Well, this was a long time ago, 10 years or so. There was this sort of asshat on a local street racing forum. I no longer street race because it's super dangerous and it's a good way to wreck your toy. It's just so much safer to do it on a sanctioned track, where you don't have to worry about wrecking into traffic or cops and shit.
Now to be fair to this guy, I was a hotheaded 20 year old, quick to anger, acted like the world OWED me respect. I was a real cantankerous asshole that no one would want to be around or be friends with.
I'm also autistic, so that surely helped fuel some of my asshattery, or my incapability to PISS (Properly Interpret the Social Situation). But I've learned from my former, bad person who sucks at socializing ways. And I also thought my 14 second MR2 was faster than it actually was, you might even call me a ricer, even though I didn't really do tacky mods on the car, just a boost controller, downpipe and intercooler, but I thought my new turbo car was hot shit, when it was actually probably rather mundane compared to the big boys who could drop some actual 4 or 5 figure sums into their cars without thinking too much about it. My first MR2 Turbo was all but stock but for 3 hp mods, a set of rims, and some shitty KYB strut cartridges that were so cheap and trashy the struts felt like they were blown ALL the time. Putting in those garbage strut cartridges convinced me, coilovers or nothing, stock suspension is always superior to trash KYB strut cartridges. Probably made the car perform worse despite maybe "looking cooler" due to its lowered stance.
Anyways his parents bought him a '06 C6 Z06, back when they were brand new, $75,000 car. Given that the car was literally given to him, he had nothing but money left over to mod it, on top of that he had a far better paying job than what I held at the time, all my jobs to this date up til the trucking gig paid damn near minimum wage or not much higher than minimum, so what he could afford to put into his car, I couldn't even put 1/10th of the money into mine. Last I heard he had made it into a 1000whp beast of a machine, twin turbos, and built the LS7 up for forced induction (I gather those engines aren't ideal for forced induction short of a massive rebuild).
My friend had an 800whp CTS-V for awhile. If someone had a fast car, I'd sure as fuck say to them "OH yea! Well my FRIEND owns a 800whp CTS-V! Your shits slow, my FRIEND will smoke you", naw I'm just kidding, I try not to swing from other peoples nuts, even back when I was a hotheaded young prick.
He raced against him a while back, and it was one of the only cars that could beat his Cadillac, namely because it was significantly lighter and had more power.
Now I'm finally landing my first real job that pays far above minimum wage, I'm actually getting on the trainer 18 wheeler truck for Covenant Transport this Tuesday, and hopefully in 4 months or so I'll be making a good $.50 a mile once I get my HAZMAT endorsement, which is a handsome sum for a rookie IMO. I figure a significant portion of this income should go to the toy I've always wanted for my 33 years on this planet, 20 years since I was playing the F out of Gran Turismo 1 back in the day, but never really had the funds for, namely because I was a lazy slacker, and waited until I was 33 to land a *real* job.
If I were to go back to my old stomping grounds, presumably a sanctioned track in my hometown since I don't want to trash my precious Class A CDL, what kind of setup would a V8 FD RX7 require to pose much of a challenge to this guys 1000whp twin turbo C6 Z06? I'm not morally opposed to E85 tunes and turbos, and I also still hold by my firm belief, that maximum thermal efficiency for my engines goes a long ways, why I like to ceramic coat exhaust components, put heat wrap around them, turbo blankets for the turbos, A2W intercooler, and E85 and Methanol injection for the combustion chamber. This philosophy of mine when it comes to tuning turbo engines is even more pertinent in Tucson where we get 118 degree days that can melt a plastic mail box and bake cookies in a car. If there's one competition I like to win at the car meets, it's not largest turbine housing, but the competition for coldest combustion chamber with cheapest high octane fuel (C16 too pricey, but E85 is perfect).
