Who here has raced 3RD Gen RX7's?

[Paluka21]

I have a friend who has a 93 RX7 twin turbo with a catback and down pipe, and some other small mods to the intake. He's ran a best of 14.0 or so @ 98 or 99mph. he along w/ other rx7 owners seem to beleive that these cars are almost unbeatable, especially from a highway roll. He raced a friends 95 cobra, when the cobra only had a catback and hpipe, and the cobra beat him 1 out of 2 races, and my friend used the excuse he wasnt seeing any boost.
I know they handle well, and are fairly fast from a roll since they are so light and have 255hp.
Ive also ran into a friend of his who had a down pipe, catback, computer, 12lbs of boost, and intake (possibly). We ran on the interstate when all I had was 3.73's, offroad hpipe, flowmaster mufflers, and pulleys and I hung w/ him from about 50-110 where I HAD to shift into 5th gear, then he pulled like crazy. He pulled a little on me from 50-110, but not much at all. Now the guy has an intercooler, some other intake, fuel system and possibly something else. He wants to run again and supossedly he thinks the car will go in the 11 second range in the 1/4. Shouldnt I be able to destroy him from a roll, and in the 1/4 mile now w/ my mods??
Later
Dan
95 rio red cobra #2021
D1SC Procharger 11-13psi, 3 core intercooler, Stage II GT40X heads ( 9.5:1 compression ) romac balancer, E303 cam 1.7 rockers, 3.73's, BBK hpipe, hooker super comp. equal length headers, pro-m75, 65mm TB, MSD 6AL, kirban AFPR, MSD 50# injectors, 255 internal, ATI external.
( soon to come, Larocca tuning with autologic software, Magnaflow catback exhaust)

[FivepointOH]

Tear him a new one

[fastang]

RX7's are overrated. Theyre awesome looking and great handling cars but they dont run as fast as people preach. He's not going to hit an 11 and as long as you can drive you should mop the floor with him.

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95GT B303 cam, 1.7 rockers, 65mm TB, milled heads, 355's K&N, BBK Longtubes, Flowmaster cat back, pulleys, msd coil, 9mm wires, Tremec 3550, Pro5.0 shifter,10.5 Motorsport clutch, FMS aluminum driveshaft, weld in subframe connectors

[Hungry4GMs]

Yea there not all that i raced one with nos one with twin turbo and one with single turbo and beat em all the one with nos was kinda quick i didnt really spank him but i won none the less the twin torbo wasntmuch of a race i had him by about a full car the single turbo was just funny i shifted a 4000 and beat him :-)

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[Nitrous Al]

Paluka, you'll kick his @ss!!! The RX-7 ran 14.1 @ 100mph stock. Remember it's got sequential turbos. That means a small one for low end "torque" and a big one for high rpm horsepower. He's no match for your Cobra now. Just watch out for a larger intercooler and a hiss of nitrous!

[Paluka21]

Yeah I just talked to the idiot yesterday, and he believes that his Rx7 could have taken out most of the mustangs here in this town stock vs stock. Well in some cases that maybe true, however how many stock stangs are running around?
I think alot of the guys (RX7) race people who 1) cant drive 2) have nearly stock cars 3) exagerate.
This same guy who talks alot of smack about mustangs on the rx7 board www.rx7forum.com says he was actually thinking of buying a vert stang when he blew up the rx7 motor after 47k miles or so. I asked him about this, and he told me, well I was only going to buy a mustang for a beater car, since its 'only a mustang.' People like this give me a pain!

Dan

[topless tire fryer]

Kick his *** with your "only a stang" and see how he feels about that. I love guys with turbo this and nos that who cant wrap there heads around the fact that there only driving a 4 or 6 cyl. car!

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'95 Chrome Yellow GT ragtop, KN filter charger, Dynomax cat back, Accel plugs and wires.

Or.....in this case a zero cylinder car (aren't the 3rd gen. RX7's rotaries???). I still find it amazing that a car with like 80 something cubic inches can make over 200 horsepower stock.

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'84 Mustang 5.0 LX
My car