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just on my way home from work and this guy pulls up at the light next to me and revs his engine. i do the same and then it turns green, i have my overdrive turned off and its down hill. i hit the gas and nothing, my car just sits there for a sec and then slowly starts to move. this guys car made a clank sound and then squeeled off. it sounded like he started in 2nd gear or skipped a gear. it sounded bad. but he took off like a bat out of hell while i was far behind with everybody else. he slowed down a ways up and flashed me. damn my cars a slow piece. i'll be selling both of my celicas soon. im tired of looking fancy but having nothing to back it up with.

sell one and with the cash from it buy a turbo and stick it on the other one.

already did that, still a slow POS

next time, buy a manual car. automatics are alway a lot slower then a manual.

says u have 2 cars... were u driving ur auto st or auto gt - turbo? i dont get it doesnt the 5sfte produce 180 hp... roughly (well manny's was 196 and thats a great setup)

bs, thats just talking ignorance. Go talk to the supra boys and they'll tell you that the auto supra TT will take the 6 spd all day long. Sorry dragging you can setup a auto to kill a manual anyday of the week.

Now road course thats a different story, but thats because ur shifting up and down.........

Stick=GG off the line if you can drive
Auto=evens out if properly tuned by second gear

After second, race is even since manual can shift at redline or max HP (whatever ur style) and auto will shift at same point, depending how you progged it

was driving my 105hp st automatic without turbo, never was fast with one anyway.

what happens in an auto if u put it in neutral rev it up really high then pull the shifter straight back into 2nd gear? does the power transfer into the gear or does the car wait for rpms to drop back down?

never tried it bc it would f**k up my trans. which is what integra guy sounded like he was doing. ive thought about doing it though.

wouldnt that hurt the tranny!?

a friend with a maxima does it all the time and beats v6 mustangs left and right...its justl ike popping the clutch ecept theres a slight delay before it actually kicks into gear so u have to overrev it to say 7 so when it kicks it in comes in a t like 5-6 and u peel out

That sounds insanely stupid to do to an automatic transmission. I dunno. Thank god for the auto to manual swap.

ya, thats bad for the trans.

I dont think thats true. I dont know about supras, but as far as celica st auto vs. celica st manual goes, the manual has a few seconds on the auto.

when your putting out some pretty good numbers an automatic can be better. Think about it, you can misshift, an auto doesnt. Also autos are much quicker shifting then human shifting

maybe you shouldn't be racing a 140 hp manual with your 105 hp automatic. in fact neither of those cars should be drag racing because they are not at all fast. you obviously have some misconceptions about speed and what your car can do, you're only setting yourself up for disappointment. my 2 cents

Thats only true if your car is turboed because you dont loose as much boost between shifts.

MORON

If your tranny is strong enough and you're in the 10 second in the 1/4 mile then the auto is better, but anything in the 11's, 12's and higher autotragic is much slower. . in my 240 it's a 16.9 instead of a 16.1 if you have a 5 speed, and around the same goes with the celica, much slower if automatic. Rational behind the auto=faster is shifting must be immediate, and perfect, and it lets the turbo still be spooling so you don't lost power.

Dr.

I'm talking turbos engines. 'cause he said he had a turboed one earlier. And it doesnt have to be a 10 sec car. It could be a 15 sec car. If you know how to drag. You can launch off the line harder and like you said in the last sentence it keeps the turbo in its powerband better. You can mess up your shifting in a 5spd and nobody can shift as good as a set machine, sorry.