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Originally Posted by 8URSTI
This post has got me bothered......Heres a guy, who just joined the site asking a simple question and he gets flamed for his screen name and the fact that he likes drag racing more than road coarse racing? So what if he took a "rally" car and made it superior in going in a straight line  (Id like to see you bust off 1.5 60ft's). That would be harder than taking an old Nova and doing the same thing right? My car is 100% a drag car from the ground up and it will never see a road coarse...EVER. Is that an automatic loss of respect? Beacuse you guys make it seem that way on here.......But I bet I have more blood ,sweat ,R&D and time into my car than any of you guys on here.
This car did actually make the horsepower claimed. I saw it with my own eyes and the dyno sheet is at my house. This car is not a dyno queen and it sees more racing than most people on here...( it travels alot  ) Some people are very private about what is done to thier car, Just because he chooses not to publicize his mods list doesnt make him a liar. We will have a trap speed for you guys after April 1st and we will see if you continue to doubt the reading of the dyno as if thats your 2nd way of attempting to discredit his car...... 
BTW, call Dan at HM and tell him his dyno reads too high for the "real world" road racers.... |
Now that I've been forced to split this into it's own discussion, I'm adding my 2 cents.
Like Aaron said, more than once, the reason killer60ft got flamed was because of his attitude. In general drag racers tend to be the type to swing their johnsons around when it comes to power numbers. Since most of us here are autocross/time trialers, raw power is not the most important thing when it comes to performance. We don't have the same competitive nature as most drag guys when it comes to mods and numbers because in road racing, the driver is the most important element in going fast. We don't like the e-thuggery that inevitably comes when people want to compare themselves with dyno numbers, and killer60ft's posts were right down the middle the type of stuff that always results in e-thuggery.
Aaron did a pretty good job explaining all of that in his subsequent posts about it, but you went and restarted the whole thing by "calling him out" on his original post, hence this thread, and the associated drama.
As far as your blood/sweat/tears/etc... as someone that's put a shitload of work into a WRX, I applaud your commitment. Seriously... I've gone through 4 motors, 2 transmissions, 4 different suspension setups, 3 exhausts, 3 turbos, 3 intercoolers, 5 EM solutions, probably 10 different sets of wheels/tires (including an '05 hub conversion), water injection, a programmable DCCD controller, like 40 oil-breather configurations, and so on and on... I know how hard it is to eek out the performance you're looking for, and I respect those that go down all the dead-end paths looking for new/better ways to do things like I have.
The difference is that I'm willing to talk about any and all mods I've done, the stuff I've learned along the way, and do my best to take the lessons I've learned and pass them along to others so not everyone has to try a UniChip and MBC, then an EcuTek reflash, then a Cobb AP, before realizing that a Hydra is the way to go, for example. In my experience, the drag set is too secretive... people only talk about their mods if it helps inflate their egos. On this board, you don't garner many poits from the members acting like that.
We're plenty willing to believe that killer's car made the power he claims. But around here, we share and share alike. Big numbers aren't impressive... big knowledge is. He got flamed because he strutted around like we're supposed to be impressed and didn't drip a drop of knowledge on us.