"UPS Shark" vs 96' 240SX
The 240SX is my neighbor's car, and is a really clean little red beauty. It is also surprisingly tasteful, with no hint of 'ricing' to be found.
Big deal you say?
Well, he has a 5 speed with a frontmount <b>intercooled aftermarket turbo installed running 11psi of boost with full electronic boost control and 3" full race exhaust</b>.
He got it dynoe'd maybe two weeks ago, and was putting down 285rwhp(figure about 350 at the crank)...and the car only weighs 2700lbs vs my sharks 3050lbs(estimated). He's also running super wide 285/35/18s.
Do i have your attention now?
Well, he's been talking smack with me for months as he was building the car(of course i did my share too, lol), so we were out front trying to help another neighbor get his Mustang started(what a shock...a broken ford), and after determining he needed a starter we were all hanging out just chatting, and me and T(the owner of the 240) decided it was finally time to race tonight(about four hours ago).
So all the guys load up in the cars, i got a 160lb Brazilian for a passenger, and he loaded two like sized brazilians in his car...<b>both in the back seat</b>(lol, cheater!).
So we pull off my street onto Roosevelt Blvd(US1), do a little relaxed casual traffic weaving(nice light traffic) to get to the front of the pack at a redlight, and then...the moment of truth is at hand.
SO i rev the motor to 2000rpm full on the brakes and wait for the light to change. I hear his little wind-up toy rev to what had to be 4000rpm.
Light turns green and it's <b>GO</b>!!!!
Well, RIGHT off the get go i have him by 1 length. Then by 10mph it's already 2 lengths...and rapidly growing as i see him in my sideview mirror almost 45 degrees out of line with a cloud of tire smoke behind him. So of course i'm still in it....and the lead keeps growing....4 lengths by 20mph, 6 lengths by 30mph and growing....LOL....a <b>ROUT</b>!!!!
By the time i let off the throttle at about 80+ mph i had a no shit 12 car length lead on him and my Brazilian passenger was so excited i'd have thought he was at a World Cup FIFA match with his team up by 4 goals as time expired!!!
So we get to the next light, and T pulls up(several seconds after me, lol), and says, "Man i got bad traction bill...let's try again"(of course i'm thinking, 'no shit you got bad traction').
Not being one to dissapoint and feeling mighty cocky, i tell him, sure...
So up to 2000rpm i rev(and this is even at 30psi in the rears, not my drag launch standard 20psi)... wait. wait. wait... <b>GREEN MEANS GO!!!</b>
SAME exact result on launch, i pull out to a HUGE lead(and this is with 320+ lbs of brazilian sitting right above his rear axle!).
This time i'm not feeling so generous, and we have a nice 1/2 mile run to the next light, so i stay in it. Almost 10 lengths by 70....15 lengths by 90...whoa!!!!...12 lengths...10 lengths and CLOSING FAST....finally down to 8 lengths at about the 1/4 mile mark(MAN THAT CAR HAS KILLER TOP END!!!), but then it's time for him to brake.
Well let me tell you a 240SX <b>DOES NOT</b> brake like a lightened 928S, so i stay in it as he brakes to prove the point...back up to 10 lengths at 110mph...15....20....25, lead opening up REALLY fast, up to 120mph now....30(obviously the lengths i was ahead by are very rough estimates as when someone's that far back it's really hard to accurately judge).....<b>NOW</b> i brake and come to a smooth stop from about 125mph- a good 10 feet before the lines.
Wait. wait. wait... here comes the little 240SX turbo needing every foot of distance to stop in time for the light. The smoke is <b>POURING</b> out of his front rims from his horribly overheated brakes.(i later found out he had to engage the hand brake to fully stop, lololol).
Me laughing as i roll up ten feet to get next to him..."Damn T, is your car on fire?"
He stammered out an excuse as a couple guys in an SUV that had been full in it to keep up came rolling up to the light on my right and ENTHUSIASTICALLY started giving me BIG THUMBS UP and jabbering on about how my Shark is the "meanest car i've ever seen, WHAT the HELL do you have in that thing?", and blah, blah, blah.
My Brazilian passenger- who's never been in any porsche, let alone a modified and lightened V-8 Porsche screaming through a full race Borla 3" exhaust, is babbling on in Portugese to one of the guys in the back of the 240SX who's leaned forward and is hanging out the window.
It was a scene of babbling enthusiastic bedlam, and the Shark was the center of the show.
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SUV to the right of me, Brazilians to the right- here i am- stuck in the middle with you.
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So anyway we turned for home at that point, and on the way back i gave him a rolling launch from about 15-20mph just so his ego could remain intact and because i like him.
<b>He blew my freaking doors off.</b>(i'm gonna guess 5 lengths by the time we'd hit 100mph).
LOL.
Strangely, after that third run, T declined my offer to take a trip over to Kruztown road to try his hand at the twisties.
Go figure...
Anyway, when drag racing it is <b>ALL</b> about the launch my friends, and i've never owned or driven ANY car that launches like my A/T 928S.(it was my shark's awesome launch that let me take Lance in his 83 Euro 928S A/T with 65shot of nitrous too, lol).
To be honest i'm actually kinda glad T had the sense not to try out his luck in the twisties(and if he had i'd have insisted the passengers be dropped off beforehand).
Kruztown road has claimed MANY a bold or careless persons life over the years(see the video clip i posted before- that's kruztown road), and at the speeds i can achieve through there with my brand new bilstien/eibachs and 245/45/16s all around he'd have almost certainly killed himself trying to keep up.
<i><b>PORSCHE</b>....There is <b>NO</b> substitute.</i>
<b>Disclaimer for the sake of any perusing LE personnel:</b> The above account is fictional, and does not reflect any actual event, person, or vehicle. The Zinmettalic "UPS Porsche" does not exist, nor does the little red 240SX that i'm looking at across the street as i type. LOLOLOLOLOL.
<b>There are two kinds of soldiers.
Snipers...and targets.</b>
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