Drivetrain what would you do
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From: SoCaL (Agoura Hills)
. God forbid you race a car off a stop light to 35 mph on an empty road, but chat away at techniques to blind drivers with 100 watt rear facing rally lights and build an oil slick machine/rear facing remote firearms to SHOOT at drivers when they come within 20 feet of our beloved MINI's 
.Passive Agressive Drivers are just as dangerous, if not more dangerous than agressive drivers. At least you can see the two cars going down the road at 90 MPH. Hard to react when someone brake checks you at 75 mph on the freeway and causes a 14 car pile up
.God Bless America
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From: Flitwick UK
2564 lb with 210lb driver, the car is minus the passenger seat and the rear upright seat, but it does have a nitrous bottle (24lb) plus brackets and a laptop
Power to weight is power to weight.
As for the Ferrari arguement usually they cant do more than 3 runs without spitting the diff out at the track and Lambos usually do the clutch after 5 good launches.
One of the rich eccentric guys who goes to our drag strip has broken all his exotic cars there apart from the Bentley Arnarge coupe thing what run 13.7 consistantly.
He asked me if I could fit the clutch in the Lambo because it costs him $10k everytime it goes.
My SMG M3 only could muster a 13.89 at 100mph and it wasn't as much fun as the Mini to race.
The Mini is a great DRAG car because its very consistant and it hooks up very well with very few suspension mods, i.e just bolt the slicks on and go for it.
Most of my cars have been drag cars so they haven't handled well, the Mini does everything you can wish for, I cant wait for it to be able to run 10s and then go and do some track days at Silverstone.
Power to weight is power to weight.
As for the Ferrari arguement usually they cant do more than 3 runs without spitting the diff out at the track and Lambos usually do the clutch after 5 good launches.
One of the rich eccentric guys who goes to our drag strip has broken all his exotic cars there apart from the Bentley Arnarge coupe thing what run 13.7 consistantly.
He asked me if I could fit the clutch in the Lambo because it costs him $10k everytime it goes.
My SMG M3 only could muster a 13.89 at 100mph and it wasn't as much fun as the Mini to race.
The Mini is a great DRAG car because its very consistant and it hooks up very well with very few suspension mods, i.e just bolt the slicks on and go for it.
Most of my cars have been drag cars so they haven't handled well, the Mini does everything you can wish for, I cant wait for it to be able to run 10s and then go and do some track days at Silverstone.
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On my days off from the wonderful Minis, I get the headache off trying to hook a 1000hp on street tyres, it will whip most supercars butts but couldn't out handle them or the Mini and does weigh in at 2605lb with driver.
http://www.peterdonaldson5305.fotopi...p41526302.html
0-134 5.4 secs, on block tread street tyres and pump gas
Is this your definition of a drag car Rusty??
http://www.peterdonaldson5305.fotopi...p41526302.html
0-134 5.4 secs, on block tread street tyres and pump gas
Is this your definition of a drag car Rusty??
Last edited by Paul Webster; May 22, 2007 at 03:28 PM.
Legally a public forum, moderated or unmoderated can't be held responsible for what members post, I feel as though that's the concern, but I also think some of the members here feel like what they want is how things go, and they complain about EVERYTHING to get it turned to their favor. If you don't like street racing, don't read about it... this isn't public radio folks, you subscribed to the forum and chose to read 2 pages of information.
You can't expect everything you find offensive to be removed or censored from your life, learn to deal with it. It's sad the amount of things that are censored today, to the point that many constitutional experts feel as though our basic rights are being thrown away to make everything PC. Freedom of speech and expression are BASIC civil liberties in this country.
I'm not questioning your decision to remove the material, i'm questioning what on earth has happened to this country that people see a breast on television and have a heart attack, someone says a curse word and people call the FCC to report it, someone talks about driving 5 MPH over the speed limit on a public internet forum and the post is removed and they're issued a "Citation" 
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.We can't talk about speeding but if the speed limit is 60 and you play with another car until you hit 60, can we talk about that? Pulling on a car happens all the time and doesn't necessarily mean you are going over the speed limit. Hell, here in SoCal if you don't hammer it getting on the highway you might get run over.
Because of the terms used in the site guidelines I’d venture to say that even that would be against the rules. "Street Racing" is probably defined as exhibition of speed or a competition between 2 or more vehicles. You can get a reckless driving or exhibition of speed ticket here in CA doing 5 MPH in a parking lot if the cop feels as though you were racing someone else or "Exhibiting speed". Silly, but hey, they make millions a year writing tickets for silly reasons.
- excessive speeding (why is it I always have to put that word in bold for people to recognize it?)
- street racing
Whether you like them or not, the guidelines are there, and they have been for a long, long time. However, remember that the moderators are humans, not machines... so we're not about to start jumping on "5 mph over the limit" posts. That would be asinine.
It seems to me that just about every thread that I read on here that goes over ten replys tends to go off topic. theres major "ADD" going on here
on the other hand, this has gotten more response's then any other that I've posted
on the other hand, this has gotten more response's then any other that I've posted
Last edited by Edge; May 22, 2007 at 05:13 PM. Reason: Merged back-to-back posts (NO content editing)
If the discussion on NAM guidelines continues much further, I'll yank all of those related posts into a separate thread (and post one more time to let people know where they went).Heh.
[quote][RIPPER - your last post above is borderline.
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As long as I don't cross the border, I wont need my pass port
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As long as I don't cross the border, I wont need my pass port
Last edited by RIPPER; May 22, 2007 at 07:04 PM. Reason: spelling
It should have been in General MINI Talk/Off-Topic :: Autos
I test drove an 07 sti today and was more impressed than I thought I would. I expected it to feel kind of cheap . just with alot of hp. Insted, it felt really solid and handled really well. So here's my dilemma. The subaru dealer offered me 20,000 as it is with 10,00 miles(towson mini only offered 17,500 ) and after I sell wheels(enkie j10's),dfic,m7 exhaust and hdi intake that shold get me another grand. I paid 23,800, so I would have only paid about 2 grand to drive this car for 1 1/2 years. I was going to put jans head on and finish modding but, I keep reading about guy's like spiderx getting his head before me ,when I know for a fact that I told jan I wanted his head at least tree weeks before spiderx decided he want jans head. I talked to jan about three weeks before the motd. So I'm tired of waiting for the good stuff and am thinking of buying the Sti. Does any one on here have both, do you think I'll miss the mini or will the Stimake me just as happy? Would any one here get the Sti if they could? Ok, let the flames fly
I got pissed that I was reading on here that one of the more well known members was supposedly getting jans head before me wqhen I knew for a fact that I told jan I wanted his head before that member even made up his mind that he wanted one too. When I was Looking to buy a new car it was between the mini and the subaru. The reason I bought the mini was because I thought it would be more fun to customise, but then I found out it cost twice as much to mod. Even that didn't faze me but getting passed over for a better known and respected member did. But that's not the only thing that made me think of getting the subie, it was the thing that pushed me to actually think about it harder. the other factor was the subie would be a better family car(four door and real trunk). I have an 18 month old son and whenever we do things as a family we have to take the Suv to carry the stroller and diaper bag
Originally Posted by RIPPER View Post
It seems to me that just about every thread that I read on here that goes over ten replys tends to go off topic. theres major "ADD" going on here
It seems to me that just about every thread that I read on here that goes over ten replys tends to go off topic. theres major "ADD" going on here
I'm kind of surprised it wasn't moved to begin with.
