00 seconds... besides he was NON TURBO, auto, and smoking from his tail pipe

He was pushing it too because you could hear from the fartcan

[Nemasys]

That's nice! Now try doing what i did, beat a old V8 firebird Yup, it happened Saturday night, i was coming back down from visiting my family where they were camping. I came up behind him he was already going around 130 km/h. We slowed since there was a small village up ahead. After the village i saw and heard him (had all windows down) floor it. (i thought to myself haha let him go there is no way i can follow that) but i tried anyways, i pushed the car as hard as i could and i managed to creep up in 4th using him as a wind barrier i slowly passed him

[05aveohotrod]

1991 Firebird 305 TBI (for example) had 165hp at the crank and 175tq. On a 3200lb car, it was a brick.

[exodus]

y2daniel1981 said:

Yeah considering he gave me "the look" and "the nod" and was revving at the light and squeeled his tires

I did some research on the RX7 i raced...

it really doesn surprise me that i won considering the 1st gen rx7 has 100hp, 105torque and weigh as much as an aveo, and they have a stock 1/4 mile of 17.00 seconds... besides he was NON TURBO, auto, and smoking from his tail pipe

He was pushing it too because you could hear from the fartcan

None of the RX7s are made for stop light racing or drag racing. The powerband is barely adequete for daily driving. Once you get them on a circuit, though, they're entirely different machines.