im sick of my slow @$$ car...., im gonna buy a honda or somethin Options

[easternpiro1]

well guys... that just about does it for me... there i was at the spot last saturday and watching people line up and take off is fun and everything, so i decide to join in on the fun, against another 6gc (lo and behold!) the guy that owns it says it was sold to him by his cousin ( a guy on here by the name of psycho or psyko something) i know the guy, and i start telling him about 6gc and everything...

god...2 much typing...MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT:

line up with the car
1 get spanked.....TWICE....REALLY BAD!!!
2 get strange looks and laughed at...=humiliation
3 wonder why in the hell i got beat so bad
4 go talk to the guy that drove and find out he's been drinking and eating shooms!
5 wonder why in the hell the owner let him drive his celica like that (owner is a pal of mine)
6 look under the hood and find out its A GOD #%#%#%^# ST as well!! but a stick shift
7 ride home considered SERIOUSLY selling my car.

im still depressed and its wednesday...dont want to show my face at the saturday nite meets again...


someone please slap me.... or explain to me what happend...please:(

This post has been edited by easternpiro1: Jul 5, 2006 - 11:29 AM

[sinner96ST]

If you want speed, get a domestic or a swapped import.

My buddy spend 11k on his 99 z28 camaro, exhaust + headers & some other minor mods, and he's blowing doors off of anything imported around here.

Honestly, import speed is expensive if you want serious numbers or to be able to pull 13's or lower. Unless you get some gutted civic hatchback with a swap, be prepared to spend money or be generally 'slow' in terms of track times.

I've stuck it out long enough with my auto ST, the slowest of the slow. I don't believe a GT would make that much of a difference, the 6gc is a great car but without some serious cash being spent on it, it will always be slow. Advancing timing, intake, exhaust, weight reduction, all of this stuff is completely irrelevant when you're working off of an economical motor to begin with. The platform just sucks, I'm not dissing Toyota, I'm just dissing what they decided to put in their 'sports' cars in the late 90's.

The newer Celica's are no different, while the GT-S has 180hp, it lacks any amount of torque to take seriously. I've seen guys on newcelica.org spend thousands of dollars on super/turbo charging just to break in to the high 13's, it's almost not worth it at that point, unless you really love your car.

This post has been edited by sinner96ST: Jul 5, 2006 - 1:54 PM